Happy Holidays!

Hello friends!

Happy Holidays to you! I don’t have to go back to work until January 2nd and I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am just to have a break! On Saturday I decided to put up some Christmas decorations and attempt to get myself into the Festive Spirit. I went out to buy a Christmas Tree, I wanted a real one, and I honestly thought that having left it so late I would be able to get one at a reduced price. Wrong! They had sold out! So I bought the only artificial tree I could find and now that it is decorated I think it looks fine in the corner of the living room. The cats don’t seem to mind it either. The first Christmas we had the cats they were about 9 months old and they both completely freaked out when a large decorated tree materialised in the living room and until it was removed they refused to come into the room. Last year we did have a real tree but it was TINY (only about 1 foot tall) and the cats took no notice of it so this year is it in our new dining room. You can probably just about see it in the corner 🙂 Fortunately this year ‘the boys’ are not at all concerned about the tree in the corner, they haven’t attempted to climb it yet but both of them have had a turn at sitting beneath it.

So my big news is that I have completed my A4 Journal which I started in October 2011. As always I did the cover last – I used texture paste in which I embedded some little mirrors, I sewed a big black button on the front to act as a sort of door handle and I used loads of different coloured acrylic paints to give it an ‘aged’ look. The title letters are from a word game – coloured with distress inks and topped with glossy accents. Finally I decorated the wire spine (which I have come to hate) with ribbons. It feels so good to have it completed :-). My 6×6 journal is also just a few pages away from completion and, because a new year is coming up soon, I have made a start on my 2013 Revo-lution book and I will be sharing both with you soon.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year.