SIMS - Birthday & Christmas

Birthday

I collected more "loot" for my Birthday at the last SIMS (Susan, Inca, Maureen & Sue) meeting.

Normally I would have received these at our November meeting, but I couldn't attend that day.

This year for gifts we decided to give each other a kit - and the kit needs to be finished by our birthday month meeting in 2021.

My kits are - a Marg Low Christmas decoration (with a house)
A felt embroidered cat pincushion 
and a Thimbleblossom cross stitch pattern with the Aida (it has houses too....LOL)

So, plenty keep me busy
Thanks Maureen, Sue & Inca

Christmas

And of course, our December Meeting was also to celebrate Christmas.  We don't have any guidelines for presents so it's a surprise when we get something.

From Maureen - a pretty mug with reindeer (and some mini marshmallows) - wrapped in Christmas fabric.

From Inca - a potted succulent, some notebooks and a "treat".

From Sue - a decorated glass, some chocolates, candy cane and the cutest tiniest bear .

                    

I made these hangers - to match the ones I made 2 years ago - here - which said "Yes, I do need all this Fabric"

and I added a container of Nutty Nibble Mix that I make every year.
They seemed to get a kick out of them.

Loose Threads - Birthday

The December meeting is the time for me to get my Birthday gifts - we do it early on so we can move into "Christmas" mode.
(The Christmas section of our meeting will wait for another post)

This year we each selected a colour and everyone gave gifts in that colour...Perhaps I made it too challenging by picking Teal - then I said Aqua was close enough . . 

Here are my goodies:

Hopefully I can list it all 

The Sewing /Craft stuff:
Sewing pouch - with Sew embroidered

2 balls of yarn

2 skeins of thread
2 pieces of fabric
1 reel thread
1 piece of felt
Aqua beads - perfect for scissor fobs or maybe zip pulls...
Scissors
Mini charm pack  (150 2.5" squares...yay!)

The non-sewing / craft stuff
Teal water bottle
Teal food cover   bound with Tula Pink fabric...very special
Teal lunch box

Nail Files in teal colours
Hand towel
Letter "S"
Mint Fudge Kit Kat   (try one - they are delicious)
Paper serviettes
Teal highlightere
Teal pencil sharpener/rubber
Hand painted letter "S"

Very spoilt indeed!!!

Thanks to all my Loose Threads friends who have made the first Saturday of each month a fun time.