Rose Organza Flower Keyring

This was my handmade Christmas gift in this year's Secret Santa exchange organized by Zina.

A delicately rose organza and tulle flower keyring.

With a glossy  black bead centre and charcoal grey satin leaves.

(These flower keyrings are much hardier than they look and they last in pretty good condition for about a year.

You can wash them and iron them too if you like, to keep them looking fresh.)

Linked to:

Annemarie's Haakblog, I Heart Naptime

Secret Santa

This year, my secret Santa sent me a handmade mirror to hang on the wall. 

As you can see, it's fun and colourful, with a bit of jungle energy.

I find the heart detail superimposed on the jungle print adorable and the gold touches add a certain playfulness to an otherwise classic print.

 I also got lots of wonderful, warm wishes for Christmas and the new year....

 in a beautiful, off-white, embossed card.

Thank you, Thalia, for the obvious care and effort put into the present and thank you, Zina, for organizing the 2015 Secret Santa.

You can see the Secret Santa gift that I made and sent here.

Giving And Receiving

This Christmas we organized a fun little Secret Santa gift exchange with Zina from EfZin.

My Secret Santa was Maro from Akamatra blog who sent me a mug cosy in a beautiful purple and lavender.

I have to apologise for the quality of the photos. I'm having camera trouble and all my pictures lately are taken with a tablet...Enough said....

But you can see Maro's -much better- photos of her mug cosies -and various handmade goodies- in her Akamatra shop on etsy.