Christmas Fair

yesterday we went to the Church Christmas fair, which is always a good place to stock up on home made baking, decorations and for J2 to get little presents for her grandparents.

I also bought a knitted tea cosy, aran gloves, a peacock blue scarf for J2, and some baubles on dogwood stems.

I've made some more progress with my knitted decs, this is the second batch a Santa, a holly bauble, a satsuma and some toadstools.
Apparently fungi are traditional European deccies. (they grow in the pine forests, reindeer eat them and become intoxicated and dance around! who knew?).
My kids are enjoying putting a deccie each day on the little tree, and I have now got a lever arch file to put the deccies in. The Alan Dart pattern pack from Simply Knitting was really well put together, with a label for the box included as well as a calendar for the deccies. One day I will finish the knitted tree!!

I was delighted to get my Secret Santa parcel in the post today, its like being a kid again, I've squeezed the parcel, but I haven't opened it (nerves of steel, that's me!) .