First of December....

so technically it's the second, but I've not gone to bed yet, so it still counts OK?

first off - today was the day I opened my first present from my secret Santa on UKS! opening the box itself was exciting enough! I waited until just after midnight to open it up and wow! so many beautifully wrapped pressies for me, extra ones for the girls, sweeties and a toy Santa all packed up in a fabby box that I'll be using long after Christmas :)

and then this morning just before the school run I opened the first gift!

they're fasteners for binding minibooks and are gorgeous! I've never seen pretty ones before - only ever plain silver ones, but these are so cute :) thanks Santa if you're reading!

After that things got a bit hectic with builders back for more brickwork, playgroup, family stresses, swap hosting stresses, stoppy children stresses. I really felt like I'd earnt my glass of wine this evening!

Today was also the start of Shimelle's Christmas Journal course. After stating my manifesto so clearly yesterday, I thought I'd better start as I meant to go on! Well, it was supposed to be a simple intro page, but turned into 90 mins of pain :( for some reason things were just not happening tonight. It's done now, not sure how happy I am with it, but it's finished and I've made a start.



time for bed now :)