It has been busy around here. One thing after another. Firstly, I've been trickling along with the Christmas crafting: some napkins for gifts...
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with applique vegetables.
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And than we had a bit of chicken pox
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which meant that M wasn't allowed to come to B's brothers wedding and wear this...
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and for which I had been tearing my hair out making this...
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The result was passable (although the pictures barely are),
And, we still have scaffolding all over the house, and builders tramping in and out,
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But yesterday after driving back from the London wedding, we got our tree, and now the place feels much jollier!
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