Hearth's Warming Eve
Feb. 26th, 2016 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyIt's Hearth's Warming eve! It's also been very cold today, which goes well with this holiday. Spike and I use the sitting room for our Hearth's Warming festivities -- it has a hearth and I don't have to move my stacks of books out of the way of the decorations. What with all the effort we put into decorating the exterior of the castle, we didn't get to decorating the sitting room until this morning. But now it's looking very festive with sparkling streamers and burgundy bows, fir boughs, holly and ornaments. (Don't eat the holly, it's toxic.). After gift wrapping the castle for four days straight, it was a breeze to decorate the sitting room. Spike brought out the decorations from last year and we just put them up. Easy peasy.
Our Hearth's Warming dolls are up on the hearth mantle shelf. We used our old fabric figures, not the one Rarity made Spike last spring. It would not do to get smoke and ash on that, it's a work of art! I know Spike dusts it and the one that looks like Rarity. The Rarity felted figure on his shelf is as white and clean as the day Rarity gave it to him.
Spike cooked up some traditional Chancellor Puddinghead plum pudding, most of which we ate this evening. On a table in the sitting room I put out candy canes and assorted gems (for Spike) to snack on. I need to get some cushions for that room. And a rug. It's a sitting room with nowhere to sit.
We have a pile of gifts waiting to be unwrapped. Books, I hope! But Spike and I have personal tradition of opening one gift apiece on Hearth's Warming Eve. In his (from me) was a book! Harvester Grazer Settlements and Artifacts from Pony Prehistory. (It was recommended by Moondancer, so it must be good!)
After that we went to the Ponyville's Hearth's Warming Eve pageant with Rarity, Sweetie Belle, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. We sang! We laughed! We pounded our hooves so hard in applause that the windigoes were swaying on their strings!
Tomorrow we go door to door caroling, sharing stories and spreading good cheer.
Our Hearth's Warming dolls are up on the hearth mantle shelf. We used our old fabric figures, not the one Rarity made Spike last spring. It would not do to get smoke and ash on that, it's a work of art! I know Spike dusts it and the one that looks like Rarity. The Rarity felted figure on his shelf is as white and clean as the day Rarity gave it to him.
Spike cooked up some traditional Chancellor Puddinghead plum pudding, most of which we ate this evening. On a table in the sitting room I put out candy canes and assorted gems (for Spike) to snack on. I need to get some cushions for that room. And a rug. It's a sitting room with nowhere to sit.
We have a pile of gifts waiting to be unwrapped. Books, I hope! But Spike and I have personal tradition of opening one gift apiece on Hearth's Warming Eve. In his (from me) was a book! Harvester Grazer Settlements and Artifacts from Pony Prehistory. (It was recommended by Moondancer, so it must be good!)
After that we went to the Ponyville's Hearth's Warming Eve pageant with Rarity, Sweetie Belle, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. We sang! We laughed! We pounded our hooves so hard in applause that the windigoes were swaying on their strings!
Tomorrow we go door to door caroling, sharing stories and spreading good cheer.
