xmas presents

Among the presents I gave were a 1936 Singer sewing machine with all the bits (successful auction-site hunting) and an electric ukelele (joint xmas/birthday present from 2 people).
I received 10 books including including "The Steampunk Bible",  "24 snowflakes in Tatting" and - a bit late because someone forgot to do xmas shopping - "Tatting with Visual Patterns" by Mary Konior (insert big grin here!). Now where can I fit in that extra bookcase...

No tatting over Christmas due to distractions from these 2 guys:

Max by the fire

Soppy collie

BTW some of the 10 books were probably late birthday presents.