More from the Advent calendar...

December seems to be flying by so quickly!

But the highlight of every morning is opening Sabiha's Advent calendar.

Here are some more of the fabulous surprises!

This lot are in no particular order...it's pretty chaotic here these days!

So many fabuous tiny things and I love them all.

The fun part is finding homes for everything!

You can see the minis I made for Sabiha on her blog and together (even though we live a world apart, lol!) we made an Advent calendar as a surprise for Sylvia.

Mercedes

Sabiha's Advent Calendar

Sabiha sent me this most spectacular Advent calendar.

It's so exciting to open a little bag every morning.

Here are all the goodies from just the first five days!

The prettiest Christmas decorations.

Gorgeous plants and plant holders.

Awesome magazine boxes, magazines and wrapping paper.

Fabulous boxes and a spectacular Dudok apple pie.

Beautiful tray with bottles and ...

the world's tiniest lipstick!

Sabiha you are a wonderful friend, thank you!

Mercedes

A little Christmas in the barn!

Many of you have been very patiently waiting to find out what was going in the barn.

The barn is going to be a shop!

A shop that sells vintage goods.

It's nowhere near filled up or finished but I just couldn't resist adding a little Christmas!

Birdhouse from Katie.

Rusty wreath from Susanne.

Vintage bauble wreath - fun but fiddly!

Somehow I always manage to send the beads flying everywhere whenever I make one!

Plenty more decorating to do!

Loads more things to make!

Lots more fun to have!

Merry December!

Mercedes

Tiny baby things and other gifts!

I was beyond thrilled to recieve this fabulous set of beautifully crocheted babywear in the mail this week.

They were gifts from Susan at 'Minicrochetmad'.

How Susan can crochet anything that tiny is incredible!

Even hubby was speechless when he saw how perfect these things were!

I LOVE baby shoes!

Susan also crocheted this beautiful, fine, tiny doily which has found its way into the shabby house.

Thank you Susan!

Also in the mail this week was this sweet little tiny basket made by Sylvia.

Like me you're probably wondering how a woman having so much trouble with her eyesight can make something so perfectly tiny...as Sabiha says 'she is amazing'!

Thank you Sylvia!

And these little Greengate beauties were gifts from Carolyn, who I caught up with a few weeks ago at a miniatures convention here in New Zealand.

Thank you Carolyn!

And thank you for all your comments on Liberty's costume, she was thrilled to read them!

(and now she thinks she should have her own blog, lol!)

Mercedes