Fourth Day of Advent - Unto us a child is born

Day 4 of Advent
A certain Royal announcement changed my plans for today's Advent window!   Here is a little something to celebrate all  babies and parents-in-waiting - my Stork ornaments from the "Baby's First Christmas" collection that I designed for Silver Tree last year.  The product samples are very pretty. I like the finishing touches of opalescence and sparkle on the wings. 

There is still time for the office elves here to mail out Fairy Gazettes before Christmas.  All five of the original   size, miniature, fairy-to-fairy editions, hand-stitched with rainbow thread, are up on my Etsy shop.  

"Baby's First" ornament designs

For the first weeks of summer I was busy designing ornaments for a Toronto company for Christmas 2012. Along with angels and sleigh bells were several variations on the theme of Baby's First Christmas. This was a fun assignment, bringing a new twist to a well-known theme. The designs for Christmas 2012 are under wraps for now. Here are a couple of my designs from previous years, which currently appear in the Walperts/SilverTree catalogue:

the Stork,
with a tiny cradle, baby and teddy bearand the Pram,
again with a baby and a teddy, plus a little dove on the canopy.

This week is the 17th anniversary of my own Baby's First event, but I didn't get a Pink package,

the stork sent us a Blue one.