Monday, January 11, 2010

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year one and all, although I must say that the Christmas and New Year Holiday seems a very dim and distant memory already! I thought that you might enjoy looking at the wonderful Christmas gifts that my friend Carol made for me. Imagine my delight when I pulled this beautiful box out of the gift bag............



Unfortunately the photos are not in the order that I wanted here, so here you see the entire gift set in all it's glory - such a pleasure to behold and the smell coming from the little pillows was just gorgeous - cinnamon and spices........




Here are the little pillows before I opened them up - isn't that tissue paper just delightful - I LOVE crows..... :-)

Here is a close up of one of the pillows



And here they are all are, in all their glory - such a wonderful gift; I am very lucky!




I am hoping to get back to blogging more regularly in 2010 as I really do miss reading your comments and I find that displaying my progress here keeps me motivated to stitch more too. I will be back shortly to upload the photos of the gift that I made for Carol....... Thanks for visiting!
Love Jackie x

7 comments:

Deb said...

Jackie - You are so lucky indeed!! The box alone is absolutely wonderful, but with all those goodies inside - spectacular! I can bet you were just overwhelmed with this wonderful gift! The pillows are adorable.

Lois said...

Jackie, so good to see a post from you! Oh my, Carol's stitching, as always is just beautiful! The box is gorgeous and the little pillows inside are lovely! Now, do post again soon, I'm looking forward to seeing the pics of your gift to Carol. Happy New Year - I know 2010 is going to be very special for you!

Chocolates4Breakfast (Terri ~ Boog) said...

It's so nice to see a post from you, Jackie! You did get a beautiful gift, you lucky girl, you!! That box all by itself would have been a special gift but those sweet pillows, too! Whoo Hoo for you! I hope your holidays were wonderful and that the New Year is the best ever!

Katrina said...

Jackie, what a gorgeous gift from Carol and it's so nice to see a post from you :-).

Hope you had a Merry Christmas and this year is wonderful! And stay warm, I keep seeing in the news how cold it is in England!

Brigitte said...

Oh Jackie, you're such a lucky girl. What a wonderful gift, so thoughtfully put together and presented. Enjoy!

Tammy said...

What a beautiful gift!! Yes, blogging keeps me motivated too, definitely! But we all fall prey to the loss of mojo sometimes! Happy New Year!

Siobhán said...

Wow, Jackie! What a wonderful gift from Carol! She is so talented. It was good to see a post from you. Happy new year!