Just a quick one before my next lot of visitors arrive.

Week 49 of the ukstampers challenge is about Tradition

•   Do you have any [particular festive traditions?  If you do have they been passed down or have you started them yourself?
•   Are there traditional things you particularly like or dislike?
•   Include some traditional festive stamped images on your page.

We do like to have a fairly traditional dinner at Christmas but I would much rather have a goose or duck than a turkey.  Mum and dad used to host the boxing day bash but that has now passed on to me which I really enjoy (even more than Christmas day).  One of the best things about Christmas is the festive cooking!  I love the traditional Christmas spices in things like the mincemeat, mulled wine and Christmas cake but I do prefer a clootie dumpling than a Christmas cake.  Dad used to always get cigars or pipe tobacco as gifts so these smells remind me of Christmas but he doesn’t smoke any more and I have even been known to smoke a cigar just to get that smell and Christmas-past memory.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black, Distress ink Fired brick
Card:  Nitwit collection Cookin’ cookies, white card
Stamps:  Nitwit collection Cookin’ cookies
Other:  copic pens to colour, green brad