In my closet there are trees.

Down with a flu I am and went to the doctor yesterday. So I am on antibiotics and inspite of that I had fever yesterday. So I am too miserable to say something funny or anything so I'd better tell you what I did last Saturday.
We met again at Anna's In My Closet very cozy welcoming kitchen to make things. This time we were about 20 people and almost one on top of the other! But it was so enjoyable. The initial idea was to make various Christmas ornaments and we ended up making mainly the felt Christmas tree! I loooooved it! Mainly because it was something I could easily do as I have been making similar trees for the school bazaar lately!
The good thing was that Anna had prepared the base for the trees.
Here are photos from the meeting!

 Anna showed us the pattern and gave us the details!

 Some joked about it and made fun!

 Others like me fell on the job!

 There was lots to choose from but I chose this lovely soft light green felt.

 Everyone was making their own tree.

Some were taking photos.

 I made two trees. First I made one with beads I borrowed from Christina for Lia, a member who couldn't come.

Then I had a break and ate some great sweets !

 Martha made some lovely cardamon biscuits.

 And Anna's sister Vassiliki made the amazing Christmas tree cookies and oreo covered cookies. You can find that recipe here at her blog!

I also tried some of Demetra's chocolate mint icecream.
 After eating I made a second tree this time for me and adorned it with beautiful buttons that were sent to me at an exchange by Valma. They looked gorgeous on my tree.

The two trees in the front row are the ones I made.

I ate some great chocolate pie by Christina, and took some cookies at home.
I made cheese and dill muffins. I heard they were good.

You can read all the details and see me posing with my first tree in Anna's blog here.
Bytheway if you are eager to win some threads Nancy is having one more giveaway on her blog Victorian Motto Sample Shoppe. Go have  a look here.

Two giveaway wins and a RAK.

I was very lucky to have won two giveaways recently. First the monthly giveaway from the Etsy Greek Street Team that I recently joined.
It was this pair of mosaic in a nut Christmas ornament by cubo. Theoni of cubo is really sweet and you can find some amazing mosaics in her shop.

 As I won't be putting a tree up this year I just added them to my candles. If I get a branch of pine tree to decorate I will add them to it.

 They are lovely.Thank you very much both cubo and Etsy Greek Street Team.
Then I won this lovely Christmas pattern, threads and trims in Nancy's Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe.
Nancy does giveaways very very often and right now for Christmas she has one every day. You can find today's giveaway here. This is what I got, sorry for this blurred photo!I hope I will manage to stitch it till Christmas!

Then I was RAKed(Random Act of Kindness!) by sweet Chiara of the Grey tail blog.She found this lovely cross stitch kit (The Good Life by Dimensions)that shows a dog similar to Barca and was so kind to send it to me. So this is one more thing I have to stitch! I will just trim the ears as Barca's are shorter! Of course she added a little Christmas thing too! Thank you very much Chiara!

December is here!

I was so eager to write yesterday's post about our new sea front that I forgot's that it was the first of the month and I had to add this month's page from the vintage book I had found last Christmas at a bazaar.
So here it is.

And inspite the fact that December did not start well and I am down with a bad cold but on my feet as always I am sure it will get better. So have a great month!

Reclaiming our seafront

It was one more filled to the brim weekend. I did so much and I am so happy for managing to accomplish things having  a very bad cold as well.
Today's blogpost that starts December will be only about our new sea front.
A big part of the sea front of our city was blocked because of renovations the last couple of years. Specifically the part nearest our flat. So to take a walk or take Barca out we had to walk too far away.
Today the sea front was publicly and officially opened for the people. And we were so really happy that we walked it twice. Once late last night (unfortunately the only photos I took are on Instagram) and once today after lunch out(to celebrate hubby's birthday).
This is a heavy photo loaded blogpost, mind you!
Inspite the bad weather EVERYONE went to walk at the new sea front. We met lots of old and new friends. And we all seemed to be very happy. It was as if a big dark scarf was removed and the breeze blew in. I don't know anything about Feng Shui or anything but I am sure we were all very badly afflicted by this closed/blocked sea front!But not any more!So here it is!
Arriving there, just a stone's throw from our flat!

 Children invading the playground!

 Thousands of people walking!

 Bad weather.

Barca meeting friends.

 Hubby taking photos.Me too!

 See the thousands?

 Spot the very clean wooden deck?

 No horizon line!

 Happenings.

 A new spot from where you can watch the sunset.

 Our umbrellas (by George Zoggolopoulos)moved a bit further down but still in our reach!

Fishermen already fishing!

 People sailing!

 I loved that one!

 Our landmarks in their place!

And some of hubby's photos!

Have a great month!