Fabulous Christmas presents :)

I hope you all had a great Christmas!  I did - full of family fun, pressies and food.  We had a great time, and Santa, family and friends all brought me some great gifts so I thought it would be fun to share some of my favourites although be warned, it does show what a weird mind I have!!!  

I am a very lucky girl in that Santa still visits me...twice!  He fills a pillowcase in my own house and at my Mums's!!!  And he knows I love picture books :)  I have some that are just ace stories (I just love the Aliens in Underpants stories) and some for their illustrations

I AdORe Angie Lewin's prints so was thrilled to find this book in my pillowcase :)

It has some great images of pages from her sketchbooks...

and I can feel some eraser carving coming on. although how Angie gets such tremendous detail I do not know!

Santa also brought me a new Martha Stewart punch :)

My Mum and sister both got me a cushion from BHS (I always forget about the new section of The Trafford Centre where they've put all the home shops!)  

Wendy at The Stamp Attic knows me well, I love this pencil case with these gorgeous flower images on

and she also understands my love for corrugated card lol

And how fantastic is this mouse from my friend Tracy?

I just LoVe his legs made of nails, and his safety pin arms.  He is now living in my attic :)  

My 'main' present this year was an embellisher, for needle felting, which was immediately ambushed by my daughter and youngest son!  Sophie made a fantastic mouse (it was going to be an owl but ended up more mouse like so Tom made it a tail!)

then went into production making flowers for brooches.  These feel soooooooooooooo yummy and warm when held together in your hand

Tom had a play with different fabrics and fibres

And once I made it onto the machine I too had a play

I'd love to see what you got for Christmas...great books?  fun gifts?  handmade items?  If you'd like to share them, please link them on my sidebar so we can all go and take a look.  :)

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Hurray!  I managed to join in :)  Normally on a Wednesday I'm finishing off my Play Date Cafe project for posting in the middle of the night; and I can't show you that! 

Yesterday my daughter stole my normal crafting spot at the dining table and busied herself making ATCs to send to a crafting friend.  They're all packaged up and ready to go.  

These papers are the result of a bit of a shop at John Lewis yesterday - they were reduced gift wrap.  I've been eyeing the butterfly one up for a while but wasn't prepared to pay the full price of £3.25, but half price?  Yes please :)

Further along the table is a package that made me smile - my DT resources for my next challenge onJuly 16th.  Since it takes at least 5 days for packages to reach me, and it's a fortnightly challenge, the wonderful people at USArtQuest wrapped up and dated my next three packages.  It's like Christmas!

And finally, here's my new companion in my crafting space - well, she's sitting next to the computer waiting for the real crafting space to be sorted so she can live in there!  The talented Tracy Doorbar made her :)

And all these!  Guess which one is Sue Roddis' favourite lol.  Available from The Cubby Hole.

Sorry, that post sounded like a shout out for some of the people I work for and it wasn't meant to be, it's just where my work space is at!