christmas preparations

christmas seems to be coming around fast (as it does every year)!

christmas preparations and crafting are in the works here at the moment. 

we have had a little tradition in our house ever since daisy (my eldest daughter) was a baby. each christmas i bought the girls one special ornament for the tree. this is the first year that daisy has had a place of her own, so last night i boxed up all her decorations to send off to her so she can have them on her christmas tree. she asked if i would be sad not to have her ornaments on our tree and i think i will. after all these years though, it is as i had imagined it when she was a baby, a box full of beautiful ornaments, one for each year, something she can keep from her childhood christmas's to remember them by. when i look at these ornaments i can't believe how fast that childhood went and it makes me a little teary. my they grow up so fast!

i am trying to be organised this year so the pudding is made already. i usually don't think about this until december and then it never has long enough to fully develop its flavour. it is tempting me from its hanging position many times a day. i love to just smell it nearly every time i go past (which is often). christmas pudding would just about be my favourite foods... maybe...

i have cut out a pile of felt ready to sew into gorgeous little farm animals. christmas cards are in the making, as are some bendy doll fairies, a star wand, felt crowns and masks and a stocking. i have started quite a few things but haven't actually finished any one item yet... but i will! it feels good to be doing something with my hands and being creative, i think i need this more than i realise sometimes.

so off the computer i go and onto the crafting...