Alternative advent calendar #2

Every year I convince myself I am going to become a Christmas baking champion.... it never really happens but I can scan Pinterest for inspiration....

Are you planning on baking your way through Christmas, if so what will you be making?

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Alternative advent calendar #13

Woop woop! Christmas tree time!  For the last three years we've purchased our tree from Halden Christmas tree centre, the smell of the place is amazing and really gets me in the festive mood.  I'm sorry to those who like an artificial tree but for me it has to be a real one, it just wouldn't be the same for me if we had a plastic one!

Last Christmas I saw on Pinterest this idea for storing decorations, the baubles pictured here used to be my MoMa and MoPa's and I think MoMa even said they might have been Mo...Gran (?)'s previously.  Sadly I won't be able to use these baubles until Mewster the cat learns that destroying decorations doesn't win you salmony treats.

Giving This Pinterest Lark a Try

Tutorial from Purl Bee

I originally found this tutorial on Pinterest, so I'm counting this as one of my Normaloid Defence List projects.  I wanted to go down the neon route because as I've mentioned before on this little blog I love neon but the thread frayed and was generally rubbish, when I moved across to the cotton mix thread the results were much better:

Attempts 1 - 3 above, and attempt 4 below, I'm happy with how they're turning out now and might even have a go at making some for a couple of friends....