1 month or therabouts to Christmas ! OMGoodness................

list as long as my arm.........................which includes the usual.  Clean oven, defrost fridge/freezer, clean all my cupboards out.

This weekend I have cleaned out my treatment room to make a Dining Room for Christmas Day and the fact that I don't know if I shall ever be able to do reflexology ever again - my thumb is fused straight :(

Loads and loads of junk to be gotten rid of.................and Christmas presents still to get - but I managed to clean my bedroom windows this weekend and last weekend I cleaned all under my bed etc. 

Accounts to be finished off and sent to the Accountant tomorrow - and STILL more washing to be done, sick of the amount of washing and tryng hard to get it all dry - might end up at the laundrette this month.

Carpets being fitted next Saturday and going out with Marian on the Sunday to get some new decorations, I hope.

14th we are off to Caulke Abbey but to be truthful it sounds a bit childish - OK if we had children to take, but we don't.

All in all I am panicking.....................I wanted to decorate too before Christmas and have my ensuite 'fitted' out but really it's too much now before Christmas will have to be done in the New Year.

All this for two or three days, how stupid are we all.

Although I do like Christmas.

it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas(yes again) ha ha

received from lynne - my ATC Advent Calendar - so looking forward to opening all these !

 

when open will be put into this ..............

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween

Scary

 

 

Korin and Lliam going out on the town tonight !

 

I did nothing for Halloween.  Last year we had no callers !  ended up eating all the chocolate and was miserable with myself for doing so.  Tonight I bought no sweets, no chocolate - then got Korin to bring some back when she nipped to the local shop - just for me and dad.  She did bring a little for the kids when they called - we had about 4 visitors in total - and ran out of chocolate as fast as we had it in the hallway - never mind eh.

 

 

Little bit of crafting

I am expecting 25 Advent inchies, 25 Advent Twinchies & 25 Advent ATC's................was going to put string on them and them on the Christmas tree this year but then decided that I would 'house' them in concertina style books - I got the idea from a woman on the Netherlands Inchie group site - although I have sent a couple of people Birthday Inchies in this form this year but forgotten about them.  Anyway, here are the twinchie and inchie concertinas - and then I shall get onto the ATC's over the weekend.

I will photograph each inchie, each twinchie and each ATC as I open them daily to put into my little concertina books...................quite looking forward to it all now.

 

 

still have the Twinchie concertina book to embellish yet with Christmas papers but will do so over the weekend. I hope.

 

 

 

 

right then ! whats gone on this week

Keirs birthday.  My little boy was 27 years old.  Frightening.  I remember him being 10 and thinking how quickly the time had gone by and that was now 17 years ago.  Anyway, proud of you son, Happy Birthday Keir.

forgot to photograph

Hanna's on FB Netherlands Group Birthday inchies - but she likes purple so I did them all in Purple and sent her a little pressie which is purple too.

Here are Lyndees ATC's for November.  Now that I am just about to send her the Advent ATC's too  - I can't believe that we shall be starting again in January, 2015 how quickly has all that gone then.

titles from top to bottome :  'Hello Lynne'  -  Can't wait till Spring.  OTT ATC & 'Remember Remember the 5th November'

 

Apart from doing 4 bithrdays for the Netherlands Group now for December, I am totally up to date on my swaps, thank goodness for that.  I must remember that in 2015 I will NOT over commit myself as I get quite panicky some weeks not getting round to making swaps until the last minute.

 

RIGHT NOW I'M ON THE RUN UP TO CHRISTMAS !

 

And finally finished .................. all the swaps before Christmas.

Whats in the box - whats in the box -

inside the box is :  Lyndees Advent ATC's

 

beings send end of October so there is plenty of time for them to be there to start the opening on 1st December.  Took a while to make, but enjoyed making them especially for Lynne as she reciprocates with thoughtful, quality ATC's.  Hope Lynne doesn't see this post before she gets the box, I know she will love it.