All Saints' Day

We like to get in the dressing-up and treats of Halloween but with a more positive focus on the following day, which for the Western Church is November 1, All Saints' Day.

Here's Sophia dressing up as C. S. Lewis, one of her favorite Christian authors.

Here's Alathea dressing up as Mary Slessor, a Scottish missionary to Nigeria, about whom we first learned in the book below. (Mary hit a hippo on the head with a saucepan, among many other brave things, and she did a lot of knitting; hence, the props).

 We made 'edible' saints by covering ice cream cones with white icing...

...topping with chocolate truffles, and garnishing with a mint leaf.

This was our homage to Revelation 7:9 and following: "After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands..."

We also made a poster of Jesus the Vine and some of his saints (including us) as the branches, from John 15.