For St. Nicholas Day, Rostik bought me a very beautiful doll – Charlotte from 2006, dedicated to the London Fashion Doll Festival. Only 50 dolls were produced! I’ve never seen anything like it. The girl is gorgeous – in a luxurious black evening dress, beautiful black sandals, and black earrings and bracelet. The doll has beautiful evening makeup and thick black hair styled in tight curls.

My Sinterklaas gifts have arrived. This is a gorgeous DC Wonder Woman Diana Prince & hiddensword, a dark-skinned, voluptuous beauty Barbie BMR1959, and Professor Minerva McGonagall from the Harry Potter series. I didn’t even expect them to come so early, and I’m so, so happy!

Immediately after taking down the Sinterklaas decorations, we had to put everything away and start decorating the school for Christmas. Today, two parents and I decorated a bunch of Christmas trees. I created a cozy area with a small sofa by the fireplace. I also decorated the stage backdrop and installed Christmas screens. I also decorated the food collection area for those in need with Christmas trees made from handprints. And I decorated the two entrances with New Year’s and Christmas paper cutouts. It turned out beautiful!

This year I decorated the Christmas tree at home early. We specifically bought a new, large artificial Christmas tree with realistic needles. It turned out to be gorgeous. And we also used many garlands to decorate our yards. Let’s at least lift our Christmas spirits this way, since we can’t go to Ukraine and celebrate with our whole big family.

For Masha’s classmate, who really loves the game Fortnite, we made a surprise gift in the form of a bazooka for Sinterklaas Day. Inside is a gift he ordered, and the weapon is equipped with a glowing sight. I think the little boy will be delighted with the gift!

I crocheted a symbol of the upcoming year based on a description from the internet. It turned out to be quite large, very soft, and with a squeaker inside.

For the school holiday, we decorated the podium to look like Sinterklaas room. This year, the Pits must be white, so we had to repaint and reupholster our Black Pits. I liked the result. The children, teachers, and Sinterklaas were pleased.

Today at TK Maxx, as always, I stumbled upon new Lori dolls. I bought two little ones—Ensley and Aurie. They are very sweet and happily joined their friends.

I bought an African-American Barbie Fashionistas 146 with a prosthesis today. She is very sweet and pretty; she has beautiful hair and chocolate brown skin. I was a little disappointed that it wasn’t very mobile. Because the other doll with a knee prosthesis could bend it, but this one couldn’t.

I finished this cosmetic bag today, following the master class on the new two-tone pattern from the “Krea Doe” exhibition. It zips up.