A strange turn of events

It's been a hectic few days, my f-i-l has been, and remains, seriously ill in hospital. Along with that i have a heavily pregnant s-i-l after worrying about those two there has been very little time to do anything else. -


However the children are oblivious and therefor christmas preparations have to continue for there sake and so here is our latest little creation


Left: A normal card line but the cards are attached with value tesco pegs that have been decorated using ordinary felt tips. The children thoroughly enjoyed doing this and it required very little tidying after. Total cost 36p for 48 pegs.

Left: A pattern and instructions for the felt heart shown a few days ago along with a description of blanket stitch which is a very useful little stitch to know when embellishing cheap blankets and such.










Left: The handmade sweets and truffles that went down so well on saturday. The truffles were very cheap and easy to make as were the sweets.




See below for a recipe.




Chocolate truffles- Makes about 30
250ml Dble Cream
275g Dark Chocolate, broken to pieces
4tsp rum
Icing sugar or cocoa to coat.

1. Slowly bring cream to boil.
2. Then pour over chocolate and stir until chocolate melted.
3. Add the rum and then put in fridge for 2 hrs or until firm.
4. Roll into balls.
5. Once in balls roll in icing sugar or cocoa or coat in chocolate.