Day 6 of the Advent Calendar 🎅

Welcome to day...

of the Online Advent Calendar, hosted by Jo @ Serendipitous Stitching.

This blog hop keeps you entertained up until Christmas, so if you haven't started from the 1st, head on over to Jo's to see who to visit.

This piece is Santa Visits Maryland, from Samplers Revisited. I chose to stitch this for my Dad, a true Welshman, but who has been living here in Maryland much longer than he did in Wales! I'm sure he'll be happy with it, but next year he'll get a Welsh Father Christmas to make him really happy.

This is not the true finish, but I thought he needed a little sprucing up. Although I do like the way it looks.


The other part of the hop this year is sharing our favourite Christmas movie. I have so many, from the oldies to the modern ones, dramas, comedies, and musicals, it's hard to pick just one. 
But I'll go with this one...

This is one of the ones we watch on Christmas Eve as a family (Christmas Vacation is the other), both are super silly but we love them!
Some of my favourite quotes - "Son of a nutcracker!"
"We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup."
"He's an angry elf." And so many more!

I'm going to add one that isn't really a movie, but an animation. I love it because it tells the story of how Santa came to be. A friend I used to work with dressed as Mrs. Claus because her husband truly looked like Santa (especially in costume), but she never knew what to tell the kids when they asked her what her first name was. I let her borrow the movie and now she knows she's Jessica!

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and Blessed New Year, make some wonderful memories!

Just a reminder, a smile doesn't cost anything and it might even be contagious. 😁💗