Two Christmas Swap Packages in one week!

I have recently participated in four different swaps for the holidays, and I so enjoyed making handcrafted items for my partners. Now I am recieving some beautiful, beautiful gifts in the mail. I had two packages this week, one day after the other.
Take a look at this beautiful hanging collage made by Jewel of Shabby Boutique. I can just see all the love she put into this :)

Jewel was my Secret Santa in our Secret Santa Scavenger Swap at our Etsy Cottage Style group.
I was given someone else to send to, and Jewel of course was recieving from another Secret Santa, so no one knew who was sending to them until the packages started arriving. It was a lot of fun :)
Along with the gorgeous collage, Jewel sent me other lovelies. She decorated a beautiful bottle and fixed on a label in French wishing me a Happy Christmas and New Year, sooooo shabby chic.
She made this lovely card using glitter too.

See the snowman below. It is a shabby chic paperweight. Jewel colored the snowman and made the paper weight for me and I just love it. She also sent me some of her hand made gift tags, and a bag full of shabby trims and seam binding, and some vintage micka flakes which were from her Grandmothers stash :)

What is the green paper cutter doing in the photo? I put that there to show Jewel that she lost one, it was in with the packing peanuts LOL. Just incase she wondered where it was when she needed a new blade.

I am so happy with my beautiful gifts, thank you Jewel :)

A day later I recieved my Very Vintage Christmas Swap package from Susan. This swap was organised by Heidi at Foxgloves, Fabric and Folly

Susan who's blog is Sweetpea Sue's Cottage has sent me some beautiful vintage and handmade items too, let me show you :)

I first noticed this lovely vintage tin because it has one of my all time favorite vintage images on it of the children looking out from the window at the snow, I just love it. The tin was filled with little tags made by Susan and a vintage Christmas postcard, along with gorgeous vintage lace and trims.... woohooo... my favorite stuff :) Just look at the way she presented them too, I thought that was soooooo lovely on the cinnamon sticks with the little gold balls. I got vintage buttons too!

Below is a picture of everything together, isn't the top of the tin gorgeous, I just LOVE vintage santas. There are handmade Christmas balls, in the colors of my tree, a sweet hanging santa made from felt, a candle in cranberry, my favorite, and some tiny little handmade ornaments too, ohhhhh and chocolate :)

See the vintage style snowman, I took a close shot of him below because I love him so much.

Here he is, beside's Vintage Santa's and Children, I love Vintage Snowmen, and he looks just like one you would see in a clip art, isn't he awesome? He went right away on my tree:)

Thank you Susan for my wonderful gifts, you really did spoil me, and I know that having read your blog you are going through a hard time right now too, so I really do appreciate it all the more.

I think my next post is my 100th, so am still thinking of a giveaway prize to celebrate. I guess I better not post again until I can come up with the right thing LOL. Until then, take care and take time out of the day to do something nice for yourselves :)