Nom,Nom,Nom....

Look what I got today...My giveaway treats from Jan at Sivermoonbird Blog.

There's Threads, beads and felt, velvet and silk and cotton fabrics all dyed in my favourite shades, heathery pinky purples! I got straight to and made a pair of dangly earrings, using 2 of the bright pink wooden beads and 2 pieces of the shell beads, adding to them some 'chips' of rose quartz and 2 different colours of Swarovski crystals, I can't wait to wear them tomorrow, only going shopping but, they'll make me feel good!

Jan, I'm over the moon with your generous gift, you are soo kind, THANK YOU! XX

This is a cuff I made using some purple silk, beads, metallic thread and the part through the middle which is bought ribbon, originally bought to make a seasonal greeting card... the cuff's much nicer! It has shiny metallic heart-shaped buttons which fasten the cuff with the thread loops.

This is my naff tree decorated at last. My goosie from Sara sitting in front...no eggs yet LOL!

On the back of the sofa is a crazy patchwork and embroidery cushion I made a couple of months ago. The actual embroidery was done in the mid '90s, when I spent a lot of time lying on my front on the living room carpet where I then lived. I had 2 lumbar spine discs prolapsed and they took some persuading to go back where they had come from! I used to lay there stitching and reading. One of my cats, now sadly not with me, used to lie on the small of my back, kneading away, by far the most wonderful massage!

The embroidered bit on the cushion reads,  'I thrive on Chaos'.....Probably true LOL!

Another view of the N'tree, and artificial poinsettia and a bowl of homemade potporri that comes out of its' box at this time of the year. ( naff pic, I left out my cardmaking  stuff and quilters' rule!)

This is a pic of the garland around my fireplace.

This used to wind it's way up a bannister of the house I lived in when I had disc problems, it used to have all manner of home-made novelties hanging from it, some of them scented.

I forgot to take a pic of the 'Icicles'  that I made, some had lavender in and some had homemade spicy pomander mix in, which I then called 'Spicicles'! The mix I used in them will last for years if wrapped up well in storage.

My Advent giftie today is a ?Blusher/blender brush in it's own silver pouch - Clinique no less!

Thank you Sara XX

Well that's it for now, will take some pics of the 'Icicles' and post soon.

Sandie xx