27 décembre 2007
Xmas gifts
I Wanted to share with you the joy we had at Xmas, so I decided after sending the pics of us opening the gifts to my friends by email, that I could at least share there the wonderful content of those packages
It's going to be a bit in mess, but here you have almost everything, beside the 1rst parcel I got some weeks ago from my sweet friend Julianne
First I got mags, from Pam Kim and Julianne, ornaments related, or cooking related, you'll see the others on other pictures LOL
I got from my hubby pretty wooden/leather boxes and a crop-a-dile
they just need a bit of wax 
I also got earlier a pretty pair of boots
I got a bunch of scrapbooking supplies this is from Sabine/Chabana, she also sent me a home-made album for my recipes ! Here it is with a kit from Pam
and here are some pics of the inside (a clic to see a larger view)
I also got a bunch of scrapbooking supplies from Pam
She surely emptied a whole shop LOL 
she also sent me a wonderful ornament she stitched 
I don't know if you see the fabric sparkling, so here is a close-up view 
wow, the stitching is so delicate...
and the marvelous bag made by Ghislaine, and the zipper pouch in patchwork ! (see next pic), and she also sent me some cash for I can get whatever I want, so I already got those great clear flowers by Making Memories, and I'm planning to get flakes or whatever, either at the sales or at the next craft market I'll go to (Metz, in february)
I opened the bag a little bit for you see the pretty fabric inside !
More scrap from friends on the scrapbooking forum. I love those tags, arean't they pretty !!! I Plan to use them very soon, as long as I'm going to make a xmas album (it's a challenge for the scrapbooking forum and as I planned to make an album to gather pics of our xmas celebration, and home deco, street lights, etc... it's matching perfectly). Never saw any like this before ?! And also I got there my very 1rst embossing pencil. I'm going to try it very soon, sounds so exciting....
Those are cartonnage kits from Pam, I told her I loved the lighthouse box, and so she didn't get me only this but the other one as well, that I mentionned loving too !
It will be hard to wait a little bit before making them, I'm really excited by the idea to give it a try !!!
marvelous threads and fabric from Julianne, she sent me a huge parcel. As it came opened, we took pics of what was inside to check with her and be sure nothing is missing, so that's why I have very detailled pics to show you LOL 
this is the so nice stamping set Julianne sent me some times ago (already used it, and will again for a wedding album), alone with (at the top) a dandelion set my hubby offered me, and on the SO wanted OOP set I was looking for, Kim found me one yeepee... Did I mention I love stamping ? LOL... Who can have enough stamps ?! Those are great, they take no space. Even my husband, who does a little bit of scrapbooking too, loves them, mostly because being clear, he can see better well to place them exactly where he wants. 
candles, from my hubby and a male friend (who said men can't get something cute ?). Thanks a lot Pierrick !
is there someone on earth who still ignore I love T. Finanger designs ? LOL. Those were a gift from my friend Margaux, she sent me a GC to get whatever I wanted at Panduro ! Boy, I'm a bit lost, I can't even be sure I didn't post twice the same pic LOL
those are paper with flower inclusion by Julianne, a pattern (because I offered to make for her a rabbit doll after she told me getting a pattern, and finding nobody to sew one. She also sent me a bunch of supplies, that's great and clever, because I can start sewing her rabbit very soon !!! The idea of the bag to hold gifts is a great one, I think I'm going to use the idea for the next year's gifts !! There are also old mags/patterns, a bunch of chocolate (my cookie-monster hubby found them straight, he is like those hunting dogs, you know, if he can smell chocolate.... nothing can stop him LOL) 
There also a very cute mice pattern, and those GREAT mags about cooking. They were a great help when my back was making me suffer so much, I've read them from the 1rst to the last word, even the advertising. I Love this mag, and I am very sorry for all those who can't read them, they are SO good, I wish ours (that we pay for) would be so interesting. Did I mention they are free ? All the french who love cooking and cooking mags can start to cry right now LOL
those "caramels" named Nips are with coffee taste, they are soooo cool !! And now for those who will wonder : yes, it's dental floss....I still don't get why in France we don't floss...but of course we don't wash our teeth, according to what I see around me so... :-( I've been flossing all week-end long, and teaching my hubby, who still has a couple of teeth (!!) so maybe I can help him save them LOL. He found this great and funny !!! :-)
The little bag had jewels inside, it's really not easy to picture jewels, so I took a pic of one. The others are a full set. They are just so lovely !!!
mmm... the pic does no justice, I'll find a way to take a better one later !!
Wasn't I spoilled rotten !!!!
Oh, and I also got 2 altoid boxes from Kim (she remembered we can't find them here), and a whitman chocolate box from Pam (a bit like the altoid ones), my hubby also found them very quickly.... he must have a kind of radar for food LOL
I got the last card from the scrapbooking forum trade, here is one of my garlands (I have made several, they are great to hang cards !)
And I'm sure I forgot to picture several things.... (yes !!!) I'm totally amazed by how generous and kind my friends are, and have been all year long. It took me time, but now I no more have negative people around me, and I have few friends, but all are wonderful, they are caring, and I know I can count on them when I feel blue. I can share the tears and the laugh with them. So, in other words, I want to thank you all here for being my real treasure. Hugs++++
24 décembre 2007
Joyeux Noël !
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