Tag: advent calendar

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    New storage jars. We bought three — my Ma wanted one too. I find their design both pleasing and evocative. A packet of leaf tea fits inside them perfectly, and their heads are carefully shaped to accommodate a spoon handle. Their characterful shape reminds me of moomins, or perhaps barbapapa, but most especially of this…

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    The days aren’t too easy here — there are some things I am really struggling with. But the start of December always feels like the turning of a corner. Last year, three of my favourite blogs featured their own versions of the advent calendar. I loved tracing the month through Alexandra‘s wry and subtle photographic…

  • toys

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    This in response to Colleen’s post. I’ve been enjoying her advent calendar immensely, and today she writes very evocatively about the toys behind advent calendar doors; the promise they contain; and the associations of such objects with domesticity — that is, the way toys act as a sort of preparation for one’s adult life in…