Having finished and delivered my tiny godson's Christmas present, I can look forward to a Christmas Eve spent knitting the cat's present, eating mince pies and listening to the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols on Radio 3 at 3pm - it's been a feature of ever Christmas Eve since I was very small, apart from a couple of years when I was working in retail and had to be at work.
The godson's chair came from Ikea, and has been decoupaged with papers and glue varnish from Decopatch. The legs and back are in a red marbled with gold, the seat is green with adorable dancing teddy bears. When I was a toddler, my grandparents brought me back, from a holiday in Spain, a little rush-seated chair to be my very own, and I still have it to this day - I remember how special I felt having my own chair, and I wanted Thomas to have that too! Decorating it has been great fun - I've not done decoupage before. Next project - turning my boring wooden bead box into a decoupage masterpiece!
I recently knitted a waistcoat for myself from Zwartbles wool, and Sophie the cat made it quite plain that she considered it hers by right. I disagreed, and reclaimed my waistcoat, but as I had a 150 grams or so of the yarn spare, I thought I would make her a small blanket as a Christmas present - it is almost done, ready to be boxed up and put under the tree. I'm sure she will love it - my only concern is that she will try to eat it!
Talking of eating, I am looking forward to the mince pies with interest - they are the fancy Waitrose ones by Heston Blumenthal, which apparently have pine-scented icing sugar to dust over them when they come out of the oven - hmmm.
Happy Christmas everyone!
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