Miniature Mushrooms.

I'm finding it hard to keep the "need to sew" switch turned off. I'm not the kind of person who can sit on a sofa and just watch a movie without doing something with my hands, it drives me totally nuts. By Boxing day I'd had enough, I must have gone atleast 10 days without sewing a single stitch and I was having serious withdrawals! The kids were playing a game and my husband was watching the cricket ( blah! couldn't think of anything worse ) so I decided to make something sweet to go underneath the tree on Megan's bedside table.
These cute miniature mushrooms were alot of fun to make and Megan loves them!

She has a big mushroom stool ( seat ) in her room and when I have the time I'm going to make her some much larger ones off a pattern I purchased from Sarah at Gifts Created.

Having a room filled with fungi sounds weird...........but it's going to look pretty!

It's almost time.....

time for the kids to open their gifts under the tree.
I've been away for the past week with my family, we went to a lovely christening and afterwards my husband came home ( for work) while the kids and I stayed with some special friends. Our friends have kids the same age as Megan and Ryan so they had an absolute cracker of a time, there was daily trips to the pool, camping in the back yard, cricket at the park.......the big boys went to the pictures.... twice! We ate beautiful food as there happened to be a chef in the house.......I even picked up a few tips! We relaxed, crafted, chatted for hours......if it wasn't Christmas and I didn't have a hair appointment today ( booked 2 months ahead ) I would have stayed on another week!

A dose of retail therapy is always good and something I love to do when I go to Goodiwindi, there are only a few small boutiques there and I always find something unique. We turned a 3 1/2 hour drive home into a 7 hour trip because we stopped in both Moree and Narrabri for more therapy.........the shops are simply beautiful this time of year all decked out for the festive season.

So now it's back to reality.......unpacking, washing, ironing, cooking, I even had a flat tyre this morning.....the first one in about 7 years. Mark spotted it on his way out to work and changed it before I was even out of bed........isn't he a darling!

Well I must be off, I have a huge basket of washing waiting to be hung out before the rain appears again......take care and have a lovely day!