Hope everyone has had a fabulous Christmas and that you are all enjoying the festive season. It is just so nice to catch up with friends and family and to kick back and take it easy now - lol it was a good idea to do all OUR entertaining in the Christmas week - I can now relax and enjoy what's to come.

Thanks to some inspiration from the talented Joanne, I made my Thank you cards from selected pieces of last year's cards. This is the second year of doing this and I love it as an idea, so much so that I made up a few packs of 10 for hostess gifts for over the holidays and those have gone down a treat. Here are some of this year's cards.




Enjoy what's left of the weekend!

A Family Tradition

Albeit a fairly new one. I made this a few years ago for my son. It was time consuming to sew all the beads and sequins on but as a Christmas fanatic I feel it was time well spent. In fact I have started another one - this time with individual stitched toys for each pocket. Well I figure that someday when he leaves to set up his own home we will still need something to hang up - almost sounds feasible doesn't it ;o)

Thank Crunchie...

it's Friday! Although I guess you would need to be my age or older to remember that commercial lol!

You know there are many things only heard in a primary school - thank goodness and doesn't the nativity season just bring out the best in everyone. At least at this time you can legitimately hear someone shout "you are a DONKEY!!!!!" to the 5 year old who wants to be a monkey in the show. Baby Jesus will have a mild concussion this weekend - since he took a tumble down the stage steps. Ah the joys!

Have a great weekend - will definitely need to make something to restore the sanity this weekend.

Old Shale

Finally finished the Old Shale Scarf. It still needs a light blocking and the ends sewing in but I couldn't wait. I love this feather and fan type pattern. I used Indigo Moon Merino in crabapple - it's a gorgeous tomato red, the camera sadly drains a bit of the colour from it. One Christmas present down , far too many to go....