Me-time at Christmas!

This year I decided to give myself a gift - a stress-free Christmas. I closed my shops early enough so that there was no danger of last minute buyers being worried about their parcels being delivered, and so that I could spend some time not-knitting!

My christmas cake this year has a string of baubles over some (bought in) robins sitting on chocolate logs, and the robin theme continues with my very first attempt at felting, a big robin sitting on a big chocolate yule log.

The mince pies are now sitting in the freezer, ready to go straight in the oven to warm up again.

This also serves the purpose of preventing MrNifty eating them too early ;-)

I've even made myself some Christmassy shooting star earrings (that's not my ear though!)

Have a wonderful Christmas break - and I'll see you all after the holidays. In case you have an urge to spend those holiday gift vouchers at Niftyknits, my shops are all open again :-)

Zibbet, Etsy, Folksy.

Surprise!

I had a parcel this morning from America - from my lovely meerkat collectors Jen and Grace!

I'd been asked who my favourite Disney character was and replied "Beauty and the Beast", due to an unfortunate incident many years ago when my daughter was tiny and flushed her "Beauty and the Beast" watch down the loo. Anyway - I'd thought no more about it till this morning, when the parcel arrived...



Look at my hat! Isn't it amazing? I can hardly believe they make Micky Mouse "ears" with a nice cup of British tea, UK flag and a beef-eaters hat...but the back even has NiftyKnits embroidered on so nobody is in any doubt who it belongs to!

I had my first cup of tea of the day in my new mug, but think the popcorn/nut/chock/crisp/caramel delights need to wait until after lunch. Don't want to sugar-rush this early in the day!

Clearly this is a day when I just *had* to wear a disney shirt :-)

Big big thanks to Jen and Grace, that was so sweet of you!

I won a prize!

I've been meaning to show you my prize for a while, but life (and those blessed meerkats) keep getting in the way.

I entered a giveaway on Veryan's blog Beadypool and had to make a decision...necklace or bracelet and earrings? Teal or purple?

I'm not good at decisions, but finally decided on the braclet/earring combo and asked Veryan to choose the colour for me.



My prize came beautifully packaged as you can see, and inside was ...



not just a bracelet and earring set in fabulous petrol-purple but an extra pair of earrings in the teal, which I am giving to my daughter. The purple is stunning, my photo doesn't do them justice. The colours change as they catch the light - so I spend my time waggling my wrist around!

If you also find Veryan's work irresistable, why not check out her shop, Beadypool?