Beginning of December means one thing in our home....

...advent calendar!! We have the most amazing advent calendar at our place so generously put together for us by my dear friend over at Appliquetions on etsy. I have never seen anything like it. With beautifully hand stitched backing, the needlework is then LADENED with little wrapped bags full of goodies for every day. The boy just LOVES coming down stairs from his slumber to unwrap the new day of delights - it is such an exciting build towards Christmas - a whole puzzle is split over the month for noisy boy to build piece by piece over the 24 days and mum loves the chocolate treats of course too! Yes, yes I do save some for hubby - I promise. So I just had to share with you a new project Cia has been beaverng away on in her studio this year. Check out these amazing reindeers, they are just the cutest decorations I have seen standing alone - but these ones have been saddled up with goodies already on their way to another lucky family. The pattern was found in a very inspiring book called Scandinavian Needlecraft by Clare Youngs which Cia based her design on - felting her own saddles out of gorgeous coloured yarn she had in her stash. These really were too cute to not be shown off I thought and a great idea if you were thinking of future Christmas gifts for your family.