Chimes

I think I'm starting to feel the Christmas frenzy. I went to city centre today with a purpose of helping out Santa with some gifts he was too busy to buy, and decided to pop into The Bay to check out their decorations. Didn't find any silver garland (we bought some on Saturday, only it got lost somewhere between the shop and home), but I did manage to find a really cute Christmas Tree skirt with an adorable reindeer, and a runner (a table cloth, only a thin one covering only middle of the table, "running" over the table...) with some napkins. I've now also got some paper to package the gifts, only I don't have any tape... Then I decided that it was a good idea to walk home after also buying about 2 liters of Tigi shampoo and conditioner that I found on sale.

All in all, very productive, although tiring trip.

At home I started arranging the tree, put the skirt on, and gathered all the gifts we've received so far under it. Which is quite a few as today a second package from my family arrived when I was just coming out the shower. I opened one after my sister told me that it was really a pre-Christmas gift, and it turned out to be Angel Chimes (enkelikellot).

Now as long as I can remember, Angel Chimes have always been part of our Christmas traditions. It's a fascinating apparatus: it's got four candles on the bottom, and the heat from the candles causes the angels on the top to spin and, in doing so, the small chimes attached to the angels hit against the bells causing tinkling sounds. It's not used that many times over Christmas, typically three or four I think - the tinkling sound is sweet for about the time it takes for the candles to burn. I put it together just now and had to give it a spin (and why is it that I always put the angels the wrong way around first?) and it's instant Christmas!

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