We had a nice outing today; we visited a Wisconsin icon, called Old World Wisconsin. It's in a beautiful location, heavily buried in pines. Today was a good day to visit The Spirit of Christmas Past, as it had warmed up 30 degrees from the past couple of days--yes it was 33 degrees, heat wave! The grounds were spectacular, blanketed in pure white snow---kind of reminded me of pure white smooth fondant--fondant for the earth:) For those who haven't been there, Old World Wisconsin has homesteads and buildings from the first settlers of the 1800's, with actors dressed in period costumes teaching the history of their particular area. And we saw some beautiful lambs too! Then the last building we went into was designed with less "boring" stuff (from a kid perspective)---Father Christmas was there--hot cocoa was available for the guests (ok hot water with stuff in it--but hot cocoa sounds a lot more festive:) and craft tables set up for the kids. I personally was hoping it would be decorated to be more festive; however, they do keep Old World Wisconsin as authentic as possible, which means people back then didn't have time for festivities--for the most part, they may have gone to church on Christmas, done a small amount of celebration--but Christmas like any other day was another day of very hard labor. Notice those beautiful natural wreaths pictured above? We're going to do that ourselves, maybe next Christmas, with materials we gather from the woods ourselves (though I will add red or Christmas plaid ribbon:).http://oldworldwisconsin.wisconsinhistory.org/
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we put a swag on our front door this year instead of a wreath...and it looks very much like the ones in your photo. we didn't make it ourselves, though i did put my own bow on it. we bought it from the same greenhouse we adopted doug from. i'll try to remember to take a photo of it for you tomorrow.
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