Christmas pieces

Thankfully Elian's knee is feeling better with the day now, which means: BACK INTO THE GYM this week for her LOL. She's also rode her new bike for the very first time. It's going to need some tweaking to get it entirely comfortable for her, but her dad is going to arrange for all that.

We've sold our 2nd package of fudge and our first order of a set of hearts is ready to go. Christmas is showing up everywhere now. Shops are setting up all new lines of christmas decorations and are opening it up. Christmas candy and chocolates are being displayed. This is always a transition period for us in the Netherlands, moving from St. Nicolas on the 5th of December, (our version of Santa Claus) to Christmas. We've got all the presents laying around in the house, people talking secretively to each other, having fun in the surprises they've got for others. It's always a nice, homely, warm holiday. 

To raise money, we're now aiming for another festive and grand holiday, Christmas! We've been to the woods to collect moss, pinecones and bark. As of this weekend, we got all the green we needed, all the decorations we needed and off we went. We divided our jobs as efficiently as possible and got the assistance of family members to make the production we needed. Elian, the florist, doing the christmas pieces, and me, doing the casts again. 

Here are some of the pine apples we sprayed to make beautifully christmassy decorations.

Here are some of the finished products. It's not the best picture ever, but I will be making some more tomorrow and see if we can make it a little more clear. There was no way we were going to be able to get everything done this weekend combining projects and appointments, so tomorrow evening we're continuing our efforts!