santa – Mixy's Art Blog

Dear Santa,

if you’re planning to get any gifts from the Etsy store Made by Mixy, please don’t leave it to the last minute, the postal elves are scurrying as fast as they can 😉

For shopping on behalf of folks from any of these places, these are the last chance mailing dates from the UK:

Monday, December 9 for Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Far and Middle East
Wednesday, December 11 for Eastern Europe
Thursday, December 12 for Australia and New Zealand
Saturday, December 14 for Canada and USA
Monday, December 16 for most of Europe
Wednesday, December 18 for UK & Ireland

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As a kid I assumed Boxing Day was a reference to the amount of boxes strewn about the place after ‘unwrapping day’.

Ok, hands up: When you surveyed the goodies Santa brought you, how many of you were also eyeing up the boxes and packaging debris… as a wonderous array of new paper, card and art mmaterials?

Xmas was low key in my world this year – I’m happy with this – but was heartened by IK‘s delight at the fabulous orange gift bag and box I received. Oh yeh, and of course the thing inside it too. It stirred up young memories of hearing my mum on the phone… ‘yes she loved the gift… though TBH she spent more time playing with the box it came in…’