Harrods at Christmas, Jane's Journal countdown til Christmas 2014

We had a wonderful weekend with Daisy staying. She is such a sweet natured contented baby. We had great fun and I will sort out some photos soon but as I also want to make a Moment I also need to wait a little while until I get some extra crafting time. I miss her already...but we are seeing her again on Saturday so not too long to wait.

The days until Christmas are now flying by and for those of you counting like me (and Daisy) there are only 37 to go.  I thought today would be a good day to share my recent trip to Harrods to see their Christmas department. My Mum and I love to go each year. I must admit each year it seems to get a little smaller but it is always such a pleasure to see and Harrods is one of my favourite stores any time of the year.

We always meet in a local Paul's for a coffee first and this was the view across to Harrods, such a stunning building even on the outside.

The Christmas department was through this pretty decorated entrance

This year they had different sections with themed names; These were a few.........

Here are some which caught my eye but this year I didn't bring one home as I have a plan to make one later on this month...watch this space.................

We also visited the toy department...I never need much of an excuse to look around here

I'm delighted to see that Tiny Tears is still made...I still have mine from the 1960s...one day my Daisy can play with them.

I love Steiff soft toys (but not their price tag!) and thought these bears and giraffes were super.
I also spotted Cath Kidston

and of course no visit to Harrods is complete without a visit the their food department, I don't think anywhere beats this.
Chocolate anyone..........?

Harrods is really the best vintage yet modern shopping experience and my card today has a vintage feel......

It features a Nicecrane black and white digi image which I hand coloured with Promarkers and Prismacolor pencils.  It is available to buy and download here .I love Ignacio's vintage Christmas images. If you don't fancy hand colouring he also has plenty of ready coloured vintage illustrations which make brilliant cards. I also use them for my Christmas crackers...coming soon! Here is the link to his shop.
This is the image in close up

My backing paper is by Bearly Mine, the sleigh die cut is Cheery Lynn and the corner one is Memory Box. Both my tag sentiments are LOTV.

You will find my card for sale in my Etsy shop here.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Cute Card Thursdays red and green
We dodoobadoo Christmas
The Ribbon Girl red
Sparkles Monthly the big guy aka Santa
Crafty Hazelnut's patterned paper challenge anything goes
Bearly Mine Christmas My backing paper is Bearly Mine
Jelly Park Christmas
Stamp and Create ribbon and bows
Crafty Ribbons Christmas
That's Crafty vintage
Pile it on Vintage
That Craft Place anything goes

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend too?

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x