Missing my pixies.

On Friday Ben and Daisy went to stay at their fathers for a week , he asked me if he could have the pixies that week ages ago and i stupidly said yes and as its got closer and closer Ive been dreading it . They have been for a week before and i missed them like mad but i miss them even more i think because its the run up to Christmas i just feel they should be home doing Christmas crafts and opening their advent calendar etc.
 My tiny pixie is still home with us i still wont let him have Molly overnight shes just too little and every cell in my body screams at me that its just not right to let her go but in the spirit of compromise and to stop the constant hassle Adam is taking us the 80miles to Stoke where the pixies father lives so she can spend the day with him and his fiance on Thursday and yet again i dreading it :( i know she will be happy to be with Ben and Daisy again as she is missing them lots but i hate the thought of handing her over and then having to drive off , i don't know how I'm going to deal with it i just cant wait for it to be over .

Ive been keeping myself busy so far this week making some more decorations .

 This is a felt and fabric scrap garland  i made alternating stars and hearts .

                                         Molly had lots of messy fun with some red glitter.

 I found a Christmas stocking knitting pattern in a magazine so made a stocking garland for the other fireplace :) their super cute and by chance i discovered they fit Daisy's doll Penelope perfectly so im knitting some pink stripey socks for Penelope for Christmas.

        

Our Handmade Christmas

 This year we got a real Christmas tree again i toyed with the idea of getting a fake one but real ones just look soooo pretty and all our homemade decorations look much more at home on a real tree than they ever would on a fake one . I decided last year that i wanted our Christmas tree decorations to be mostly homemade and so far we have stuck to it we have two pieces of tinsel and a couple of ikea gnome decorations but other than that its all handmade by me and the pixies and every year we plan to add more homemade decorations . Some of these are last year decorations and some are this years.

 Ben's saltdough star and his angel that sits on top of the tree.

 This is a copy of a decoration i saw in last years tesco catalogue and my needle felted mushrooms turned into Christmas decorations.

 This is a tiny copy of a Tilda bear .

 I got the knitting pattern fort his tiny sweet little bear from littlecottorabbit.typepad.co.uk

 little fat needle felted robin.

 I enlarged the tiny bear pattern and made a big bear big sister :)

Happiness

 Gosh its been a long time since i last posted on my poor neglected blog ! Things have changed alot over the last couple of months my lovely man who ive been seeing for the last year and a bit has moved in with us all :) The silhouette above is us we had done by a very talented lady at a family wedding :) . Its been so lovely having Adam with us all the time now and the children really enjoy his company and he loves the pixies to bits and gets stuck in with all the dirty nappies and bath times etc. Life is very good and i am one happy mummy :).

Ive been really terrible at taking pictures of our adventures recently which is a good reason as any to start blogging again which encourages me to dust the camera off and get taking loads of photos.
Below is a random selection of photos from the last couple of months since i last posted .



This is our very scary pumpkin we made for Halloween i got the great idea of adding teeth with kebab skewers and well he just ended up a little tooo scary !

 Molly May is gonna be 2yrs old in a couple of weeks ! where those two years have gone i do not know !

 Last week was Ben and Daisy's school Christmas concert they did Annie , Ben was a toy in a toy shop and sang 'Ive got no strings ' from Pinocchio he absolutely loved it as you can tell from his beaming smile.

 The reception class did the nativity and Daisy got to be a Angel she came dancing on the stage with all the other Angels it was so lovely i couldn't help getting all teary :)

 The pixies all got a craft kit from father Christmas at school today so before tea the pixes were gluing and sticking and sprinkling glitter  ,Molly decided to decorate herself .