Christmas is Coming .....

These are the 25 parcels (and Christmas card)

I prepared for my partner

Victoria 

for the Christmas Advent Swap.

I hand made 12, shop bought 10 and found 3

from my craft stash.

I'll only blog about the ones I made.

 

So far, Victoria will have opened from me

an Emery Board Holder

 

 

Details of how I made this are shown here.

A mobile phone charm which I didn't photograph - doh!

A festive bird cage decoration.

 For this I used Tim Holtz/Sizzix 

Caged Bird Bigz die.

 

I covered the bird with music paper, coloured with

some distress inks and added a layer of Sparkle Mod Podge.

The Poinsettia flowers along the bottom

I made some time ago and found the

 blog post describing how I made them here.

 

Now onto the pressies I received from Victoria -

how exciting!!

 

This is the box I received

 

 

and here's the presents for days 1 to 7

 

 

Victoria is a keen crocheter and I love in particular

 the crocheted mug holder

(not to mention the sachets of hot chocolate!).

The heart shaped cookie cutter came with a recipe

for 'Gorgeous Gingerbread' - sounds yummy!

Today's gift was the bar of SeaSalt / Fresh Linen soap -

which smells divine.

 

Thank you Victoria!