Ella made unicorn cupcakes for her class. Not for any special reason, just because she wanted to. She didn’t know how she was going to make the horn until she spied a box of Pink Panther ice cream cones in the cupboard.
We now have a box of pink ice cream cones with no bottom! We’re now going to have to eat our ice creams very quickly or get covered in ice cream drips!
My #1day12pics always includes coffee, a book and Chi Chi! Ant wants us to get out walking more often so even though it was raining we decided to go ahead with our plan to go to Hill Holt Wood.
1 – The first coffee of the morning
2 – More coffee and a good book
3 – Still reading – Trying to have a lazy, relaxing morning but KayCee and Ella keep arguing upstairs
4 – Leftover beef casserole for lunch
5 – Getting the cameras ready for a photo walk in the woods
6 – A wooden man at Hill Holt Wood
7 – Ella and KayCee found some big teddies in Hill Holt Wood
8 – Visiting Chi Chi and Nanny
9 – A bit more reading while the kids are upstairs and Ant’s cooking dinner
10 – We’re watching Hawaii Five-0 while eating dinner
11 – Ella wanted to watch another episode of Hawaii Five-0
12 – And yet another episode of Hawaii Five-0. She’s going to bed once it’s done so she’ll have to wait till tomorrow for the next episode!
It’s freezing outside today; we have a frozen pond and a lawn covered in pretty frost. It’s the kind of morning where it’s nice to look outside but actually going out there isn’t something I want to do!
Unfortunately, I have to go out because I need a couple more plastic storage boxes so we can get Christmas totally packed away and in the loft today.
I have to stop buying Christmas decorations; I have about 20 storage boxes as it is. There won’t be room in the loft if I keep adding more boxes every year!
The pond looks lovely when it’s all frozen 🙂
January 2018 1 day 12 pics – It’s the first Saturday of the month and I remembered to take part in #1day12pics on Instagram 🙂
I take lots of Christmas photos but this year I wanted to make sure I capture all those special moments. The girls are growing up far too fast and Christmas is changing now we don’t have any little ones here. In fact, for the first year, we didn’t visit father Christmas. They didn’t even mention visiting him, which made me a bit sad.
We did have an elf for the first time and Ella loved looking to see what she’d been up to every morning 🙂
4) Opening Presents
5) Watching The Grinch
6) New Christmas dresses
8) Christmas Tree
9) New Christmas PJs
10) Our Christmas Trolley of goodies!
11) Reading a Christmas Story
12) North Pole Breakfast
13) Favourite Present
14) Christmas Hot Chocolate
15) Sprinkling Reindeer Food
16) Presents under the tree
17) Christmas Dinner
18) Christmas Eve buffet
19) Decorating a Gingerbread House
20) Visiting Family
I remembered to take part in 1 day 12 pics November on Instagram.
1 – I blogged about the Asda and Argos 2017 Christmas adverts
2 – We went Christmas shopping
3 – More Christmas shopping
4 – Making turkey stir-fry for lunch and having a coffee
5 – More coffee!
6 – More shopping, this time my grocery order from Tesco.
7 – I reckon I’ve got a coffee problem! Coffee and a crumpet with jam to keep me going until dinner time.
8 – Catching up with Corrie
9 – Visiting Nanny and Chi-Chi
10 – Making a salad to go with the dinner
11 – Ham and mushroom pasta for dinner
12 – Catching up on Grey’s Anatomy
I’ve not taken part in #1day12pics on Instagram for a while. I figured it was time to join in again with October #1day12pics
For those who don’t know, #1day12pics runs on the first Saturday of every month. The idea is to take a photo on the hour, every hour and post them to Instagram.
I like to collect them all up and put them on a blog post when I remember to take part, that is!
Saturday was a quiet day, I didn’t really go anywhere so it was a bit hard finding something to take a photo every hour. I managed it, though 🙂
I’m reading this book as part of my Goodreads reading challenge 2017
Pinterest – I was scheduling pins to Tailwind. Since using tailwind, my monthly views on Pinterest went from 59k on September 9th to 161.1k on October 9th.
Coffee time
Ant’s homemade bread
Our beautiful Ella
Ella spent the afternoon helping to raise funds for her Cubs group. They did a jumble sale.
My new craft kits have arrived 🙂
I couldn’t resist starting my new craft kit!
We went to visit Nanny and had a coffee
Ella’s new teddy bear from her sister, Kellyann
I had to catch up on Eastenders. I was about 10 episodes behind!
I love my new craft kits 🙂
I’ve been looking at getting a lightbox for a while to make taking photos of food easier. I had mentioned to Ant about making one but last week I decided to go ahead and buy one.
I checked lots of reviews on Amazon and found a good one then checked eBay to compare prices. It was cheaper on eBay so ordered it.
The parcel didn’t take long to arrive. I opened it, put it all together and I was very excited. It was bigger than I’d imagined. I’m going to have to use the dining table rather than the kitchen counter but that’s not a problem.
I haven’t had chance to try it out yet as I’ve not done any recipes recently but I’m going to do a new one tomorrow just so I can give it a go 🙂
The only thing I’m not very happy with is the different coloured inserts for the background. The photo on eBay shows them fitting perfectly but when I put them in, there are gaps down the sides.
If it becomes a problem, I’ll just buy some fabric and make my own so it fits properly.
Aiden’s had this rock and gem dig set for a few years. He’s never really been bothered with it so Kaycee asked if she could do it instead.
Both Kaycee and Ella have really enjoyed searching for the tiny gems in the rocks.
Ella decided to see if she could find anything in the stones in the garden. They were too hard for the tools that came with the rock and gem dig so she got the hammer from my tool box. Sh then proceeded to make a mess on the patio!
She took this photo because she said the smashed stones look like the universe 🙂
I took my Nikon camera with me to Mundesley, Norfolk. It’s been ages since I used it because I’ve not needed it since getting my Samsung phone.
I do like the macro setting on it, though, so figured I’d take it to the beach and see what I could find to photograph.
I have to say, the best photo that was taken at the beach while we were on holiday was taken using a Samsung S5. The super wonderful husband took it using his phone. It’s the one in the header image above.
Unlike me, he’s able to get right down to the ground. Well, I can get down but I’d not be able to get back up again!. I think it’s an excellent photo 🙂
