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I need to focus
Hot chocolates, cocoa and some honey-chai tea Thats what today has in store for me. Our car outside is coated with another layer of snow I did replace the battery so I know its good to go. I have some jobs to do outside and in the home, but my mind is elsewhere today, my…
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A dog who loves presents
Our dog, Scooby, loves presents, whether they are his or not. His birthday is the 23rd December and yes he does get birthday presents which he rips into with great enthusiasm. Before Christmas, he was sniffing around the Christmas tree and the presents underneath it, like a shark hunting for food. On the big day…
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How many ways can you use a pumpkin?
So, the saga continues. I wrote in the last post about finally getting round to cutting up and starting to use ‘The Beast’, aka ‘Mr Beast’ (not that one), aka 53 lbs of pumpkin, (aka ‘if I trip over that b****y pumpkin one more time…..). I started with a chutney as I thought that would…
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I don’t want to clean today
(procrastinating at Christmas) The house is needing cleaned but my motivations low. I’m seeing piles of laundry I’ve been lazy and it shows. The hoovers sitting waiting to be used on every floor, the dust is piling too I can put it off no more. But I don’t want to clean today or change my…
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So this is what happens to apples you don’t pick!
We had a few apples still on our little tree in the back garden and I thought to myself, ‘I must get them in’. I went out to collect the last few and saw only one little, sad apple left which wasn’t worth picking! What happened to them? This:
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Christmas Crafting over the years
As I was getting out our decorations and Christmas tree, I noticed there are quite a few I have made myself, from ornaments to hang on the tree to a topsy turvy Cinderella doll to a nativity scene. I have a lot of knitting patterns by Jean Greenhowe and thats where this lot came from:
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I had a (strange) dream
The other night I had such a strange dream that was so realistic I thought I would share it with you. It started off as me being alone in a large, well-lit room that was a bit like a big classroom or workshop. There were cupboard doors all along one wall, tables pushed up at…
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Rudolph the Naughty Reindeer!
Santa’s workshops full of noise as elves work long and hard. Production lines of gifts and toys reindeer train in the yard. The magic dust has been misplaced they panic they won’t fly. A grin spreads over Rudolph’s face, he’s making Prancer cry. He heard we know about his nose and the fame went to…
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Build-A-Bear gets new outfit!
Ok I confess. I’m a grown woman and I have a build-a-bear. I didn’t ‘build’ her, I bought her on Ebay last Christmas as a present to myself! She cost me a whopping 99p and I named her Daisy-Rose. She came to me with no clothes so I made her a couple of things to…
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Easy Christmas crafting using free natural materials!
As much as I love to cover the house in tinsel and anything else shiny or glittery at this time of the year, there is a part of me which prefers the natural look. Wooden ornaments, dried flowers, garlands up the bannister – that sort of thing. So when we were out walking Scooby the…
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