Presents on the way! And some Christmas crafting done

I've found a piece of lovely blotting paper and a matching card for my someone special. I don't mind the design is not rows of snowmen alternated with spruce, even at this time of year. It's about wrapping pretty, right? 

Inside there are two brown-beige linen pillow covers that I made to order, but didn't take any photos

(I WILL become more organized with time).

News from THE FIELD:
...it was a good day in the Hundred Acre Wood for making Christmas ornaments with the GNOMES. 
The older GNOME was taking much (unexpected) pleasure in weaving and sticking stripes of silver paper, putting together a chain (presumably, activities like that fit the definition of coolness).
The younger one was experimented upon with a ready made, plastic kit of four christmassy creatures (the kind that makes your hair stand up if you dare to handle it lovingly, meaning longer). "Christmas ornaments craft kit" or something like that it was. I was (sub) consciously following the bitten path here, aiming to not only attract, but keep GNOMISH attention for longer than average twenty seconds start to finish.
(Below you can admire my Indian table runner again - love the hues. As you can see, I've started on another felted stone).

If I haven't been stuck with them both ill for the last two weeks (or was it twenty), I would have been thrilled to cut out the basic shapes from felt and prepare a craft kit myself.
But the GNOME was okay anyway (quite predictable are the GNOMISH ways, thank Goodness), peeling off the tape and sticking the ready made parts together, glad to be able to see results long before the end of the task. I guess we all like a bit of predictability.

I made some present tags and felted ornaments. The most complicated thing was to get Rudolf's face shape right. Beside that, just two rectangles sewn together (different colors for better effect) and a ribbon folded and both ends inserted between, sandwich-like, plus a simple tree shape and some beads. In the central one I used a piece of traditional Asian weaving (in miniature) the older GNOME has made during an art lesson at school.

Now when I look at Rudolf I think I got much inspired by the plastic set the GNOME worked with...
Rudolf got a small bell (at the bottom of the green circle) to become truly Himself. There is also a Santa and a Cookie, but in order to finish them I had to put away the camera...

Last, but not least, here is how our official Advent Calendar looks like this year. Again, because frankly, it is one I made last year! 

It's made of two squares of cotton fabric (red pattern at the back) with batting, simple stripes in front. The numbers are cut out from felt and glued. The "ears" are two stripes of fabric each, sewn with a decorative stitch to the front of the calendar with added big silver beads.
I feel quite good about it still, although this year I can see the many mistakes. But this year it almost lost to two Disney style sets of chocolate bombonieres (I guess it was time to make a new one). The situation (and my face) was saved by inserting the chocolates into my creation and making wintry pictures out of the boxes. My sweet GNOMES.

Tomorrow's another Monday and homemakers love Mondays (under normal circumstances, that is).
There's a chance I will finally get to the third floor where my loft craft room is located (quite unfortunately, if you look from the perspective of the official GNOMISH days) and indulge properly in embroidering felted stones. I should be running to the yarn shop in the morning!