Gifts sent and received (in November and December)

Although I have become rather slow in writing letters I still send cards and parcels and other things around the world but also receive lots.
So here is a blogpost about mail I sent and received in November and December!
I sent lots of Christmas cards and received lots but I didn't take photos of them all.
But I did take photos of other mail I sent.
At some time in November I sent my friend Marabeth in the States a thank you gift.
I made her a Shutterfly photobook with photos from our trip.
I also made her a Shutterfly thank you card and I cross stitched her a card as well for her birthday.

Now here's the parcel I sent for the In My Closet exchange. Although I shared what I received (you can read it here) I never shared what I made and sent.So here it is.
I made a stone of course. And as Aliki of My Angels, My World blog loves white I made it in her favourite colour. I loved that stone, one of my favourites!

 Here's the rest of the parcel.

 I also made this little cute Christmas card in a box!

Here is a sea glass felted stone I made for my Etsy Greek Street Secret Santa Exchange and it went to far away Canada to my dear Stella of Inspirations by Stella. I also made her a sea glass pendant, both in her favourite colour turquoise.

I made this sea glass owl pendant for my dear Juliana in Scotland for Christmas. I used the owl charm that Erina Katerina sent me along with other supplies in the In My Closet exchange.

I received lots of Christmas cards.Here are the ones from my friends Annie and Stavros and Julia and Stratos in the States, Johanna in Finalnd and Christine in France.

This is a lovely gift from Andria, another friend in the States. She sent me this lovely card, and my name made with wire and a little parcel with her love. Don't you love everything?

More Christmas cards from Kerry in the States, Tua in Finland and Andrea in Trinidad&Tobago.

 I made this little green fox for my friend Frieda on Skiathos island. Frieda is trying hard to support The Green Fox of Skiathos recycling programme so I made her this little fox in green for her. I found this in Crafts Beautiful magazine if I remember correctly!

It was in brown so I made it in green for Frieda and added one of Erina Katerina's art supplies she sent me.

 Some time ago I had bought this emroidery from the destashing sale of Laura Lupin of
Bugs and fishes. So I put it in a hoop and it looked lovely for Christmas. Laura still has a destashing sale in her shop.

 I made this card for Anna's of In My Closet Christmas card competition. I used a bamboo box in which I had once received a gift in. Some washi tape.

Felt and felted cut outs I had bought at Xeirotexnika.

And some stitched wishes and a 2015 charm and some buttons of course!

One more stone I made in December.

I will make another blogpost about the Christmas cards I received (most came in January) and more mail and other things that I sent and received in the two first months of the new year!

This first week of January 2015...

So it is already the 4th of January and school is just around the corner.
Since the 1st of January...

• ... I have already phoned most of the relatives and friends to wish them all the best for the New Year!
• ...I have already had coffee with one of my oldest friends and it was so enjoyable to meet Katerina after sooooo many years! What a pity we don't live in the same city any more!
• ...we have already watched a theatrical performance " Antigone" by Brecht performed by Paravates tis skinis.
  
• ...I have already taken down all the Christmas decorations but have not put them in their boxes yet!
  
• ...I have already learnt how to use my new camera NIKON Coolpix L810 (hubby's old one). It is very easy to use, unfortunately it does not take the best of pictures as it had an accident last year, was fixed (inside the guarantee period) but still does not do well.
  
• ...I have already read a book (well, no cheating, almost, I still have  a couple of pages and will finish it tonight I guess!
  
• ...I have already cleaned up one more year of photos (2009) for my Shutterfly photobook (I will explain that in another blogpost).
• ...I have already made friends with lots of old students to send them photos from their school years with me.
• ...I have already cleared up lots of facebook friends I didn't really know.Sorry!
• ...I have already cleared up my blog reading list and kept only the blogs I want to read and to which I like leaving comments to! What's blog reading without commenting from time to time, right?
• ...I have already answered the majority of my e-mails and have now only 25 e-mails in my inbox (out of which only three are in need of an answer).
• ...We have already been to one open flea market!And I only bought very few things I found on bargain prices!I bought the blouse for one euro for the lovely 75 shell buttons it had on. All the wooden bangles I got really cheap and the seahorse toy will play with my sea glass!
  
• ....I have already chosen my first cross stitch activity of the year!
• ...I have already uploaded all the photos I had on my mobile and Instagram to my computer!
• ...We have already walked the beach many a time!
  
  
  
  
   (See what I mean by the problem the camera has? It makes photos too light!Or too dark!)
  
  I am glad I have already accomplished a lot! I hope the whole year will continue very active and creative!