Christmas postcard

My  Christmas Postcard Swap that we have done  on Chains of Hearts this year is going to Jeni in England.  I hope she likes it.  Making postcards is not my favourite past time as I always have problems with the edge, even worse is the chance of making a mistake when writing on the back. I still have that to do so hope all goes well.

Snowman Tuesday

Once more its time for my Snowmen to go into there box for another year.  I love snow and snowmen and Christmas just isn't quite the same without snow  then a friend gave me a small snowball ornament one Christmas so the following year I bought a snowman to go with it and so the collection grew. 

Some years its very hard to find even one, theres always plenty of Santas but very few snowmen, my daughter is always on the look out so this year we added 3 and a card.

This years additions.

Oh dear, the box is full, does this mean a new box or do I have to stop collecting them

I'm always a bit sad day when I put them away, there always the first to be put out usually a couple of weeks before decorations and the last to be put away,  this year I've figured a way to enjoy them for all the year,  as I placed them in there box I took a photo and each week I'll put one of them on the blog.

Some of them together.

Christmas Heart Pouch and Stocking

On the Chains of hearts group this year we had a "Christmas heart block" stocking and a postcard swap, this was the heart I got from  Margaret P.  I didn't want it to just hang around for to long waiting to be made into something and as I badly needed a way to keep small Christmas treasures together so they were easy to find and didn't get lost among the rest of the decorations each year, the pouch was created.   It will serve two purposes,  a means of not losing my silver plum pudding coins and cake decorations for most of the year  and as a lolly bag during Christmas.   I'm really pleased as to how it turned out.   Most of our Christmas decorations and ornaments have sentimental memories.  I like things to have a reason, they represent a year so each new item has the date placed on it, knowing the year is a link to what has happened in that year whether it be good or bad.  The beads on the bottom of the bag were from a past its best  decoration so its now a continuum of past years, I used the same fabric fotr the top of the stocking as I used on the pouch. the stocking was sent to me by Margreet from The Netherlands.