Santa Sack Swap Reveal 2012

Here are the lovely gifts I received from
My Santa sack swap partner O'Faigh http://oldburycottage.blogspot.com.au

  There was also a yummy box of chocolates,ate them before
I realized had no pictures of my goodies. 

Also made this Christmas wreath with a Doctor Who theme


Love and Blessings Carol xoxo

To all the lovely    girls that I have                             done a swap with and the lovely girls that have left comments and followed my blog.May you all have wonderful Christmas and a blessed 2013.

Love and Blessings

Carol

Over the last two months I have been involved with 

a 6 month Christmas Santa swap we are to make or buy 

two gifts and send every month to our swap partner till December.

Then we get to open our gifts we have been receiving from each other, 

it so hard not to open them up right away my lovely swap partner 

is O'faigh at http://oldburycottage.blogspot.com.au/  ,

so go over and check her blog out. Here is the first two months 

of my gifts I received.First parcel          

 Second parcel 

I have also made a baby shower 

gift for a friend ,

so I made some bunting for the nursery,

used peter rabbit material 

in a neutral colour to make the bunting.

Here is the finished product, 

it fitted nicely into the nursery decor

very well.

 Made the picture  for

my mum,

got the idea from pinerest.

                                         The owl  made for my daughter
                                               it is small cushion.

The bottom picture was part of the

winter swap I joined the owl is a

                                              wheat heat pack I made.

    I also made a library bag 

and bunting for my lovely 

little 4 year old niece,

from this lovely pink and white striped 

materiel with the John Deer logo 

on as she is a country girl at heart.

Well after a short break because of family life and work,I have been a bit busy with some

swaps and other home made gifts. So hello out they in blog land hope everyone has been well 

and also very creative. God has been a real strength through the family bombshell with my farther

and children to second marriage, sometimes we have the privilege to look after them as the mother is

still in Thailand. They are such lovely children and give you so much love, there ages are 8&4 yrs old.

So when they stay it is pretty busy around as it has been a while since small kids have been in this house.



 

WINTER SWAP ARRIVED

My winter swap parcel arrived on Monday. I finally had time to post it. My swap partner was Naomi Vela  over at

http://beeshebags.blogspot

so pop over and check out her lovely blog.

So here is the parcel So here are the goodies and lovely scarf.

The chocolate frogs were so yummy, the scarf is so lovely and the cup is just the right size to enjoy the hot chocolate in. Thank you so very much Naomi for the wonderful gift.

Carol

Winter Swap

Sent off my winter swap on Thursday

to my secret partner. But forgot to

take photo's of the gifts and parsel.

So will have to wait for my partner

recieve the gift. So have to wait for

her to post pics.

Carol 

Santa Sack Swap

Joined Santa Sack Swap.

So I joined the swap

 hosted by Cheryll over at Gone Stitchin'

I am so excited about this swap,I watched the swap last year it

looked great. 

http://santasackswap.blogspot.com.au/

Love Carol

Anzac

LEST WE FORGET 

As we remember our soldiers past and present here in a Australia on ANZAC DAY 25th April. 

We should never forget there sacrifice they made for us, to enjoy the freedom we have in this country we call home.

Here is photo of a wonderful man, who served his country in ww2. This wonderful man was my Granddad.

Who will all ways fondly be remembered as Pa by our family.

Thankyou to all that have fallen and returned home from the service for there country.

LEST WE FORGET.

Carol

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Creative Things Thursday

Couple of Things I 
Made This Month

Here are few things I

have done for this month.

First up is one of the Valentine

swaps I joined.

 painted the frame and added 

red background placed the heart

then the cupid pic.

 then I painted a small mould gold

placed the heart and the word.

 sewed these two little hangers

and placed rose sent in the

teddy hanger.

The second Valentine swap.

 Small hand sewn bird, the
pattern for this come from
todolwen.blogspot.com
it is from her wee bird tutorial.

a painted heart with flower's
and bling, I also added
a painted wooden S.


Made holder for mil
for her birthday.

 no pic with glue cleaned off
sorry about that.

Made a keepsake
box, for my month

old great niece Isla.

So that all for now
ladies. I will be joining
the girls over at.

 Make a

month craft 2012

at The Felt Fairy

http://www.thefeltfairyuk.blogspot.com

Wow us Wednesday
http://savvysouthernstyle.blogspot.com

Creative Things Thursday

http://www.thevintagefarmhouse.com

Show Off Your Stuff: Sewing and Crafts

http://www.firefliesandjellybeans.com


Homemaking link-up weekend
www.bloggingwhilewaiting.blogspot.com


Pink Saturday
http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/pink-saturday/

My Two Swaps I Received for Valentine's 

I received two lovely valentine swap's,

one was from Cheryll at gonestitchin. 

She is the one that hosted the lovely 

swap. Here is what Cheryll made

for me.

The parcel arrived, I  could not wait

till valentine's day to open.

So here are the goodies, I received from

Cheryll. They are so lovely ad of course 

there was some chocolates yum.

 This lovely heart

 A sweet hanky 

A nice scented envelope.

 So here they are hanging in my craft room.

My second swap come from Fay

at fayandriley

It is so sweet.

This such a cute little tote and

chocolate yum.

Love And Blessings Carol.

 2 Valentine Day Swaps


Well my Initial Heart swap is been 
sent off to my secret partner.

 Chocolates of course.

 

The start of the Heart

The start of the second gift.

Will show you the finished gifts

once my swap partner, has received

her Initial Heart gift. Hope the other

girl's enjoy making and receiving there

Initial Heart swap.

 I joined a second Valentines Day swap 

So I have sent that one off yesterday

as well.

 

The start of the first gift

Chocolates

Start of the second gift.

Joining these other

Ladies at.

Smiling Sally's

 Blue Monday

htpp://smillingsally.blogspot.com/