Happy Boxing Day

I thought today I would blog a few of the cards that didn't make it into my daily posts.

 

I liked this one as far as it went, but thought it could do with something else and never could decide what (a bird in the bottom left??).

Loved the background on this one, but the house is too similar to a card I made last year.

Took about 5 minutes to make, and it looks it. What was I thinking?

Another one that needs something, a sentiment at the bottom? I couldn't decide!

Have a great day everyone. That's the end of the Christmas cards and I'll be taking a well-earned break until the New Year. Happy holidays! Maddy x

Happy Christmas

No card from me today, just a very happy Christmas to all my friends in blogland. I hope Santa has brought you everything you wished for. Maddy x

 

"Me in November"

Seven Swans A Swimmin'

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

 

"...Seven Swans a swimmin'..."

Two stickpins from my mate Lee and a host of sequins finish off this card.

"... Six Geese a Layin'..."

"...Five Go-old Rings...

"...Four Colly Birds..."

""..Three French Hens..."

"...Two Turtle Doves..."

"...And a Partridge in a Pear Tree!"

On the Sixth Day of Christmas

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

 

 

 

"...Six Geese A Laying..."

Well, I suppose geese lay eggs too! I couldn't find six geese to add to the card, so I added six goose eggs instead :-).

On the Fifth Day of Christmas

On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

 

"...Five Go-old Rings!..."

I decorated this one with five gold rings and lots of gold dust aka Frantage. Couldn't resist adding a gold bird too.

"...Four Colly Birds..."

"...Three French Hens..."

"...Two Turtle Doves..."

"...and a Partridge in a Pear Tree!"

On the Fourth Day of Christmas

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

"...Four Colly Birds..."

I actually had to look this up on Wikipedia. I grew up in the South of England in the 1970s, and we sang "four colly birds", and then at some point I realised it should be "four calling birds" and thought I'd been singing it wrong. Then I saw this sentiment. It clearly says "four colly birds". I've looked it up. It really should be "Four Colly Birds". Colly is an old word for black, so this song is really about four blackbirds! You learn something new every day :-)

"...Three French Hens..."

"...Two Turtle Doves..."

"...and a Partridge in a Pear Tree!"

Oh yes, obsession, that's what I'm talking about ;-)

On the Third Day of Christmas

On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

 

"...Three French Hens..."

Hens! Where do I start? We've kept hens for donkeys years. They are my husband's pets. He loves to hatch the eggs but is too much of a loveable softy to despatch the cockerels. As a consequence we currently have eight cockerels. Now, if you keep cockerels together they fight, so each cockerel has it's own shed. But then a cockerel in a shed on it's own would get lonely right? So the cockerels have to have their own harem of hens. As a consequence, we have a lot of hens and a lot of eggs! Ours are all pets, have names (yes even the cockerels), and eat like kings (have you ever seen that strange couple in the supermarket buying whole trays of lettuces? yup, that's us!). But chickens are great fun and I wouldn't have it any other way. :-)

"Eggs"

You noticed the three eggs right? Well, if you keep hens, you'll get eggs. You don't need a cockerel for that. And home grown eggs are nothing like the insipid tasteless things you get in supermarkets.  What a great present for anyone... three hens (they don't have to be French), a hen house, a run, a bag of layer's mash. a bag of poultry grit, some straw... oh and don't forget the lettuces!

"...Two Turtle Doves..."

 

"...and a Partridge in a Pear Tree"