christmas already?

I’ve been making the most of my free time this week, thrift shopping, reading trashy crime novels, cooking huge veggie hotpots, packing and repacking my suitcase for tomorrow and a little bit of Christmas embroidery,

These place mats are for Christmas dinner at my parent’s.  I think I’ve already documented mine and John’s unwillingness to go anywhere other than our own mum’s for the holidays so for me it’ll be just the four of us for lunch, then more in the afternoon.

 

I’m putting these up in my Etsy this week too, personalised to your Christmas guest’s names.  I’m also going to list some Christmassy napkins like this,

I’m thinking of Christmas before we’ve even got to Bonfire night - a little early perhaps?  I can’t tell nowadays, especially when shops are putting up Christmas displays in September.  I mean, September?  Seriously?

to match the place mats too so hop over if your interested, reccommend me to all your friends, tell your hairdresser and all that jazz.  I’ve also been kindly directed to Folksy and now have another little shop set up there.  It’s a very sweet little place, a British Etsy, go on over there.

Last night we went for tea then on to see Vampire Weekend for some ska-lite fun.  Ah, live music.  Ever since, at some young and impressionable age, I heard my mum playing The Jazz Singer for the thousandth time I’ve been in love with music, especially live music.  And despite the fact that I’m fully, completely and hopelessly in the Young camp when it comes to the issue of the Two Neils, without Mr Diamond himself the story would have no beginning. 

Right, I’m toodling.  I have German homework to do and those verb tables ain’t gonna learn themselves x