3 Days Til Christmas!

With Christmas right around the corner, I thought I'd post my final blog before the big day!! I think I've finished my shopping but still have cookies and mince pies to bake, gifts to wrap and my Christmas memories whimsiedori insert to finish. I'll try and wrap some pressies before work today and do my baking on christmas eve after work and hopefully finish my whimsiedori after christmas when I can focus on it without any interruptions.

Last week was a full week especially as The Bean and Sissy and big brother Winston (English Mastiff) came for a sleepover on Tuesday night so mum and dad could go to their Christmas party. They arrived around noon and we kept entertained right up to bed time. As it was so nice out The Bean wanted to play chalk and hopscotch. We filled the driveway with lots of silly pictures and hopped and jumped and ran around until we were too tired to do anymore! We read books and coloured and played with dolls and playdoh and sang Christmas songs from a Disney music book and made a gingerbread house and by 8 o'clock we were tucked up in bed and fast asleep!

Here are some pix from our busy day!

Maddie, Lucy and Winston waiting for MY lunch! Hopscotch. Christmas pj's and building our gingerbread house.
We had so much fun and I'm looking forward to doing it again!

I thought I had more pix of my Christmas Memories insert (whimsiedori) but here are the first few pages. My ink from stamping the numbers went through to the other side so next time I'll use a better quality paper. I'm loving the simple idea of this more than the December Daily I did last year as this is smaller and more manageable. It's given me lots of ideas for 2016!

I'm off to start my day, so I'll wish you all a Merry Christmas and will catch up after the holidays. Until next time...

Hello December!

I know I haven't been around for a while so let me catch you up on what's been going on. I did the craft show in mid November which turned out to be quite successful. My friend and I managed to get tables next to each other which was nice and Hubby came along to help - he's the best! I made "whimsiedori's" and inserts to go along with them, some christmas paper clips, pencil cases and zip pouches, some stuffed pillow pets (minis) and some little christmas and gratitude journals. It was a fun day and one that I might do again next year.

Here's my table set-up. Very simple and uncluttered.

On Black Friday, Hubby went to spend the weekend with M and his girlfriend (I had to work) so I put together a little Hot Chocolate Basket. I lined the basket with a Crate & Barrel tea towel and filled small mason jars with mini marshmallows, pieces of candy canes, hot chocolate mix, Hershey's Hugs and Cadbury's mini eggs in red, green and white. I made one for The Bean and Sissy's house too!

Work is very busy at the moment so I'm now working full time for a few weeks. Luckily for me I had a closing shift the other day so was able to make my December apron for work before going in. This time I used a tea towel that I bought at Crate & Barrel - no surprise there!!

I even had enough to make a "whimsiedori" for me for the month of December and of course that meant I had to make a file folder and a lined insert for it too! I love it!!

As I work in my whimsiedori, I'll take some pics and post them along the way. But for now I'm off to the attic to pull out the christmas stuff. So until next time...