Happy New Year – It’s 2010!

Our Family New Year’s Makes ……
Look what I had …….
 
My lovely sister Jan decorated our lounge for Christmas  with paperchains, all hand punched beautifully with holly as one of her makes and she also made these post-it-note holders for my husband and I. I am thrilled with mine.

 

My husband made us all pocket sundials, how brilliant are they?

My daughter Lucy made me a box of chocolates that said Happy New Year, but some of the icing fell off on the way home, but still very scrummy.

She also made some chocolate dipping sticks, yum,yum, yum!


My brother in law made cottage pies for everyone …..

…… and Granddad Colin made us all pots of crocuses

What a brilliant way to start 2010 !

Desert Island Crafts Part 7

I swopped my Cuttlebug (which I’d had for about two years) for a Big Shot after seeing it being demonstrated at the NEC with the Sizzix XL Bigz box dies – when I saw the sorts of boxes I would be able to make I was hooked!

I sold my Cuttlebug on E-bay for about the same as what I had paid for it, so I was well chuffed. I also sold two alphabet sets (which I now regret selling), this all enabled me to buy the Big Shot, a pair of extension plates and a couple of dies with very little expenditure.

The box contains my Nestablities dies – my mate Lisa nagged me for ages to get some and now I wouldn’t be without them, especially for sweetie bag tops.

The blue handbag in the corner is the new Sizzix embosser, I haven’t used it a great deal, but I intend to use it this week to make some Thank You cards.