St.Nicolas swap items ready to fly away…..

I have finally finished my items for the St.Nicolas swap. I have been prevaricating for the last month on what to make/send away for the St.Nicholas swap. I tried out a few ideas but settled on a modern feel and made some coordinating items in a combination of turquoise, bright pink and yellowy green (sounds horrid but it is ok!!).

My main item is a mug rug made from some Michael Miller fabric. I cut out and appliqued the tree and numbers before doing some free motion quilting. It is a bigger size than normal as I thought it could be used to leave out a drink and nibbles for santa and rudolph!!

Mug rug

Storage tin wrapper

Coasters

 

Tree ornaments

The tin is filled with the items above plus a few other bits and bobs that I chucked in such as clips, felt animals and some nibbles.

Everything is now wrapped and ready to fly away to my partner……..assuming it can get past the snow. What do you think of the fab Cath Kidston christmas tissue paper….I couldn’t resist it!

All wrapped up and ready to go

England, England, England!!!!

The world cup has started……and tomorrow England get to start their campaign for football world domination. As usual as English people we are obliged to live the  dream and anticipate England’s non stop journey to the world cup final.

Unfortunately as usual we have this little thing to over come first……winning matches against other teams!!! If only the other teams would accept that we are the worlds best football team – maybe they wouldn’t try to beat us. It’s such a pain that people think that they are allowed to score goals against us!!

Joking aside the world cup month is not my favourite time as it involves the male members of the house being football obsessed and all activities will need to be scheduled around the football. My husband is Scottish and he has indoctrinated the anti-England football view into our son so they we will be supporting all teams playing England and therefore there will be some lively banter as I do support England!

Anyway, in preparation for the football campaign I have made us a suitably patriotic shopping bag to show our support for the team.

England shopping bag

We will be carrying it proudly around the shops tomorrow. When I go out with my husband I will have to show the other side or else he will disown us…..

Reverse of the England bag

Cupcake Princess has informed me that the bag will go in our collection….I suspect that means she wants to use this one too…..I’m starting to think she’s trying to take over my bag collection!!!

Modelling the England bag....