if only i could tell…

we are going on holiday with a group of friends in december, something we have done now for a number of years. it is always fun, and always worth doing and one of the traditions is secret santa, we all have one person to get an under £3, second hand, repurposed or home made gift for. Each year I have loved making the gifts, trying to think what might suit that person, their character, their hobbies etc. I must admit to always enjoying the giving most due to all the fun with the thinking and the making and the hoping! However, I have always received secret santas with great joy, knowing that they were all fashioned, refashioned etc with love and friendship. I wear my winter scarf every year the kids also secret santa, and this can sometimes be a mixed bag! so when i think we have been more ‘adventuresome’ than our talents, we have added chocolate coins! As the girls have got older, their talents are greater, and this year I am v impressed.

BB came up with her idea first, and we other 2 may have sorted ours out as well- DH is always an individual and last minute! SO we all sat together crafting in a not defined on here way happily. I am impressed with the girls thoughts, efforts and desired looks. Feeling i should get on with mine to, but missing an ‘ingredient’ so will start later in the week when have had a chance But of course, i can’t show anything on here, it would give the whole game away

having got so much crafty stuff out of the not quite so doomy room [thanks dh] we then also did assorted other crafting and ideas, but I can show you BB’s cat and owl

SB has nearly finished hers, BB has done half of it, I have started… However, SB and I also did a piano prac. all this music theory and then an out and about week means she has forgotten everything! never mind! hopefylly next week will be a bit more practisy and booky

i have had about 5 bites today [still hard to tell with so many covering me] and have a flea lamp thing as recommended plugged in. Being hopeful really

we finished off the day with watching snow white and the huntsman which we all enjoyed. the ending – the v v v end bit – was a bit odd and an anticlimax to finish the film on.