It seems to have become an annual occurrence on the blog. I visit my local garden centre at Christmas and write about it. You can read about my 2013 visit here and my 2014 visit here. This year has been no different. I am a little later at publishing but, being a lady of leisure…
I think I may have been a bit over-excited last week. It seems some of you are not as excited about Christmas as I am. Ooops. I make no apologies. All my friends know I start humming Winter Wonderland in August. I call it Christmas-itus. You’ve either got it or you haven’t. I’ve got it….
We don’t have a fire in our living room-partly for safety and partly because the room didn’t originally have a fire in it so it would have been difficult to build in when we renovated the house. We used to have a shelf over the radiator and last year, I bought an inexpensive plain garland…
It’s never too early to start the Christmas crafting in my book-especially if you’re making homemade things for a lot of people. For that reason, I have put the children to work already. In the last week or so we have been finger painting up a storm-all in the name of Christmas cards. As part…
Imagine this next phrase in the style of Slade: It is Baby G’s first Christmas and I am so excited. So, with the great success of last year’s #TinselTuesdays, it is back and more glittery than ever. Tinsel Tuesdays will run every Tuesday starting today and will run every week until January 5th. Have you…
In the Summer, I got to visit a turkey farm in Lymm, Cheshire. You can read about it here. The lovely Paul from Crouchley Hall Farm, invited me back this week to see how the birds were getting on. This is how they looked in July. This is them now. My how they’ve grown. Since…
I’ve seen loads of memes on social media this week about the fact when Halloween is over, Christmas will be in full throttle in the retail world. To be honest, that is how I feel. If you’re a crafter, you’ve probably been making Christmas things for ages anyway-just to get them done. Last month, I…
I’ve been meaning to write about my winter wedding theme for ages. We got married between Christmas and New Year so it was still Christmassy. The tree was still up in the hotel where we had the reception. I wanted a snowy theme-whites, silver and pale blue. There were no florists open near me…
The schools may have only just broken up for the holidays and you may still be thinking about where to go on your summer break but some people are starting their preparations for Christmas. This week, Baby G and I went to meet Paul McAvoy, a small holder and turkey farmer from Crouchley Hall Farm…
Christmas 2014 is over. We have had a lovely time. Eaten too much which, for me was hard because of a certain baby taking over valuable stomach room. Boo has received lots of lovely presents which she has really enjoyed playing with. I’ve not managed to tidy up the toys away totally yet. For one…