Putting Christmas Away

I don’t know if you know this about me, but I like to spend December surrounded by Christmas stuff. Apart from the home stuff and decorations which are a given, I have a few bits and pieces of erm, mobile decoration. I have a couple of nice scarves to wear under my coat….one with reindeer and one with robins. I have a Christmas handbag, red wool, embroidered with nutcrackers, rocking horses and other ornaments. You have to get quite close to see them so it’s not too embarrassing to go out with me. When I can find them, I have a lovely scandi style pair of red and white gloves. All of these embellishments are in use from December 1st until twelfth night. I love having them and particularly love that they are useful decorations! 

This Christmas I had the ultimate accessories.

Yep. A glasses case, a foldy-in-on-itself shopping bag  and a little purse. Now, Lunch Lady Jan may have looked at this fabric and thought of my Christmas accessory thing with a bit of a tongue-in-cheek glint in her eye (pardon the mixing of metaphors), but I can’t tell you what a fab gift this set has been. The fabric just fills me with joy! I obviously don’t need to explain the virtues of a fold flat shopping bag. The glasses case has snuggled my essential ‘price label, shopping list and menu’ reading glasses without slipping or loss and the little purse has been home to a power pack type charger and some wires for my old and constantly needing charge mobile phone. 

When I’m out shopping or coffee-ing, being able to literally pull these out of the bag has been such a pleasure. Caused smiles, laughter, joy and conversation. And a few times, I could have sold them! I did direct a few people to the Harbour Lights Cafe at Burry Port for purchases, (Jan sells her makes in there, entirely for RNLI fundraising). Mostly though, I was unforgivably smug and on enquiry would just say that a friend made them for me. 

These 3 amigos are now in the airing cupboard after their wash and will finally go into the storage bag of Christmas napkins, table runners, bunting, hand towels and erm, bath mat and shower curtain to wait till next Christmas. It’s no wonder is it, that I look forward to December like no other month. Huge thanks to my mate Jan, as usual. Even though she ran away from living near me, I carry her laughing with me! Or at me, I can never quite decide when it comes to the Christmas stuff!