Yes, this does feel awkward. It has been over a month since I paid my little blog any attention. I am sorry to say it has been longer than that since I sat down and read some of the lovely blogs I follow and love.
Where do I start? First there was Christmas. A trip to my home town of Melbourne to catch up with family and friends. A lovely trip, but a very busy one. It was not really a holiday.
I managed to make lots of home made Christmas presents last year. I am really happy with how many presents I was able to make in the end. I did some shopping on madeit, to buy hand made items that I did not have time to make myself. Santa even bought my girls some hand made felt food (fruit, bread, cookies and tea bags) from madeit, he is clever!
I bought my girls their Christmas day dresses on madeit from the store Krumpet, how cute are these fabrics?
These are the presents I managed to make. There was lego bunting.
There was pink and sparkly bunting.
There was orange bunting.
I even started two strands of Christmas bunting a few days before Christmas (and was literally finishing it on Christmas Day on my mum's sewing machine) Here it is hanging up at my Grandma's house.
![Zippered pouches, soon to be.](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6851474855_b82b5c3e5c.jpg)
This was my first ever zippered pouch with a strap and patch-worked. This one is quite big (approximately A4 size) They are great as presents for children to put their toys in for outings or storage.
I made an owl one too.
I am still addicted to making zippered pouches, so lots of friends and family were given my travel sized zippered pouches.
Lots of little girls (and a few big girls) received hand made hair bobbles. I think you can never give or receive too many of these.
My Shropshire sister-in-law collects hearts, so I made her a little hanging felt and beaded one.
My Grandma and The Shropshire boy's Nan each received a fabric wall hoop decoration.
I lost count how many snow man heads I made, it was possibly 15 (the last few were finished off in January, ready for next Christmas)
In the end, I ran out of time and not many presents were wrapped in fabric, furoshiki style, as I had intended. There is always next Christmas, right?
I also underestimated how many home made gift tags I would need, I used all mine and had to buy more. Next Christmas I will know to make lots and lots of them.
Now I have all my gift making here in the one blog post, there really was a lot of creating going on in the lead up to last Christmas. I have impressed myself. I better start thinking of some new, different gift ideas for things to make ready for next Christmas. I am sure my friends and family don't want more zippered pouches and bunting strands.
Did you get crafty or creative at Christmas? Do tell.
Have a lovely day.
Cat.