Treasures for Christmas.

This little treasure was in my post box today! all the way from Russia. It's a lacquered miniature box painted with tempera and tinsel. And inside.....


Were BUTTONS!


Thank you so much Marina.

This is a closeup of velvet felted.


3 books received for Christmas.
This page is from the Art of Embroidery.



This is from The Garden of Eden



This is from the book Bark. So many colour combination's, so little time....




Bella's treasure from Marina, we put it next to Butterball to give you an idea of how small he is.


It's out to the shed for me to dye more flimsies for Dale.

Butterball

Santa with toilet paper for a beard.


Introducing Butterball!


Just the thing to keep your neck warm while playing on the interwebs...


Or keeping in your t shirt...(Doesn't she look tired? Not getting enough sleep Madelen...)




Or in the doll's house?


And here he is. Sooooo cute!
Christmas was the usual overeating, over spending it usually is, but I really am so lucky to have my husband and girls to spend the day with. Belle of course was up early. She rang Madelen to tell her to hurry up and come home so she could open her presents ( Belle that is). Girls are not allowed to open presents until we are all in the lounge with coffee. It's been hilarious over the years to what lengths they would go to to get us up. Not one child has ever worked it out that if they made the coffee,we would get up in an instant. I hope that each of you had a lovely day with enough warmth in the Northern hemisphere for family to make it home.