Fruits of My Labours

I am nearly there!!! I have just one gift to finish off and wrap and then I'm done!!! Had serious doubts at times but once again I've scraped in pretty close to the deadline. My photo today is of some of my labours of love all wrapped up so you can't actually see the finished articles BECAUSE the person who this little lot is for is my biggest viewer!!! I got them in the mail yesterday so they should be in Katikati by the end of the week. Plenty of time for Santa. Right back to the desk to make an envelope for a card I have to deliver, along with one of my lanterns, at lunchtime when we go for our Wednesday swim. Hope you are all coping well and not tearing out too much hair. Thanks for looking today even if you could only see wrapped gifts.
P.S  This year I have wrapped all my gifts in brown parcel paper and just put a band of Christmas paper around the middle of the parcel with the odd bow here and there.  I am rather pleased with them if I do say so myself!!

Three More Snow Globes

Hello Everyone. How are you all coping? A bit better than I am I hope. Every day I have such good intentions BUT something always seems to crop up and thwart my plans. I am SLOWLY ticking off things but there are still quite a few gifts to be made/finished. Anyway last night's task was to finish these snow globes off before bedtime. And I did it so I'll take that as a positive and persevere with the rest. Have a good day all and enjoy your weekend.

Ahoy There Me Hearties

Hello again on another miserable day here. Never mind we have been very productive as you can see. This is a joint G'ma and G'dad effort for our grandson Trent's 10th birthday tomorrow. I baked and iced the cake and rolled out the fondant icing ready for G'dad to move in and cut out the skull and cross bones to go on the top. We had fun doing it and feel pretty pleased with the end result and I just know that Trent's face will beam tomorrow when he sees it. Right I'm off outside to bring in my washing which, I might add, is VERY SOGGY. It isn't very often I get caught with my washing in the rain but I sure did today. Thanks for visiting today.

Pretty Pastels

Good Evening All. I hope you have had a good day if tou are in the southern hemisphere or a good night's sleep if you are north of the border. Just a pretty little card in pastel colours which I threw together quickly a couple of days ago when I suddenly realised it is my niece's birthday at the end of the week. I am not doing very well with my forward planning just lately am I? Must be the time of the year!!! I was hoping to get all these things done whilst I was immobile but it was just too hard to get my craft stuff organised in a place where I was comfortable working. Then once I became more mobile I was spending 2-3 hours a day at the pool exercising my knee. Consequently I am in a mad mess!!! I did post the overseas cards today along with this birthday card. When I got back from the post I looked in my Birthday Book again and saw two more birthdays which hadn't registered in my brain. At least I have until next week to do them. Right now I'm off to make some gifts. See you next time.

Thank You Christmas Cards

Good Monday Morning Everyone (even though it's rainy here in Upper Hutt) and I hope you all had a nice weekend. I did manage to get these cards done but not much else towards Christmas as we had our daughter and eldest (22) granddaughter staying and so it was far more important to spend time with them. These cards (there are two of the larger one) are for the two water aerobics instructors who take our Nift Fifty class and the smaller is for the staff at the pool where we do Nifty Fifties. It is our Christmas lunch on Thursday this week and the final class next Monday. This means the deadline for the cards was today as everyone likes to sign and write a wee message inside which takes quite a while. Anyway another deadline met but certainly getting a bit panicky about some of the others!!! Have a good week all and thanks for looking today.

A bit more Zentangle

A sudden panic moment when I realised that it is my nephew's birthday TOMORROW!!! and he lives in the UK!!! So I created this Zentangle AND calmed my stress at the same time. Card is in the post tonight with apologies for it's lateness. Hope he likes it. It is certainly different!!! Thanks for visiting today.

Overseas Cards Written

At last I have written all our overseas Christmas cards and Harold is busy writting the envelopes. As promised ahve photographed a couple of the envelopes so you can see his beautiful handwritting and it is beautiful isn't it? The most remarkable thing is that it always just as neat at the end as when he starts even if he writes many pages. Somewone once asked him which font it is on the computer!!! If we take a cheques in to somwhere to pay he ALWAYS gets complemented on his handwriting.