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🎄💕🎁Happy Christmas!
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Lovely! 🎄💕🎁Happy Christmas to you too. xo
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The title of this post alone made it perfect! What an adorable spruce-up of the fairy garden–I love the creativity involved! Have a magical, mystical, marvelous Christmas, Alys.
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Thank you, Kerry! Who knew that at 57 I would be having so much fun with a fairy garden? You’ve enhanced my own Christmas experience this year with your Advent series. Wishing you all the joys of the day. xo
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Wish the fairies a Merry Christmas for me too.
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Will do, Marlene. Thank you for bringing so many angels into my life: the sprinkles in your Christmas card, the ornament on my tree, and the lovely angel you sent to Sharon last year. If you feel a slight rustle, just a breath of movement on your cheek, it’s a San Jose Fairy wishing you a magical Christmas. xo
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Ah, such a sweet thought. A San Jose Fairy blowing soft kisses. Now, that’s some real magic. 🙂 Yes, there are Angels everywhere. Hugs.
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Hugs!
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Merry Christmas!
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Thank you! Happy Hanukkah, Sara.
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Sweet!! your garden fairies will be so happy!! Happy Holidays xoxo
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Happy holidays, Johanna!
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Merry Christmas to you and your fairies too Alys! 😉
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Merry Christmas, Cathy. xo
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Merry Christmas, dear Alys! It’s the little things that make life sweet! ♡
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Agreed! Merry Christmas, sweet Dawn. xo
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Have a wonderful Christmas, you and your loved ones.
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Thank you! Merry Christmas to you, too.
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So cute – you do have wonderful fun as a fairy gardener Alys!! It’s Christmas morning here already and our beach walk today may be postponed – or wet!! Have a wondrous Eve and a lovely, peaceful, joyous day tomorrow. Thank you for bringing so much fun and laughter and joy into my life this year xoxo
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Merry, happy Christmas, Pauline! I’m sorry to hear you’re getting more rain. It’s supposed to be hot and sunny, isn’t it? Thank you for your well wishes and for your lovely words. Love and light, dear friend.
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How cute to use the native succulents, Alys 😊. I hope you are ready for tomorrow.
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Thank you, Helen. This is an eclectic fairy garden for sure: California Succulents, fairy garden snow, North Pole “reindeer” and a recycled wooden house from my son’s crafting days.
I’m ready for tomorrow. How about you?
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Just relaxing before going to find my daughter, who is probably up with my parents waiting for me 😉
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I’m glad you had some moments to yourself to relax. Merry merry.
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How sweet this is Alys. The more I see of your fairy garden the more eager I am to start on one of my own. You must come to VA in the spring and help me get started. Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Amy, you will fall in love with fairy gardening. It is such a joy. Kelly and I hope to make it out your way in the spring, so fingers crossed it all works out. How lovely to meet you in person. Merry Christmas, Amy.
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As Santa flew his Reindeer by,
A Fairy Garden caught his eye.
A whistle stopped his team right then,
Ho ho ho was heard as they decend.
Since Santa is magic, he can fly,
over Fairy Gardens waiving, hi !!
Hi Alys, Hi Mike, Mac, Chris and Mouse
There’s also sweet Lindsay down there in their house.
Wishing I had a carriage like Santa too
I’d hop right in to visit you.
Mine would be nice seafoam blue
The most wondrous and magical hue
My own Reindeer team would have fun names
and I would be laughing and holding the reins.
On Toby, Haley and John!
Felix, Fiona, Suzy and Juan!
It’s 7 little Reindeer for Boomdee Indeed,
Because we’d fly on love 7 is all we’d need.
Merry Christmas Sweet Alys xoxox
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Cleverness abounds in you, Kelly! XO
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LOL, clever or too much eggnog….you decide! xo
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CLEVER! But glad you enjoyed some eggnog, too.
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It sure does.
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Your poetry is amazing! What a treat. Toby, Haley and John…LOL.
flying on love…a seafoam slay…be still my heart. You are a doll. Thank you for this lovely, poetic comment. You are the bees (blue) knees. xoxoxox
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Bee’s blue knees! How stylish. I’d be the envy of the hive because I’m the BFF (Bee friend forever) of Alys Milner, the Undersea Queen of San Jose. xox
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(((You)))
xoxooxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxo
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Good Morning, Alys! I am in Atlanta with Andrew and Jon (and Wilson and Tela, their absolutely wonderful Labradoodles). While I wait for everyone else to wake up, I am catching up on WP. What a treat to sit quietly with coffee on Christmas morning and visit friends.
Your photos are so fun!
Wishing you and the whole households lots of love this holiday! I sish I could put it as cleverly as Kelly, but … well …. that’s not going to happen 🙂
XOXO
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You are you, I am me, we’re both darn clever won’t you agree 😀 xo
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She is on a roll!
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Laurie, I’m having WordPress problems this week. I thought I had written a long reply, yet it’s not here. I’m glad you are enjoying time in Atlanta with Andrew and Jon. The Labradoodles make it even more special. I love that the the Christmas cracker condition continues. That makes me smile.
Thanks for your love and for your kind words, thoughts and deeds, today and always. xo
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Gah! rhyme-itis has set upon me ❤
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I love it and I love you. xoxoxoxoox
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How adorable! Although they’re belated, please accept my wishes for a Fairy Merry Christmas too. xo
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Oh, how nice to find your comment here. Belated or otherwise, your wishes are most appreciated. Merry Merry to you, too!
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