Mug Shots and Merry Christmas!

just scraped into a 'good morning'

by eastern standard time!

how has your day been?

this morning my friend,

{who just happens to organise a banquet every year

for two hundred people}

and i

started to discuss table decorations

for the banquet so

all of a sudden i feel

caught up in the rush towards Christmas day...

don't you feel the momentum

just sweeps you along sometimes...

like debris in a flooded stream.

i shall try and remember

all the good advice

from all those lovely sites with

acres of table settings and 'how to entertain'

and centrepieces by the score!

anyway...

the other day

when piecing together my lovely charm pack

'12 days of Christmas'

i kept aside two charming squares

for little Christmassy mats

to set my Christmassy mugs on...

one for me, one for my friend...we'll have coffee together.

the back is red felt,

white polar fleece in between...

i just stitched around the poinsettia flower

for a bit of texture...

the edges are left so the layers show through,

a deconstructed finish i'd say.

simple but effective...

miss b bought me this cool little inexpensive

'merry Christmas' garland...

it's just two layers of felt cut outs on a string...

but so elegant!

i love it miss b...

tuesday has turned up with a bit of sunshine,

humidity and heat have come for the ride too...

though i think

thundercloud and rain are lurking not too far away

to push them out of the picture again!

have a great tuesday...

naturally Carol xox