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From: "Firefly1954" <>
Subject: Re: [Scot] Re: Scottish Themed advent calendar thingie for Firefly
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:25:51 -0500
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Thanks, Muff. What a great idea. I am an artist, so I can do that! Thank
you. Try to rest your brain now.
Margo

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From: "Muff Worden" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 1:23 PM
Subject: [Scot] Re: Scottish Themed advent calendar thingie for Firefly


> Hi, Firefly -
>
> It's Friday evening, at long last, after a full week with particularly
> over-full Thurs. and Fri. as usual (though fun), so my brain is numb as
> I answer with an idea. If you could make an advent calendar, possibly
> drawing or painting a typical Scottish croft with house ('scuse me
> ...hoose), byre (barn), perhaps another cottage or two, a birdhouse,
> and so on, and then cut the doors and windows so they open. Then tape
> or paste this over a piece of cardboard on which you have painted, or
> cut out from a photo, or some such, the scene that would be inside the
> open door or window or in the birdhouse or oven door, or whatever, so
> that when the two are lined up, when you open - for instance - the
> front door of the cottage, you see the entry hall and outerwear hanging
> up; when you open the window of the sitting room you see the Christmas
> tree all lit up and decorated; and so on.
>
> Then, put a number 1 on the first thing the kids should open on the
> first day of Advent (Nov. 26, this year), 2 on the next, and on down to
> the number that brings you to Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. And then
> ... hereabouts folks put tiny gifts behind the numbered openings, which
> are then taped shut over the gifts till the right day to open them.
> Things like flat pieces of chocolate, or a coin, or a tiny message, a
> plastic toy, and so on.
>
> So it's a basic Advent calendar done with a Scottish theme. If you
> glue a thin rim of 1/4 inch cardboard around the edge of the paper with
> the "inside" scenes and then paste the top paper (with the doors and
> windows and portholes and things that open) onto that cardboard, there
> is more room between the papers for the little gifts.
>
> Our Lion's club sends its members around the community each Advent eve,
> selling Advent calendars in which all the "prizes" behind the doors are
> made of chocolate. Perversely, they also give out a tiny tube of
> bubblegum flavored toothpaste with each calendar!! Only in Iceland!
> But this way they raise enough money with which to buy a wee gift for
> every blessed kid in this town who is 12 years old or under ... and
> that's a lotta kids ..., and then those are wrapped and the child's
> name written on a card that is fastened to it, even for the three
> newborns we are blessed with as of this week and last, and when the
> loud, crass, noisy, rude, nastyish Jolasveins (we have 13 Santa
> Clauses, remember!) arrive at the special Holiday Ball party for those
> 12 and unders in the week after Christmas, they just happen to have
> exactly one gift for every bloomin' kid present, usually including any
> visiting kids from out of town. Amazing, but very nice.
>
> Anyway, that has burned my brain out for a while - I need to go sit
> under a cat to recover.
>
> Muff
>
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, December 3, 2004, at 03:00 PM,
> wrote:
>
> > From: "Firefly1954" <>
> > Date: Fri Dec 3, 2004 2:16:51 PM Atlantic/Reykjavik
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: christmas countdown
> >
> >
> > With December well under way, does anyone have an idea or suggestion
> > for a
> > fun christmas countdown I could do for my grandchildren? Something
> > Scottish?
> > I'm meaning one where each day of December I either put something up or
> > remove something, with the days of the month on each piece.
> > Suggestions?
> Muff Worden
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