I have treasure I have!!!

I do!! I do !!

 And indeed that is true I have treasure two fold!   However first things first !!!

MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS  

 and for those of you who do not hold these same beliefs.... no matter ......because I believe to wish someone Merry Christmas is synonymous of wishing you peace and happiness. 

May this be so dear bloggers ,
PEACE AND HAPPINESS,MERRY CHRISTMAS,

Feliz Navidad, 

 Bon Nadal, , Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar, Joyeux Noël, Froehliche Weihnachten, Shub Naya Baras,  Nollaig Shona Dhuit, Buone Feste Natalizie, Feliz Natal, Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun and Nadolig Llawen.

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I have treasure in the form of the wonderful swap parcel contents I have received from
Louise my Christmas Cracker swap partner at ButtonsandBebes.
She has sent me some lovely choccy treasure among other beautiful things:

Just look at how much you can get in a homemade Christmas cracker:

Beautifully neat presentation:

photo sent to me by Louise

It is all so smashing,buttons galore and vintage buttons at that,a beautiful brooch which is made by Louise herself,go here to see more and Louise's shop. There are little charms,sparkly bits,little silver hearts and a Christmas pud charm,ribbons too.

Can you see the Christmas pud?  I love it!!!! The fabric is amazing too! There's a postage stamps piece and a nautical piece. I am already thinking what I can do with that fabric. Louise also sent me a charming letter and a christmas card with  Frightfully British Let's brew up fridge magnet ....I so like to receive typical Brit things like that.

As I forgot to take photos of what I sent to Louise she was kind enough to send me a pic of the contents of the Christmas cracker I sent to her.

 I tried to add as much variety as possible as Louise makes brooches and kiddies hair accessories.

• some herbal tea and a crocheted mug cosy
• embroidery silk
• three different pieces of fabric ,two Christmassy and the other chiffon
• buttons of course
• fantasy clips and pins
• ribbons
• a mini christmas crochet sock with bells
• a little lace fan brooch I brought off a friend's stall
• flowers
• and I think I put in an Alicantina fridge magnet but I don't see it here...did I forget it???  Yikes!!!....tch!!!

 and now I must fly as I have a lunch class to teach


  Amanda :-)

I LOVE MY POSTWOMAN!!!!

When she rings the door bell its like a celestial "ting".

I am beginning to see my postwoman in a different light!   I see this soft pink hue around her as she comes towards me while I wait in the doorway...she knows me now too ....she calls me Amanda and she says good morning to me. I've noticed recently her intonation has changed as she says the countries my parcels are from ...there is a questioning tone as she says from the UK? or USA? and the other morning a very clear query as she said another from Australia.... a big one this time!!!

For those of you who do not know what the the jar of love swap is pop over to Katie at Booty-ful things  she is the instigator (in the nicest sense of course ) and the hostess of this swap.
My Swap partner is  Sandi who lives in Melbourne Australia....yes..... just a little way away..... over the pond!!! LOL!

and I received my jar of Love from Sandi on Wednesday morning 17th July!!!!!!

 and I've been dying to get in here to tell you about it.

I am amazed at how Sandi got so much in this medium sized jar and just look at the presentation.....you just know there has got to be something special inside......and there was!!!

Isn't it great!!! Sandi had this wonderful idea of winding crochet cotton around the jar and there is lots of it ...and I'm going to use it of course. That isn't all ,a lovely Navy blue ribbon too!

and here you are ALL the things that were in the jar...hard to believe that all this fitted in that jar but they did and also a bar of dark chocolate butttt that disppeared very very quickly I'm afraid...it was just too nice!

Where to start:

There were 25 items in all!!!.....

• a lovely lacy bookmarker and crochet dish cloth that Sandi made herself.
• a felt rose
• a crochet heart...of course..why didn't I think of that!!!(which Sandi made)
• a bar of dark chocolate (ancient history now!!!)
• Lychee flower Body butter and skin conditioning oil......uuuuu I'm going to pamper myself!!!
• a little pink book with lots of flowers,glittery bits and lace to decorate it myself
• an emery board in its own box (brill! that's gone in my handbag already)
• nice smelly candle "dusk Parisan" ........oh lá lá ... best keep that for the right moment
• beautiful lace in a creamy beige colour with 4 fantasy pins
• Embroidery floss
• fancy tape measure...rather a nice one actually
• a filet crochet pattern
• and....hold on to your chairs.......TREASURE...diamonds,pearls,sapphires, exotic jewellery and the Kohinoor  of the whole treasure trove was this beauty!

and its all MINE!!!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!THANK YOU SANDI at this moment you are my favourite person!

I'm convinced that Sandi is a SURE candidate to win Katie's competition connected to the swap....Sandi don't forget to enter I think you stand a very good chance of winning it! :-)

Welcome welcome to my new followers Fiona at KnitKnatKnotUK, Barbina at Little things made with Love , Alessandra at Homemade at my place and Melissa at Lazy Daisy Crochet ....thank you for joining me here and don't be a stranger, I love to hear from you :-)

Happy weekend folks

Amanda :-)