Mary & Joseph come to visit! (WOYWW)

At church we have a little set of wooden figures; Mary, Joseph and their donkey, and throughout Advent they are travelling to different families, one each day, and it is our turn to host them.  Alex was so excited to go round to his friend Jacob's house to collect them and then to play with them at home where they are sleeping the night in his room before going onto a new family tomorrow. I'm not sure that a trip on a pirate ship was what the leaders at church had in mind when they suggested this, but there you go!

This is my desk as it was yesterday morning, no room for me to sit...Alex was busy making a decoration for his junk model tree out of Tim Holtz cogs.

Here is the completed tree with the decorated cog set at the top like a star, and a present underneith.  Perfect combination in my humble opinion!

This is my desk as Alex left it for my WOYWW entry...covered in bits and pieces with the cuttlebug to the left, some stamps that he was interested in besides it, the cog die that he used and my berol pens along with the piece of paper that was used to protect my desk.  My mug is there ready for me to drink while tidying up the mess ready for work (I work from home on Tuesdays).  My desk today is rather empty and boring hence me showing the mess Alex made with it instead.

I have also been busy with my Faith book and this double page spread was based on an evening I went to at Ecclesall Church last week.  I finally managed to journal it.  The evening was all about using scripture and God's word to protect your mind from all those negative thoughts that creep in, in essence about taking every thought captive.  There was an activity that we did with umbrella's hence the computer graphics I generated for the left-hand page and the righthand page contains my thoughts and some illustrated scriptures.

I have pretty much finished with Christmas preparations (apart from wrapping presents) but I did need a couple more cards so here is a quick and simple Christmas card I made using Cosmo Cricket paper and a little wooden snowman.  The paper is red and a pale green (not the usual bright green) so I am entering this into Kaboodle Doodles 'use the colour red', CCC 'Merry Christmas' and Speedy the Fox and friends 'red & green' challenges.
That is all from me for now.  Have a great rest of the week everyone.
Love,
Caro
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