Beautiful Floral Gift from Cristina!

Girls love to receive flowers and even better if they are not real as they will last forever!
Even better when the gift is a complete surprise! Not my birthday, not a swap, just from a dear friend because she wanted to.

Here are Cristina's beautiful hydrangas standing in their urn outside the Victorian Shop. Never mind the customers can't get in! Thank you Cristina, your generousity has made me very happy!

A Gift for my Blogger Friends.

This will be my last post before Christmas as I now have a lot to do in the real world!
I sincerely give thanks to each and every one of you who loyally follow this blog and have become friends even though we have never met. You make everything worth while.
It's lovely to know you're out there and unbelievably interested in what I make and say!
Here is a small Christmas gift from me to you. It's a file for you to print and make two Christmas Display Boxes like these.

Just click here to download the PDF. It's something new I'm trying, I hope it works.......
Christmas Display Boxes
Merry Christmas to you all and a Happy 2012!

Surprise Gift!

If it's your birthday you might expect some greetings cards and a gift or two. It makes you happy to know friends and family have remembered your special day. BUT when a little parcel arrives and it isn't your birthday and you haven't ordered anything from Etsy or another website you become very curious and excited!
This happened to me today!
When I saw the return address I was so pleased to see it was from a very kind and lovely person - Sandra!
She wished me a Belated Happy Birthday which is wonderful because it makes the celebration last even longer!

Look what what was inside!

 How can she part with these?

So beautifully made - I just love them! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
If you'd like to see other things Sandra makes and collects she has a lovely blog with some very detailed photos of her miniatures here. http://samirasminis.blogspot.com/
What a great way to start the week!

200 Followers!

Last night I noticed I now have 200 followers!. When I tried to contact no.200 (HILSU) I had to sign up to follow my own blog....... this seems a bit weird, now I have 201 followers.

I'd been contemplating a give away but that usually generates a lot of new followers who don't always follow so I decided to send a gift to my 200th follower to mark the occasion and also the followers who post to me the most.
As you can imagine, I went to bed very late after counting up all the posts each follower makes but it was worth it, the results are very interesting but no surprise to me!

In joint 3rd place are KAISA, MINISDECRIS and LATAINA
In 2nd place is COCKERINA
In 1st place with the most comments sent is....... MARIAJO - Las Cosas de MEAPUNTO!

I want to thank these 5 loyal followers for helping make the first year of my blog a very happy, friendly place to be! If I don't have your address, please email me and I'll send a little gift of thanks.

Thanks to all of you who send me regular messages, I love to hear from you; you make it all worth while.