: EDIT : Please check out the news about the 'secret santa' project: [link]

'Secret Santa is a holiday activity during the Christmas season when a group of people exchange gifts, each person giving one gift to one other person in the group. However, each individual has no idea who they will recieve their gift from. They cannot alert the other person in any way who their Secret Santa is until the gift giving date.'

They are in need of more people who join, deadline is November 19th. Just read the news FAQ and send a note to


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Ok, yeah, I know it there are more than one month left 'til christmas, and I must confess I am no real christmas fan... but I find it strange that I'm getting buisy every November, tinker around with paper, thinking about an advent calender for Jules and what kind of crafted present I can give to every member of my family.
We don't buy each other Christmas presents and I love to give away little self-made gifts, a calendar for my parents, some sweet cards for my sisters and a couple of crafted Christmas tree ornaments or stuff like this- just something to let them know that I care and that I took my time to make them a unique present.

Maybe it is also the fact that I've got enough time to do such things for this year's Christmas, in the last years the weeks before Christmas were horror, I was stressed every time because of my job.
Working 12h/day 6days/week and I couldn't sleep at night because there were such a lot of things in my head I had to write down, always afraid of forgetting something. We were working even on Christmas eve 'til 1pm and I was so done that I couldn't believe that THIS was christmas... Very bad
But as I said, this year I've got more time and free of stress, so I will enjoy the advent time.


Last year Jules and I made Christmas cookies, they were delicious and every one was pleased about such a box full of sweets.
Maybe this year we'll concentrate on 2 types of cookies, making them sucks somehow.

Jules is hardly thinking about the decoration of our first real Christmas tree (last year we had just a couple of fir branches)and I must admit that I'm a little bit scared, he talked about some snow spray an ice things and I am afraid he really transforms our living room into a winter wonder world with a real skating rink and an icicled ceiling...
(I'll post some pics if he really did it!)


So, I wish all of you a good time 'til Christmas!




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