Hog-in-the-box

Dear readers, this is Hester Hogwart writing!

Since I am Nina's special crafting buddy, I am here today to present to you something that she made for Christmas. Nina is on holiday now, but she told me to say hi and wish you all a Merry Christmas on her behalf!

In case you did not know this yet, Nina likes to make gifts and she likes to decorate things, so she decided to create a special gift box for the present she purchased for a friend.

She started off with a plain white box...

This plain white box.

 

Then came the fun part! She poured a bunch of her crafting items onto the table and decided to use these golden stars.

She also picked out those wooden stars over there with bits of snow on them and some green ribbon...

...as well as large and small stars made of cork, wooden christmas stickers, some red stick-on pearls in different sizes, christmas themed paper cut-outs, scrapbooking paper and, more golden stars!!! (She's really into Christmas decorations, I believe...) :)

Where was I? Oh yes. After several hours of pondering and measuring and cutting and glueing (yes, it took her several hours - she seems to be quite the perfectionist and likes to take her time when crafting) this was the end result:

Voilà! This is what the box looks like from the front.

Let me turn it around for you.... She even placed a beautiful sleigh motif on the bottom side. 

And this is me playing "Hester-in-the-box" for you! Just kidding, I'm not the gift to be put inside here and anyway, I would like to show you...

...that Nina even decorated the interior of the box using this curious and happy looking Santa Claus for the bottom surface.

That's it, my friends. I hope you enjoyed my presentation as much as I did and maybe I will help Nina out more often in the future! 

I really like that Nina chose a candle motif. This red candle is bearing a light that never dies out.... Isn't that a pleasant image for the winter, when it is cold outside and your heater isn't working, because it was destroyed by a naughty poltergeist and you have to search for firewood out in the cold every morning to rekindle the oven fire in order to keep the family warm inside a draughty and crooked forest cottage???

Oops!!!  That was slightly off-topic,  please excuse me, I didn't mean to be rude! 

I sincerely wish you all a ♥MERRY CHRISTMAS♥  

and a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017 !

♥ Hugs and kisses to all from Ham, 
our three little bacon rolls and me! ♥