My selfmade Christmas cards 2006

A part of them was for the swap, the rest for some other bloggers, I hope the receivers will like them. I won't tell which card was for whom, so if you haven't got your's yet, there is still the surprise which one it'll be!

I had so much fun creating them that I've already finished 3 more and I think I'll still do some more next week too.

P.S. Update, Wednesday 06th of December 2006 (Nikolaus Day in Germany!) I've had the post above prepared last night.

Just to let you all know that I'll be away for a few days, from Friday to Sunday this upcoming weekend to be exact. My two sisters, my mum and I (that's so great that just we women of the family can go alone wohoo ) are going to see our friends which are living more up North of Germany in Schleswig Holstein which is close to the Danish border, for a weekend hopefully filled with lot's of creativity :D. So I'm not sure if I'll be able to post again before Monday.

Hope you'll have a happy time!

xox

The first of Advent was also red!

Not that you think I have greens, turquoise and light blue everywhere in my cottage, there are still lots of beautiful shades of glowing reds and pinks inside and outside too, I just need this color at this time of the year, because it gives me that warm feeling:

Click on pictures to enlarge them!

Hope you've all had a lovely weekend!

Collaged Christmas card swap

All swap participants must have got their cards by now, so I can show you the ones I've received. Here are they all hanging from a chain on one of my walls, they make a festive decoration, just the way I was hoping for:



I had already posted Marias extraordinary skate card a few post down, because it was the first one that I've got and I was too excited to wait and post it when I got them all together lol, it's the one in the middle!

The gorgeous work below is from my German friend Nicky click on pic to enlarge:

Then I've got this blissful Angel card made by Fiona from Scotland:

and this extremely festive Victorian card is from the dear Mrs. Daisy Lupin:

this more simple but also beautiful blue one is made by Ines from Germany who has no blog yet:

Thanks a lot to everyone who has participated in my first self hosted swap I really enjoyed our trade! xox

A very happy first of Advent to all of you dear blogging friends and neighbors for tomorrow!

Hopefully I'll get around to take some pictures of my festive decorated home and garden tomorrow before it's getting too dark again.

Snowflakes and a tiny Mr. Elmer Frost

Here are the snowflakes I've made so far, it's really fun making them. The idea came from Cat @ www.baumcat.blogspot.com and she proposed that if we would like to get snow soon, every blogger should cut out a paper snowflake and post it on your blog! Cat I'm in a snowflake fever now, will try out more and different pattern as soon as I find the time again!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

I've been inspired to take the following picture of my Frosty the snowman pen (now called Mr. Elmer Frost because I so like this oldfashioned name) by a post of the talented and enchanting Mrs. Staggs, who is the owner of one of my favorite blogs A happy Miscellany. Have a look at her post of this Tuesday where she has shown us pictures of her utterly gorgeous "Mrs. Eleanor Frost" sitting on her lovely front porch!

Oh and I just saw her inspiring post of today, just go and have a look at what she has created now! :D And the snow has already made it to her part of the world too!

In other news, I'm quite happy to say that I've finally sent out all my swap parcels and hope that they will arrive at the participants houses soon! NG your's too! I have already got 4 lovely selfmade nostalgic Christmas ornament parcels (still 4 to look forward to :D) and all 5 collaged Christmas postcards. Please let me know when you have got yours! Oh and if you don't wanna spoil your surprise, you better don't go to Sandys Art tea life blog before you've got your parcel because she has posted her 8 absolutely fabulous ornaments there and I for one are even more looking forward to get mine now :D!

Light-blue-grey-green?

My fave color for the Advent/Christmas decoration this year is not red and silver like it usually used to be, no this year it's a mix of turquoise, grey-green and light blue, which you can for example see here in the table decoration that I did this morning and it also shows in almost all of my crafts and collages, for example in the Christmas stocking (click on "stocking" to see if you have missed it) which I've already created in September.

On a curly hazelnut branch I've decorated some of my Christmas cones

I've finished this Christmas cone today, you can see another one that I've finished last month, also in my fave color theme here

This X-mas card I've finished last night, in my fave color of course:

Can you see the garland with green and turqoise Christmas ornaments that I've tighten between the two white posts in my living room?

A little bit closer look:


This one is my favorite Christmas ornament from "Housedoctor", I so love almost all of their decoration items, because they have such a lovely vintage touch.


I'm not yet finished with the Advent decoration, but at least I've had a good start today which has really brought me into the festive mood again :D So what's about you, have you already started to decorate for Christmas, do you have a new color scheme, or do you prefer the traditional red/green? Well of course I also have to find a few corners for my red and silver decoration items somewhere in the house but there are still a few days to do this before the first of Advent next Sunday.