Now finished decorating the house.

My daughter bought me this TWIG Tree a few years ago after I had begun to struggle with selecting, bringing home, trimming and preparing and putting it into it's stand then decorating a real Norway Conifer tree that I so like on account of their scent that delightfully fills the room. Will take some photos of it lit up when I have worked out which plug from the TV, Freeview box, DVD player and old video recorder I can do without on the too full at the moment plugs and adapter.



There are still a few more presents to put under it but they haven't been photographed as it was very wet and rather dull today in my conservatory where I take the photos just using natural light.



Close up of the twigs and baubles.



The decorated mantelpiece. (Will see if I can take a better photo tomorrow.)



The gold wreath above the nest of tables between the lounge and dining areas. (Please notice in this and in the next few photos how well the Sasha girls have dressed themselves ready for the 25th.)



Close up of the wreath that does from the looks of things needs a little adjustment to one or two of the flowers and leaves. Will hopefully get around to it later.



The wrought iron candelabra in the corner of the dining area that likes to have a little bit of decoration at Christmas.



Close up of the top half.



The Victorian Kissing Bunch by the front door. Unfortunately it looks as though it is drying out a little too quickly. Might leave it out in the rain over night to freshen up.




The weather has been so warm this year that the Geranuims in the chimney pots by the front door are still flowering.



Just need now to tie the mistletoe up in the hall and set the dining table.
My sincere thanks as usual to Sarah W for re-sizing and listing these photos.

More presents.

Presents for my friend's two teenage daughters who both like to receive identical gifts.
Early Trendon baby girl dressed in Dollydoodle's wear.


One of my brothers has asked me to wrap these three gifts for his wife, the silver papered one is for Christmas, the gold and blackberry for New Year and the red for her birthday.
Early Trendon baby girl with her hair re-rooted by Lisa and wearing a Sashawardrobe fleece jacket, Ruthsdoll's tights and her ear-flap hat which is knitted by Christine Durand.





Gifts for my opposite neighbour's two boys and their pet Labrador dog, Ralph.



Another neighbour's twin girl's presents and a Christmas ball for their Weimaraner pet dog, Archie, who goes for walks with my daughter's two dogs Amber and Ellie, of the same breed, when they are up staying with me.
(I thought that this was a good bit of re-cycling as I used the packaging from some Ling Christmas cards to hold their gifts.)


Yet more thanks to Sarah W for her re-sizing and listings.

More presents, Chon's bag and a visit from Father Christmas on his sleigh.

These next four photos show different views of my presents to my five grand nephews and nieces.








This is the Ted Baker bag for my daughter that I forgot to photo in the last post. Originally her presents were meant to fit into this but I got carried away with the wrappings! When my sister came over yesterday she was thrilled with the way that I have wrapped and decorated Chon's gifts that she is going to do her daughter's in a similar fashion but will be using some superb plain black boxes that she already has alternatively with the black paper with silver trees.



Have wrapped three presents like this to give to friends.



We had a delightful interruption to the present wrapping last night with the sound of sleigh bells announcing the arrival of Father Christmas to our cul-de-sac so I quickly grabbed my camera abd the nearest Sasha and went to meet him.







Bye-bye for now Santa Claus. Hopefully you'll visit us on Christmas Eve.

Some of my 2011 Christmas presents for my family and Sasha friends.

After my notice in November that I'd be taking a break from 'bloggibg' to start my Christmas activities one of my blog followers emailed me this....
'I won’t whine and whinge on, but am hoping you’ll photograph all the lovely pressies, as you have in the past!'
...SO here are some of them. More to follow as they get done.

I originally choose and bought this paper purely to wrap my daughter's and Shelly's presents in (as I know that a couple of years ago Shelly bought a black Christmas tree and decorates it in silver) but I had obviously bought more sheets than I needed so continued wrapping my Sasha friend's presents in it too until it finally ran out.
First, three photos are of my Sasha friends presents.







These are my daughter's presents taken from quite a few angles to show the decorations. Hoping that she is too busy to view my blog and spoil the surprise. Forgot to take a photo of her black patent Ted Baker shopping bag but will ask Sarah to add it later.















My grateful thanks to Sarah W for her wonderful photo re-sizings again. Hoping that it won't be too long now before I can take over this job!
Now back to the card writing and present wrapping!

Not sure just what has happened to my title photo. Seems to have shrunk no end. Will hopefully get my daughter to have a look at it over Christmas.

My 2011 Christmas Cards.

These are the THREE cards this year that I am sending out to my Sasha friends.
This was quickly taken in November 2010 when we had an early unexpected snowfall and wasn't really intended as a card due to the shadows from the sun but I wanted to try out a different printer/publisher this year and this was readily to hand.



Had hoped to have had snow earlier again this year to snap a few Sashas posing in it for use as my 2011 card... but not to be as our Autumn weather continued until the middle of December, so instead had to get out and use the 'old white towel' again as a background for the next two cards.





This is my card to my non-Sasha friends and neighbours. It is a photo taken last year of my bungalow in the snow.



Wishing all my Sasha blog followers and their Sasha Dolls a very happy Christmas.

Hoping to add my Christmas card designs and samples of my present wrapping to my blog at the weekend. Luckily my Sasha girls, to be helpful to me, are going to get themselves changed into some dresses, pinafores and skirts ready for Christmas Day (bless them!) whilst the boys have decided (to be helpful too or so they say...though I'm not sure about their reasoning!!! More likely to be that their 'Sunday clothing' isn't 'COOL.') to stay in their Dollydoodle leisure wear.