Kate's Weekly One Word Scavenger Photo Hunt. 08/01/2021

 

Joining in Kate's one word weekly photo hunt.  My friend Threads through my Life reminds me a week or so before each monthly photo hunt and she is now kindly reminding me mid week!  It's not that I forget, its just that I don't remember to actually do it.  I hope you all had as good a Christmas as you could under these strange circumstances.  Our family got together on Christmas Eve to have our individual Christmas dinner  together on Skype (you don't get a time limit like you do on Zoom).  There were five groups of us that got together and we joked and teased as usual when families gather. 

Gifts

I had some lovely gifts, most loving made.  One from Kate was something I had seen on FB and sent a very big hint to Kate (well actually I sent the link, can't be a bigger hint than that) knowing she could craft it herself, which she did.  It is a makeup bag in the most gorgeous material.   It opens out flat to display its contents.  The inside is a beautiful pale blue waterproof fabric.  I love it.  There are so many things to discover in the pattern in the material, not just the very obvious tiger.  Flowers and leaves are made up of tiger tails, peacock feathers and other hidden joys like the gorgeous birds.

               

We too, like Kate, were fortunate enough to receive a woodland felted animal each.  The  10cm silvian creatures had been lovingly dressed in tweeds and tartan.  Even their gift tags were hand made.  Beautiful.  One is a gorgeous little mouse with soft ears and the other a Basil Brush type fox dressed in tartan trews and scarf.  They had been made by Eldest Grandson's girlfriend.  She must have spent ages making them.  Here they are, standing on my desk, watching me type this. 

          

Another favourite gift is a bit of a cheat actually, a gift from me to me.   Our daughter-in-law in Scotland works from home now but had joined a knitting group of ladies from the office who met fortnightly in their lunch hour and still do, but on 'Teams'. They had all exchanged presents for Christmas and Jenn's was such a delight that I ordered two, one for me and the other for Kate. But as I have not seen Kate since the brief Christmas present exchange, it is still sitting here.  So unfortunately I cannot show what it is..............keeping you in suspense Kate??

So instead I am including a very precious but odd present.  On Christmas day Kate and her family drove round here and left a couple of bags full of presents at our front door, rang the bell then stepped away.  After Christmas wishes to each other - socially distanced of course - we lifted up the bags to take in and leave ours for them - and there was an extra present lying there.  A wet stick, courtesy of Moss.  She had dropped it with their parcels.  It made my day!!  Anyway I brought it inside, dried it on a radiator, then decorated it with strings and ribbons from our presents.  It then lay in pride of place amongst the bits of greenery and lights forming a garland on our windowsill.  It is now packed away for use next year.

         

  

To conclude our Christmas gift exchange, when Kate and her family had got back home, only 4 miles away, we linked up again on Skype and had Christmas Cake (home made by Kate and kindly left with our presents) and mince pies with our brew and opened presents 'together'.  We had similarly had mince pies and coffee with our son and his wife who live in Scotland that morning and opened presents together.  So all in all, Christmas was not perfect, but as good as we could make it.

Great excitement here, B is going to have his vaccination this afternoon at Two Minutes to Three - the time he is booked in!!  I'm such a spring chicken I have to wait a bit longer till the over 75's are called in. 

Now to return to Kate's page and see what other have done this week.   Keep well, stay safe. 💓