christmas
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The First 12 Days Of Christmas (And More)
It took a few years for me to commit to the detailed undertaking of a set of 12 embroidered felt ornaments for Christmas. The patterns were pricey, and the required materials made them more so. I decided that the project would be my treat to myself, and hopefully I would be able to complete them…
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Gold-Toned Bookmarks
For Christmas 2023 I made some bookmarks for our family and guests, as small gifts to put into Christmas Crackers. I like Christmas Crackers as a traditional bit of table dressing and fun at Christmas, but anyone who has ever bought a box would likely admit that even those advertised as ‘luxury’ crackers are filled…
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Twelve Days Of Christmas Ornaments, Part II
Now that Christmas is over and life creeps back to ‘normal’ I was hoping to find a bit more time and mental space to ease into the new year with some more ornaments from this set. I’ve sometimes caught a bit of time in the evening, but the low light and my increasing reliance on…
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12 Days Of Christmas Ornaments
Towards the end of 2023 I pushed the spend button on a the blueprints and materials for project that I had been coveting for many years: Larissa Holland’s 12 Days Of Christmas felt ornament patterns. These were, in so many ways, beyond my budget. Not that I have a budget, more a comfort level of…
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Personalised Jigsaw Puzzles
Over the Christmas period I try each year to make as much of the family’s festive experience as personal and as meaningful as possible. For me this means bringing as much handmade and home created magic to the Christmas period as possible. I don’t mean to say that we avoid the commercialised trappings of the…
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Christmas Cake
With the schools starting a new academic year I wanted a little side project to help ease the transition of seasons, and so I have decided to try and recreate (or, rather, take inspiration from) my grandmother’s Christmas cake recipe to bake my own rich fruit cake for the Christmas period. My grandmother, ‘Nan’, would…