Christmas Village; Christmas books and Christmas shopping!

Yesterday, having taken all of my Bridgewater Pottery off my hall dresser, it was time to crawl into the kitchen cupboard... and look what I found!!

'Christmas Village' always brings a big smile to my face! I love it, I've collected it for years and never tire of it.

After that it was out with the Christmas books ..none of which are new, I've had them for years too! But I love to get them out about now.. and dip into them!

One of my faves is this old book, by Woman's Day.

Lots of old fashioned ideas !

This next book is an excellent book for crafting whether on your own or with children...you get loads of ideas and templates!

Another useful little book is :

And this :

This one I used years and years ago in my classroom..it has lots of lovely info about Christmas in other countries.

This is full of ideas, cooking,crafting etc

And finally my little Christmas 'stand by' book! So much packed into something so little.(Whatever did happen to that little mag, 'Home and Freezer Digest'?)

And so, all things considered, I'm feeling well set up for Christmas ! Better still, all of my lessons for Thursday have rearranged and I find myself able to go to Exeter for late night Christmas shopping! 'Yippee' and 'Yay' and words of that sort! ;-)