WOYWW 602

Morning!  Another week, another Wednesday, another WOYWW where you meet up with all of your blogging friends.  AND another week closer to Christmas!  Only nine days to go and I still haven't made my Christmas cake.  Blame it on Asda - we have a delivery with them (isolating means we do not go to the shops) and each fortnight I order glacé cherries and they do not have them.  Fingers crossed they have them tomorrow in our order.  Fruit got soaking a couple of days ago so come the cherries and it will be in the oven.  No cherries means I finally give up and its a fruit cake but it's not a Christmas one without cherries, for me.

Hopefully all my Christmas cards are out now, the tree is up and I had my Christmas top up at the chiropractors on Tuesday.  Got a bit of shopping to show you - these are my latest buys:

Three pads of 8x8 papers, as if I needed them - but they are gorgeous; some Alice in Wonderland stuff, another set of Petite Dolls, some metal tags and a couple of £1 stamps to make up the amount so I didn't have to pay postage.  (The last three items came from Susan at Country View Crafts - you only have to spend £7.50 to get free postage and she has had a great sale on - not advertising, just enabling).

I have a workshop every afternoon from 4 pm starting today and going through to Sunday.  There was a lot of prep and that will be on my desk later today.  I was hoping to have it all on for this blogpost but I still have things to do so most of it is on my trolley at the moment. Hope to be able to show you next week what I made.  Another book - looks interesting so I could not resist.

Well, I had a weepy session the other day because look what came through the mail to me - a complete and utter surprise:

Someone sent me a "Hug in a Box".  I won't say who as I don't know whether she wants me to disclose her name or not but wasn't that a wonderful thought.  Made my day - my week.  And certainly got me thinking.  I am saving the hot chocolate and marshmallows for Christmas Eve and I will have the face pack that morning before I have my shower whilst having the Starbucks coffee with the Kit Kat (well, I might share it with my other half).  In case you are wondering what is in the tiny box at the back - they are Positivity Cards which I can pick out and read at my leisure or really when I need a bit of positivity.

So I decided to "pay it forward" and make up a craft box for someone who has been ill but I don't want to say too much as someone connected might read this.  But I did get another opportunity when a friend, who I miss because I see very little of her, rang the other day.  She is going through a bit of a rough time at the moment so I put a little box of things I could find (new, not used or gifted) together to make a present for each member of her family.  Then popped a tin of biscuits in, (we can order another for ourselves), a bottle of wine and a big bar of chocolate.  We took it to her house and dropped it on the doorstep with a note saying Father Christmas had sent Elvis the elf with it.  I hope she enjoys it when they open it on Christmas Day.  As for me - it made me think an awful lot more about the real meaning of Christmas.  And it all started with "A Hug in a Box".

All the Best to all of you.