Gifted Gorgeousness December Link-up Post

           

Welcome to the December Gifted Gorgeousness link-up. The link-up date continues to be the 15th and I will keep the link-up open until the end of each month so you have plenty of time if you are late posting.

The format remains exactly the same, there is a list of rules on the main sign-up page if you want to check what is required but basically anything connected to the word "gift" is allowed, whether it was a gift TO you or is a gift FROM you.

For November, my focus was my Chatelaine Gardens of London.  This was a gift for a Big Zero Birthday.  This time I stitched the iconic phone boxes and guardsmen.

stitched on 32 count Cotton Clouds Belfast from Crafty Kitten

I continued my Tree of Life from Steady Thread which was a prize I won, stitched on gifted fabric.  

stitched on 28 count Cashel linen in Meadow Mist from Silkweaver

I made some more progress on the Zodiac Signs from Circle Cross' Tarot design.  I finished Sagittarius: 

stitched on 28 count sky blue evenweave from Silkweavers

Now it is your turn to show us your Gifted Gorgeousness for the month.  Please use your name or your blog name in the field and NOT the words "December Update" so I can easily see who has linked up this month.  And link to the actual post, not just your blog.  It is easier if you copy and paste the link, rather than typing freehand.

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Finally, time for another Santa Story for my Advent Calendar.  Each year my son's school did a Christmas performance with varying degrees of success!  Several of the children are not so keen on performing and would rather run around, sit with their parent, not enter the room or attempt to steal the show by ad-libbing!  The staff came up with various ingenious ways to support every child to play a part in the performance.  

One year, my son's class were really doing well with their swimming lessons so the teacher decided to incorporate this in their part of the show.  The story was "Matt's Class are going to see Santa at the North Pole on a boat.  Unfortunately the boat capsizes and the class have to swim for it!"

We then watched a video of them "falling" off an inflatable mat into the pool and swimming through various obstacles to reach Santa.  The children themselves sat in a line pretending to row their boat and watched the video.

There was lots of green-screen editing to produce penguins and polar bears on their journey too.  At least I hope it was green-screen!

And here's my contribution for the day, a video of my scrapbook finishes: