World’s Largest Blown Christmas Ornament

Found while surfing – The Joska company in Bodenmais, Germany has created the World’s largest blown glass ornament, seen here being held by Franz Paternoska. I hope they’ve got a reaaallllly big tree! Meanwhile in Venice it’s not looking like a white Christmas – I also read yesterday that [...]

Make your advertising interesting!

I started out this morning looking for something Christmassy to put up here.

I went to YouTube and my mind started wandering onto the subject of monkeys…   which in turn brought me round to some of my very favourite monkeys from years gone by -

Now who could resist buying PG Tips with commercials like these? There’s [...]

I think I found a tiny bit of it!

My Christmas spirit that is! I had been looking long and hard and couldn’t find it anywhere. I started to think that Raffi had eaten it, but finally I think I found just a little bit of it shining away in the corner – this post is to celebrate that!

Twas Christmas Eve in Merrickville
And [...]

December Craft Sale

If you notice a difference in the blog I am trying out wordpress, it allows me to have multiple pages and seems to have more options than Blogger – we’ll see!

I have registered for a Craft Sale in Smiths Falls on December 1st. It’s being held in the Rideau Canal Museum on the main street [...]

Women’s Fair and CL’s Necklace

With the Women’s Fair coming up I thought I should make some Christmassy themed beads so here’s a preview of some I’ll have available that day -

I’ve wanted to make some Goddess beads as well, but can’t bring myself to try the torso type so decided to take another track. There are some beautiful torso’s [...]