Met a Fellow Blogger, Craft Show and Swap

Debbie and I headed for the Christmas Made in the South show in Jacksonville, FL.  This was the first time in 24 years that I didn't have a booth there.  Mary couldn't help me this year, so I had to give it up.  It was nice to have the long weekend, but I kinda of missed it too.  We found several Christmas presents, somethings for ourselves and we met Ellie from Ellie's Country Accents. She had a great booth, filled with lots of Christmas goodies.

 After we finished at the show, we stopped and ate at Firehouse Subs and then stopped at a park on the St. Johns River.  It was a beautiful day, in the 70's.

 Beautiful paths and oak trees ... a great Florida Day

 When I got home, there was a package waiting for me, from Robin at the Primitive Hutch.  Amy from Bumblee Lane hosted a Christmas at the Cabin sway and Robin was my partner.  That is also where I met Ellie, we had participated in another of Amy's swaps. I had a box full of goodies--lots of ornaments, a great little Santa and Angel, some glass ornaments, candles, cookie cutter, notepad and candy.  Thank you Robin, I love everything, the ornaments are already on my tree.

 This was a special request from my SIL, she wanted a Christmas Flamingo, I made these several years by
adapting a die cut and adding a hat and greenery.   This is definitely a Florida ornament.
                                               
 This is one of my craftshow purchases, an elf made by a friend of mine, Darlene. She is starting a blog, ThreeDeStyleinFlorida  and is looking for some followers.  She has great stuff!!!She has an ETSY
 shop "ThreeDStyle" He is perched on and old step ladder that belonged to my dad.

                                                        
 I finished up another Santa and he is perched in a little rocker with his friend Elmer and is holding a ticking stocking.

I made a few more angels for a special order, this little Black angel is one of my favorites.  5 of the little angels are on their way to Saudi Arabia along with some prim candy canes.  I guess prim is in all over the world!

I started decorating, I have the tree up and the mantel done, just a little tweaking to do.  Need to wrap the gifts for people and at work and some of the patrons, then on to presents for the son and hubby.

Don't forget to sign up for my-giveaway, a Raggedy Ann and sock monkey fabric.   Just click on the picture up in the right hand corner.

Hope everyone has a great rest of the weekend!