Workington is a town near where I live, it has more shops than where I live so we go over quite alot. Today was the towns Winter Wonderland and Christmas Light switch on.
It was very cold, very wet and very windy. This meant that many of the planned events throughout the day had to be cancelled for safety reasons. A lot of the stalls couldn't stay as the wind kept blowing their goods around or actually demolishing the gazebos. The local theater allowed some of the stalls to move into there for most of the day but not all of it.
It was a real shame about the weather but there was still lots of people about in the town which is good. It was nice to get home in the warm afterwards.
Sunday, 29 November 2015
Friday, 27 November 2015
November 27th 2015 - 3-in-1 sofa bed
Following on from a post a few days ago of changing the boys room around to make more space and buying a 3-in-1 sofa bed I can now report that it has arrived.
2 big boxes with the postman outside the door in the pouring rain! Good job neither were heavy or it would have been a 2 man job to lift them.
We have a blue and silver version of the 3-in-1 sofa bed as boys room is blue. My 1st thoughts were they were not going to be very comfy as didn't look that deep. But when we opened it out and I sat on it, it is actually comfy.
the 3-in-1 sofa bed is made all in 1 piece of foam and covered. It can be stored folded as a cube, opened out with the small ends up as a low sofa or opened out fully with the small ends as a sofa bed. This is going to be stored as a cube so that the boys have room to play etc and it will only be opened out when people stay.
The boys have all laid on it and said that it is really comfy and we have had arguments over who was sitting on it to read. The cat has also given her seal of approval and has been laid on it asleep since we got in from the school run.
The only downside is its not long enough for adults to sleep on and we thought it may be as it was listed as a uni/student sofa bed. but if we have to buy a piece of foam the same depth then we will do, but as its mainly going to be used by the kids and their friends its not a big problem.
2 big boxes with the postman outside the door in the pouring rain! Good job neither were heavy or it would have been a 2 man job to lift them.
We have a blue and silver version of the 3-in-1 sofa bed as boys room is blue. My 1st thoughts were they were not going to be very comfy as didn't look that deep. But when we opened it out and I sat on it, it is actually comfy.
the 3-in-1 sofa bed is made all in 1 piece of foam and covered. It can be stored folded as a cube, opened out with the small ends up as a low sofa or opened out fully with the small ends as a sofa bed. This is going to be stored as a cube so that the boys have room to play etc and it will only be opened out when people stay.
The boys have all laid on it and said that it is really comfy and we have had arguments over who was sitting on it to read. The cat has also given her seal of approval and has been laid on it asleep since we got in from the school run.
The only downside is its not long enough for adults to sleep on and we thought it may be as it was listed as a uni/student sofa bed. but if we have to buy a piece of foam the same depth then we will do, but as its mainly going to be used by the kids and their friends its not a big problem.
November 26th 2015 - Beef Stew
As the weather is cold and wet and horrid I have made a lovely beef stew in the slow cooker today. All 3 of the kids when they came in from school asked what was for tea as it smelt lovely.
It tasted as nice as it smelt and apart from some gravy left in the slow cooker there was nothing left.
It tasted as nice as it smelt and apart from some gravy left in the slow cooker there was nothing left.
Thursday, 26 November 2015
November 25th 2015 - Christmas Crafts
I was at the school for family learning today and we were doing Christmas Crafts and making things that could be given as gifts.
There was loads of options for them to do. They had the option of making tree decorations from sewing kits, making christmas pictures, and many more.
Lil man made a reindeer from brown paper and added magic reindeer food to it and needs to sprinkle it on christmas eve.
The middle one made a christmas bauble but as this was still very wet it got left at school to dry and 1 of the teachers will give them out later.
Lil man decorated a mini treasure chest and said that him and Daddy are going shopping for a diamond ring me to go in it.
They both made snowman countdowns to christmas. This confused lil man as he thought it was from today and didnt realise it was from dec 1st, but we explained he was fine.
The boys also decorated cakes as melted snowmen but these got eaten.
We also made candy cane star decorations which involved a hot glue gun to fix them together and to fix the decorations onto them.
There was loads of options for them to do. They had the option of making tree decorations from sewing kits, making christmas pictures, and many more.
Lil man made a reindeer from brown paper and added magic reindeer food to it and needs to sprinkle it on christmas eve.
Lil man decorated a mini treasure chest and said that him and Daddy are going shopping for a diamond ring me to go in it.
They both made snowman countdowns to christmas. This confused lil man as he thought it was from today and didnt realise it was from dec 1st, but we explained he was fine.
The boys also decorated cakes as melted snowmen but these got eaten.
We also made candy cane star decorations which involved a hot glue gun to fix them together and to fix the decorations onto them.
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
november 24th 2015 - jazzing up xmas jumpers
A couple of weeks ago I bought the kids xmas jumpers and although they have designs on them they are very plain and boring! So I asked the kids if they wanted them made better and they did. So today has been spent jazzing up the jumpers
Here are the 2 original jumpers:
Here are the 2 original jumpers:
To modify the 1st 1 lil man asked for a santa hat to be added, so I took 1 small santa hat, stitched it together and then to his jumper.
Lil man thinks his jumper looks good and is now ready for xmas jumper day.
The middle ones jumper wasn't such an easy task, well it was but it just took longer to do as I had to wait for bits to dry. He wanted the baubles on the reindeer to look more 3d, I did think pompoms but it didn't look right so I decided on bells!
I only had gold effect bells and they didn't look right so I set about painting them with blue nail varnish:
They had to have 2 coats and I was only able to paint the tops and then the bottoms each time because of placing them down to dry. Once both coats and all of the bells were done I set about attaching them to his jumper with black thread in the same place as the sewn on ones are on his jumper.
so now when he moves he jingles. He did ask about them going on the back as well as it's the back of the reindeer but we decided not to as they may dig into his back when he's sat on a chair at school. Again he is happy with his jumper.
November 23rd 2015 - technical difficulties
This picture is very true for today - i've done some walking to do the weekly shopping and I am now expiriencing "technical difficulties with my knees. Both of them are hurting like mad, pain killers are not helping, rest is not helping, heat is not working. It's going to be a long afternoon and evening if it continues.
Sunday, 22 November 2015
November 22nd 2015 - toilet roll yule log
I'm sure by now you are aware that my lil man loves making things, and especially likes using toilet rolls. Today he came downstairs with 2 toilet rolls and asked what he could make. He was told to wait 5mins as I was helping his older brother with something but I had an idea for a Christmas craft with them.
5mins later, we are working on making pages to print out and collecting our supplies to make the toilet roll yule log. To make it you will need the following things:
toilet roll tube
double sided tape
pictures of holly (or plastic holly)
birchwood effect printed paper (if you do the whole of an A4 sheet it will cover 2 tubes)
fake snow (optional)
glue (optional but needed for snow)
robin
paper plate
stapler
scissors
supplies and printed birchwood paper and holly.
Cut the paper in half so you have 2 pieces. place a line of tape from 1 end to the other on the tube. put 1 piece of the paper over the tape and wrap all the way round (you may need to cut it slightly smaller). Make sure both ends are fixed with tape on the tube, you shouldn't be able to see anyvof the brown tube now. If your paper is longer than the tube you can tuck the excess into the open ends of the tubes.
Take the stapler, the wrapped tube and the paper plate, fix the tube to the plate with the stapler on the middle of the tube so they are no visible from the top.
You next to cut to out the holly. we flipped our picture b4 printing so that we could double side it but you dont have to. As ours is double sided I taped them together before we cut them out so only cut once. Lil man folded our leaves slightly so they had shape rather than looking flat. We then putt a small piece of tape on the underside of the berries and stuck to the middle of the tube. This was then stapled as they kept falling off with tape.
Sadly this was as far as we got as we realised we didn't have any robins to fix into the middle and we cant add fake snow until we have the robbins in place. I have ordered some robins and they should be here in the next few days.
5mins later, we are working on making pages to print out and collecting our supplies to make the toilet roll yule log. To make it you will need the following things:
toilet roll tube
double sided tape
pictures of holly (or plastic holly)
birchwood effect printed paper (if you do the whole of an A4 sheet it will cover 2 tubes)
fake snow (optional)
glue (optional but needed for snow)
robin
paper plate
stapler
scissors
supplies and printed birchwood paper and holly.
Cut the paper in half so you have 2 pieces. place a line of tape from 1 end to the other on the tube. put 1 piece of the paper over the tape and wrap all the way round (you may need to cut it slightly smaller). Make sure both ends are fixed with tape on the tube, you shouldn't be able to see anyvof the brown tube now. If your paper is longer than the tube you can tuck the excess into the open ends of the tubes.
Take the stapler, the wrapped tube and the paper plate, fix the tube to the plate with the stapler on the middle of the tube so they are no visible from the top.
You next to cut to out the holly. we flipped our picture b4 printing so that we could double side it but you dont have to. As ours is double sided I taped them together before we cut them out so only cut once. Lil man folded our leaves slightly so they had shape rather than looking flat. We then putt a small piece of tape on the underside of the berries and stuck to the middle of the tube. This was then stapled as they kept falling off with tape.
Sadly this was as far as we got as we realised we didn't have any robins to fix into the middle and we cant add fake snow until we have the robbins in place. I have ordered some robins and they should be here in the next few days.
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