Twelfth NIght

Time to take down the decorations, and time for me to actually photograph them before they go into a box, not to be seen again until next December. Along with the loss of my emails a week or so ago I lost the details of the people i'd been swapping with, so I can't tell you who made all these ornaments, but I can let you know who made some of them.

Top row:

My mum made this little decoration, on the other side it's red with white stitching.
The stocking came from Jennifer Yellow Hat
This little ceramic dove came from the marvelous Susan

Second row:

Lovely little fox from Heather
printed bird ornament from Sarah
Felt bird from Claudia

Third row:
All the way from New Zealand by...
Octopus from Jennie
Cute little handbag from...


Bottom row
Little Monkey from Lucy Byrd
spiral ornament from Neele

and a golden dog from me.

I really enjoyed taking part in this swap, I hope my creepy little doll face ornaments didn't put too many people off their festivities...

Holiday Mail

Just a quickie to remind people that Monday is the last date for ordering from me if you live in the US/Canada. My shop is a little depleted at the moment, due to most of my stock being in exhibition at the moment, but there's still a few treats to pick up over there. I've also got a new shop on DaWanda, which I hope to start filling with stock after xmas...yes I know I know, I really should be stocking up before the holidays as it's the best selling time of the year, but you know what? I'm just going to take things easy this year. (And there you have it, the reason I will never make money from my work!)

Holiday mail has been pouring through my letter box over the last week- I feel so lucky to know so many talented people, to be taking part in things like the Holiday Ornament Swap and PIFing with the lovely Mithi, Kerstin, Karen, Claudia and Janou-Eve. Rather worryingly Karen's PIF to me is lost in the mail, which would be a bit more understandable if it was coming from the other side of the world, but this one's coming from just up the road (well...sort of) in the UK! This morning I recieved most welcome mail from Mithi- a beautiful print of birds:

I squeeled with delight when I opened this- and some relief too as the weather is so wet today the envelope had started to fall to bits, I think it got to me just in time, so no damage was done! Thanks Mithi! I think I need to take a photo of all the goodness that's been coming my way lately- I feel so honoured to know so many lovely, talented people.

Talking of lovely people, thankyou to Susan for mentioning me in her blog the other day, and to Karen too, maybe this will mean i'll have more than 7 regular readers one day soon?!

Holiday Ornament Swap 2007

It's about time I mentioned that i'm taking part in the second annual holiday ornament swap this year and today I received my first ornament- all the way from New Zealand. I'll do a post when a few more have arrived, but this is really an excuse to use my photo of the tree in the window of a shop I spied in Bristol the other day- I actually ran across the road when i realised there were little white fluffy squirrels in the tree!

To check out what other people are doing as part of the ornament swap head over to the flickr group, or wait and see what treasures come my way (and what horrors I send out into the world).