Hands up who loves giving a handmade gift you’ve made yourself. OK, lost some of you there. Don’t go anywhere. I may be about to change your mind. Right, those with their hands still up, keep them up if you’d like to make a present but think you either lack the skill […]
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Run-up
So the decorations are up and we’ve started festive crafting and cooking. There is Christmas music playing. Candles burning. With all three children now at secondary, we no longer have a festive run up to the holiday, courtesy of school. Secondary is more opt in, when it comes to […]
Read moreDecember Yarn Along
Have you ever read a book that you wish you had written? Maybe not exactly, but something along the same lines. Letters from Father Christmas (affiliated link) would most definitely be on my ever growing list. There are wild moments when I think I’d like to take a sabbatical and write […]
Read moreLooking after my hands
Is it just me or does everyone find themselves using the expression “I’ll just do this,” more times a day than they would like to? I seem to squeeze jobs into ever decreasing pockets of time. “I’ll just get the firewood in“. “I’ll just give the bathroom a quick clean“. “I’ll […]
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