Christmas is a coming!

This is supposed to be a quick post but I'm sure it won't be!

Here are my finished Noel and Merry Christmas stitched as part of the Needlecraft Haven Freebie of the Month.   I've done a few months now, Christine chooses a free chart for the month and we stitch it up with a Big Reveal on the final weekend.  These two are by Log Cabin Needleworks.

These are stitched on 28 count evenweave tea-dyed (after my family had drunk the tea I reused the bags!).  I added the border to Noel so they would match, it's my current favourite DMC 115.  I also added beads for the holly berries. 

I'd like some advice on this page, there is a gap next to Merry Christmas, does it need filling?  I have a small piece of the same evenweave left from trimming that I could stitch part of the green scrolls onto.

I have decided to start scrapbooking my smalls as I have acquired rather alot of the them thanks to the Forums and Blogs!  For Christmas Hubby is buying me a super special concertina sided scrapbook which comes with 12x12in pockets that you slide these mounts into.  The mounts are only a few pence (69p to be precise!) and there's a HUGE range available.  The books come with 10 pockets as standard and can expand to fit 80 pockets.  Any bets on how long it will take to fill a whole one?

I hope you're all enjoying the Advent Calendar as much as I am, there is a slight time-lag with some of the posts due to the different time zones we all live in.  The USA bloggers are posting after the Aussies have gone to bed!  But the calendar is filling up nicely.  I've met some new followers through it and I hope you have too.

One of my new followers is Evalina Maria originally from Poland, now Yukon.  She is running a great activity after Christmas which I'll be joining in with: 12-days-of-christmas-in-blogland.  Sound fun?  Pop over and sign up.  There will be blog posts about arty-crafty things (how difficult will that be hahaha) and a giveaway.  Mine will be a little giveaway with alot of love so don't feel you have to send a crate of stuff out to join in!!

Also though a new follower I stumbled across this class - Thistle Threads  click on the "next" button under the picture to read all about the project, wipe the drool off the keyboard and breathe a sigh of relief when you see it is fully-booked up.  Why the sigh of relief?  The price!!  It looks like the most amazing project and course ever and I would so love to join in but hubby would kill me, we'd have to sell one of the children, any offers?

Finally, I've finished my posting out of cards etc, if you receive anything from me, let me know it's arrived safely, I put alot of faith in the Post Office, it's nice to know it's justified!