Christmas at Harrods

It's such a wet, dreary Saturday that I thought I would cheer everyone up by sharing my photos from my recent Harrods trip. My regular readers will know that every year my Mum and I make our annual trip to Harrods in London to see the Christmas displays and decorations.
Harrods is my favourite shop in the world!

 Even from the outside it is the most impressive building.

 And inside is just another world. Over the last few years millions of pounds have been spent restoring the interior. The work is nearly complete and there is a feeling of luxury everywhere.
This is just one of  the escalators!

As always the Christmas department never disappoints.

We enjoyed seeing all the different themes and yes I came away with a new decoration for my tree. This year I was really taken by these sweet angels. My dear Mum bought me one.

Harrods still has a wonderful Santa's grotto and I am hoping in a few years time I will be taking my grandbaby there to meet Father Christmas..it's all so exciting that I will be able to go back to seeing Christmas through a young child's eyes.
I had some studio time today decided to do some Design team GD work for Ignacio. I thought my card needed to be a "vintage"Christmas card so I used one of my  Nicecrane designs . Do pop over to the blog there are always lovely projects on show by our Design Team and often freebies too. This image is from the  Happy Christmas sheet by Bowley which is available here. This is such a gorgeous sheet and I have plans for using other images from it. Here is my vintage childhood Christmas card

Just look at this gorgeous image

I had fun adding one of my hand made "word" trees to which I added lots of Cheery Lynn die cut snowflakes and stickles glitter. The fab snowman is a Sizzix fellow. The card base was made using my Go Create frilly die which I bought from the Hobby House with my challenge winnings voucher in the autumn. The snowflake borders are Joy Craft and the sentiment is also Cheery Lynn. I added some distress inks to the papers and the sentiment to give them a vintage feel. The snow under the snowflake is an ancient tub of snowtex I found in my studio and it is still in perfect condition.

As you can see I am not making this for a boy or a girl as I have used pink and blue!

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

Bunny Zoe Ribbon
Country View Crafts Letters My letters are in my tree (they are actually made from a book page)
Polkadoodles Anything goes at Christmas
Whimsy Stamps Anything goes
Papertake weekly Anything goes
Loves Rubberstamps Anything goes
Bearly Mine Anything goes
Crafty Little Fairies Christmas in November
Creative Corner Sing a song My song is I believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake. I love this song and if you don't know it there is a link here to You Tube here
Winter Wonderland For a child
Totally Papercrafts use glitter
Pan Pastels anything goes
A Little Bit Crafty Sparkle and shine
Artistic Inspiration anything goes with spots/stripes I have spots on my ribbon bow
Totally Gorjuss remember I am remembering Christmas' past
Make it Monday Linky Party #165
2 Sisters Christmas sparkle


I hope you are beginning to get your Christmas preparations planned, there are just 46 days to go. I am going Christmas shopping with my best friend Karen on Thursday so I hope to get some of my presents out of the way.

We have a fairly mellow weekend planned so I do hope to get some more studio time too. I am still able to work outside in my garden studio with my little heater on. I also love being out there after work when it's dark..it's so snug and I get an hour or so crafting before my Hb gets in.

Enjoy your weekend and if you watch Strictly, things are hotting up aren't they?

Keeeep dancing  crafting,

Back soon,

No baby news yet, all is well and I know how many of you are so excited for our news, thanks for being such great blogging buddies,

Jane x

































































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