Have a very Happy Christmas

in the Kootenays

AND A SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR

every one needs a holiday from it all – hope to see you in 2013 – stay with me – good things to come.

Stars

large star1

Every year for -at least- – I cannot spell that # – I started around end of October to go into my crafty mode, making Christmas and window decoration out of ordinary straw. A craft I learn in my childhood and sold hundreds of them in the 80th, from then on the world moved . . . → Read More: Stars

O Tannenbaum, ( Oh Christmas Tree)

blue spruce in a circle

……wie treu sind Deine Blaetter

Du gruenst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit – nein auch im Winter,wenn es schneit

O Tannenbaum

Tradition is good – but starting one is fulfilling

           all naturals and home -made stars

 

The making of a German Christmas Tree

husband and son

      beautiful – has . . . → Read More: O Tannenbaum, ( Oh Christmas Tree)

Advent leading to Christmas

a season is but a second

It is a season to be joyful – but for some it does not always quite work out like that – cold and rainy days bring misery for many  -but  we still can be thankful for many small things – so – just let us be happy with little  and stay close to our . . . → Read More: Advent leading to Christmas

Love is……..

cookie11

Love is….. to make for 50 years the same Christmas cookies - but real love is….  try to make that one cookie a “ Springerle” – and for 50 years they never turn out the way “ my mother makes them “ or the way they are done in the South of Germany. What is a . . . → Read More: Love is……..