Tag: Christmas

Remembering Rhianna at Christmas

Remembering Rhianna at Christmas

It’s a hard thing to work out, remembering your daughter in heaven at Christmas. It is something we change most years. Something we struggle with every year. Over the years we have had Santa leave a balloon, go visit her grave, not go visit her 

Elf on the Shelf 2018

Elf on the Shelf 2018

When the Elves first started to be honest I wasn’t that fussed about doing them. Now five years later actually the boys love them and get excited about them arriving. They have been asking about them for the past week and I told them we 

Nativity Scene

Nativity Scene

This year I have loved adding to our Christmas decorations but one thing that has been really bugging me is having a nativity scene it is something that I have really wanted to have not a funky one, or a child one but a traditional 

Card Storage

Card Storage

We have lots and lots of cards in our house for all occasions, brought cards and hand-made cards, but we have never really had a great card storage system. The cards are generally just chucked in various boxes and it takes an age to find 

Christmas Mayhem

Christmas Mayhem

So Baba has finished school, and Christmas can finally begin. However exciting that is, it also brings the mayhem that happens before Christmas. The week where I run around like a mad person trying to get everything ready and sorted before Christmas day. Every year 

Handmade Christmas Decorations

Handmade Christmas Decorations

This year I brought a lot of new decorations for our house, and a new tree. (We have artificial because of the dogs) So we had a lot of old decorations hanging around. One of the reasons I brought so many new ones, was because 

Christmas and Grief

Christmas and Grief

This weekend is mental. The next few weeks are mental. Not just a little crazy. Completely mental. And I know I have done it on purpose. It’s almost a coping mechanism nowadays. I have to charge through the month at lightening speed. Boo has made 

A Tropic Christmas

A Tropic Christmas

Everyone is getting into the Christmas spirit, and this is my first Christmas selling Tropic. I am getting a tad excited about it. I have always struggled at Christmas time with Scrapbookerry, trying to find the thing that people want to buy and getting really 

Baba Bites

Baba Bites

Talking about Santa with Baba today and I told him to remember that Elf on the Shelf will be coming on the 1st December, he sat and thought about it for a while. Then said; “I don’t think Elf on the Shelf’s are magical Mummy” 

Learning To Decorate Candles

Learning To Decorate Candles

I love crafting, paper and scrapbooking is my baby, but I love all sorts of crafting, and I love to learn new things. So when I got the opportunity to have a go at decorating candles I snapped it up. I thought it would be