OK - I am aware that Boxing day is quite a UK only concept, but it is one of my favourite days of the year.
Nij and I keep at least half of our presents to open together and we have a champagne breakfast, present openinga nd then a PJ day where we chill out, eat left overs and relax together. I totally love it.
We have had a wonderful couple of days and have both been spoilt. (I guess not having kids we do tend to spoil each other a lot) I have had so many wonderful presents - books and clothes and games and music and DVDs and jewellery and probably most exciting of all a new Willow Tree Angel (I will share that another day) and the most amazing Fairy Door (I so wanted one after our visit to Furzey) and some garden fairies for outside. It really is magical and I will share a post about it later.
We had a wonderful day yesterday at Gina's. Gina and I have been such close friends since were 12 years old and have grown up together in so many ways - not just in age but in spiritual and personal journeys we have been on too. we have shared some very special moments. She stayed with me the night before I got married, I helped deliver her first child, our wonderful godson and so on. We have spent Christmas day tigether, with 2 exceptions, for the last 20 years. We take it is turns to host the day and there have been anything from 4 of us (our smallest ever Christmas 2 years ago) to 12 of us - one of the largest. This year there were only 5 of us - Gina, her parents, Nigel and I, but it was a very special day, made all the more poignant because it is likely to be our last together for quite a while. Gina is selling up and heading off on an incresible journey. She is called to do missionary work - no idea where yet - and is unlikely to be here next year.
I made her a special spiritual book to take with her and this was her opening it yesterday morning.
I used a couple of other pictures (the less daft ones as we really did have a day filled with LOTS of laughter) for my JYC page for 25th.
We have both turned 50 now, and whilst we don't see each other that often, we are as close as ever. It is a very special relationship.
My page for today was 2 pictures taken yesterday actually.
Dawn (she of the awesome digital kits) sent the fur babies such a wonderful present. It was a fur tunnel made of leapard print fur (just like them) with one of their all time squeaky mice attached imside. They absolutely loved it and have played with it so much.
Fiki played so much he ended up zonked on Daddy!
Today I am thankful for
- All the blessings of the season. The wonderful filling of light, the sharing of time with family and friends, the generous and thoughtful gifts, the wonderful food and the chance to relax and really enjoy.
And so to the final prompt of this year long project.
I feel quite sad to be posting the last ever prompt. It has been an incredible journey. I have had to think hard about the structure of the project, planning 52 prompts which I hoped would inspire me and others to record a year in our lives.
It started as a way of getting through a year I wasn't looking forward to, and ended such a pleasure. I have had a great year in so many ways and doing this project and having so many of you along to play with it has been incredible. I feel I have made a lot of new friends (and one of my friends said I needed to check my Flickr mail and I can't seem to access it - sorry) and some of you have become such regular visitors and commenters. I hope you still come and visit when the project is done.
I am looking forward to seeing finished albums. I will post mine tomorrow. the last page is now done and in the album - just not photographed yet.
If any of you feel that the course was good and you would like to make a donation to say thank you then this is the link for my JUST GIVING PAGE. None of the money comes to me - it all goes straight to my local hospice - just a way of giving back to people far less fortunate
Enjoy and please, do take the time to let me know what you thought of the prompt, the whole project, the concept.

I hope to be running other classes - shorter of course - duringt he coming year and hope you will join me for those too.
Happy Scrapping xxx