Things I'm loving right now .....

1-Winning, I seem to be having I winning streak at the moment sadly Tracey it's not happening with the lottery lol. First I won these Tracey's giveaway a set of lovely handmade Christmas tags.

And then two forum giveaways some lovely rose patterned fabric from Annie C.

And two crochet/knitting booklets from Miss_Phish.

So that'll give me something to do in the new year!

Thankyou all of you.
I've also won the November prize draw at Debbie's English Treasures, which I'll show as soon as it arrives.
I have my name entered for a giveaway that finishes next week and I really, really want it so I have all my fingers crossed, all I'm saying is it has something to do with monkeys and it's quite hard to type with crossed fingers!

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2 - Swaps, I received my pink forum swap from Pipkin, lots of goodies; Vintage home polka dot placemats, pastel silicone cupcases, 4 fabric napkins, a tablecloth and some lovely bunting with butterflies, which are a perfect match for Lily's room as I'm making curtains and bedding from a lovely Globatex fabric with butterflies on, thankyou Pipkin it's all really lovely.

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3- This Christmas book that I read about on Funky Monkey's blog so of course I had to have it and I'm so glad as it's fantastic as is the Thrift book which I bought at the same time and have my nose stuck in constantly at the moment! I'd recommend both of these.

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4- Vintage Christmas baubles, my lucky find! I got these for 50p a bag in the charity shop, which made me very happy indeed!

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5 - Lily's Christmas snowman plates. We had great fun making these, what child doesn't love a bit of glitter. I found the tutorial here, I didn't have any plain white plates but they look fine with patterned.

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6- Finishing the advent calender on the 'ahem' 7th! There are 3 others though.

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What I'm not loving - Christmas musical toys all playing at once! They may look quite cute but Lily has decided it is great fun to have them all playing so we have 'O, Christmas tree'; 'Merry Christmas Everybody'; Last Christmas'; Let it Snow'; Jingle Bells'; Baby it's cold outside'; Frosty the snowman'; 12 days of Christmas and 'The night before Christmas'. Luckily the musical ornaments haven't got batteries in yet!

And Lily is not loving Santa, he came to the toddler group party yesterday and she wasn't impressed, she got her present and went as far away as possible to open it!

Well I'm going to put my tree up now, I'm very behind this year I haven't written a card or wrapped a present yet. I wonder if the lure of the computer has anything to do with it!

I'll leave with some pics of what I have done - my dresser, kitchen shelf and my Santa family of Russian dolls, which I painted last year.