girls over Christmas..

Christmas has been fantastic, the girls were off until the 2nd with Christian. I worked the days we were open at our Nursery, I can definitely feel that might have been a mistake! So I need to plan a couple of free days soon!

here is Viola in a Twilight Sparkle costume...My little pony, oh the joys of girly girls!!!

and here is Minna with her delightful doctors glasses on playing in the guest room which she has renamed 'Auntie Alices bedroom' !!

 

table name cards at Christmas

Whenever we have Christmas at home, which hasn't been very often so far, I make some sort of name card to put on the table. this year was going to be robins but they look more like partridges which is fine by me as we often see flocks of the little fellas here!!

here they are naked

and with a bit of pattern, good old bog rolls used to stand the up!

I could do with a lesson in calligraphy or something!


we are at home next year too so going to have to think of something a bit more festive I reckon!

I have made trees, angels, reindeer and now partridges...!! snowmen perhaps...

an embroidery in process

I am in the process of making this cat embroidery. I want to do a whole series of them with words printed in the cats bodies. I have a list of words like 'feathers' 'fishbones' kittens' 'mouse' etc... so I am working out how to embellish the cat so the words still stand out.

by the way go to Hannahs blog to partake in winning some of her amazing and fantastic wallpaper as she is doing a giveaway, how fantastic is that???

And enjoy Bonfire night, those of you who are doing something! I miss the toffee apples and parkin and being warmed on the side facing the fire, watching the fireworks and feeling all cosy in a big coat. One year I will take the girls to England to experience Nov 5th!

giraffe hats..

after our lovely trip to the zoo I found some giraffe fabric which I just made into a couple of hats for the girls! don't be scared by the balloon head, I didn't have a daughter available to model at the time!

a trip to the zoo...

We have just had half term holiday here in Denmark. So last Thursday I decided to take the girls to one of the local animal parks. I thought well its raining so there won't be many people there. I was right and we had our rain clothes on so we were happy and dry!

here they are, for some reason Viola thinks that closing her eyes is smiling...well shes always proved to be different, not much change there. We walked for around 3 hours and saw loads of animals out enjoying the rain. Minnas favourite were the giraffes, she was so obsessed with seeing them and couldn't believe her eyes when we did!

We felt as though we were quite close! they are BIG creatures, very beautiful and graceful even in the mud! Minna had to draw and paint one the next day...

Pretty cool to say she isn't always that keen on drawing!

What I loved the best would have to be the cheetahs. I turned back to call Viola at one point and there was a cheetah staring at her (on the other side of the fence of course) and she was just saying Hi to it whilst licking rain drops off the fence, yummy.
Then further on in the enclosure with the young cheetahs Minna was having a conversation with one, which went on for so long I managed to video the end of their contact!

Well hope you enjoyed that!
 I don't tire of it!
Right I might have to do some embroidery now, so I blog about that at some point... :) enjoy this lovely Autumn weather...

completed bat pictures

Really pleased that I have completed the presents for our new nephew and niece here in Denmark. Hopefully we can all go and visit them soon, Minna is very excited to meet them, but we will have to wait until after their due date, which will be late October.

Today I am at home nursing my poorly tonsils, tonsillitis is so nasty. I really thought that after I had taken my first penicillin pill all would be better, but no.... I slept about 14 hours last night. A record...but I really am so tired going to lie down again soon...
hope you are all well and having  a fantastic first of October, time is zippiting by....

50s evening!

Me and Christian in our attire for a 50*s themed evening at our good friends Kirstens!

the necklace was a bit of an issue, but thats how it goes with long necklaces and breasts!
Everyone had made an effort in their clothing and we drank some lovely cocktails too, most relaxing...