Gifts to My Sisters

My last post was a catch-up on all about the gifts my sister T gave me for Christmas.

This post is about the gifts I gave her and my other sister C.

With the £10 budget I had to spend on C I bought her this longer length top

a brand new cushion cover,

a set of Gisela Graham heart shaped frames,

a Spread the Love sign,

a glass vase with heart motif,

a red glass candlestick which I was very tempted to keep,

a snowflake patterned table runner,

a festive coffee/hot chocolate pot

and a biscuit barrel. These first 9 items were all a pound a piece.

This butterfly t-shirt

and the mint sauce jug with dish were both 50p each.
C loved this little set in particular. It was actually the last thing I bought for her,  a great little bargain from the church Christmas bazaar.

This is only part of the gift I gave to my sister T, she who gifted me the marvellous puddings.
I was really struggling with a present idea for her until I went to the Christmas event held in my local high street. 
There I spied this storage jar with it's Whisk me Away motif.
She is a very tidy and organised person so I knew she'd be able to make use of the jar in some way, if only to keep together all the bits and bobs I was giving her.

So what if you do get whisked away?
Why then you'll be in need of some travel items.

I bought her a set of plastic bottles, the kind you use for decanting shampoo or shower gel into.
The set I purchased also came with a little funnel to make this job so much easier.
I added a small fabric drawstring bag which could maybe be used for putting more delicate items of clothing into. As it was a Christmas gift I went with polar bears. 
Also I thought they were incredibly cute.
The final item was one of these macaroon cases, the perfect little receptacle for stashing away earrings or other small items of jewellery you want to take away with you.

Maybe you know someone who would find a gift like this useful. I like it when I stumble across gift ideas. I jot them in my planner to help when inspiration is needed.

Puddings A Plenty

Despite Christmas being over a month ago there is no way I couldn't share the gift I was given by my sister T.

Long term readers will know that I like a theme when I give presents and my sister is no different.

My Christmas present from her was Pud-tastic.

I think I may have actually squealed with delight when I unwrapped this notebook.

She had bought a plain brown craft paper covered book and used silvery stickers to personalise it.

 She even stamped each page with a Christmas pudding.

There then followed a plethora of pudding presents.
First was this mesh food cover. 
I've seen these in shops in the summer time decorated with flowers or bees but I've never seen a Christmas pudding one.

How cute are these gloves? I absolutely love them.

A Christmas pudding door stop.

Christmas pudding decorated coasters.

Christmas pudding earrings. 
I love these so much.
G also bought me a pair of pudding earrings, those were slightly different to these, so I now have two pairs in my burgeoning festive jewellery collection.
You can never have too many pairs of earrings to wear in December.
Actually I continued to wear the more discreetly festive ones into January too.

A pudding purse. Who knew there was such a thing.
I didn't. 
But I'm glad there is and that I now own one.

Last, but by no means least, is a hand stamped serving spoon, reading, what else, More Pudding Please.

What do you think?
Is this treasure trove of presents something you would have loved to receive as much as I did?

January

Hello there!
I'm crossing my fingers and toes and really, really hoping that my blog break is well and truly over and that normal blogging, in all it's random and haphazard nature, will resume once more.

Thank you to everyone who left a message on the last post I did in December. 
Not only did I have comments left by long time friends but also by new to me readers and I wanted to say how very much I appreciated each one.

Going back to December, Christmas was a quiet affair. 
I knew it was going to be different this year, for a variety of reasons, and it certainly was. 
That's not to say we didn't have a lovely time, we did, but it was just different.
As you can see from the flattering photos above our silly table present tradition remained just the same!

This isn't a subject I'm going to dwell on or talk about in any detail but it does need to be mentioned.
As you know I took a break from blogging because of a situation we had here at home and so, to help S, in early January, we began therapy sessions. 

We have had two of these now. I'm not sure how long we will participating in them for but taking this step has been a very positive move indeed.
S is happier and more relaxed which in turn means we are happier and more relaxed too.

I'm on leave all next week which I'm thoroughly looking forward to.
I'm planning on setting an hour aside one of those days to look at getting my daily activity challenge back into being.

I missed recording our Jumble and Jelly life and I have missed visiting all the people here in Blogland to see what you've all been doing.
Here's to happy days.