JYC Day 13

Day 13's page is done and didn't take too long - I have my favourite Christmas CD and it's gone on each year since I was given it. I think the children are probably getting a bit fed up with it. Claire suggested I buy something to alternate with it so I've taken her advice and ordered Ronan Keating's new CD. It hasn't arrived yet and until it does, we'll continue listening to Celine Dion.

Jon and I have been invited to his Bible Study group's dinner tomorrow night and Jon said I would make a pudding. I'm attempting to make a Pavlova! Never made one before so I'm making it at the moment. If it doesn't work out I still have time to make something else tomorrow ;o).

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I have a glass cake dome/cover that came with a base plate. Since our move, I haven't found the base. Today I decided to look in the garage and go through a few boxes to see if I could find it. My goodness, we have a lot of stuff still sitting there waiting to be sorted through and a LOT of stuff that needs to go to the dump or be taken to a Charity shop (bearing in mind that we moved in here two years ago today!) I've emptied 3 or 4 boxes and put some rubbish in them ready to go to the dump. There is now a path, of sorts, down the centre of the garage but despite all my effort, I still haven't found the base. Whatever I take tomorrow night will just have to go on a different plate with the dome over it. (I'm really hoping the pavlova works out though as I've bought the cream and raspberries to go on it!)

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JYC Days 11 & 12

My eye is feeling a lot better today, think it may have been a touch of eye strain yesterday and the rest has done it good. This morning I decided to catch up on the layouts for JYC - yesterday and todays post. One thing about this class is that it's made me stop and think about Christmases past and, unfortunately, made me realise I don't remember an awful lot about them. I've been on the phone to Mum a few times to find out what her memories are and although mine are fairly vague, we seem to have similar memories and Mum can often fill in some of the gaps. Thanks for your help, Mum!

Day 11

Day 12

I now need to get myself sorted out and take Emily in to town for the few bits that she needs. It's part 1 of the final of the X Factor tonight and we're looking forward to sitting down to watch it. Is anyone else watching X Factor - any guesses for who may go out tonight? I think it's such a close final this year and our 3 favourites have got through to the end but I'm finding it really difficult to choose between them.

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Enjoy your weekend, I hope it's a productive one :)

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Friday

My right eye is sore and has gunk coming out of it so I'm not going to strain it trying to do any crafting today. I'm having a day off, hoping it will have settled down by tomorrow and I'll catch up again then.

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I've had a fairly busy day, spent the morning/early afternoon in Crawley with a friend, trawling from shop to shop. It was very busy and I'm ready for a quiet night.

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Hopefully I'll be back to normal blogging tomorrow

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JYC Day 10 and still going strong :)

It's been pretty busy around here today so this is just going to be a quick post as I've still got dinner to make.

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Had to pop in to town for a few bits this morning and couldn't get over how busy it was. I ended up standing in queues to pay. Took the dogs for a walk when I got home and stopped in at Mum and Dad's on the way round. I think Wallace appreciated the break, he does battle with the walk sometimes.

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Home again and it was time to do a bit more quilting, make lunch for Jon, Hugh and myself and then back to the sewing again. I've now finished the quilting and tied off the ends and threaded them through the quilt. Just the binding left to do on this one.

A super quick layout for Day 10, most of it done in Photoshop Elements. I took a photo of the presents still in their envelopes waiting to be wrapped and printed it off. I then make the journalling block, filled the colour to red and typed in white and finally added the snowflake overlay (Shimelle's, I think). Added my little tree and called it done. The snowflake background paper is our wrapping paper for this year :) xx I forgot to add, it was so mild and beautiful here today that I ate my lunch sitting on the back step outside. It was lovely!