Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles. Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings. these are a few of my favorite things. Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes, silver white winters that melt into springs, these are a few of my favorite things. Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Not quite sure I will get around to knitting them though...

Fun fact: schnitzel is called escalope in this country (UK). Didn't fancy the traditional veal, so went for a quorn, cheese & broccoli escalope with a noodly stir fry on the side. Almost done with favourite things.

Distinct lack of snow down here so I used the next best thing: a printer and some silver glitter gel.

While thinking of something I could take for "wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings" for the scavenger hunt, I was delighted to discover that there was a Wild Goose pub on Wild Goose Lane in Redditch. So we drove a 1hr round trip to take the photo only to discover they'd changed the name to the Golden Goose. Sod it, I'm using it anyway. I've taken the street sign as well as "proof". (Moon deviously added in later!)

This blue satin ribbon doubles up nicely as a blue satin sash for a very old and much loved teddy...

One of the packages was my mobile phone... good job it didn't ring before I had the chance to unwrap it again!

What do you do when you can't find a copper kettle? Improvise. (God, I love Photoshop)

My new camcorder has a fairly impressive macro mode too.