Tuesday 30 October 2012

Preparing for Christmas, or not...

Christmas is coming a lot faster than I would like this year. My normal approach to the festive season is to make numerous lists and organise everything well in advance. By this time of year the pudding has been made, various packages have been secreted around the house and I am well into making my Christmas cards. This year, apart from making stockings, my approach has been to ignore it and hope it will go away! 

Yesterday DD went off with a friend to a "Christmas Card and Decoration" workshop, put on by a local lady who works for one of the papercraft companies. The results were very impressive. 


This was my favourite!


This is hanging on the banana tree for the time being!

DD did, of course, have access to lots of papercraft tools. We couldn't begin to reproduce these at home, but I have been jolted into action. Plans are under way for rather simpler creations, and some might actually get made. As for the pudding, it's not Stir Up Sunday yet!

3 comments:

  1. Beautiful cards.
    Can I ask you where you bought the tealight holder (the first one pictured) in your post about autumn comforts.

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    1. I bought it a year ago at Wakehurst Place, which is run jointly by the National Trust and Kew Gardens. I've had a look but it doesn't have a designer's name on it.

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