Christmas at home

When Annika & Niklas were 3 1/2 & 5 years old respectively, they started to make these paper gingerbread boys & girls. I had pre-cut these from 3 shades of brown paper. Each day when they got home from kindergarten, they would completed a couple. Trust me, if you start in June, you will get hundreds by the time it is Christmas! Each Christmas, we put these up somewhere - their work, when they were so small.

















On our tree, besides twig-stars, gold & red tinsel balls, we have hand-painted mini clay dolls from China, kawaii painted wooden clogs from Japan.




Beneath the tree is part of our Brio trains, a collection which started when Niklas was 1.

Here & there too, are craft made by the children, like this Christmas mobile which Annika made in Kindergarten.














And as in most family with kids, we have the traditional Christmas photos over the years.....from 1999 till now.