My little trinkets for Christmas

With a slight delay, we wish you all a Merry Christmas... It was mostly a lovely, quiet affaire here, by our beautiful Christmas Tree, in our new living room. Ahhhh. More pictures of "humans" soon, but first a few pictures of what I worked on to put in the stockings: maps for the kids (they're big on Dora the Explorer these days, and always on the lookout for a lost treasure), a Chocolate Moose for Kyan, a Hermit Crab for Anastasia, and a sweater with a gazelle for Michael.

Solstice

Since it was raining too much last night to go out and welcome the Solstice, we improvised a little celebration inside, with candles and glow-sticks. And tried to create a few non-computer generated special effects...

Living Room... The Return

Our living room is back. With a whole bunch of things to finish, paint to touch up, trim to install, a few boxes to empty, and a staircase which should arrive by boat very soon, but it's already starting to look like a real house again. On Sunday, we finally removed all the protection from the floor and got to meet with our hardwood floor again. Ahhhh. And, as a bonus touch, we now have a beautiful Christmas Tree.

Blah blah blah

A few quick news until I can find an interesting subject with matching pictures. The house renovation is painfully moving along, the walls are starting to get colors again, and we're rushing to get at least the living room in shape to set up the Christmas Tree (the kids have been asking for it three times a day). Mojo, the black manx cat, just got another holiday at the vet clinic, same problem as last year, interestingly at the same time of the year. He's all good now, but I'm worried this may turn into a costly tradition. As for the rest, lots of fog over the Bay, and the leaves are finally falling...

Starting to look a lot like Christmas...

Hard to ignore that Christmas is just around the corner. Christmas lights, decoration, fake snowmen and fake snowflakes are everywhere. Makes for very hungry little reindeer...

Cloth rack, oh my clothrack...

Another reason for the extended silence on the blog, beside the endless construction on the house: getting ready for the Christmas Fair at the Lycée Français. At the end, I broke another record... I didn't sell anything. I had worked quite hard, the support crew was ready, I had come up with new creations and even special christmassy items, but, nothing... At least, I'm very likely to do better next time...

All is well

Back after a silent few weeks on the blog. And yes, all is well, just very busy.

First, there was Thanksgiving. Initially, Kyan thought that Thanksgiving, it's when we go scuba-diving. Not sure where the link is, but he now knows that it's a time to be grateful.

And, like every year, the snow was in town, brought on trucks. It lasted only a few hours, until the rain washed most of it away during the night. We still go to enjoy it for a brief moment, under the stars. Kyan loved it but was a bit frustrated that he didn't get to build a snowman on the edge of the slope. He had already planned to bring a carrot for the nose.