You may be wondering why I've been doing all of my Christmas blog posts now at the end of January instead of after Christmas. Well it's because my wonderful boyfriend treated me to an amazing two week holiday in Saddell Castle in Scotland! We went for the first time in 2012 and loved it so much we've been saving to go back ever since. This time we took some friends with us for the first week, and also spent some of the holiday in a little cottage called Cul-na-shee. We saw some amazing wildlife whilst we were there and had almost every sort of weather imaginable! Here are some highlights from the trip, as it's such a beautiful place I can't help but share it with you:

Over the Christmas period, as well as being busy with portraits and baubles and fairs, I was also busy baking up a storm! Some of them were for presents and some were just for a good ol' festive treat.

Then of course there were my two Christmas cakes (I have to make two because there are a lot of cake fiends in my family). One I decorate quite simply as that is the initial sharing cake, and the other I like to do a Christmas scene on. Here they are! 

So as you can see I had a very yummy Christmas!

Wow! Christmas was certainly a busy one this year! I did portraits, baubles, craft fairs - and had a christmas baking bonanza (blog post on that to follow soon!).

You can see all my new portraits and baubles on there respective pages. Thank you to everyone who ordered a piece of art from me over the Christmas period. Now for a new year that is hopefully just as successful!