Catching up

I finally managed to redecorate by the 17th December so Christmas decorations could go up.

These are my new ones this year from Lizzy at No:32

I am very pleased with my gorgeous wall paper in the front room

Its scarily expensive Cole & Son but as I only needed one roll for the chimney breast ebay was my saviour

It just needed a mirror or picture to finish it off. I looked for weeks then Dad came to the rescue with a broken old mirror that used to hang at the bottom of the stairs when I was a child.

A bit of 'no more nails' and some new mirror fixings and it was good as new.

Wonder if my sister will recognise it when she is over next week from France?

Got Jacob a great T shirt from last exit to nowhere a great web site with obscure film referenced t shirts

http://www.lastexittonowhere.com/

Any guesses??

and Noah got the best present ever....

What could it be??

I think he's pleased :0)

Complete with Headphones.

George meanwhile got his favourite thing and built it with a little help from Big Brother

And then we got tickets for a free book event at Windsor Firestation Art Centre to meet none other than George's absolute favourite author in the Whole Wide World...

Andy Stanton!!!

He was fantastic, all the questions were asked by the children and were hilarious then we all had to take part in a book swap then Andy Stanton signed all 9 of his books that George had brought with him. George was lost for words, it was very sweet.

George's other favourite book is by Bonnie Burton, he reads it all the time...

Its the Star Wars Crafts book and is well worth a look. We have made Star wars finger puppets so far

We also spent a bit of time at Christmas fundraising for Marie Curie, in fact we will be out again this Saturday so if you see someone collecting please buy a daffodil

So what did I craft over Christmas?

I decided to make a small crocheted blanket

It was all treble crochet and I changed colours every row

It grew quite quickly as it was easy to do in front of the TV.  I wanted to do it to see if I could keep the edges straight

Although sewing in the edges was a huge bore and I wasn't very happy with the result as I could still see the thread

Finished

Betty liked it!

We had dinner at Nandos one night and look at the light shades

They look crocheted to me

Something to think about.

Meanwhile its time to kick back and relax....

Noah style!