Dear December, welcome!
We have been waiting for your arrival with delight as you are the month of advent, hope, lights, smiles, feasts, family reunions and decorations. You are the month of hugs, gifts, charity, and meetings but also of farewells and endings. In many places worldwide you are covered with a soft white blanket of snow. In the frozen worlds, fairies turn your days into ice spectacles that shine under the starlight. The cold takes our breath away but at the same time purifies it, cleanses it - it prepares the new times that begin with Christmas and the festivities of celebrating the New Year. That same cold makes us take out our coats, gloves, and scarves from the closets... We could even review our collections of the same, and who knows, maybe we can wear every day different shawl to warm up our chests if our collection is wide enough.
To be fair, there are also places in the world where it is hot while you reign, where people welcome Christmas in short sleeves and perhaps on the beach. Too much sun, no problem: we can protect our heads from the sun's rays with a thin scarf. We should simply open our closets and drawers and find these useful garments. Nothing better than now, in your month dear December.
My letter to December revealed to you the official theme that we will have in the Hive Collectors community during this whole month:
Scarves, shawls, bandanas...
I use scarves many times as a fashion detail that complements a too-simple blouse under a jacket. When it's colder, shawls have another important role - to keep me warm and not to catch a cold. Colours and designs are important to combine nicely with the rest of your clothes, but the truth is that I didn't choose any of these scarves that you see in my post. Not one. And do you know why? Well, because I received all of them as gifts. Most often from students but also from my boss, from the choir with which I perform many times, from family members and friends. That is how my scarves and shawls became a collection, I kept all of them and this is the day they arrived to show themselves.
Oh no, this is just a messy display to witness how many there are. Let's correct this presentation - they will try to come in a more organized way, hanging from a rack. There is just one issue with that - all of them could not have a place at once on the rack, so my scarves arrive in a few batches. The first nine...
...then nine more...
It wasn't even my intention to place exactly nine of them; I just realized it later when I counted them already from the photo. The last batch does arrive as a separate part, those that are a bit heavier and warmer. These are for the coldest days:
I really like how fluffy this colourful shawl is. I got it from the members of the choir last December and soon it will be time to wear it again. December just started and I assume I will need it.
So. if you like the theme for December and have any kind of neckwear, shawls, scarves... let's see them as a collection. 😇
