'Some Beautiful Hand Crafted Christmas Cards & More!'

I seem to be in a 'state of denial' this year regarding Christmas! Aside from sorting out the recipients of my, 'A Nod To Mr. Dickens' CD I have only bought two Christmas presents and written out one Christmas card!
In my defence, I have been pretty busy of late and time always sails past when you have a lot on, doesn't it? I've only managed to attend one Christmas Fair as well this time but thankfully that was my FAVOURITE event at St Clements Church! It was there that I picked up these really lovely hand crafted Christmas cards.

 I LOVE cards with blank insides because then I can put what I really want to say rather than have to 'work around' one of those generic type cards. A lot of those words are Christmassy and nice but they aren't very personal and I always like to make sure that people know it is THEM I am thinking of at Christmas time.

It is a shame how the act of sending physical Christmas cards seems to be dying out now in favour of 'e' cards. I did receive a BRILLIANT present the other day though in the shape of an interactive Jacqui Lawson Advent Calendar from my friends, Ro & Sally Gardner. Not only do you get to 'live' in an imaginary cartoon town for a month and access a new part of it or story cartoon each day you can design things that appear in the town as well. I am having such a lot of fun dressing Snowmen and Christmas Trees as well as reading some interesting Christmas trivia and solving puzzles. The only bad thing about this kind of present being that you can't hold on to it forever unlike real toys and gifts. Still, Ro & Sally both know what a BIG kid I am and I am HUGELY chuffed to have lots of innocent fun to tide me over this December. I might even try to video some of the animation from off my Laptop screen to remember it by and/or write some stories based on my cartoon village and the character that walk across the screen from time to time!

Finally, I also got a FAB 5 CD set of Christmas songs called 'An Old Fashioned Christmas' from a charity shop in Hastings the other day for £2.99. Its one of those 'bulky' Readers Digest sets that used to be commonplace - are Readers Digest still about? I used to subscribe for a short time in the 1990's but found that the magazines just kept piling up unread. That's the worst thing about life - there just isn't enough time to take an interest in everything, is there!

I wanted the CD mainly because it includes a few of the 1950's/60's Christmas hits that I haven't got including, 'Must Be Santa' by Tommy Steele. The first couple of CD's are GREAT and set a lovely, old fashioned Christmas mood! We haven't got a tree up yet or any decorations but I can imagine sitting in front of one with a glass of wine and relaxing listening to both CD's. So enraptured was I, in fact, I even listened to the tracks featuring choirs and tenor singers!