Cookies Christmas Challenge - WITH PRIZE!!

[Di Sandland]

Jay that is beeootiful! Very classy.

Bee, so different yet just as lovely.

As for you Jo - I think you look into my mind at night at the things I dream of being able to make

[lesley]

As for you Jo - I think you look into my mind at night at the things I dream of being able to make

Ooo, Jo, what else can you see in Di's dreams?

[Di Sandland]

Tell you what, Lesley, just lately they are tecnicolor, dolby sound, digitally remastered and bloody scary

[lesley]

Really? That sounds like a big old dose of stress. Sorry to be flippant.

[AlexandraBuckle]

Wow, I've been so busy i haven't been able to get to the forum.

All the new entries are absolutley fabulous! Well done to all of you!
Right I am going to attempt to make mine - right now - wish me luck!
(though there is definatley some very HOT competition!)

Right...signing off....

[Di Sandland]

Really? That sounds like a big old dose of stress. Sorry to be flippant.

aw, didn't take it as flippant at all Actually, I think it may be new medication

[bustagasket]

looks just as good on here j Mr Professional :P

[lesley]

OK deep breath, this is "Tinsel on the Tree" but I'm really not sure about it, especially after seeing all the other entries.
Firstly, it's just simple wirework - no clever techniques. Secondly, despite what was in my head, now I've made it, it doesn't look in the least bit Christmassy! Thirdly, I've just found out today that I've broken a cardinal rule of design by using even numbers and not odd.
On the plus side, I showed it to Richard and asked if it reminded him of anything Christmassy..........and the first thing he said was TINSEL! Bless him, he got a big kiss for that.........on the lips and everything.
Anyway, here's my rather alternative Christmas pendant.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2657/...45970d2c_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2768/...8285eb4f_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2539/...13d256bb_o.jpg


Dressing the tree was always a big thing when we were kids. Always a real one, and we'd do it on a Sunday afternoon a few weeks before Christmas. Even at a young age we were allowed a little sherry while we worked, which probably helped. It was so exciting getting the decorations out of the attic and rummaging through them, discovering old favourites. I always put the angel on the top. She was a pretty little thing with legs and a full white skirt. It was obscene what we did to her! My brother doesn't have an artistic bone in his body and would put baubles in the "wrong" place. Of course, I'd have to rearrange them so it ended up being mostly my work. I did love getting it just right. What an annoying little prig I was.
Even now I find the smell of a Christmas tree so evocative - it makes me feel all cosy and safe.

Right, I'm off downstairs now.

[Di Sandland]

Lesley - she is beautiful. And she is a she - the spirit of a a dainty, ethereal christmas fairy is in there, I swear.

xx

[Emerald]

mmm i was thinking fairy aswell Di when i saw it beautiful and elegant as always