Blossoming Box and Christmas Freebies!

My packages to my friends and family are
IN THE MAIL!
That is a huge hurdle!
But now there are not so many presents under the tree : (

I am so enjoying my daily gifties from my my Secret Santa
in JoAnne's Secret Santa Advent Swap:

Unopened:

Opened!


So sweet!

I have also been having fun making these "exploding boxes":

This pic is of the top:


When you lift the top from the box, it falls open to reveal 20 "pages"
where you can put photos, etc.

I will paste pictures of Christmases past in this one,
which is for my sister. Aw...
I think I will rename them blossoming boxes : )

Here are a couple of Christmas freebies for you:


Don't these birds make you feel peaceful inside?


Click to enlarge, right click and save!

Happy Pink Saturday!

Happy December and Friday Freebies!!

Love, love, love December!!
I got to open my very first giftie of JoAnne's Secret Santa Advent Swap!
So sweet! And I get to open another giftie tomorrow!!
Every day til Christmas!!
The rules were to alter two large matchboxes and stuff with 25 little gifties
and number them from 1 to 25 to be opened one each day til Christmas.
I love my Secret Santa aready
because she made this beautiful matchbox for me:



Oh, yes, you had me at velvet leaves and berries! :)

I am Secret Santa to our lovely hostess, JoAnne.
Because she did the Santa assigning,
there was really no way for me to be secret.
Soooo....here is the matchbox I made for her:

The "house" lifts up and you can insert a flickering tealight within,
so that it looks aglow.
The vintage looking tree is actually a newish tree which I bleached,
then sprayed with glimmermist.

Here are her goodies:

I wanted to wrap them in a variety of wrapping,
the way gifts under the tree look.
I used some Christmas napkins for wrapping,
so that she could reuse them in her artwork.

Okay, okay, here are a couple of cute freebies
for your Christmas crafting:




Click to enlarge, right click and save!
Have a great weekend!

And pop over to Pink Saturday for some pink holiday loveliness!