Christmas crafty fun!

Well it's now less than two weeks until Christmas, and it's a good job that most of my presents are finished. Sort of. After looking up zips on you tube (god bless the internet), I quickly whipped up a few cushions. Firstly, for my mother:




Considering I'd never put in a zip before, I'm quite proud of this neat shit:



Anyway, moving swiftly on, I then sewed three smaller cushions for my mother-in-law, this time getting a bit adventurous and having two different colours (phew, steady there...), and I think they came out pretty well, even if I do say so myself:



So all is looking good. Except I still have about 8 inches of a striped scarf to finish, I have to figure out how to make DK tassels look good (minor felting?), I've got 8 handmade Christmas cards to do, I've got to imagine and make a) a peg bag, and b) a compact mirror case. I feel like I could be in training for Blue Peter... (and that's not even starting on wrapping).

This Christmas has turned into a bit of a mad fucking rush, full of highs and lows. In three days I need to hand in my latest section of my report to work, and drive to Sussex at 9pm with husband to have four days of family frolicks (hence the mad rush to make their presents....). We had some sad news on Thursday, as husband's nan had passed away in the night, but simultaneously good news, as sister-in-law's waters had broken and she was hours away from giving birth to our new neice. I am struggling with not imagining happy news for us in the near future. Emotional times. So the funeral is on the 22nd in the East End, and then I am going to frantically try and get back to Norwich for Christmas (on my own, up the M25...eeeeek - stay away snow!). Still husband managed to get Boxing day off, so all is not lost ;)

At least Willis is taking it easy (in her crack den!):




Ta ta xx