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Hey Blog! Welcome to the Christmas Special issue of Home Ed In A Shed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wow, it\u2019s the Christmas Eve blog post! I can\u2019t believe it, Advent has gone so fast! It seems like no time ago that it was November. So, to celebrate the festive season and my first \u201cBlogging Christmas\u201d I have loads of things set up for this week\u2019s post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I have been making a felt wreath for the decorations, made by pushing wire through scraps of felt to create a beautiful piece of artwork (and get the tiny scraps of felt out of the bag!). We have hung this up on the front door, so that callers can see my wreath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one of the days in my Advent calendar I got a knitted Santa Hat. It\u2019s the one I\u2019m wearing in the picture. I have worn it quite a lot already, including for the annual Bailey Family Christmas Quiz, which is in its second year. The Christmas Quiz is an event where me, Mum, Dad, my older brother and his wife, and my older sister all write a set of questions on a theme and we take it in turns to ask them. Everybody answers as best they can, and when all the questions have been asked the answers are revealed. This year I had \u201cThings we do at Christmas\u201d as my theme, and two of the five other contestants only got one answer right in my set of questions, so I guess mine were hard\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Advent felt wreath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Me at Christmas!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Instead of having a Christmas tree, this year we have chosen to hang holly branches around the house, a tradition that used to be done in the Mediaeval period. Did you know that Christmas trees came to Britain with Prince Albert (Queen Victoria\u2019s husband) who brought the idea over from Germany? They are actually quite a modern tradition in Britain. You may think not having a tree means we cannot hang decorations up, but we have a cupboard that has holes in the doors which we can hang decorations on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \u201cI\u2019ve gone Nutcrackers!\u201d two weeks ago I said that I had another piece of work to do, and last week I said I hadn\u2019t finished it. This week I have! Here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flower candle holder decoration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Join me next week on New Year\u2019s Eve to find out what presents I got, and what I get up to next week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merry Christmas!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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