Ticking them off & JYC Day 9

I have started ticking things off my to do list :o). Last night I finished writing all my Christmas cards and today I bought the stamps and posted them. It feels good!! I've spent most of the afternoon quilting - I sandwiched the layers together before lunch and then started sewing. I've done more than I thought I would so I'm really pleased.

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Tomorrow I hope to make a start on wrapping presents and checking what I still need to buy. I can't believe it's two weeks on Friday till Christmas, it seems to have come round so quickly!

I am still managing to keep up to date with JYC and today I wrote about our Christmas Eve tradition. This year I'm hoping to go to the 4pm Church service which will still leave plenty of time for the tradition to continue.

Now to carry on pulling through thread ends, tie them off and sew them into the quilt to finish them off.

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JYC Day 8

Today has been quite busy and therefore the layout for today has been kept very simple. I'll show the layout first and then chat about the day - if you're interested in hearing about it ;o)

With Mr Snowman Close up

Close up of the photo collage I printed off for this page

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Ok, so what did I do? First stop: took Claire to work, then popped in to the school to sign the consent form for Emily's cervical cancer jabs. (She was so nervous about having them done and I was called after lunch to go and pick her up; she's fine - she just felt a bit dizzy.)

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It was beautiful outside when I was driving home - and more importantly, not raining! I came in and got the dogs ready to go for a walk straight away; if there's one thing I have learnt, it's make the most of the weather while it's fine. It was an extremely slow walk this morning as Wallace was in a real dawdling mood. I had put his coat on so I guess he didn't feel the need to step it up as he was quite cosy as he was.

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Emily had mentioned yesterday that she really fancied some cake and, because I was feeling sorry for her having to have her jab today, I decided to make her some cupcakes. Nothing fancy this time - vanilla cupcakes with vanilla icing (with a dash of food colouring to make the icing pink!). However, when I went to get the mixer out the cupboard, I noticed one of the bottles of mincemeat had started leaking - time to make mince pies?? Sure was! Made some pastry and a batch of mince pies and I have to say, they were delicious! I wasn't sure that home made mincemeat would make much difference but I do think they tasted better - perhaps that was because I knew I'd made the mincemeat, lol!! With all the baking done it seemed only fair to share ;o) so I called Mum and Dad and invited them round for coffee. A most enjoyable afternoon and I'm still feeling quite full.

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However, I MUST do some sewing tomorrow!! and write cards tonight!! and post overseas cards tomorrow!! I thought I was doing so well but now I'm beginning to wonder ;o)

Have a lovely evening

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You Tube Video must see

I was reading through a couple of blogs before heading off to bed when I saw this link on Ruth's blog and thought I'd see what it was. It is truly worth watching, what an amazing man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJMbk9dtpdY xx

JYC Day 7

I'm afraid taking photos of layouts at night under Tungsten lighting does not result in the best shots ;o) but I'm sure you'll be able to get an idea of my latest offering.

I know it looks awfully flat in this photo but it does look much better in real life! Honest!

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And I can hear some of you saying; "Hang on a minute, did we see a page for day 6?" and the answer would be no, you didn't! It's not that I'm missing that day out, just that I'm still thinking about what I might want to write. A case of "Watch this space!"

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As for what we've been up to, it's pretty quiet around here. A bit of craftiness went on this weekend (though not in any of the areas where it was actually needed) and today I finally got stuck in to doing a bit more sewing. I haven't got much time to finish, so I need to get a move on! Of course, there was the ironing to catch up with from the weekend, as well as the washing to be done. After doing the shopping on Monday mornings the Starbucks coffee is much appreciated - thank you Mum!

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And for the rest of the week: a bit more sewing, maybe a bit of baking, cards to be mailed overseas, more journal pages to be made and ... we also wait to see how Jon did in his interview today. Lots of prayers going up. I'm still a firm believer in if it is meant to be, it will be!. Let's hope this is one of those 'meant to be' times :o)

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