Magical Birthdae

 

 I love Harry Potter so when it was my birthday a couple of weeks ago my parents gave me lots of magic things. I got a wand (it is just like Hemione's), Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, a book about King Arthur (and Merlin), fabric to make wizard robes and a quill & owl notebook. I also got a book called Wizardology and The Apprentices Handbook (but I can't tell you any more about them because it is a secret). What I can say is that my home education days are going to be fun from now on.

 

 When my friends came over for my party we turned my bedroom into the Gryffindor common room and ate my beans and chocolate frogs. We had spare wands (chopsticks) for my friend.

My favourite chocoltes in the world are After Eights so mum made an After Eight cake. It was chocolate cake with mint cream in the middle. Yum Yum Yum!

 It wasn't just an After Eight cake, it was a Harry Potter After Eight cake. It looks just like thecake Hagrid gave to Harry Potter (with the same spelling mistakes) when Harry found out he was a wizard.

Spring Photoshoot - Tavasz

 

Spacey

Last week I went to see Oulu Symphony performing Holst's Planet Suite at the cathedral. Jupiter (the bringer of Jollity) is my favourite movement in the suite.
 

I'm an Anorak Little Editor

For my birthday last year I got a subscription to Anorak. It is really cool. It is great for everyone, boys or girls. The stories are funny and the pictures are spectacular. Every issue has book reviews in it and they inspired me to write book reviews here. Mum say on the Anorak website that they were looking for Little Editors to review books so we asked if I could be one. A couple of weeks ago I got a book from them. The review of that book will be published in Anorak not on my blog.

Thanks Anorak!

Yule Traditions: Holidays are Over

Yule Traditions: Doctor-Who-Christmas-Special-Day

The day I wait for most is Doctor-Who-Christmas-Special-Day on the 26th. We ususlly have to wait for months after the normal Doctor Who season has finished until the Christmas special. I really like Doctor Who so waiting is really hard. This is the prewiew from the one we watched this year. If you have never watched Doctor Who before then you shoud . It is fantastic!

Doctor-Who-Christmas-Special-Day is such a big part of our Yule that we even decorate the tree with Dalek gingerbread biscuits (The Daleks are The Doctors worst enemy).

I was talking to Mum and Apa about the Christmas story and we made this nativity scene. The ony things we could find to be the 3 wise men were the 2 Daleks and the Cyberman figure.

Yule Traditions: Festive Feast & Present Day

We don't really celebrate Christmas but when everyone around us is celebrating it would be rubbish to miss out. We like to eat yummy food and get presents too.  We pick and choose and mix up traditions from Finland, Hungary and the UK.

People in Finland and Hungary normally celebrate Christmas on the 24th December. They eat their dinner and get the presents afterwards. We normally decorate our Fényfa in the morning (remember it only got the lights on at Solstice) then do a lot of cooking and have our feast. My favourite things from our feast this year was the onion tarts we had to start and the garlic spinach. We don't get our presents on this day though.

When we all wake in the morning we light a lot of candles and last year I made a pretty candle for mum which she saved to light this year. Then we opent the presents tht are under the Fényfa. Our presents aren't from Santa or Jésuska (Little Jesus brings presents in Hungary not Santa) they are just from our family. When I was little though I used to think it was the postman who put the presents there adn I was 6 when I realised it was Mum and Dad who did it.

This year I got lots of books, a clarinet, a spirograph, a Star Wars Lego game and my very first Pointe shoes for ballet. Because we ate our feast the day before we have the whole day to play with our new things.

 My dad made these really nice catupults. You will ssee more of them later...