Friday 7 December 2012

Advent calendar 7


Being a big fan of word play, the obvious title for today's calendar flap ought to be "It's a wrap!", but I suppose I risk losing readers over my bad sense of humour, so perhaps I should just get on with telling you what it is all about... 


On my beloved dolly tub (which I made into a table with some leftover floorboards a few years ago) you may spot two little Christmas presents, wrapped and ready for the large man with silver beard and a ho-ho-ho laughter to put in his sack and keep safe until the 24th (yes, according to Swedish tradition, we open our gifts on Christmas Eve).


Two music-packed gifts wrapped in two normal A4 sheets onto which I have copied two of my dresses (!). The one to the right you will most certainly recognise by now, and the one to the left is one of my favourite dresses, whose colours are not at all as dark brown as they turned out in my printer (it is more of an olive green, but I think I am running out of coloured ink!), but which I thought looked rather stylish anyway, albeit somewhat dark. A few of my salt dough stars from the other day's "baking session" and voilà, two presents with a personal touch!

Thank you so much for all your kind comments here on my blog. I am sorry that I am still so invisible on yours. Wishing you all the best for your Christmas preparations, or whatever December holds for you!
Helena

9 comments:

  1. Dear Helena,
    thank you so much for your inspiring pictures and your daily posts ;o)
    I wish you a wonderful weekend!
    Kind regards,
    Christine

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  2. I am really enjoying your daily posts - you are giving me lots of inspiration - I mad clay stars this year on string to hang at my windows.

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  3. Men oj vilken smart idé. Att kopiera mönster så där. Så fina paket med stjärnorna och snöret. Å Cinnamonkudden... Jag är full av beundran över din syteknik. Vad jag skulle vilja kunna jag också. Har förvisso en symaskin, men mina kunskaper räcker i stort sett endast till gardiner och enklaste kuddöverdragen (utan dragkedja och mönster). Blir så sugen också att göra dekorationskakor som du gjort. Så läckra!!!

    Gruvar mig över att jag snart MÅSTE ut och skotta snö. Det finns ingen annan hemma som kan göra det tyvärr. Så det är bara att gilla läget. Det är en diger uppgift då vi drar ut all snö för hand till vändplanen utanför vår gård. (ja du vet...). Men, jag får väl se det som dagens både konditions och styrkepass haha...

    Många kramar till dig kära du,
    Charlotte

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  4. Härligt att få titta in i "lucka 7" hos dej! Så vackert och så många bra tips som du förmedlar och alltid lika roligt att läsa dina texter också! Texterna sprudlar som alltid och ackompanjerar dina fantastiska bilder! Jag ser fram emot lucka åtta imorron!

    Tusen TACK för dina alltid så rara och goa kommentarer hos mej! Jag blir alltid så glad!!!

    Ha en härlig fredag!
    Kram
    Lisa

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  5. Hello my darling!
    Love your creative ideas, you are a always such a talented font of inspiration (ok, ok... at least I enjoy looking all your beautiful things!=).
    Hope you are fine my friend! Hugs
    Silvia

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  6. So beautiful.....love Ria...xxx...

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  7. Oh, Helena,
    it`s wonderful, thank you for the inspiration, Brigitta

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  8. Chiao! Har blivit såå dålig med kommentarer jag också, men kikar in här regelbundet. Tänk om dygnet hade 48 timmar- då hann man kanske med mer ;)
    Ha en skön adventstid!

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  9. ciao e bellissimo questo quadro complimenti lili

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