My Rudolph stockings

Per salutare il periodo natalizio, proprio oggi che, per lo meno in Italia, "l'epifania tutte le feste si porta via", vi mostro le calzette natalizie che ho disegnato e realizzato quest'anno per alcuni bimbi molto speciali!

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To say farewell to the Christmas time, today on Epiphany holiday, a day that in Italy is known to be the last day of the Christmas holidays and celebrations, I will show you these Christmas stockings I designed and made for some very special kids!

(design by me - handmade by me)

Una renna Rudolph dal naso rosso spunta da una taschina e una campanella rossa le decora. Le ho create per il Natale, da appendere al camino alla vigilia come si usa nei paesi anglosassoni, ma ve le presento il giorno dell'Epifania, in cui in Italia la befana le riempie di dolcetti e un pó di inevitabile carbone.

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Rudolph the red nose reindeer is peeking out of their pockets and some red bells are decorating them. I made them for Christmas, to be hung on the fireplace on Christmas eve, as it's a tradition in many countries like the UK and the US, but I am introducing them to you on Epiphany day, as in Italy the "Befana" (a very old lady that flies riding a broom) usually fills them with candies and a little bit of (sweet) coal too on the night before the 6th of Jan.

(design by me - handmade by me)

Quest'anno, tra progettazione, prototipi e varie prove, sono riuscita a crearne solo tre, ma i prossimi anni spero di riuscire a consegnarne pian piano ai vari bimbi delle mie amiche piu care. 

Le ho riempite di dolcetti e piccoli regalini e il nome l'ho timbrato a mano su una fettuccia di cotone cosí ognuno ha avuto la sua calza personalissima!

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This year among designing it, making some prototypes and trials, I only managed to create three of them, but in the next years I plan to make more of them for other little kids of some of my dearest friends. 

I filled them with sweets and some little gifts, and the name was handstamped on a cotton tape so everyone had their own personalised stocking!

(design by me - handmade by me)

C'é n'é un'altra di speciale oltre a quelle qui sotto, che "qualcuno" ha trovato questa mattina in salotto, piena di lindts, ovetti kinder, m&ms e soprattutto le sue liquirizie e caramelle gommose preferite :) 

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Besides these three, there was another very special one that "someone"  found this morning in our living room, filled of lindt chocolates, kinder eggs, m&ms and most of all his favourite liquorices and candies :)

(design by me - handmade by me)

Un abbraccio!