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...which is so not like me!!

I got a couple of oranges and studded them with clove bits. (70 cents a jar from Mercadona!)

The lounge now smells clovey, orangey and very Christmassy.

Sounds lovely - the gold twigs I bought to go in my floor vase smell of cinammon, so my house smells Christmassy too

Ooh, lovely

That's such a good idea. I'm off to stud an orange right now.

I did studded oranges with the boys a few years running We tied red ribbons round them so they could be hung up. You're supposed to dry them out in eg the airing cupboard I think, have a google

I remember doing that when I was little, it was about as crafty as I got I seem to remember that we dried them out in the airing cupboard too...

I once made a paper lantern thing at Sunday school.

It was lovely until I decided (when no one else was in the room) to put it over the (lit) advent candle to see what it looked like.

I still to this day remember the feeling of panic as it set alight. I ran around the room like a headless chicken, holding onto the burning piece of paper until I could hold it no more so I dropped it in the middle of the lounge carpet. I then stood there watching it burn for a few seconds before deciding I really ought to go and tell someone.

My mum and dad weren't best pleased. I'm not sure if it was my burnt fingers that upset them or the big black hole in the middle of the lounge carpet. Somehow, I don't think it was my fingers!

It put me off Christmas crafts for years! I wonder if I would be safe, studding an orange?

ooops!