JOY days 12-16

Just a quick catch up,

JOY albulm days 12-16

(Again, don't enlarge the first picture if you are of a sensitive nature as there are rude words, although some of my followers were annoyed that even after they had enlarged it they couldn't see them properly!!!!!)

 Day 12-another trip to the dreaded dentist

 Days 12 &13-visiting a friend in hospital and gift giving

 Days 13 &14-list of prezzies I have bought for people and friendship and community

 Day 14 &15-ladies of the friendship group and things I am grateful for

 Day 15&16-my gratitude list and one of my winter solstice poems. This page was inspired by this beautiful mandala on pinterest.

Day 16- My other winter solstice poem

Well, I am off to battle my way around the shops, I still need to pick up a couple of xmas gifts for people, and then I am going to watch my wonderful friends do some dancing in the town square with Bloodstone border Morris.

TFL

Sami x

Decorations and Joy

Hello! Just some more photos of my JOY albulm today and a couple of Xmas makes.(Warning do not enlarge the last photo of my JOY albulm if you have a sensitive nature as you will find some really rude words spelt out with fridge magnets!)

My son was off school for a few days last week with a nasty cold so we decided to make some salt dough ornaments. I am not doing xmas cards this year, waste of money and trees, so instead we thought we would give people decorations for their trees.

We doubled up on the salt dough mixture (recipe is 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt and 1 cup of water if anyones interested!) as when my group of ladies made Dias last month for Diwali out of salt dough we didn't quite have enough.

We had way too much this time though and must have ended up with a 100 ornaments!

 We rolled out the dough and used cookie cutters for the shapes. We then used a selection of stamps to imprint each shape. We then baked in the oven at 200 degrees until they went hard.

 We then spent about 6 hours painting them all and adding the thread to hang them. Some of them went a bit soft after painting but after a few days left drying out they harded up again. They look really pretty!

 At our crop on saturday I made some leather journals for the kids and me. I have been meaning to make some for a while but never got around to it but after watching Kirsties homemade christmas last week I was inspired to have a go! I couldn't get any leather so I bought upholstery leather vinyl stuff from the fabric shop. They turned out really well, my sons is the brown one filled with plain paper, my daughters is the black one with the pink ribbon which I filled with pastel coloured paper and mine is the black one at the back and it is filled with squared paper.

 Day 7 JOY-some of the ladies at the group where I work making xmas decorations

 Day 8-making the xmas ornaments

 Day 9- a new haircut

 Day 10-last crop of the year

 Day 11-Shelby and Trav

Reverse of day 11-naughty words (do not enlarge this photo as you may be offended!)

I have been a bad blogger this week and have not had any time to go looking at peoples blogs so If I havn't commented on yours I will try today to get round to you!

TFL

Sami x