I thought I'd pop back in to load up some photos from our Christmas gift opening tonight.  There has been great excitement all afternoon and tonight Bella was finding it especially difficult to get to sleep - around 10pm she was still...

  Introducing the little Christmas elf.  I really didn't have time to make this costume.  Bella announced on Saturday night that she desperately wanted to be an elf and asked if I could make her an outfit.  We'd had a full on day of baking...

We had a pre Christmas dinner on Sunday at Bonnie & Oscar's house.  I sewed the elf costume that Bella is wearing in the morning before we went - more photos later, it has cute pom poms and bells along the bottom edge and we revamped some toe scuffed...

I have a teeny weeny Christmas tree display happening this year.  I was going to add a couple more fabric trees to it, but last night stumbled across THESE and decided that I needed one to pop on the wall behind the trees.  Mine's a little...

Today we went shopping.  Not just your ordinary, everyday kinda shopping.  Shopping for a porta-loo (porta-potty) ready for our summer camping.  That's exciting stuff when you're used to using a fly ridden drop toilet, usually containing a mosquito...