Mary Ray Cate’s Southwest Advent Calendars

Native America Advent Calendar

Mary Ray Cate is a talented Santa Fe artist who creates southwest advent calendars for Susan’s Christmas Shop. Each advent calendar has a different theme, and Mary Ray paints the cover painting and the twenty-four scenes which are revealed when the doors are opened. The day to begin opening doors is December 1st. Each calendar celebrates and teaches about the culture of The Land of Enchantment, such as a New Mexico pueblo, a Spanish village on the High Road to Taos, or the Santa Fe Trail.

This year, 2017, the new calendar has a scene inside an adobe house decorated for Christmas. Grandfather is playing his guitar for the children to dance. One of the doors opens to reveal a drawing of Susan Weber’s biscochitos, the state cookie.

Rhyme Advent Calendar

Susan like to form hers by hand. Occasionally Susan has a tin of these pretty biscochitos in the shop to offer to customers. The recipe is in Susan’s first book, Christmas in Santa Fe.

Biscochitos

To see all Mary Ray Cate’s advent calendars click here!