Blogmas Day Twenty Four - Completed Tree, Almost Emptied Advents, a Belly Bulging Cupboard and ...

My little tree is complete.

All the ornaments that I saved from last year have been emptied from the old Advent calendar drawers and hung on the tree or dotted around the lodge.  I love seeing all my little china mugs out and looking so festive.  I must keep looking for some more from charity shops.

The drawers of the decorations calendar are all empty, and the jams are all out of the Bonne Maman one.  Instead of a jar of jam, today it was this lovely little candle jar, what a pleasant surprise.  The packet of seeds was a pack of Cumin, what gorgeous little flowers it has, I have never knowingly seen them before.

But there is one more envelope on the seeds calendar so I have another day of that ... and it doesn't feel like seeds!!

The jams are packed away in this enamel pot ready for use over the course of the next few months.  I'm glad that two of the calendars are done as I need the space they were in for food.  Once again I have gotten myself caught up in the shop-athon that is Christmas ... and I blame Alan.

He keeps going to the supermarkets and asking me if I want to go with him, so I say 'yes, but I don't need much'.  Somehow I always come back with at least one bag full of food.  My little brain is telling me as I peruse the shelves the prices are going up soon, you might as well buy the things on offer, that's a good Christmas bargain, or just plain mmm, that looks good.

I need to tell my brain to shut up ... my Welsh cupboard larder is full to bursting.

I'm surprised you can't see the bulge of it's poor little tummy in this photo!!

Edited to add in:

And then this arrived!!

Alan felt so sorry that I couldn't eat any of the food in the hamper we received as a company that he ordered me a vegan version of my own.

So unexpected and what a lovely thing to do.

And now I have some more food ... but at least I have a basket to put it in.  😄

It's been a very hamper-y Christmas this year.

Sue xx