Merry Christmas all

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Thank you all for your love & support this year. May God truly bless your home and may you find time in the business of Christmas to thank for all the blessings in your life and to reflect on his love that was shown in its fullness in Jesus.

Remember Jesus is the reason for the season.

Hadmade gifts

I made this mini book of Hope for my dear friend Diane for her 50th birthday last month.

It's about time..........................

I showed you the pics of the Mini album I made for the blog hop in November. Grace won this and it made its way over the ocean to her in the States.

Toy Society Drop

Last month I did 3 drops for The Toy Society

I made these 3 Arno cats while I was teaching a 12 year old to sew (she also made a few).
They are now up on the site.
These were all dropped in the CBD of Nowra.

The Toy Society has just done a world wide Christmas drop (Sat 19 December) and those pics are also up on the site. I didn't get any emails about this drop so I missed it. Not sure I would have had time to make anything.

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Today's devotion form Rick Warren was great so I thought I would share:-

Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:11 (NIV)
Knowing that Christmastime is God's chosen time teaches us that Christmas is the time for us to receive forgiveness for the wrong things we've done.
God didn't send us a salesman because we don't need a product. He didn't send us a politician because we don't need diplomacy. He didn't send a scientist because we don't need more information.
God sent us a Savior because we need a Savior. If we didn't need a Savior, God wouldn't have wasted time sending one. God sent a Savior so we could receive forgiveness.
Why do I need a Savior? The Bible says that heaven is a perfect place. There's no sin in heaven; there's no suffering in heaven; there's no pain in heaven; there's no sorrow in heaven. It is a perfect place. The Bible says only perfect people get to live there. Obviously, if imperfect people lived there it wouldn't be perfect. That means I don't stand a chance of getting to heaven on my own merit.
You may be a good person, but the Bible doesn't say good people go to heaven. It says perfect people go to heaven. Not imperfect ... perfect. And none of us measure up.
So we all have a big problem. Here's this perfect place, but none of us are perfect. So God came to earth in the form of Jesus, who was perfect. I can't get to heaven on my own, but Jesus says, "I will be your Savior."
How do I let Christ save me? It's real simple. You admit you need a Savior. That's hard for a lot of us because it hurts our pride. We think we're a good person. That may even be true but you're not good enough. You're not perfect. We must admit, "I need a Savior. I need help. God, I need Jesus in my life. I need Jesus to be my Savior."
I was a life guard when I was younger. One thing every lifeguard knows is that you can't save anybody who's trying to save themselves.
If you've ever watched a lifeguard approach a person who is drowning, you will see the lifeguard swim out to the person and then just tread water. The lifeguard will watch the swimmer flail around until he or she finally gives up and goes limp. At that point, the lifeguard can simply put an arm around the swimmer's shoulder and swim back to shore.
It's that easy! But as long as the swimmer is trying to save him or herself, then no one can save him or her. If you grab on to swimmers before they give up trying to save themselves, they'll pull you down with them. You've got to wait until they stop trying to save themselves, then you can save them.
In the same way, God can't save you until you stop trying to save yourself. You can't have Christ as your Savior until you quit trying to get to heaven on your own effort. You have to just relax (remember 'stop being afraid') and say, "God, I don't deserve to be forgiven. I just cast myself on Your mercy." And God says, "That's what I've been waiting for. You are forgiven."
God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. (John 3:16-17 NLT)

A few swaps and gifts

This year I joined a mini Christmas swap at the Craft Forum.

I received this fabulous velvet stocking from Jeanette, that she filled with all sorts of christmassy things.

I sent to Guiliana. I made her this Christmas star table centre, that I backed with one of my favourite scrappy blocks
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Here's a few more of the hexy's .

this one is on its way to Switzerland for Helene. I stipple quilted this one instead of embellishing it.

A very pretty white and spotty hexy for Elly.

Love this friend quote on the hexy Elly made for me.

It was my SIL Cathy's birthday on Monday. She mentioned at the last scrap day that she would love a table runner so I just ran this little baby up for her.

This blue cushion is for my friend Meryl for Christmas. I gave it to her today and she loved it. Perfect colour for ehr bed.

Big Week end - Saturday

On Saturday Royce was in his first wedding (as a groomsman). Tow of his best Friends got married.

Here is Sarah with the God parents. This is a really lovely Spanish tradition. The parents of the bride choose a family member to become the god parents of the young married couple. Here it was Sarah's sister and BIL. So her father walked her to the front and the Godparents took her from there up to her to be husband. They then become part of the bridal party.


A group photo. Showing Royce at the end.

A couple of photos of John & I as we left home.

The three of us.

My baby all dressed up for his first wedding. Doesn't he look spiffy.

And a close up shot.

With his partner Cherie.

Doing is Henry Higgins personation.

Playing around with Bethany's sash.

Wedding cake. This became our dessert. One layer was a layered caramel cake and the other chocolate.

Sarah the brides hair piece.

Brides bouquet.

Bridesmaids bouquet.

More weekend - Sunday

On Sunday morning I went to work for a few hours to decorate the shop for Christmas. I was able to get so much more done int he two hours I was there with no shoppers around.

Firstly I put together this window. It was quite a hard window to balance right but in the end with the addition of the "where the wild things are " bag and puppets it worked. Sorry bout the pic, we have a very glarey window.

The main decoration for the shop was this giant swag that goes right over the entrance like an arch.

I am standing on the outside looking in (insert Jimmy Barnes voice here).

And from the inside. Not the best pic, sorry.

And a close up of the centre piece. We are extremely happy with how this looks. Gives a real festive look to the shop.

More Sunday

At 12.10 my family and my sister and niece boarded a bus to take us up to Bowral for "A day on the green". We saw Mental as anything, The Proclaimers (forgot to take a pic of them) and the B-52's.

Day on the green Banner.


Mental as anything.

B-52's.

A few pics taken of us through the day.

So here am I in my hat with Davina in the back ground.

In Royce's hat with some random in the background.

Royce decided to get some more wear out of his wedding jacket, he was the smart one as it got VERY cold late afternoon.

My niece Erin.

And my husband, John.