Every year, I try to reduce the ecological impact of my Christmas presents and I also encourage those around me to give me less things. Ten years ago, Olivier and I were spoiled like little children with an incredible amount of presents each Christmas. Obviously, it wasn't easy to explain that it was "too much" without upsetting people. But over time, it seems that everyone has finally embraced this idea. The number of gifts has become reasonable again and being together once again takes precedence over this act of consumption, which is very pleasant.

For my part, having finished the first volume of our new comic La Fête des Ombres, I took a few days off and I took the opportunity to do manual activities. I wanted to make Daruma with salt dough as gifts. Do you know the Daruma? They are small Japanese lucky charms. You have to make a wish, draw one eye and when the wish is fulfilled, draw the other eye. Daruma does not grant wishes, it is simply there to remind us to make efforts to make this wish come true. A beautiful idea, isn't it?

Anyone can make salt dough: mix 2 glasses of white flour, 1 glass of salt diluted in hot water and add a little more water until you get a consistency soft enough to shape. I didn’t buy anything to make them, I used paints found in the cupboards and for the packaging, I reused things kept, put aside.

The pretty hat my mom knitted for me ^_^

Christmas, for me, is also the time to make the Yule log. A recipe passed down from generation to generation from my father side. It's a classic dessert, but I can't imagine a Christmas without this log. Since I only do it once a year, I always have a bit of pressure to miss it and I apply myself as much as possible.

Among the gifts slipped under our tree, we had the joy of finding Carbone & Silicum, Mathieu Bablet's superb science fiction comic book. It is a magnificent object and the art is sublime. We can't wait to dive into the story.