Christmas presents

Lucky me, look at what I got for Christmas. My husband bought me the sewing machine!

Christmas presents by smomo on Polyvore.com

Happy Christmas

I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas, a relaxing time and get just what you would like - be it something you've had your eye on or just a bit of rest.

Image from Hutchins Creative

Lebkuchen

Quality time spent in my kitchen today as I created Lebkuchen, lovely spiced biscuits which taste like Christmas. MMMMMM!

Recipe can be found here

We decided this would become one of our Christmas traditions. It's so nice having our first married Christmas.

Christmas cards

I finally got round to making Christmas cards, something I have meant to do every year for about the last 5.

These were done using a lino cut 'Merry Christmas' and adding some mini fairy light beads across the top of the cards.

Here's some photos

 Photos mine

Bowlie

Image via Wikipedia

Last weekend was the Bowlie weekender at Butlins, Minehead - surprisingly luxurious compared to Pontins, Camber Sands.

Lots of music, dancing, drinking, and chat ensued. Plus proper cooking, the likes of which Butlins had probably never seen.

Tweeness galore!

Also managed to treat myself to a pre-Christmas treat of a Tatty Devine brooch and necklace.


Bands seen: Belle and Sebastian, Best Coast, Camera Obscura, Dirty Projectors, Foals, Franz Ferdinand, Frightened Rabbit, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, Jenny and Johnny, Julian Cope, Silver Columns, Steve Mason, Stevie Jackson, Teenage Fanclub, The Go! Team, The New Pornographers, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Vashti Bunyan, Wild Beasts, and Zoey van Goey

Fun fact: 6 of the bands I saw had an extra drum on stage, and 1 more had a whole extra drum kit!

Related articles

• Photos From ATP Bowlie 2 Curated By Belle & Sebastian (stereogum.com)
• All Tomorrow's Parties: a chalet with an en-suite festival (guardian.co.uk)
• All Tomorrow's Parties, Butlins Holiday Camp, Minehead (independent.co.uk)
• Photos: Belle and Sebastian's Bowlie 2 Festival (pitchfork.com)

Another random map image

An accidental image while I was doing some work, I thought it looked quite interesting