Thank-you's

When I was little and then as a teenager, my mum always insisted I wrote thank-you letters for my presents. Sometimes I wrote reams, others I hated it with a vengeance, but now I really appreciate them when they arrive on my door mat. It's a little social nicety that I feel shouldn't die out. So, I have always made thank-you cards with my children, from hand prints, to photo notelets and this year with my lovely new shiny Big Shot! Thank-you Mr P-L for my fab present - and I still can't believe you kept it secret till Christmas day!

Thank-you Mr P-L



Simple thank-you notes.

 I made the notes by embossing some patterned paper, trimming to size and sticking on a folded A5 piece of card. Some years ago I invested in a thank-you stamp, so the message is stamped inside and there is space to write a message. You can always write the message on a piece of white paper and stick it inside the card, in case a mistake is made. Two will fit snugly in a A5 envelope side by side and then pop them in the post.

I would also like to say thank-you to my lovely stocking swap partner - Emma . I resisted the temptation and waited to open my stocking ...

All these pretty things!

Fab fabrics!

Super stocking!

So thank-you Emma - I hope you enjoyed your stocking!

Handknitted in merino wool

This is what was inside!

A thank-you to Pretty Petal Handmade who a while ago awarded me with a Liebster Blog Award

I now have to pass this on to five of my favourite blogs that have less than 200 followers, so here goes, in no particular order ...

• Bella-Boutique Lots of lovely ideas and tutorials.
• Rose & Dahlia Again lovely things - and she has a Pickle too!
• Home Grown Originals Met these lovely ladies at a Retro fair, they have so many lovely things!
• RosMadeMe Fab tutorials for great things, and such a generous lady to share them with us!
• Handcrafted by Picto Another fab blog and lady!

and thank-you to you for sharing my blog!

Jo x

Festive Friday - Decoration Swap

This week an exciting package arrived full of these exciting parcels - all beautifully wrapped up in starry tissue paper.

It was my Christmas decoration swap from Giddystuff - organised by Hookin' With Laalaa (Congratulations). I have been so busy this week with school, family and orders that I saved opening it until this morning to brighten a very wet and hailey day. Inside were all these goodies ...

Thank-you!

How cute!

Perfect!

Beautiful - and it's mine Pickle-Lily!

Very colour co-ordinated, scrummy and lovely!

Beautiful Knitting Goddess yarn, reindeer decorations, a cute crocheted tree decoration and pin cushion (the photo shows you how cute!), chocolates (yum), a mini sock kit and a beautiful beaded bracelet (probably will have to be hidden from you-know-who or I'll lose it!!).

This is what I sent

I'll show you what's in it when I know it's safe!

Thank-you Giddystuff, so much for my lovely things.

Have a lovely week-end

Jo x

a BIG thank-you

Bookmarks - Bookmarkblogs

A big thank-you to every-one who left comments on my last post. I have had real problems with blogger when trying to leave comments, as soon as I highlight google account my comment disappears! I hope to reply somehow to you, but in the meantime Thank-you!

As a thank-you to everyone out there I am going to have a giveaway when I reach 50 followers so keep following please!

I'm taking part in the Great Stocking Swap over at The undomesticated scientist  why not go over and join in too?
Jo x

Cupcake Swap

Back in July I took part in the Unbirthday Swap and a gorgeous parcel of goodies arrived in the post from Dosie Rosie , so when I saw that a cupcake swap was being hosted by OhSewBeautiful I joined up!
This is the parcel of goodies I sent to KandiPandi ...


 A beautiful cupcake bag made by my friend Claudia especially for the swap - she is so clever!
A keyring made from felt by me.
A felt needlecase made by Pickle-Lily.
Some pretty pink spotty cake cases.
Some dolly mixtures - perfect for decorating your cupcakes with
and some lovely cupcake ribbons, all wrapped up in tissue paper by P.
This is the lovely pile of beautifully wrapped goodies that arrived yesterday ....

and in them

WOW!
P was most impressed by the personalised cupcake card, and I was impressed by how beautifully neat all the stitching is. The large cupcake is a handknitted facecloth rolled into a cupcake and beautifully presented with a handmade cherry on top! So a big THANK-YOU to both OhSewBeautiful for organising the swap and KandiPandi for ally lovely things.
If you want to take part in a swap Hookin' with Laalaa is hosting a Christmas decoration swap, I'm off now to sign up1
Have a good week-end!
Jo x

Unbirthday Swap

My unbirthday present!



Check out the cute button.



This morning the postman delivered a parcel. It was my unbirthday swap from the lovely Gill at Dosie Rosie. This is a swap organised by the Undomesticated Scientist and Gill and my parcels travelled from the east coast to the west coasr!

In my parcel - which Pickle-Lily had to open as well - was a lovely bar of Norfolk lavender soap, a very pretty shopping design fat quarter, a bar of yummy chocolate, some pretty stickers (I've hid them already!), some lovely smellies, a lovely little zip up purse and a lovely wallet with cute little dog button detail on it.

P has already laid claim to this! I'm a real push-over at the moment as she is moping around with me. Still I've managed to move her hospital appointment forward as she didn't get to go to camp.

Detail from the card

There was of course an unbirthday card to go with the swap.

Gill is a very clever lady.