Christmas is Coming!

Hey, sorry I haven't updated for a while. For some reason I always seemed to have something that needed to be done until now. Anyway, here's what I've been doing over the last 12 days:

First of all we're halfway through decorating our living room with Christmas decorations. I think it looks really nice and can't wait until Christmas :P

(It looks a lot better in real life...)
If you're wondering what that odd yellowish light at the bottom of the Christmas tree is, it's a trail of slightly creepy angel lights.


Mari, Kelli and my stockings are the only stockings currently empty. We still put up Jesse, Leah, and CJ's stockings even though we know you're not coming :( They currently have two items each in them :D

Kelli is coming next Monday which will be really cool :D
We're not sure whether or not to ask Isabelle (our cleaning lady) to clean the spare room. It's really disgusting after Alain the "Zen Buddhist" slept in there. The dogs won't even go near it, so we don't really want to make Isabelle go in there...



Mari made these along with the star on the tree for the Christmas Market thing near her school. She gave the red moon to me :D
They hold candles and slowly spin. :)

Mari and I bought everyone presents at the Christmas market. Here's a picture of them all together :D

The green one at the back is Kelli's. We didn't get her any stocking fillings yet because we weren't sure what to get :P

Oh yeah, and Thomas got me and Mari some advent calenders! The chocolate in them is wonderful :D


Mari and I did some baking today. We were thinking about trying to make some gingerbread people but decided against it. We made sugar cookies that I didn't have time to take a photo of because I was reading Harry Potter to Mari and she ate the lot without my notice. I want to try and make a modern Gingerbread house though like this one (joke):


I do however actually want to learn how to make these 3D snowflakes:

There's a really cool (and complicated) ghttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifuide here.

I've read a lot of articles on how people have just discovered that animals are smarted than we think. I've read an article on Chimps,Crows and dogs.

There was a Mysterious mammal caught on film on the BBC web site. It says he/she can be found in deserts in Mongolia and China. I absolutely love their tails! I didn't notice a second ago :D


And, if you haven't had enough of my animal links,
Japanese scientists create mice with no fear of cats!

My mom gave me a link to the thing I truly would love to get for Christmas. The Tales of Beedle the Bard... Sadly its being auctioned off tonight and I've not yet saved up the £40,000 needed. I've never wanted something as much as this before... If I had it, I'd probably be too scared to let anyone else touch it :P


And sadly I have to end this post with a bit of bad news. Iris was finally fixed a couple days ago and is in a bit of pain at the moment. The worst part of it all is that she has some fleas on her that make annoying bites she now can't scratch because of her head thingy. We can't give her the flea medicine because the vet (or my mom, I can't remember) said not to.


Anyway, Thats all I have time for tonight. I have many guild members waiting for their leader and need some sleep. I'll update again soon :D