Blogmas day 4

Good morning, lovely peoples.  Welcome to Blogmas Day 4.

I forgot to tell you about yesterday's Advent of Change window so that's where I will start.
It supports Woodgreen, a charity that 'helps pets and their people' and says:
Today you helped give food, warmth and care to a pet abandoned this Christmas'

The link is https://woodgreen.org.uk/

Today's window is for the Violet Project and says:

Today you have helped stop a life from ending too soon by keeping vital mental health support alive.

Wow!

Their link is https://violetproject.co.uk/

I post the links in case anyone is interested and want to know more.  There is, of course, always a fund raising appeal as you enter each site, just to let you know.  These smaller charities always need finance.

I am having fun with the blanket squares.  Yesterday's was parcels and, again, I made both because of being away.

I've decided that I need another row of the gold (it's not sparkly but looks more gold in reality than in the photo) around each square.  I did one and yes, definitely better.
Looking at this one, the 'ribbon' is definitely off centre.  It didn't look off centre and I thought I had counted stitches but never mind.  In the whole thing, that will be lost!
This is purely for fun, not for perfection!

Today's squares are both Christmas trees so I will have the fun of sewing beads on.

Here's the main event!  The earrings are Santa hats (cute) the little jar is blackberry jam (lovely!) and the tea bag is green tea and pomegranate (drinking it as I type and it's really nice).

The puzzle is coming on nicely and I am getting better at it.  I'll try to remember a photo later on.  Like the crochet and the cross stitch, I am doing two a day so on Tuesday nothing will be behind.

Tomorrow morning is rushed and early so I will open and post about tomorrow's stuff this evening and schedule the post for tomorrow.

Yesterday was another really pleasant day.  I pottered around, doing this, that and the other - ironing, getting things ready for packing, crochet, cross stitch, etc, before popping over to Lindsey's for personal training and then into school for the governors' meeting.
I now have an invite to the Infants' Christmas Show.  After so many decades of being involved in these shows, producing it in the latter years, it is an absolute joy and delight to be able to sit back and simply enjoy it.

Today I have three main things to do.  

The first is packing.
The second is tidying the house - I don't want to arrive home to a mess and Tuesday is Kay-day!!

The third is Chris and my Christmas lunch.

Tomorrow will be the Shimmy and Groove meal.  In previous years it has been an afternoon tea but this year it is a meal at the White Hart, Little Waltham, tomorrow!  Obviously, I can't go and neither can Chris so we decided to have our Christmas lunch there.
They do a Festive Lunch menu and I'm having a brie, bacon and cranberry festive burger followed by a trio of sorbets.  I ummed and ahed about the traditional Christmas meal that Chris is having but the chances are high that there will be one over the weekend so I passed on that.

If I get all the chores done this morning (I should do), when I get home after lunch I can craft to my heart's content and get an early night!

OK, moving on . . .

Let's go all sentimental for today's Advent calendar music.  Michael Bublé's version of 'It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas'.
Aaahhhh - lovely!

Have a lovely day, everyone!