I was awake at 5am - I'm getting used to this lol! I was soooo tired after 4 hours sleep, but couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up and took Rosie downstairs - let her out and made a cup of coffee. Then curled up in my armchair by the Christmas Tree and checked Facebook - unlike most days, FB was busy with all the Moms up and awake early with their excited kids - and some of us Moms, like me, Ki and Brandy, awake BEFORE our kids and wishing they'd wake up lol!!
I had hazelnut coffee with hazelnut Baileys in it :) yum...in fact I got through rather too many of these this morning :)
I also got through far too many liqueur chocolates - that Kevin and his Mom sent over from Germany.
Yum. Thats all - just YUM!! :)
Kevin also sent over the most gorgeous keepsake tin filled with German Christmas goodies:
And a stollen!! Which is funy because I didn't buy one this year -decided it was too expensive just for me and I wouldn't be able to eat the whole thing - so now I get to have one of my favourite Christmas foods anyway:
One of my gifts was a new craft/ hobby - sculpey clay and tools:
And all the hints paid off - Laurence got me a copy of Ian Sheldons book 'Storm Chaser' :) Yay! I love his artwork and am thrilled with this - can't wait to sit down and look through it later:
Our advent calendars are done for the year :(
Our 'turkey' was not very attractive or appetizing before it went in the oven:
But it tasted AMAZING and the cranberry stuffing inside was soooo good! I served it with roasties, honeyed and mashed carrot and swede and gravy :)
This is a charm that I made for my guitar-playing daughter, Susannah:
And two other charms I made this week:
Mmmm Scottish shortbread:
A canvas I painted last week:
My sculpey tools:
I had this on the table for dinner:
