Pets!

So, at the beginning of the summer holidays we had ZERO 0 pets...now we have 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok....so 7 of them are fish! Does that count? Kids are so happy, they kept pestering their father and he finally gave in. The fish were the first purchase and we got 7 of them...quit why 7 I do not know but thre we go....

can you tell the kiddies chose all the tank fixtures....what a collection. 

Then one day my husband came home and suggested that we get a cat...not being a big cat fan himself this was very strange....but a week later we had this little ball of fluff that we got at the age of 10 weeks...

She loves playing with shoes. We had a pool of names for her suggested by the kids with a little help from me and I picked 2 and they had the final say....Tipsy it is!

Very cute, very loving and Very MAD!! She bolts around the house as soon as the kids get home from school. However eve hubbie seems to like her!

Oh dear!

I've run out of posts.....will have to get to work asap....still it is Halloween today and kids are very excited as their friends are coming around in a little under an hour, then later we will go Trick or Treating with the rest of the kids on the close. I will post some pictures on Monday of what we have done! Sorry this is not longer or with pics for today!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

More Minecraft Hama Beads

And yes, they have been told to get off the X-Box again! well....they did go on it for an hour this morning already!

The results are lots of the little weapons that Steve can get hold of.

More monsters of one sort or another ( once again apologies that I do not know what they are called)

And lots of tracks below along with a cart to go on the tracks.....

Now although this is still basing everything around Minecraft at least they are using some memory and other skills here!!!

Glass marble magnets.

Something else I have seen lots of in various places, glass marble magnets. I say marbles, but they are not spheres, the back of them is more or less flat. I got the glass marbles and cut some round bits of paper and used some E600 glue (very smelly but sticks anything), as it dries clear and is brilliant. 

This is them drying off...

And when they were dry I turned them over...they look quite good....some needed a little more trimming around.

Colouring Competition

This was way back in the summer holidays but I thought I would show you as I recently found the pictures...My middle son was over the moon when he discovered that he had actually WON his age group in the local colouring competition at Iceland!!! At the beginning of the holiday I had picked up the pictures for the kids to colour and hand in when they were bored one day but I never thought that they may actually win! There were quite a few other entrants in the 3-6 year old age group, but I think it was the bright rainbow stripes that he loves so much at the moment that did it for him!

The others were all very plain (except the divas whose picture is right next to his) However she was not very disappointed as he lets her use the colouring set that he won. 

Reindeer Pictures

My Christmas Open House is looming on the horizon....only 21 days to go!!!!!! I found a large number of silver picture frames in our local Wilkinsons a few weeks ago and brought them thinking I will do something soon with them...and I have started! 

I have seen so many lovely silhouette pictures on various sites that I thought I could try something similar to make to sell at the Open House.

I googled reindeer silhouettes and the following ones came up which I really liked. So I printed it out and cut it out of black card...it has come out quite well. I used some pretty paper that I had from various magazines.

I also decided to do one on glitter card...I went for green, but am not entirely sure about it...maybe red would work well.

Still the other half thinks they are really nice.

More circle Christmas cards

I think I got a bit carried away with my apparent success with the glitter cards and carried on circle cutting. I made these circles a little smaller though. The paper was free out of a craft magazine but needed using up. And I thought I would stick 3 baubles per card, using a glittery gold pen to finish them off with the writing and the faux stitching around the edges.

I quite like these too!

And them I found some different paper and put the baubles going up at an angle...

I used some Christmas stickers for the writing on these....although I think I actually prefer my writing!

mmm...to sell....or to send.....we shall see come December!