Winslow's Tea Stories
Afternoon tea with Tasha always included
sharing stories from our daily lives with each other. Tasha's grandson, Winslow continues that tradition here.
Tasha’s crèche comprises of one rooster, three hens, a sheep, one rabbit, a Steiff donkey, the Madonna, baby Jesus, and a small wooden manger. Tasha made her Madonna over sixty years ago, and the infant is a doll she had as a child. Tasha invariably set the crèche up just inside the beehive oven beside the fireplace. “It made a lovely stable, dark and mysterious, a single candle giving light to the manger scene,” Tasha said. Not incidentally it is as well a safe location during the busy and exciting days leading up to Christmas when children, corgis, and cats are running around.
Many of Tasha’s books and watercolors celebrate Christmas, and not without reason, for it is the greatest holiday of the year. Here are some excerpts from books Tasha wrote and illustrated that indicate Tasha’s understanding and love of Christmas.
“Becky was allowed to set up the crèche herself this year. The crèche was made in the brick oven beside the big old-fashioned fireplace where people used to cook when Becky’s house was new, a long, long time ago when America was new, too.”
-Becky’s Christmas
“I think,” said Nicey, “that Christmas is the most magic time in all the year, not just for the pretty things you get, but for the feelings inside you of what a good place the world is to live in. I should know, for I have seen one hundred and ten Christmases!”
-The Dolls' Christmas
Merry Christmas
from all of us at Tasha Tudor and Family Inc!
-Winslow, Seth, Marjorie, Jen, Amy, Elizabeth, Natalie, Christina and Jenna
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