Taking a Little Break

I'm going to take a couple of days off. I'm up to my eyeballs in Christmas cards for two of my friends. The sample I presented them has a very intricate die cut on it and I am now 'stuck' cutting 112 of them. (You can see them next week when they're all finished). I don't mind, really, but it does take time. Plus we're trying to get the tree up and I'm trying to keep up with my DT work and there's always lots of blog-visiting and commenting to be done! I'm not complaining, just explaining why I won't be here until Sunday.

Until then, here's some photos of me and the other Salvation Army Timbrellists (and the band) at the Santa Claus parade a couple of weeks ago:

And now that we're unpacking Christmas boxes, here's a photo of the gift bags my mom made for us (mentioned here) so you can see the different patterns and sizes. (All sizes come in each pattern - I really can't tell you how much I treasure these bags!!). If you're a sewer, they're probably not that difficult to make, but alas, that is a gene I did not inherit...

Finally, I went to our craft show yesterday (the place where I normally buy Tickleberry's for the teachers). Rest assured, I bought some (for me!) but then I found these sheets of chocolate bark that I think look very elegant and bought them for the teachers instead. I'm going to swap out the black ribbon for red and add my handmade tags. What do you think? (Espresso, Peppermint, Cherry and Orange flavours).