Busy, busy!

I feel like I have been extremely busy this week but not sure what I have been doing!

The house is slowly being decorated for Christmas. The front was the first area and I was finally able to hang my rag wreath. I did not want to do too much but I wanted impact so I went big. I found some giant blow up baubles to hang from my hanging basket hooks and tied them on with candy-striped ribbon which I also wound around the two struts of my porch.

I also cleared away my pots from the Autumn display and replaced them with my blueberry pots as they have been pruned back so I used long branches from my hedge cuttings and stuck them into the soil and then wrapped tinsel around them and hung bauble decorations. It definitely looks festive 😍

I have also decorated the conservatory, making it into a sparkling grotto by placing a couple of long bamboo poles wrapped with tinsel through the roof window opening hooks I was then able to drape 30 meters of lights from one end to the other creating a canopy. I then hung icicle decorations from the wires, but I need to get some more to create a better effect.

The conservatory needs some greenery but will leave that until nearer Christmas.

I also finished crocheting my Christmas Tree Bunting. I used the sparkly yarn I had from Hobbycraft to make the trees using this pattern from Loopteeloops

The snowflake buttons are the same I used on my little gnomes from The Kawaii Squirrel they finish them off perfectly.

It was a friend’s birthday this week and I promised to make cake and what better cake at this time of the year than gingerbread. I used a recipe from Jane Patisserie but rather than one large loaf cake I made little individual loaves. They went down rather well 😋

Georgina my eldest daughter and I went to the Exeter Christmas Market this week and made a number of purchases but we also decided to pop into the cathedral itself. The roof is truly amazing, a sculptural work of art!

Now the temperature has been dropping as the week progressed but when I opened the curtain at 6.00am on Saturday morning I was not expecting to see snow but there it was!

Unfortunately it put paid to my last Saturday training sessions of this year as the roads were a little slippy and I knew by mid afternoon everything would be getting very icy, so I had to make the decision to cancel.

I put my enforced day off to use by making a few more material purses and another material storage box. I had made one in the week for my sewing bits and bobs using this video . I found the flamingo buttons to add extra detail from happy haberdashery crafts

Stay warm everyone, until next week.

Chris x