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Another beautiful sunset rounded off a very stormy day yesterday.  However, the awful weather continues with the forecast predicting it getting worse not better as hoped.  Snow is forecast for over the hills but not sure if that is local or the Highlands on the mainland.  There are still disruption to travel on the ferries with more cancellations, even the freight is now cancelled.  The website is now stating that there will be more disruption and cancellations for Friday and Saturday.  I am glad we haven't any travel plans but my heart goes out to all those who do.  It must be quite frustrating.  I do wonder what the supermarkets are now looking like, if there are any empty shelves yet?  Tomorrow I will know the answer to that as Gerard is doing the last week of the rehab course and seeing the cardiac nurse.  I generally have a little wander...

Today in our cosy cottage it was like a little cottage industry of Christmas tags.  I have so far resisted the urge to play Christmas music but I am not sure I will be holding out much longer.  A bit of a picture overload but here are the tags made so far.

Wooden dinosaurs and reindeers covered in Christmas scrapbook paper, very simple but effective.

Again paper covered wooden trees with the words of the song written on.

Snowmen and stockings added to the pile.

I made some luggage style tags added a star and then using a silver pen wrote Matthew 2:10
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.

Wooden baubles were covered in paper and embellished.  Matthew 1:21 written around the sides.
She will bear a son; and you shall call his name Jesus.

Luggage tags have been embellished.

Wooden tags embellished with wooden shapes.

A couple of notelets made using Harris Tweed.

A fun couple of hours and another task completed and ticked off the list.

Have you made a start on Christmas yet?

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More Christmas Tags

I had such fun making the tags from my last post that I thought I would have a repeat performance in the craft room, focusing on Christmas tags.  I have such a lot of tiny scraps of Christmas fabric that I thought I would experiment with it.  The end result is beautiful but it does take some time waiting for the glue to dry.  I used glue to adhere the fabric to the tag which did hold up proceedings slightly but worth the effort if you have the time.

 

The candy cane was made using two pipe cleaners.  I do like the overall finish and it is a great way to use up oddments of fabric.

 

 

Whilst waiting for the glue to dry I played around with stamps simple but effective, with the addition of a button is a quick and practical make.

 

 

Finally using oddments of card and buttons a Santa evolved, a must for children.

 

 

 

It would have been nice to have the Christmas music on doing this but I resisted and sang along to Herman's Hermits, Rod Stewart and UB40 with a track or two from Take That.   I have to admit to enjoying my time in the craft room but I need to get some of the household chores done, so I will love and leave you.  Take care.

 

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Tags

I woke yesterday morning to a very dull, overcast and utterly miserable day weather wise that quickly turned to that horrible fine drizzle.  Yes, the perfect excuse to ignore all the outside jobs and retreat to the craft room.  I had a fantastic few hours playing around making tags.  I have a box that I keep all the scraps and oddments in that I use for tag making the perfect way to maximize materials.

 

The papers are all oddments from scrapbooking and card making, pieces that are too small to be of use.  I had such fun selecting papers and trying to match some of the toppers.  It certainly passed away a pleasant few hours.

 

 

I also started to experiment with oddments for my Christmas tags.  A rather large job so needs to be done in small sessions.  But I impressed myself with some of the results.  As some of you may know I am a great lover of buttons so using some to decorate the tags was a real thrill.

 

 

I loved the snowman and thought this might be a nice addition to packages for the Grandchildren, although the vintage papers above with the Santa embellishment was also a contender, decisions, decisions!   I thought I might make some more Christmas pudding tags to write the heating instructions on, attaching them to the pudding when I have made them nearer to Christmas. 

The weather is pretty good today so I had better finish off and get back outside to the mundane jobs of clearing the garden.  

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