The Last Christmas

I think this is the last lot of Christmas photos.  I guess that means I'll have to find new stuff to write about - maybe even make some new stuff - it's always a bit of a challenge to get back into the crafting after the holiday season, somehow I never know where to start when faced with a clean slate and no Christmas tasks!

I've started the New Year by changing to the new post editor on Blogger - so we'll see how that works out - I may well scuttle back to the old and familiar one quite quickly though!

Anyway here are a few Christmas pics

This is our tree on Christmas morning, complete with the stockings I made years ago and which are now looking a bit tired.  I wonder if I'll remember that and make new ones in time for Christmas 2010?

Next up is a close up of the parcels under the tree from the other side - if you look closely you can see some of the  decorations I made to pretty up the parcels

Christmas dinner in our family is just not complete without Yorkshire Puddings.  I always open the oven door with my fingers crossed and breathe a sigh of relief when they come out like they did this time - not bad, eh?

This is Happy Me when I found my wonderful iPod Touch in the last parcel Hubby gave me.  I just love it to bits!  I'm also "modelling" the gorgeous new pashmina that was in another package.  Spoiled? moi?

Ok, next up is the pizza-box style box I made to present niece Izzy's gift in - I'd much rather use a box for giving squishy, difficult to wrap gifts as they always look like a dog's breakfast just wrapped in paper, don't they?  This one was for a little Radley purse so worth concealing the contents for a little while longer.

Thanks to Gez for sharing the original instructions for this one during a cyber crop - I changed the measurements etc to fit the purse and it worked out pretty well.

Papers are lovely MME "Pretty Please" (I think)

Crikey, it's getting colder and colder, I think I might have to give the heating a boost in a minute.  I hope you're all managing to stay safe and warm today, I'm just hoping that the snow that so much of the UK is covered with at the moment stays away - we only got rid of the remnants of the pre-Christmas snow we had here last Wednesday.  I can do without the stuff. 

Yeah, yeah, call me a misery-guts if you like but I'd prefer just to see it on TV hehe

Right, I really do need to make a start on some craft stuff so I'm off.

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