Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Posts from Your Archives – 2022 – Christmas and New Year Special – #Music – How To Make Your Own Christmas Song by Annabelle Franklin

Since this series began in January 2018 there have been over 1200 Posts from Your Archives where bloggers have taken the opportunity to share posts to a new audience…

The topics have ranged from travel, childhood, recipes, history, family and the most recent series was #PotLuck where I shared a random selection of different topics.

This series is along the same lines and is a celebration of Christmas and New Year.

I do appreciate that this is not a religious festival for everyone but it is a time of year when families and friends come together and our thoughts turn to our hopes and wishes for the coming year. At the end of the post you can find out how to participate in this festive series.

Today children’s author Annabelle Franklin shares a recipe for a festive musical money maker that will also delight all who hear it…

How To Make Your Own Christmas Song  by Annabelle Franklin

Want to survive the holidays without getting into debt? Forget those ‘hamper’ catalogues you have to pay into all year – a successful Christmas record will pay for your Christmas shopping every year for the rest of your life. And it’s so easy to do!

Here is what you’ll need:

A half-decent singing voice
Your local primary school choir
Jingly bells
Chimes
A Phil Specter wall of sound
A burst of Wizzard-style sax
A handful of cheesy seasonal lyrics
The keys C major, A minor, F major and G major (in that order)

Mix the ingredients well in a small studio, post on YouTube the day after Easter and marinate for 6 months.

Good luck!

Image from Photobucket

Here is a family who have decided to put this in to practice.. not a primary school choir but there is a dog part of the action…great fun and many reviews. thanks to Sunny Skyz Videos

©Annabelle Franklin 2022

My thanks to Annabelle for allowing me to share from her archives and I am sure you enjoyed as much as I did.

About Annabelle Franklin

Annabelle Franklin is the author of two children’s books, ‘Gateway to Magic’ and ‘The Slapstyx’. Her short story ‘Mercy Dog’ has been published in award-winning anthology ‘Unforgotten: The Great War 1914-1918′ (Accent Press). She is a member of Swansea and District Writers’ Circle, and her short story ‘Haunted by the Future’ appears in the Circle’s 2016 horror anthology ‘Dark Gathering’.

Annabelle lives on South Wales’s stunning and magical South Gower coast. She shares her chalet home with two rescued sighthounds.

Books by Annabelle Franklin

One of the reviews for Gateway to Magic

prolific reader 5.0 out of 5 stars A book that grows through perfect bedtime reading to “read it yourself”

This is for all children who love gaming, and all the parents who never really grew up and are still entranced by the magic of the classic fairytales and the “other worlds” of Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree. Annabelle Franklin has the rare gift of being able to enter a child’s mind. Stephen is a “hero” every boy and girl will identify with. His struggle against the absolute rule and authority of the Fairy Queen mesmerizing. And don’t worry, boys will love this Fairy Queen – there’s nothing girly or soft about her.

This is storytelling at its best. A book to read and re-read that will become a favourite in the tradition of the classics. I loved it, and as a “test pilot” for the books I buy my grandchildren I am one hundred per cent certain they will. I can’t wait for their next bedtime. 

Annabelle Franklin, Buy: Amazon US – And: Amazon UK – follow Annabelle: Goodreads – Blog: Annabelle Franklin – Twitter: @Anabel1Franklin – Facebook: Annabelle Franklin

 

Thanks for dropping in and I know Annabelle would love your feedback.. thanks Sally.