Crafty Christmas Countdown: 2

 For our last regular stall in the Christmas Market I made a bakery stand. Christmas Day is better with fresh baked breads, cakes, pies, and pastries. I also made a little Christmas pudding out of air-dry clay.

Crafty Christmas Countdown: 3

 Today's addition to the Christmas Market is one of my personal favorites: the puppet show. I make no secret of my fondness for puppets and would probably hang out at this booth if it were in a real market. To go along with the booth I, of course, made a sock puppet. This one is a toad wearing a Christmas sweater.

Crafty Christmas Countdown: 4

 For our special Sunday addition to the Christmas market this week we're adding storytime. One of my favorite parts of Christmas Eve when I was a kid was sitting down in my pjs and listening to my parents read Christmas stories. So I made this little booth and added a cardboard easy chair for the reader to sit in.

Crafty Christmas Countdown: 5

 I don't know about where you live, but it's been pretty cold and snowy around here, so our Christmas Market needs a hot cocoa stand. You need a hot drink if you're going to walk around outdoors shopping. Rather than make something new to decorate this stand, I added the little marshmallow family I made for a previous countdown.

Crafty Christmas Countdown: 6

 Today we're adding poinsettias to the Christmas Market. While that seems very specific to fill an entire stand, they have enough appeal that I feel like it works. To decorate this stand I made some simple flowers from red tissue paper that I inserted into holes in the cardboard. 

Crafty Christmas Countdown: 7

 Just one week left until Christmas! This feels like a good time to add the gift wrapping station to the Christmas Market. And I found this little miniature tape dispenser that fits neatly inside the tube.

Crafty Christmas Countdown: 8

 Today we're adding a butcher stand to the Christmas Market. While it's not something I've personally encountered, it feels like the sort of thing that you might see in a cozy marketplace. And as luck would have it, I recently got this little chicken (maybe a turkey?) in a fidget collection. It fits right in.