Merry Ishmas

[becks77]

Happy ishmas to everyone,
Homemade goodies going out for ishmas pressies and getting the children to make biscuit stars to hang on the tree,
Seasons good will
Becks

[gigglybug]

Fantastic idea!!!

Happy Ishmas to all!!!!!!!

[Andy Hamilton]

It's great to see that there will be many of us celebrating Ishmas this year

Just written another article for the budget living section about afree Christmas. Hope someone finds it helpful!

[becks77]

Just remembered my children once gave me a cheque book full of IOU's promising to do stuff instead of giving presents, love that idea give time rather than gifts, like gardening, putting up shelves things that would really be appreciated
Happy Ishmas

[Ellendra]

Let me see if I can get this image thing to work:


If it works, that's my rosemary tree. It needs another haircut soon, but it makes the house smell fabulous!

[Ellendra]

That image makes it look huge, that tree is only 18 inches tall.

[carolinej]

What a fantastic idea. I think I'll give it a go and see if I can get a rosemary into a shape like that for next year.

Happy Ishmas

cj

[MuddyWitch]

Happy Ishmas one & all,

we'll have a drink to you on Yule

*nips off to see just how many members that is

MW

[mamos]

Merry ishmas to you all

Here is the card we designed this year



mamos

[Penny Lane]

We're having a very Ishmas this year too!

One thing I did that was quite ish-y was to make DH a card 'from' our baby boy instead of buying one. I used cotton wool to make a snowman for the front & put DS's handprint on the inside!
Ok, it looks like a five year old made it but it does the job

[Shabba]

I LOVE Christmas and try to make it a little more "Ishy" every year. I've been keeping an eye out for suitable prezzies in the charity shops all year, am making some edible goodies on Ishmas eve, and instead of a tree this year we have a twig! I went to our woodland and found a lovely bare branch that's beautifully twisted and gnarled. It's been put in a pot and hung with decorations made of cinnamon sticks and star anise etc. The rest of the house is decorated with various bits of greenery from the woodland, holly, ivy, yew etc and I think it looks far nicer than all that glitzy tat they sell in the shops, and it's free and biodegradable! I had hoped that for the first year ever I would be able to provide sprouts from my own garden for the Ishmas dinner but the slugs and caterpillars had other ideas! I will, however, be providing homemade parsnip wine on the big day so thats something to be proud of, and its good stuff even if I do say so myself!

Merry Ishmas to all and a Happy New Year!!