The meeting with the Man in the red suit

We really did have such a great time at the weekend at Centre Parcs. I have downloaded my photos and I plan to share a few posts amongst my Christmas Countdown.

Here we are at 2nd December with just 23 days to go until the Big Day.

Daisy and I had an appointment with the Man in the Red suit on Saturday afternoon. Centre Parcs do Christmas so well and the Village square gets transformed into Winter Wonderland complete with singing reindeer, real reindeers and Santa's appearing in his Woodland Workshop.

 Daisy and I wrote her letter and already you can see she started looking a little bit apprehensive...

We walked into a little waiting room with a festive scene of snow creatures which she really did love.

 She even allowed me to put her down and she sweetly touched all the little creatures including Olaf the snowman

 and a penguin

However when her turn came and the door open to reveal Santa, she leapt back into my arms and said "Door Nanna door".......and wanted to go straight out the way we had come in. No amount of gentle persuasion, even with a soft toy bunny Santa was giving her would make her stay.

We stood over near to Santa, had a quick photo and went out again. Bless her there was no way I was going to make her stay so we had a very brief hello. This photo really makes me chuckle, just look at the expression on Santa's face

 This was us about to head for the door. There was no way Daisy would even look at him yet alone sit on his lap!

 She did make us smile....as soon as we got away she was keen to find her little soft toy bunny and even told her Mummy and Daddy that Santa gave it to her. 

Here she is a the train stop clutching her bunny ;0) 

We took the train back to our villa and enjoyed a lovely meal out.

And to prove that she had a wonderful time, despite a few tears with Santa, here is a happy smiley photo of my little sweetheart. 

My card today just has to feature Father Christmas. This is actually for sale in my little Etsy shop here and if you live in the UK it will be delivered in time for Christmas and comes with a matching gift card.

Here is the set

and the gift card in close up

The image is by Nicecrane.

The dies are Spellbinders and the tag is Sizzix

I have hand stamped the sentiment and little stamp sentiments which are by Whimsy. The background of the card has been embossed and I found some snippets of ribbon to finish them off.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges and the tag if it's allowed!

Simon says stamps work it Wednesday 3/3 holiday/Christmas 

Pixie's snippets playground  2/3 #205 I have used all the snippets from my card for the tag!

Crafty card makers 'Twas the night before Christmas my line is "he was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot.
Frilly and Funkie 1/3 Tis the season
Crafty hazelnut use die cuts or punches
Christmas card challenges anything goes #52

Winter wonderland sparkle and bling
Papertake Weekly 1/5 anything goes

Words 2 scrap by 'Twas the night before Christmas.... my line is "he was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot.
Artistic Inspirations anything goes/Christmas

I'm glad you enjoyed seeing my vintage Advent calendar on my last post....I got a candle in number 1 window and bunny this morning. 

We're off to choose our tree today after work...it's being delivered at the weekend...so exciting.

Thanks for visiting and I will be back really soon continuing my Countdown to Christmas 2015.

Bye for now,

Jane x