WOYWW...

 Hello all.  I hope you're all well and happy and the weather has been kind to you.

I managed to finish the lovely bears I was making last week when you called in...

They look so lovely with their tags and these three mean I just need to make 16 more to reach 1000.

I have made 4 peg bags using some material that Jan sent us to use for the charity and then made...

...three little popper purses and...

.....three glasses cases.

These were the ones I had cut out last week.

Since then I cut out 8 glasses cases using this gorgeous owl fabric...I thought the little owls lent themselves to glasses cases and hope they sell well for the charity.

We have enjoyed making this jigsaw that Maxine gave us for Christmas and have now passed it on to Jo to do....and Jo gave us the sunflower one they did.

That's all from me for this week.  If you leave me a little message I will do my best to pop over to yours...I didn't get to everyone last week because I had to have a wisdon tooth out on Thursday and it knocked me about a bit so I've been recovering all week....I guess we don't heal as quickly as we get older.  I hope to do better this week.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 356

 Here we are at the first smiley post of 2024.  I hope you have all enjoyed the festive break and are starting the new year off well and happy.  I've had my first customer of 2024 and have others planning to come soon and that makes me smile.  I've even started planning a new creative project...I may post more about that on my Wednesday post.

Friday night my hubby and I went to the Birmingham Rep theatre to see The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe [my favourite book as a child].  The show was amazing.  Amy, Dave and family treated us to the tickets for Christmas so it was a real treat....many thanks to all.

We completed our Christmas jigsaw....it was GREEN!!!!

I dont like sprouts at the best of times and this was really challenging....all the pieces were the same size/shape so we just had to go on the colours....GREEN!!!

Having spent 7 years in fleecy green knickers at secondary school it has never been a favourite colour :-)

Little Louie was bought a standing frame for Christmas so he could 'help' in the kitchen....both boys love to help in the kitchen and this puts him at the right height safely....he loves it.

Angela shared with us last week some of the positions her fur babies get into to sleep so I thought I'd share these couple with you.  Milly gets into all sorts of positions to sleep ...I guess she must be comfy??

Of course I have to finish up with a few funnies...it wouldn't be a Friday without would it?

Please leave me a little message so I know you've called in and if you can then please link to your own smiles below.

This week's smiles....week 453

 I'm here to share a few smiles with you even though to be honest I'm not feeling much like smiling.  I've got a Winter bug and have been coughing and running high temps since Boxing day. I wasn't here last week because we were making memories with our lovely family so I felt that, even if I did nothing else I must come to add the link for everyone else today.

I do have a few quick pics to share with you...

This is my baby boy all dressed up ready for his work's Christmas party.....Father Christmas offered to carry him round for the night :-)

One of my favourite Christmas presents was this amazing jigsaw made from the photo of all my Grandchildren at Theo's birthday party....I love it.

This really made me smile.....Jo gave me this amaryllis before Christmas.  It was one of two she bought and the one she kept has 2 huge flower stalks. Mine had only produced several scabby leaves so Jo offered to take it back and swap it. Whilst we were enjoying family times on Christmas eve and Christmas day this little shoot had sprung up....I think it had heard it was destined for the scrap pile....its now much bigger and is obviously making up for lost time.

Finally, but by no means least, is my pic of the little cardy I've knitted for Theo's new little brother when he arrives.  I imagine many of you will know that my arthritic hands are often too painful to knit so this has been very slow progress but what an achievenent eh?  I'm so chuffed I managed to finish it.

That's me for this week....I'm really hoping this bug moves on soon so I feel rather more like blogging next week.  I actually sat in my chair to sleep last night as lying down I couldn't stop coughing.

A very Happy and healthy new year to you all.

Hugs,

Annie x