*Stop The Cavalry* It's The 2014 Christmas Chatter Thread

freespirit66

NEWTHRIFT glad you had a lovely time in Paris, it sounds perfect my favourite thing to do sit in a cafe, drinking coffee and people watching

newthrift wrote: »

Hello :hello:
I am back from my holidays, it was really lovely!! Enjoyed spending time exploring Paris, doing a little shopping, eating pastries and coffee and most importantly spending some quality time with my OH well done to your mum for finishing the moonwalk and also for being supportive to the ladies who were struggling, that is the website i have used in the past for christmas organising its fab isnt it, have you seen this:

http://christmas.organizedhome.com/rudolph-club/january

PEPPAPIG oh the flowers sound beautiful, much more personal, hope you are beginning to feel better now, i want to watch Philomena, i know it will be sad as i have watched these sort of films on this subject before but it also looks like it has some quite funny moments, as MRSMONEYPENNY said about the nuns i dont understand why they were like that, i thought they were supposed to be gentle people i also want to watch Frozen.

freespirit66

sorry me again im still catching up

JJ oh that sounds exciting building a mini bar :D hope your head is a bit better today my lovely

NANAMIA thankyou for the birthday wishes for DD2 and DS, hope DH appt went ok, i used to love love love Anthea Turners programmes, god her house was amazingly organised, i wish :D

MRSINVISIBLE oh what a waste of time and your poor friend stressing for nothing, i would have been fuming driving that far :mad: i hope you arent in too much pain with your arm and that it is easing a bit now

OMO oh well done DS and DD, hope it all goes well for them both, just seen your savings, well done!!

pixtotts

I feel like I've been so busy this week it's insane! every day has had a long list of things to do and all involved lots of driving
But part of todays list was to go to Hobbycraft make use of the WI voucher I got for a free ball of wool... accidentally came home with 4 (its on 3for2 too!) and pink knitting needles... and have decided on more wool I am going to have to buy before the offer ends.. one has light reflective stuff woven into it, I'm thinking if I keep up the running a nice hat made out of some would be perfect for winter

Big problem now though is what to knit with my new wool and needles my problem is I knit VERY tightly so most of the patterns I spot that I like just wouldnt work for me.
And I'm just rambling so I'm off to google x
x

junior_j

Hello all!!

I woke up with a grotty head (no surprise really!) However the sun was shining and after some coffee and medicine I soon perked up. Went to bank with auntie and also brought some lovely nightwear in a charity shop (never really shop in there. No reason really just never think to look!) They were only £3.50 and long legged but a vest instead of t shirt , very my style lol.

I am now planning more stuff for the garage/bar/garden. Comparing prices and looking at discount codes. Did order a gorgeous 6 piece patio furniture set from my studio catalog it was £104 including delivery reduced from £300. Has a crank and tilt umbrella too! We have another small glass table already but it needs some TLC and will get a table cloth for it too and we have 4 chrome chairs good as new in storage for. Our garden is so Tiny lol! With 2 big dogs and one mini dog its hard to do exactly what I want because our Golden doodle dog has a habbit of eating flowers/wood/ornaments! I put the first bit of gravel border up 3 days ago and refuse to put any more up till I am sure she is not tempted to munch on it! So far so good!

Right I am sorry I am rambling so much! Back to google for me too!

Just adding how sad it is that young Stephen Sutton passed away , makes me want to remind my loved ones just how much I love and appriciate them. x

freespirit66

Oh no i hadnt heard anything, RIP Stephen Sutton a lovely young man, and i hope all those nasty people who ripped into him feel very ashamed now.

mandco

freespirit great bargain on the argos deal baby stuff can be so expensive.you def have to see frozen its great
omo well done ds & dd its so hard to find jobs at the mo so that fact that both have managed it at the same time is amazing :T . with the loose change your saving check if your bank has one of the new machines that count coins our big one does and you can chuck all the mixed coins in and it counts it for you a bit like coinstar ones.
JJ sound like your super busy but things should look great once you;ve finished
nanamia good to see you back and posting must do better myself

condolences/ congrats/ hugs as relevent to those I've missed
ds picked up s+d bug which he ever so kindly shared _pale_ and then I topped it off with a migraine so pretty much written of the last few days but will get back to regular posting.

did pick up a few xmas bits today some bits for stocking fillers and a couple of xmas outfits for ds buildabear type dog got an elf/santa/sweater with reindeer antlers for just 44p each so think those can be left by the elves (3 days worth down 21 to go)
thinking I might do nail art advent calender for dd did her a hamper for xmas and she loved it so might be a good way to top up her stocks?

pixtotts

mandco - I need to find a bank with one of those change thingys! I have one of those HUGE whiskey bottles full of 1pence pieces, was over £50 last time I counted ! And nail art advent calendar sounds brilliant!
I was given one of the ciate ones for Christmas, was half tempted to wait till next advent but I couldn't wait so I'm opening it 2 a month, one at the start and one about half way . I love it! I keep looking at the make up ones and the nail varnish ones but they are all soooo expensive! And I think if I had an advent one I'd have to use the new colour every day, and kill my nails! I'm now listing all the colours I'm not keen on on ebay (all the pinks and purples), so will hopefully have some pennies back to fund all the other nail varnishes I keep buying...oops...

Avon have their candy cane nail wraps in the Sale book soon (I'm a rep and sneaked a peek ). Though don't all go and buy them all! I'm last mail plan and will cry if they are out of stock!! I used them last Christmas they are brilliant! stay on a long time, and super easy, I'm going to get all my friends some for Christmas this year, and stock up myself...

So knitting... I've wound up doing a scarf. Boring I know! I saw one on pinterest which was a snood all the same colour, but split into blocks by different stitches, I'm going to try make it stripy with different stitches
x

Own_My_Own

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mandco wrote: »

freespirit great bargain on the argos deal baby stuff can be so expensive.you def have to see frozen its great
omo well done ds & dd its so hard to find jobs at the mo so that fact that both have managed it at the same time is amazing :T . with the loose change your saving check if your bank has one of the new machines that count coins our big one does and you can chuck all the mixed coins in and it counts it for you a bit like coinstar ones.
JJ sound like your super busy but things should look great once you;ve finished
nanamia good to see you back and posting must do better myself

condolences/ congrats/ hugs as relevent to those I've missed
ds picked up s+d bug which he ever so kindly shared _pale_ and then I topped it off with a migraine so pretty much written of the last few days but will get back to regular posting.

did pick up a few xmas bits today some bits for stocking fillers and a couple of xmas outfits for ds buildabear type dog got an elf/santa/sweater with reindeer antlers for just 44p each so think those can be left by the elves (3 days worth down 21 to go)
thinking I might do nail art advent calender for dd did her a hamper for xmas and she loved it so might be a good way to top up her stocks?

You arent kidding how expensive baby stuff is, whoa its so long since mine were babies, but its also amazing the different stuff you can get now, i just want to help out as much as i can because as well as the baby they have all the expenses of a new house that also needs a lot of doing up, coming up and DD2 is worrying about it all, my DS her twin is buying the cot and mattress for them so that is two big things out of the way.

I just want to say to the few people who enjoy my challenges DS is trying to get the time to print out the next lot for my folder so i havent given up i am just challengeless atm

Nanamia

Linky go you lady I'm so pleased to see that your signature is growing. You are gonna be in that caravan before you know it Thanks for the canvas link, I'm have right trouble trying to get canvases of DGD1, the photos from Oz are all from iPhones and when you upload they're not decent enough quality to have made into canvases. I've had one of DGD2 almost a year now and not put one up without the other Phoned printerpix today (I've a groupon voucher) lady was really helpful but the photo files aren't big enough (apparently) xxx
Newthrift hope you manage to sort your canvas xxx
b_e_g have been thinking of you! hope all went well today. You'll be advising on holby by next week xxx
Pixtotts have fun but don't be overtiring yourself my lovely. I'm a very tight knitter too ha xxx
Festive Princess have you drawn a plan of how you'd like the garden to look? I'm a bit fed up with thinking about them over the last few days. I've been in the back bedroom hanging out the window working out plans for what I'd like where! We've got the mini JCB coming on Saturday can't wait for a go of that to be honest. Neither can DGD2 Then the fencing guy has to come back cos I've changed my mind (several times) since the last quote, but he's got a huge job on till around the 27th weather permitting so nothing is gonna move very fast. The Stephen Sutton story reminded me very much of your guts and inspiration. He,like you,really is/was remarkable xxx
Mandco goodness me your little family have had more than your share of accidents and bugs hope everybody is on the mend now. You should join b_e_g and I in our pact. We are trying to pop in at least once a day Even just to say hi xxx