Advent 2023 - Part 1

 This year's advent project for my grandchildren is a progressive diorama. The non-celiac in this house had to eat a lot of cereal to provide the cereal boxes that I needed. 

Here is the development of the idea:

Building of one of the boxes. I am pretty good at building boxes out of boxes. 

The children will each have their own box and diorama to build. They each have a book of pockets, one pocket for each day, with some general directions for the children and parents. Most of the activities take very little time.

Day 1 -  The sky. It is hard to tell in the photo that it is a day/night sky.

Day 2 -  The sun and stars.

Day 3 - The hills and rocks (Mary and Joseph are on the crest of the hill)

Day 4 - The trees

Day 5 - Shepherds; Mary and Joseph

Day 6 - Sheep

Day 7 - Rocks and bushes

Book Faerie House: Faerie House Book

 This comes after a long line of Persuasion Journals that I reread, then turned into houses in some form. I guess a book faerie house was inevitable. 

Come on and have a look inside.

The front entrance.

The living room.

An upstairs space to curl up.

The other door.

The kitchen.

A space just for T1.

The view from above.

Where you will find this book house. 

Little Houses in the Library

 Over a couple of months I have left little houses at the library in places related to the theme of 'home'. This has been on the sly. I do not think it is illegal to leave small paper objects in a public library. 

The first one went to live in the fiction section, filed according to the Dewey decimal system: after HOO comes HOU for house.

The next one, also in the fiction section, went to reside by T.Morrison's book Home.

The third one found a place in the non-fiction section. You can see why this made sense. 

Little house number 4 went up to the magazine section: This Old House.

The location for little house number 5 was in the CDs. The title is partly obscured by the label; the CD is called 'Home.'

And finally, little house number 6 went to the children's section: 

I hope the librarians at my local branch had some fun with this. I do not expect to find out. 

Birthday Number: 39 trips around the sun