Wednesday xx

Today was week 11 of the course "Helping your child to succeed at school".

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While Anais was at swimming lessons Roman made another batch of mince pies and started eating them before I could take a photo of them all so three are missing!  It was very handy to take a block of ready made pastry out of the freezer and wait for it to defrost.

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I have almost finished my cross stitch reindeer though I am out of the cream colour for the rest of the antlers - I am short as I didn't do all of the light bulbs and hanging things off his antlers, any idea's anyone what I could cover an antler up with that is Christmassy?

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Mark found out some wooden things we brought in the sales last year to pyrography.  
This is before, we all wrote our names on it...

This is after.....

Christmas 2013 on the back...

Want to see what we did with it?

We put it in the middle of the wreath!

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I sorted my Christmas stamps out.......

.........and all the other wooden things he could do pyrography on.

He said do the tags first to get them finished (we started them on 2nd November) and get the presents wrapped up.

He used a "Merry Christmas to You" stamp (free from NEC craft show) and a holly stamp and stamped direct on the tag......

Here he is going over the holly stamp with the tool.........

End result...........

I LOVE this robin stamp.....

Another before...

Another after...

We only did these special tags for family.

Want to see them all finished?

Now we just have to write "Merry Christmas, with love from............" on the reverse of each tag and put them on the presents.

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We still have 14 tags left for Christmas 2014!

Alternatively, we can take off the red and green twine and beads and do birthday/get well soon/mother's day/father's day tags for 2014 instead!

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We still have these to jazz up before Christmas so watch this space!

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