✨🌟✨Christmas all wrapped up✨🌟✨

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Birthday's have been celebrated this December & all the magic of Christmas...its been quite a quiet Christmas... My daughter celebrates two Christmases one at ours & one at her father's home... This year we had her just after boxing day so that's when we opened presents together. I went to see my mother in Cornwall on Christmas afternoon & stevie went to see his mum and dad in Devon... All just glad of good health at the moment with our parents. Covid still looms and leaves us all anxious. But we put our party hats on and made the best of it.

A Winter wassail for the Winter solstice (photo source cotehele national trust) my mother Morris dances there & dress up, sing & dance. 

Feeling the festive atmosphere in Totnes Town. 

Stevie gave me this beautiful candle 😌💕✨🌟

Cosy Christmas days... 

Shadows cast from the Christmas whimsical windows... 

Festive berries on Dartmoor... 

Festive gingerbread biscuits made & eaten 

I've received some beautiful cards & I sent some lovely ones too... The beautiful hare head one is from my mother... ✨✨🌟✨

Nativity scene on our way home over Dartmoor Christmas eve... ✨✨🌟✨

All my doors on my Advent calendar opened... 

My mums Christmas cake... 💕

We waited patiently to open Christmas presents with my daughter 😌💕✨✨🌟🎄

We had a lovely family day... 💕

Candles lit for dinner... 

Poor Spindle (our Christmas tree) it was shedding so many needles, but has lasted. 

Love the warm glow of the lights... 

Wonderful estuary walk at Aveton Gifford... Mud larking along the way... 

Old pieces of pottery... 

Reminds me of my childhood growing up on an island where the causeway gets covered with the tide... 

I painted with my acrylics a whimsical scene with snowdrop lady & foxy... 

Our local market town church... We were walking off all the puddings 😂🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️⭐✨

Whimsical Christmas dresser top✨⭐✨✨

A burst of Winter colour... My pink hyacinth💮🌸

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Wishing you good health & happiness for the new year, 

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✨🌟🎄 A lot like Christmas 🎄⭐✨

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Autumn to winter...a little catch up 

I Can't quite believe it's almost Christmas... These last weeks have flown by haven't they... My inner being starts to panic a weee bit when I know school finishes next Friday & things need to be packaged and posted to loved ones on the east coast... I always say to myself be more organised but these weeks seem to have crept up on me rather too quickly... But *sigh* it's Sunday evening we've all eaten supper early as we had a late breakfast... Plates washed & slippers on & sitting here watching the film of Little women with Sophia... Watching the warm glow & flicker of the candles & fairy lights on the Christmas tree. I got out my box of vintage christmas books mainly children's stories... 

We've enjoyed birthday celebrations, my stevies was yesterday & we had a rather lovely trip to Exeter... So we're all full on cake. 

We've enjoyed a walk along the Cornish coastline of Looe... Sophia enjoyed the amusement arcade & won some little treats... 

I enjoyed beach combing treasures along the shoreline... The sea was so calm... Just the sound of seagulls swooping and calling to each other...

Stevie gifted me early birthday gifts this year on a date trip out... Beautiful woolly mittens with bead details, a foxy cup & handmade hare tree decorations... Oh' and a pair of woolly slippers. We both have December birthdays! 

I so enjoy it when stevie helps me get out all the Box's of Christmas decorations... Like a child with a box of sweets... Each decoration filled with excitement & memories. 

Dickensian Evening went ahead this year & a little smaller than last year in our market town... But still with its magic & excitement... 

And my mother had a tree in the church Christmas tree festival... For her Morris dancing group... She even made it in the paper! 

My shelfling dressed for Christmas... 

The Dartmoor Christmas tree full of sparkle & treasures... ✨✨✨🎄✨✨✨🌟🎅🤶

A handmade wreath with mistletoe... 

And well, this is me snuggled up with three layers, mittens and woolly jumpers... Its ever so nippy out there... & we live in an old drafty cottage, but I wouldn't change it at Christmas I like getting my hot water bottle & blanky and snuggling up. And enjoying the warm glow of candles flickering in glass jars... 

Opening advent calendar doors... I made a large card foxy, the snowdrop fox... 🦊✨🌟✨

A few weeks ago I started snipping...snip,snip snip!.. Lots of paper motifs for the whimsical window like I did last year... But a little smaller... I haven't quite finished it yet... ✨🌟✨

A wonderful trip to Exeter... For stevies birthday 

Visiting the beautiful Exeter cathedral & Christmas Market too

The Cathedral is free (small donations advised) during the festive season when the Christmas Market is on the green. Its stunning inside and absolutely huuuuuge. All the religious artwork, carvings, sculpture, stone architecture... Just wow!... Choir music played or could have been a practice (but couldn't see choir group)... The sound echoed beautifully around the stone walls and ceiling... Amazing place to explore. 

My parents gave Sophia early Christmas money to spend while we were in Exeter as they never know what to get & rather she got something she'd wear/use. We each get each other some small as a tree gift... Only around £5-£10... I love a thoughtful message in a card most of all. 

Its definitely looking a lot like Christmas every where you go... ✨✨🌟✨🎄✨🌟

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✨🌟Magic & toadstools ⭐✨

The magic of the seasons, oh' Autumnal days... You have been a pleasure... The joy of hunting for toadstools, crunching my boots through the crispy, golden leaves & that beautiful sunlight. Its starting to feel quite nippy here in Devon. We've enjoyed some lovely walks lately between school & work... We've also enjoyed some lovely festivities at local National Trust houses, Cotehele & Saltrum house... And walks on Dartmoor, Harrowbarrow & Whitchurch. And my daughter had a magical evening at the Royal theatre watching the Nutcracker... 

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Some amazing sights! I'd love to know what this mushroom was, like a huge shell...? 

Always feels quite magical up on Dartmoor... 

Can you see what I see staring straight back at me?... Oh' is it a mossy pixie? 

I seem to find a pixie at every turn on our little adventures... 

Autumnal fields in Devon... 

Wonderful crunchy, golden leaves... 

Wonderful Devon sunlight... 

I explored the church at Whitchurch... Beautiful prayer cushions... All completely different. 

The Winter garland at Cotehele, National Trust House... Made from all the flowers & foliage grown on the grounds... Its absolutely spectacular... Every year is different... 

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Cosy by the great hall fire... 

Wreaths on all the medieval doorways... 

I adored this cosy festive feast painting of the great hall... I wondered if I could try painting something similar...  

We also visited Saltrum house, National Trust House & their Nutcracker christmas... 

Another truly magical late afternoon... 

Every stately room dressed to impress.... 

Wonderful carriage... 

It most definitely got me into the festive spirit... 

Thanks kindly for all the wonderful comments, 

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Good bye from me & my feathered friend, 

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