As usual December seems to have shot past in no time, Rich and I have both been busy with books to illustrate, craft markets to do and doing overtime whenever possible! We had decided to stay at home for Christmas this year due to work, it has been lovely to spend time in our snug little cottage just relaxing and cosy infront of the log burner!

Where did November go? I only turned my back for 2 seconds and suddenly is December?! We both spent most of Nov working like crazy, I've had lots of terribly well organised people ordering christmas stock from my shop and Rich has started another book, we did managed to get a bit of time together this weekend by popping over to Clevedon on the North Somerset coast. As it was sunny after some much grey weather we did the coastal path walk along the estuary ending up at Clevedon pier.

The weather was just stunning, I love Clevedon Pier and never get tired of visiting it.

On sunday we managed to find some time to go get our Christmas tree finally, we had reused the same tree for 3 years running but sadly it decided to go bald this year meaning we had to buy a new one.

I LOVE getting the Christmas decorations out, unpacking all our vintage baubles is always fun!

We don't really go in for subtlety at Christmas, the sparkler the better!

Rich was very happy that this year all the pound shops have started selling these foil streamers again, we tried everywhere last year to get some, they are his favourite decorations (but don't tell his petrol head mates!).

My contribution to the Christmas stuff pile this year was this cool wooden reindeer by Gisela Graham (they always make lovely stuff!) at bargin at £12!

So anyone else got their decorations up yet?