Christmas Presents

Last week I got round to finishing a Christmas present my sister gave me. It was a Proggy Baby Penguin craft kit.

It was a little disappointing that the kit didn't come with the little wooden 'proggy' tool which you use to poke holes in the hessian and push the material through. It's a really rough bit of wood so I can't  imagine it would be too expensive to add it to the kit. I assume the reasoning was that if you bought multiple kits you only need one tool.

As per the kit's suggestion I added my own toy stuffing to give him a better shape. Looking at the picture I reckon theirs has got it in too.

Now I've just got to decide what to do with my finished penguin. Possibly it could become a Christmas decoration. I have plans for how I want to decorate for Christmas if I have my own house and he'd fit in with the theme.

Also for Christmas I was given this sharpener pencil pot.

I’ve always liked these when I’ve seen them in the shops so was pleased when I got it as a present. When I decorated my room last year it became less blue and more brown so this has replaced a blue plastic pencil pot holder. I like it because it's a bit more sophisticated but still funky. 

This lives on my bedside table as I'm the sort of person who can't live without a pen nearby in case I want to jot something down.

One last thing I wanted to share was actually a late Christmas present for myself. They came after Christmas as they were shipped from America but it's these dragon bookends. Maybe a little odd to buy yourself presents for Christmas but it seemed the best way to justify having them shipped from America.

 

I did have some plain black metal bookends previously but I came upon these by chance on Etsy from this seller: FePro  and really liked them because they were simple flat bookends but with a fantasy theme. 

I'd quite like to make some bookends myself with a Discworld theme but I have too many books on my shelf so I need thin bookends like these.

I like trying to replace normal looking items for these more designed pieces, it gives a bit of interest to my room and that pleases me. Why be boring?