It's that time of year again!
Hello everyone!
It's that time of year again and I am sure you have all heard of the German Christmas Markets, but did you know that lots of small villages around Germany hold private Christmas Markets as well?
Well for the last month my children have hardly seen their Oma because she has been busy preparing for her annual Christmas Market held at her private residence.
Every year after Christmas my mother-in-law goes out to the stores and buys up all the steeply reduced Christmas decorations and begins to craft a bunch of self-made pieces to sell at her Christmas market the following year.
She then uses the money to buy all of her Christmas presents and I think she normally does pretty well. She invites the entire village and they usually show up in droves for free punch, hot Cocoa, coffee, waffles, and of course to purchase her locally famous Christmas decorations.
We spent the entire day there today helping her prepare for the open doors tomorrow. She fills her carport and house with the handmade crafts and everyone comes over and has a really nice time.
Family from all over Germany came this weekend to help her and of course, come away with some free Christmas goodies for their hard work. The farthest came from Bavaria which is an eight hour drive all the way up here!
I think she has some really great stuff this year and I hope she does well tomorrow, then I will get a really nice Christmas gift 😂
Have a good one!
curator.