Day 5 - Week of Christmas

Welcome to Day 5 of Cheryll's week of Christmas. My offering today is another Plum Purdy design on a wooden candle block. Each side has something different. There is a Snowman, reindeer, gingie and plum pudding. I top it with pip berries and a cranberry candle.

I also love Thomas Kinkade's work. He is a wonderful artist and is known as "The Painter of the Light" I have a Winter Santa with a winter scene painted inside his coat....

His companion is a gorgeous snowman with a scene painted on his front...

I read his life story in a book called "Home for Christmas". A very heart warming story.
This is a close up of wooden tree where I hang some ornaments I painted and a few extras like my little Elf Boots.....

A couple more ornaments. A stocking from Harrods...

The next two are from the Czech Republic. The glass heart is so very fragile....my heart stops every year when I unwrap hoping it is still in one piece...

The little embroidered bells in the corner are from Malta.
I love my ornament from Banff in Canada....

The beautiful bell  beside it is from Croatia.
Last but not least a beautiful handmade snowman ornament ( I think it is from Germany but my book is packed away so I am not positive)

Before I go I just wanted to share what I made for my lovely friend Kay who had a "big special" birthday recently. I thought I had blown it because I temporarily forgot she reads my blog and I posted the makings on a Friday Night Sew in. Thankfully she didn't see it and I can now show you how it turned out.

It is a needlecase with her Initial embroidered in flowers on the front. I loved stitching it for Kay.
This is the inside.

That's it from me for today. I wish you all a wonderful weekend. I am very excited as tomorrow we are having my Mum's 80th surprise afternoon tea. She doesn't know what's going on  it is so funny. I will be able to at last give her the quilt I made her.....very excited here.
Blessings Michelle xxx