Our Christmas table.

This year our Christmas table was going to be it's usual simple self.

Red table cloth, red and gold decorations with little flecks of green on the napkin rings. These beautiful embroidered napkin "rings" were a gift from a friend f mine who lives in Singapore. I love them and look forward to using them each year.

Our house ended up being so full and busy and wonderful on Christmas day, that the table was only partially laid whenmy parents arrived.

We finished it with the cutlery and quickly sat down to eat. I didn't get a chance to take any nice pics.

 

We managed to snap a few after our main course, once peace was once more in residence (and we couldn't move from the table!)

It is nice to plan and read magazines, dream over what your "dream" christmas table would look like.

My dream Christmas table is slightly mismatched, very loud and busy. Stuffed with our favourite foods and all of our family.  These are the most important parts, anything else are just a bonus if they happen.

I wouldn't change any of it for the world.

If you would like to share words or pictures about your Christmas table, maybe you would like to head on over and share at nice day at Rosie's. She is hosting a lovely giveaway x

Giveaway.

I think I briefly mentioned a while back that I was starting to branch out slightly with my handmade goods. I will probably only offer up a few things, at a time, on Folksy but figured it wouldn't hurt to have a facebook page too.

To celebrate reaching my first 50 followers I am hosting a giveaway over on my Polka dot sweetheart facebook page.

If anyone would like to follow along on facebook and possibly win some handmade goodness, then follow this link and leave me a comment to let me know what you would like if you won!

Link for a polka dot giveaway!

Hope to see you all there x

A lovely day indeed.

Isn't life strange. For the past 3 weeks our house has been on an illness merry-go-round. Murray got sick, K got sick, I was sick and now K is sick again. In amongst it all there is of course work, school, homework, clubs, nursery. Oh and we hosted a birthday and birthday party in there too.

Thankfully by yesterday I was feeling better and my migraine that hit on Sat night has finally passed. K and I  are on day two of lying on the couch cuddling. If I try to do anything else she gets upset because she wants Mummy close by, or she follows me around. Which drains what little energy she has and we end up back on the couch again anyway. I have had to take today off work. This is no bad thing as it will give all of the kids a chance to recoup, they have all had bugs and sniffles going around and around. The carousel stops here! Hopefully next week they will all be fighting fit and have nothing left to pass on to each other.

But, hey! The sun is shining,  I am beginning to think spring is in the air, bulbs are reaching their little green shoots towards the sunshine. My two guinea pigs are stretched out along the front of their hutch, soaking in as much warmth as they can. Meatball is stretched out on my bed, basking in some delicious sunny patches.

My girly is in a snuggly mood and I have no where to be. What better way to spend a day than with one arm wrapped around my best girl.

I love finding unexpected sunshine in amongst times that begin very grey.

I have enjoyed the long stretches of time spent doing nothing, today, I have been able to finally sit at the laptop (balancing precariously on the arm of the couch, navigating with one hand ;) ) and FINALLY caught up on all of my favourite blogs. But, inevitably, this leads to more. It further fuels my addiction. Lol. I of course find new blogs to follow, new projects to drool over. Which ultimately requires more time to read them......

Well today I came across a real drool worthy blog. Oh be still my heart, the header on this blog had me hooked! I had not read one word but I just knew this was going to be a favourite. And she has an etsy store. sigh.

Nice day at Rosie's. Doesn't it just make you want to curl up, by a sunny window. Cuppa in hand. Meatball or snuggly girl by your side. (optional but highly recommended.)

I hope you are having a nice day where you are. I hope you find a little unexpected sunshine too x

ooh my table needs this!

There is a giveaway on one of my favourite blogs, to gain an extra entry I am to give it a wee mention right here.

Here is a link to a beautiful handmade table runner that I would LOVE for my kitchen table!

I have no idea if I can enter, seeing as I live so far away. But I wont be devestated if any of you lovely people who live on the right side of the pond :) would like to enter.

There is a link to  The Crafty Cupboard over there ----------> on my little list, she makes some sweet stuff!

In it to win it?

I have never done this before so I am not sure what I should write really.

A lot of the blogs I follow often do giveaways. I tend to avoid putting my name in as it is usually very complicated and I never ever win anything. Recently I hacve started entering the ones that you only need to leave a comment to be entered. This seems, to me,  like a good way to run a giveaway. Nice and simple.

Anyway one of the more complicated giveaways caught my eye last night. Now I have no reason to believe that this one will be any different, ie. I am sure I still wont win. But I am sorely tempted by it!

So to gain an extra entry I am to blog about the giveaway so here I am.

Please follow the link to Craftaholics anonymous  and you will see the gorgeous tote bag that is to be given away to a lucky winner! (hoping it is me :))

 Also take some time to check out what this woman can do with a zipper! Very cool!