It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I have put my tree up about a week ago, I can't tell you how much I love it! All the baubles are vintage, some are quite possibly 60 - 70 years old. Their sparkly kitchness makes my heart sing! They have been collected over a number of years and this year I felt that I had enough for the whole tree. Thankfully my tree is not 7 foot tall! Many good things are shorter in height.

I also met with friends to make a wreath. Such a fun evening! I would definitely recommend crafting with friends.

It's been a really long time...

I finally feel like myself! It's been a long time coming, but, I'm not going to dwell on it because we all have our troubles. I realise I haven't shared a photo of our new addition, well, he's not brand new as we have had him over a year now. He was 8 months old when we had him and were his fourth owners.  I do love him so much! He doesn't always wear his haltie, but he is very strong and he likes to pull!

Isn't he a handsome boy! For all his size he is a gentle soul and understands so much. He was definitely meant to be ours, as we were meant to be his.

This year I have decided to make a few Christmas presents. I've  gotten back into knitting (guess how I have made the gifts?)  Each slow repetitive stitch helps me to be in the moment - I'm not able to knit whilst doing other things as I really need to concentrate. Luckily I have such a stash of yarn that I didn't even need to go shopping! I can't share any photos yet but they will be incoming soon! 

Action shot!

Here I am taking my soap making very seriously whilst being serenaded by my new found friend!

Soap making

Never one to shy away from a new craft - yesterday I went to a soap making workshop. I'll be honest it's been on my bucket list. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed it. If only science had been like this at school I'd be a scientist! The smell in my car on the journey home was heavenly! 

Pottery

I've been going along to my pottery class for a while now, I love the mindfulness of it. My latest creation is a sign for our small farm. I'm quite loving it! 

33 years

This weekend we celebrated 33 years of marriage, which is a difficult achievement when you are only 21! Even my six year old granddaughter doesn't believe me anymore when I say that!  I'd be telling fibs if I said that it had been easy but like anything worth having it's definitely worth working for.

We had breakfast out, just the two of us.

Happy New Year

 Is it too late to wish a Happy New Year? I don't think so we are only three and a half weeks in. 

I'd somehow forgotten about my blog, well not really forgotten, just pushed it to the back of my mind. I was looking for something on Pinterest and stumbled across something from my blog from many moons ago. It piqued my interest again and I've looked at some of the blogs that I followed and it would appear that whilst some have disappeared many are still alive and well! Good news. So we'll see if I can do this again. Anyway I've made a start.