Christmas Advent Ring

Sunday 1^st of December was the first Sunday in advent, my family has always begun the Christmas celebrations with the lighting of an advent ring.

This was very exciting for us when we were children as it was our countdown to Christmas!

We would take turns to light the candles in the four Sundays before Christmas eve and sing a Christmas carol or read a Christmas story, I am from a large family so we could really belt out a Christmas carol! On Christmas eve when we would light the fifth candle there would be a little present left in our advent boxes, if we had been good of course!

We even have a special Christmas book that has been kept throughout my childhood and withstood a lot of family Christmas’s, it even still smells like Christmas!

This is a tradition that we all carry on even though we are not all at home anymore!

I was a little late preparing my Advent ring, so I cheated ever so slightly!

I used one of our lovely Green Christmas Wreaths and adapted it!

First I needed to fix the candles in place.

Dawn came up with a great idea! She suggested that I attached tea light holders to the wreath (just a dab of glue was needed) and then melt wax into them, so I could push my tapers into the hot wax to secure them. This worked a treat! But you have to be very carefully melting the wax, you do not want to burn the house down!

I wanted to add a few little extra touches to the wreath, so I decided to get creative and make a few paper roses and flowers and just add a little glitter to the edges.

Ribbons and a robin and the advent ring was done!

Just need to wait for those Advent fairy’s to fill the little boxes with a gift on Christmas eve!

Love as always SP x x