Thank you for taking the time to look....

There can be so many demands on our time at this time of year that I really appreciate the fact that you have taken the time to have a look at 'Snippets'.  It is so nice to know that you, my friends out there, are interested enough to make the effort.

I also want to welcome two new followers: Rosangela and Maria.  Thank you very much for signing on, I do hope you found your visit here interesting enough that you will return often and leave feedback.  Maria, I love the pictures of angels on your Angels in the Attic, and your Diary of a Miniaturist is so interesting - I have visited there several times and enjoyed each time.

Rosangela, your Miniaturas blog has so many lovely vignettes on it.  I particularly like the patchwork one, with the tables strewn with all the bits and pieces that go with my second favourite hobby.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas: that you were with people you love, sharing good times.  And I hope it was a very mini Christmas for you.

I was very fortunate mini-wise.  Mum and Peter gave me money to choose whatever I want, knowing it would be minis of course, and Nathan instructed me quite early on in the piece to order a kit.  I was waiting for the Railway Inn to be released by Petite Properties but due to the pressure of sales and needing to provide stock for a series of Fairs, the release has been delayed.  So I chose instead a second Rosebud Cottage.  Fortunately it arrived in time for Christmas, much to Nathan's relief.  The girls have made something for me - it sounds very mysterious, and they will bring it with them when they and the children arrive in the new year.

I have also ordered a second Washtub Cottage, a second Halfpenny House (well, a third one actually) and two more side sculleries.  Hopefully they will arrive in the next week or so.  I want to do a bit of mix-and-matching between Washtub and Rosebud cottage porches to add a bit of variety to the mix, and I will do the second Washtub in a different finish to the first as well.  I'll also do the second Rosebud a different colour to the first of course.

As far as choosing what I'll buy with the money from Peter and Mum, I've been browsing the different sites and haven't made up my mind yet.