All the decorations are up, Alexa was playing Christmas songs for me while I was doing it so i'm officially in the Christmas spirit, how about you, is your tree up? or do you wait a little longer?
Ours will stay up for a month, on New Years Eve I will get up early and all the decorations will be got down, packed away and I will give everywhere a good clean again ready for a fresh start on New Years day. It makes me feel good to start the new year off with a clean house free of Christmas clutter.
Oliver took his new ornament home last week ready to hang on his tree, he got a snowman this year, Mark says he has scary eyes, what do you think?
I suppose he does, sort of, Oliver thought he was cute anyway.
I've been making Bonnie's ornament up tonight so can't show you that yet, it's currently sitting under a pile of books so that the glue will stick properly to the back and front pieces, I will put the cording on tomorrow. These ornaments take as long to put together as they do to stitch!
I did finally finished my pompom wreath though, and i'm just so chuffed with it!
It's big, and I LOVE it!
I have no idea how many pompoms I made in the end, I've been making them on and off for months but I still had to make more when I finally came to attach them.
I used the extra large Clover pompom maker and tried to keep them a bit fluffy so they looked more like snowflakes.
I didn't want to hang it on the front door, I wanted to put it where I can look at it, so it's got centre stage on the TV sitting room fireplace.
You can see better on this photo how big it is.
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Birthday Celebrations
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Birthday Celebrations
Saturday was Joanne's 30th birthday. She is a bit of a sweet fiend so I made her this cake
I think she liked it :-)
We also went for afternoon tea on Sunday, my treat to Joanne and Jenny, (who also has a birthday later in the month)
We came away quite stuffed!
Before I go I wanted to show you something I made earlier in the year, It's a chalkboard made out of an old painting I bought at a charity shop. I thought of hanging it in the kitchen but it was just left in the garage until I came across it when we were clearing it out in preparation for converting part of the garage into a shower room, (more about that another time, it's almost finished now)
Anyway, I was never very good at drawing but I thought I'd give it a go, this is my second seasonal attempt , and it appears that although my art work wouldn't stand up to close inspection, I can search google and copy a passable image, and it really doesn't matter if it's not perfect, it's supposed to be quirky and fun :-)
So here's my snowman for December
Looking at it now I think maybe I need to add a couple of little houses on those hills.
Below was a joint first attempt by me and Stevie, I did the lettering, leaves and roots, she did the pumpkin.
We are going away on Friday to visit Lincoln for their Christmas Market. We are making a weekend of it, the hotel is a couple of miles form Lincoln itself so close enough to walk if the weather's not bad, if it is we will get a taxi to save hunting for a parking space. Hopefully I can share lots of Christmassy photos from there in another post.
Until next time
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