And More Birthday Gifts!

My birthday celebrations have been extended by receiving more gifts on Friday! These were made by Kaisa. I love the nursery coat rack, made with her scroll saw, I think. Last year I received a real bar of chocolate with my gifts but this year Kaisa kindly considered my hips and sent me two very neatly made, miniature chocolate bars! Thank you Kaisa, everything is lovely.

Floral gifts from Cristina Diego arrived the same day and I had to photograph them all separately to show them off properly. As you see Cristina was so generous!
I love the pot holding this plant.

 This plant is so delicate!

 These flowers are very pretty and I have a new vase to put them in.

 There are so many teeny flowers on this trellis!

Isn't this is a beautiful trough of mixed plants? Thank you Cristina.

If you'd like some of Cristina's work she has a shop on Etsy.
I hope you are all safe from storms and floods. Take care.

More Birthday Gifts!

Today I'd like to show you some other gifts I received for my birthday.
I've quite recently met Sonja through Blogland and she kindly sent me these lovely needlework items.
This is the vintage needlework basket. Look at the pins in the shoe pin-cushion!

 Here is the cloth basket of fabrics - so many colours!

Sonja also sent me a hole punch and a CD of some of her artwork designs and everything was wonderfully presented using the same pretty artwork including a birthday card!

Everything Sonja creates is so beautifully made and you can see lots more of her lovely miniatures on her blog minisonja.blogspot.com 

Oly, my 'mini' friend and the other member of our dollshouse club gave me a gorgeous chocolate cake and a Janet Granger kit to stitch a pretty handbag!

Oly makes so much more than miniatures. The only thing I know that she can't do is crochet. She has been making cloth art dolls recently and made me this cute pencil topper!

If you'd like to see more of Oly's work you can find her here www.olyslittleworld.blogspot.com
As you see I was totally spoiled this birthday!

Birthday Swap

This year I've been participating in Kaisa's Birthday Swap and yesterday it was my turn to receive all the gifts! It was so exciting opening so many gifts in one day. Here they are.

Drora used her little shells from the Sea of Galilee to make the framed collection and little box. She also made me flowers and jewellery. There's a lovely heart shaped jewellery box and a water cooler that lights up!

 Faby has been stitching table mats and a bread bag. And can you see the spoon holder!

 Maria has sent so many things from a bed set to useful beads. She also made a pretty bread bag with a loaf inside!

Rosella stitched me a cushion with the letter 'G'! And the sweet parasole opens and closes!

 Simona has been printing! A book with readable pages, a tiny stationeryset and bags.

 Teresa has made a sweet set of baby items and a vintage sign to hang on the wall.

Karin made a lamp trimmed with crystals, beautiful candle sticks and birthday chocolates!

It's been fun swapping gifts and interesting to see all the lovely miniatures made by others.
I still have four more to arrive, so this birthday will stretch our for some time yet!
A big thank you to everyone!