I know some of you have been waiting with bated breathe (!) to see what our Christmas cake looks like this year - and D-d and I decorated it this afternoon.

So, as she says, this year's cake is 'the spirit of the Christmas tree' - baubles and lights!


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The house smells nice - last night D-d came around for the evening especially to continue our tradition of making our Christmas cake together. All I need to do with it now is feed it with some brandy, wrap it, and store it for 8 weeks before we decorate it. I am already plotting what it will look like ( Read more... )

So - this is, in part, the post I was going to make yesterday before my coffee tossing incident, combined with my 365 project pictures for this week ( Read more... )

Here are the pictures for the last week.

Monday is my day to help at the bookshop - and when I got home I began the next knitting project - I hope enchantersnight likes this colour! (Actually they are not quite such a blue-green as they look in that...)


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Words - I have a shelf full of nice words - here are some of them;


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We don't really do candy canes in our house. Except that they did make a guest appearance on the Christmas cake last year;


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I hope everyone who celebrates has had a lovely couple of Festive Days, if you are lucky enough to be in a country that regards one day off as much too stingy, and a good day if you are one of the unfortunate ones!

If you are interested in how my Christmas went just click the link to

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Some of you will know that traditionally D-d and I decorate our Christmas cake together, coming up with a new design every year ( Read more... )

Firstly many, many thanks for the cards, e-cards and cookies for my user page - they are all much appreciated.

OK - for those of you who have been waiting with bated breath for this year's cake - it is ( under the cut )

Firstly a big thank you for cards and the LJ gifts to brighten up my info page.

I don't expect many people have been waiting with baited breath for a picture of this year's Christmas Cake - but if you have been, it is under the cut! Along with a couple of snow pictures and the cat caught out playing when he didn't think anyone would notice...

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