Beautiful Things: Christmas Tea

We're winding down on our Year of Food with a few last celebrations; mainly involving cookies and tea!

 Lots of Cookies.  

Tomorrow, we'll look ahead to next year's theme!

Beautiful Things: Windows in Downtown Lancaster

Beautiful Things: Holiday Alphabet

26 ATCs: a December Holiday Alphabet!  Each card has a label on the back explaining what the December Holiday is for the letter.

 Advent, Brownies, Christmas Cards, Dice, Evergreen and Flashlight.

 Gingerbread, Hot Cocoa, Ice Cream, Jamhuri (Kenyan independence day), Kwanzaa and Letter Writing.

 Mitten Tree, New Years, Oatmeal Muffins, Poinsettia, Quince and Regifting!

 Snowflakes, Tea, Ugly Sweaters, Violin, Wreath and Xmas.

Yoga and Zoo!

Beautiful Things: Lancaster Cupcake

They had this beautiful gingerbread castle in their window!

Beautiful Things: Issei Noodle Lancaster

 So Delicious!

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Beautiful Things for December

Pendragon House has 3 handmade advent calendars this year (one made by cozy reader - ornaments to go on our tiny tree; one from Chaton13 - "25 handmade days of christmas"; and one from ittybittykitty - "Flat Advent Envies") so instead of our regular Beautiful Things posts, I'm going to be posting our Advent Calendars every day until December 25.  

Enjoy a Beautiful Advent.

Beautiful Things: Cocoa

YUM.

Beautiful Things: Mantel

A friend gave us the balls - they have sparkly fiber in them!

Beautiful things: warm snowflakes

Beautiful things: drawing

Hand drawn and hand carved stamped mythical creatures!

Beautiful Things: tiny friend

 We found a little salamander while out hiking!

Beautiful Things: Neighbors

I just love this sign.

Beautiful things: handmade advent calendar

For a swap: 25 hand made days of Christmas.  Half of the advent calendar was to be handmade and the other half was to be things my partner could make.

Beautiful Things: Chocolate house

Including a Kiss Cupola!

@ Hershey's Chocolate World

Beautiful Things: Hershey's Chocolate World

Beautiful things: teatime for chipmunk

During a toddler nature hike at Governor Dick Park.  The chipmunk is a stuffed animal.  The acorns and leaves are real though.

Beautiful things: exploring with friends

On a toddler nature hike at Governor Dick Park.

(The lady on the left runs the hikes.  She is wonderful.)

Beautiful Things: model trains: pumpkins

Farm Stand @ Masonic Village Model Railroad Club.

Beautiful Things: model trains: ferris wheel

A Giant at the Amusement park!  @Masonic Village Model Railroad Club

Beautiful things: High Tea

@ Infusions Restaurant at the Lancaster County Career and Tech center.  It was delicious, huge and very reasonably priced.  We'll be going back!