Lovely things when life gets tough.

Blimey we have a right pile of real life crappola to deal with at the moment, talk about one thing after another.  

So in a bid to forget all that stuff, we'll concentrate on the good stuff.  

We've had a very busy but lovely weekend. 

Twiglet and his Daddy went sledging at SnoZone with Auntie and little cousin, top fun was had by all.

He then had a swimming lesson with his new swimming teacher who is fantastic. 

We later went out for dinner with Mr Twig's family here, to celebrate my lovely, lovely Father in Law's 80th birthday !!!

What a top geezer he is and what a fab time we had.

Here's Twiglet on the slide !!

Our little social butterfly then had a birthday party to go to on Sunday, he did all this with a grotty cold and cough and never complained once.

In fact he lost his voice at one point yesterday :(

I offered to let him have the day off school today as he looked so whacked out, but he bravely went into school and I topped him up with medicine at lunchtime, what a star!!

Our little school (76 pupils) had an Autumn Fair last Thursday and raised a staggering £730 !!!

It's our Harvest Festival on Thursday, the children were practising their singing while I was working this morning and it sounded beautiful, I can't wait.

 Here is a pic of my contribution of home made marmalade.  

I've also had some lovely and interesting stuff in the post that I thought I'd share with you.

 

I bought this from the super talented Sparklehen, for my friend C's birthday it's called Knitwear For Birds :)

I liked it so much I had to buy Is That You? for me ...............

 Lovely Heather threw this gorgeous print in as a free gift, how fab is that ??? a very talented and generous  lady.  

She is running a buy 2, get one free offer at the moment, so get on over there !!!

 Twiglet made this fabtastic pine cone hedgehog at school isn't it ace?

More birthday gifts for my pal, a cute set of magnets from the uber fab Asking for Trouble.

 

 Finally after weeks of searching found myself a Winter coat - I searched high and low and I'm so,so,so happy with my lush coat from Joe Browns.  

It's even fabber cos I love their stuff but can't usually afford it but this had been reduced by £40 so I snapped it up !!! 

I also found some perfect Winter boots after much searching but I'll save those for next time.

My cross stitch masterpiece that I began in February is finally finished and waiting to be framed so..... looky here, a bit of Christmas crafting !!!

Ta ta for now, keep warm.

Twiggy x