I said, in yesterday's post, that there would be pictures.
This post has pictures from Church - we hold the Coffee Morning in the Church, not in the hall/Sunday School room. We move some of the chairs around, add tables, and people sit surrounded by Christmas...
I took these when there was no-one else there and it was peaceful and very calming. They are all on Flickr, so clicking on them will let you view them in more detail.
Our church is a large, plain space, the building originally being built as a headquarters for the island's scouts and guides. So we 'built' walls in a couple of corners, then decorate the spaces they make -
And one of the congregation made us these wooden frames for an event in 2018 - here is one that has been put up and decorated for the middle of the seating area (they are stored in a shed in the grounds!)
Throughout the church there are small things that are visible if you look carefully - I knitted this robin, who is up at the top of the frame;
He was knitted on the spot a few years ago when Linda, the main arranger, said it would be lovely to have a robin, and I found some wool in the craft box, and a pair of needles, and sat in church knitting whilst the others arranged flowers!
And the older children once made some angels using florist's wired ribbon and tiny polystyrene balls - this one has lasted well and is tucked into the side of that frame;
This corner is a Nativity scene -
A friend of Linda's made the sheep from wire, card, scrap fabric and plaster of Paris for something else, and no longer wanted them -
Behind these is the organ -
And we remember -
And, on the table in the entrance hall, is The Knitivity;
This was knitted about 10 years ago and is a memorial piece as well, now. We look at the donkey and remember Felicity, the wise man in red and we think of Margaret, Wilma knitted two of the shepherds and is now so crippled with osteoporosis and arthritis that she can no longer knit...
Tomorrow I will post pictures from home - I have already taken them :)
And I will apologise now to many of my friends outside the UK - I am not sure you will all get cards, I'm afraid.