Tiptoe quietly

Christmas Eve has arrived and after all the excitement in December we are ready for the big day tomorrow.

Indoor New Choc is enjoying displaying my vintage decs and the chocs and my Christmas card collection from friends and family decorates the stairs. 

All my decorations collected over the years are out.

 Below is one my daughter bought me from Bruges many years back, it's an incense burner.

 And this sweet sleeping mouse is all tucked up awaiting Santa.

My Christmas plates are out including the gingerbread plate I painted at Centre Parcs in 2014

 and my mince pies are made.

I'm all ready for my family Christmas.

My card today is a very traditional one with all the meaning of Christmas summed up in the image. Christmas is all about being a part of a family, wherever they are. Everyone starts life in this world tiny and helpless. It's our families who nurture and love us and are there for us through all the many pathways we travel during our lives.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

Pixie's Snippets playground #342 I used lots of snippets for my die cuts.
Crimbo crackers 2/3 anything goes
As you like it 2/3 anything goes
Time out 2/3 inspired by words I was inspired by the words celebrate, family and life!
Cute card Thursday 2/3 anything goes

Christmas at sweet stampin 2/3 anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas #417 anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's patterned paper December

Yes it's finally the night before Christmas. Billy is not stirring from his green chair and the trees are keeping very still and quiet waiting for the man in the Red Suit to pop down the chimney later.

 I'll tiptoe quietly past my sleeping sweetheart and whisper Merry Christmas to him. 

I will close with a little poem, one of my Christmas favourites;

The merry family gatherings-

The old, the very young;

The strangely lovely way they

harmonize in carols sung.

For Christmas is tradition time

traditions that recall.

The precious memories down the years,

The sameness of them all

(H. Lowrie Marshall)

Billy and I would like to wish my you, my lovely blog friends, a very Merry Christmas. May you enjoy your family time together and raise your glasses, as we do every year, to all our loved ones from Christmases past, present............. and yet to come. 

Cheers!

With love,

Jane x