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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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Getting the kitchen ready for Christmas
I know I can’t be the only person who goes cleaning crazy at this time of the year. I need my kitchen to be good enough for Santa to come in and be happy to eat what I’ve left out for him. As I have been working my way around cupboard tops and shelving 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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Crafting His Christmas
Cards and glitter, scissors, glue, paints and pencils, some pens too. I tell our son its time for crafts, he rolls his eyes and then he laughs. “Christmas crafts”, I tell him next, he stares at me, looks perplexed. “Come and try, we’ll have some fun, you could make cards, at least do one. Do…
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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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Christmas Lights Switch On, Nairn, Scotland (yes with bagpipes!)
Its amazing how quickly things come around. Only 5 minutes ago I was posting a video on YT about the Christmas lights switch on – which didn’t go on. And yet, at the weekend, the town turned out to see the lights get switched on for Christmas 2023! The main roads were closed to traffic…
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I know its early – but if you want this for Christmas you need to start now!
It’s not my fault – it takes 3 months to get this baby ready for drinking! Another post about alcohol, I hear you cry? Absolutely! Not only is this a real treat, its adaptable. I’ve used gin but you can make this with vodka, rum – pretty much any clear version of the falling down…
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Dogs Love Presents – Fact!!
If you doubt me at all wait till you see this little fella… Ok, picture the scene….. It’s Christmas and there are presents aplenty (well almost, times are hard you know!). Anyway, in comes ‘the dog’, actually in this case it’s ‘our dog’ – our lurcher who is called Scooby. I will do a post…
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