Well we woke up yesterday morning to snow! I couldn't believe it. Alex was so excited and got really upset when it stopped snowing as he wanted 'Biggen piles of snow'. For some reason he isn't sleeping well again so is quite tired making for tricky moments in the evenings, although these party trumpets are considered to be great fun. 
Today was his nursery carol concert...he has been practicing Christmas songs since October, but when it came to it he sang the first song nicely including the actions (jumping up and down in the bumpy sleigh) and then burst into tears when everyone clapped (he still hates loud noises) and spent the rest of the concert on my lap, although he did sing the last song! 
I did manage to finish most of my grant stuff before Christmas which was a great relief, and the Research meeting I organised today went well which was good. It was followed by our Christmas lunch which was great fun. I now feel that I am ready for the Christmas holidays and am looking forward to having a few days next week for cleaning and the final arrangements. 
Crafting wise I have been making a couple of Christmas presents. This little pendant is for my boss who is a very elegant lady and tends to go for elegant simplicity in her jewellery. I hope she likes it! 
This necklace was for a friend who is into more funky and fun necklaces. I have never made pendents before so was pleased with how this came out 
(here is a close up of it). I hope you all have a great weekend.Love,
Caro
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Alex is in much better form and we have had a lot of fun this week playing with his cars, and yesterday he decided he wanted to play with the camera. He doesn’t really want to aim it at anything, as what he was really interested in was the flash and got most upset when he accidentally switched the flash off! 
I think I have finished my Christmas shopping except the food so all that is left to do is to make the fudge, a couple of necklaces, and tags for the presents and of course to wrap all the presents (I haven't started that). On that note I also made my last Christmas card this week which followed the sketch and stash sketch. I used entirely old stash for this and it fits with the Sparkling winter theme from Kaboodle Doodles, Yuletide wishes from My Time to Craft, and the snow theme from Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge.
These tags also fit with the snow theme and the dotty theme from Daring Cardmakers and are the first of many I have to make. I hope you all have a good week.
and a larger one in the sitting room. We have also liberally spread tinsel round both rooms so it is all bright and sparkly. 
Alex like playing with the decorations although wasn't too sure about the whole idea of tinsel...as far as he was concerned the beads and tinsel should be on him not on the pictures or tree! 
We have made the most of the dry weather this weekend with a trip to our local park yesterday for Alex to play on his scooter followed by a trip to Endcliffe park today to feed the ducks. I think the ducks ate more bread than Alex, but I am not sure! 
I have had very little time for crafting this week, although I did manage to get all my Christmas cards written and posted. The one piece of crafting was this scrapbook layout of Christmas 1982 With a photograph of myself and my cousins staring up at the Christmas tree. The layout is based on this weeks sketch from pencil lines, and follows the theme of Christmas carol/song from CCC with the title being ‘Oh Christmas Tree’, and of Christmas foliage from My Time To Craft (trees and holly). The journaling reads ‘Christmas was usually spent with our cousins, Harry & Archie Massey. They usually came to our house from Christmas Eve until 27th Dec. We all had so much fun playing together'. I will also use this for the latest Quirky Crafts challenge. I would love to know what you think. Have a great weekend.
Today we went to the NHS drop in and confirmed our suspicions and this afternoon we played outside again, even though it was freezing - we can't go anywhere indoors as he is still infectious. We may be able to get away with unpopular parks out of the usual hours as the infection is airborne, but we must be considerate of others. I think the poor little thing is going to be really bored by the end of the week! 
Crafting wise I have taken a break from Christmas and continued to scrapbook my childhood. This first page followed a sketch by Lyn on Quirky Crafts Forum and is entitled 'Snow Day'. It uses almost entirely elements and papers from the Cosmo Cricket Jolly By Golly range. The snowflake brads are Papermania. The journalling reads 'Me with my snowman, built in the front garden at Barr with the help of friends and my seaside bucket. Aged 4'. 
The second page fits with the challenge from Scrap and Stamp which is to scrapbook yourself. It is entitled 'St John's my first school' and uses the Basic Grey Recess papers and stickers, Just Rite (alphabet), Woodware (star) and Tanda (compass) stamps with Adirondack and Distress inks. Part of the challenge was to include your own hand-writing, which I used for journalling and for writing a few of the things I remember from school round the edge of the matting (marbles, dancing, learning, off-ground touch, drawing). The journalling reads 'St John's, Taunton, was my first school. I attended there for two years from pre-school aged 4 (left hand photo) to Kindergarten (right hand photo). I had the smae teacher, Mrs Gerrard, who I thought was wonderful, and my best friend was Jane Drummond. Sadly the school is now a carpark'. I would love to know what you all think. Have a great week everyone.
Crafting wise I have made several cards this week. This card was for my boss's birthday and followed the 
The next card is for my bridesmaid and followed the 
The final card actually fits with seven different challenges! (1) 
I also made a scrapbook layout following 
Yesterday when we woke up in the morning it was snowing! I couldn't believe it. Despite the weather we went to Coventry to see my best friend from Uni...I don't get to see her anywhere near often enough so it was wonderful. Alex was in small boy heaven playing with all their cars and being entertained by Christopher. 
After lunch we got the train track out and Alex and Owain enjoyed pushing the trains round the track. 
Today although the weather was miserable this morning and we had a bout of sleet and then hail, by the afternoon it had cleared up so we had a cold trip to the park which we both enjoyed. Alex especially liked going through the puddle on his scooter. We came home slightly early though when he fell over in a very deep puddle, completely soaking his trousers...he wasn't too upset by it fortunately. 
I have done very little crafting over the past few days...I made these Christmas tags for a swap on the Quirky Crafts forum. These actually fit with the papertake weekly challenge of 'Christmas Crackers'. 
I also made a scrapbook layout following this weeks unscripted sketch, Basic Grey, Cosmo Cricket & Bazzill cardstock, Inkadinkadoo stamps, Angel kiss flowers and leaves. The photos were taken this summer. The title is 'Waterfall' and the journalling reads 'For Alex the most exciting walks are those involvin waterfalls. Every fall of water no matter how small or large is greated with shouts of joy and exctement and we have to stop and watch for a while before walking on saying 'Bye Bye waterfall'. Have a great week everyone.