Christmas around with globe with our Design Team

We are very blessed here at Best Creation to have a

wonderful Design Team full of talented and amazing

women, wives and moms that create beautiful projects

for both us and you to get inspired by each week.

So we want to take this week to celebrate them

and....

we asked them to share a little about themselves and 

a little about what they do in their part of the world

to celebrate Christmas to share with all of you!!

Our first designer is Katarina and is from Finland where she lives on

one of the Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea Archipelago.

She is a teacher in a nine year compulsory school and

works with the second grade students and is also the

Deputy School Superintendent of the school.  She has

2 children (a boy and a girl) and says that they are her

gems in her treasure box!  And of course she has a 

husband who supports her in her scrappy world...

Katarina says that in Finland where she lives

they celebrate 2 kinds of Christmas.  First the little

Christmas Eve, at the night before the first of Advent.

They have a small tree and get a few presents and 

eat a few of their favorite dishes from the Christmas table.

The real celebration starts on Dec 23rd with the whole family

getting the Christmas tree that they bring home together and decorate.

And when that is done, she tries to get the yearly

picture of the kids :) and she says it is not an easy task

with her little goofballs!

and the 24th is the day that they know if Santa thinks they

are naughty or nice and she says that they are always nice to Santa :)

Our next designer is Petra and some of you may know her

as Pysselpetra on the internet.  She lives in Malmo, Sweden with

her 3 kids (Alva, Teo & Love) and her 2 cats (Busan & Cosinus).

And of course a dear husband who supports her creative hobby too!

She started scrapbooking when she had her oldest and loves

to mostly do pages.  What I love about her is that she shares

the love of this hobby with all of us and you can relate when 

she says that when she finds well coordinated papers in beautiful

colors it makes her heart beat a little faster!!

Lastly the best way to describe her as an artist is that she

paints, she mists, she tears, she cuts and she punches

all to create beautiful layouts to share with her family

for generations to come!!

So in Sweden they celebrate on Christmas Eve the 24th.

At her home, when the children wake up there is a thread going 

through the house with presents along it and in the end they 

get a bigger gift.  If they are lucky and there is lots of snow

everyone goes outside and makes snow lights and then about 2 o'clock

in the afternoon they eat the traditional christmas meal- a great 

Smorgasborg of many, many different dishes.

After dinner they watch a traditional Walt Disney movie

with the entire family that Petra and her husband have watched

since they were little kids.  And then it is time for Santa to arrive...

and he brings lots of gifts for the kids and they spend the rest

of the night playing and the parents relax drinking Glogg.

On the 25th they enjoy the peace and quiet after the celebration!!

Our Tracey Taylor lives on the East Coast of Canada 

with her wonderful husband and three daughters.

She is a French Teacher by profession and now stays

at home to be mom to her daughters!  

Her once small hobby has turned into a full blown passion

now for her girls and says that this wonderful hobby keeps

her learning, working and teaching all the while she preserves

all the everyday moments that make their lives special.  She says

she loves every minute of it!

In her neck of the woods, Tracey and her family start to 

get the Christmas preparations ready after Halloween since

they celebrate their Thanksgiving in October.

Decorating her house for Christmas is a tradition that she

looks forward to every year and they have several Christmas's

between Christmas and New Years's as she celebrates with 

both sides of her family!

She says it is a wonderful time spent with family and 

friends and wouldn't change it for anything.

Our last designer is our Karen Thind and is also 

from Canada but closer to the west coast!

She says that her Christmas is all about spending time 

with family.  She loves having time off work and school

so that they all can relax, hang out and go do things as 

a family.  They also spend lots of time with grandparents

and cousins and they too love to put up lots of lights and 

visit with Santa Claus.

From all of them- they want to wish all of you a
 Very Merry Christmas Holiday Season!

and don't forget to check back to see more
of our special holidays spent with all
of our designers across the globe this week.


Teresa