MERRY CHRISTMAS

A very merry Christmas to you all.  I hope you have a lovely time wherever you are and whoever you are with.

Thankyou for all your support and lovely comments over the past year.

And I will see you next year for more cake and whimsy!

xxx

A CHRISTMAS WREATH

IT DOESN'T SHOW SIGNS OF STOPPING....

It has been a very cold few weeks  months...actually it feels like forever. But there have been some amazing sights out and about.

We had some fabulous frosts before the snow hit. 

Having deliberately left some dead plants in the garden to create structure (mmm) I felt very pleased with myself as they looked fantastic covered in the thick frost.

When the snow hit this week we took the opportunity to walk the few hundred yards out of our garden to the most sledgiest sledging hill.  I love that we can take our kidlets to do this. When I was their age we never had any snow or hills and had to make do with sledging down a heavily frosted path.  I can still remember watching Sesame Street and the children were making tunnels in the snow, it was sooo thick. I was very jealous.

So to take my kidlets sledging was a real treat. Of course they only lasted half an hour before they got too cold and there was an unfortunate incident with some salopettes , but it was fun.

The sheep look on with boredom!

This week there have been some quite amazing icicles outside our windows and some of the shrubs have been turned into ice sculptures.

QUICK CHRISTMAS CRAFT

Don't you hate it when chefs on TV bang on about 'how quick this meal is to make'?  When, what they actually  mean is, how quick it is to cook.
 'Yes, Gordon, it may only take five minutes to fry it all together in a wok, but it's going to take me two hours to cut that amount of vegetables that thin, without my own sous chef and two children in the house!'

......and breathe!

So here is a quick project that really did only take me fifteen minutes.

We have an old picture from IKEA that Mr Lemon Drizzle purchased many moons ago and has since been relegated to under-the-bed.  So I dug it out (that took up five of the minutes), took down the lovely picture my Mum painted and made a seasonal card display.

I taped some Christmas wrapping paper around the front.  Then pinned some ribbon across it, I even had time to measure the distance between them equally.

Hung it on the wall and Bob's your Uncle, an attractive way to get the cards off the window shelf where they constantly fall over.

Oh yeah Gordon, stick that in your wok and fry it!

ps  I have alot more cards on it now, we are quite popular really.