FAVORITE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS

This is one of my favorite Christmas decorations I've collected twelve of them over two years from Habitat during their Christmas sales. Each year I used to do a different colour scheme but for the last couple it's been red, white and silver. One year green, white and silver would be nice but then my red birds might get upset. I wish we had a white Christmas tree but they are just to expensive. Mine is homemade from dead branches painted white it doesn't look as even as the shop ones but it still does the job. This year all white fairy lights are on my shopping list the wires need to be white as well.

CHRISTMAS BALLS

I found the Christmas Bauble pattern on a site called canadianliving.com the pattern is actually from the book Handknit Holidays by Leigh Radford, and the pattern is Christmas Ornament. This is the larger size with an attempt at embroidery I think more practice is needed before I can give one as a gift. The knitting's fine but my stitching is a little 1.00 am crazy. I used red wool first but it looked dull and flat so the idea was to find some red sparkle beads in my stash of shiny things. No red shiny beads but I found some glossy embroidery thread! how I have this I have know idea as I'm not a hand stitching person. So the effect is a raised shiny snowflake? just don't look to close.

NEW SECOND HAND COMPUTER

The 6Th December was my birthday and this was the picture from my Cat Calendar. (by B Kliban) I now have a fantastic computer with XP thanks to my Dad, he's upgraded to a brand new whiz bang Apple and very generously passed his older one to me including monitor. I'm behind with my Christmas list!!! but I've almost finished Mum's throw, this has taken forever!!!
This years cooking will be Finish spice biscuits and I've found an easy recipe for beetroot relish. I was going to make small orange & almond cakes but I haven't found the right tins, not to big or small about 20 cm wide and 10 cm tall. I like to give everyone one handmade gift as well as our traditional gift vouchers (ready for the Christmas sales).