A bit late...

Hallowe'en has gone for another year and much fun it was too. The highlight of our evening has to be playing Banana Pinata, that little known game where you and the children spend much time glueing and sticking endless torn pieces of newspaper to a balloon in order to create a skull to fill with aweets. The general idea is that the pinata - should be a squiggly thing over the 'n' but can't do that on my keyboard - should be hit by all present till it breaks revealing the sweeets. In our case Dave decided we should take it in turns hitting it with a banana...hmm. It was very funny if extremely messy and a perfect game in the lead up to our favourite one of Bite the Apple which always provides plenty of shots for the family album where we apparently torture our children.



As to dressing up, we had a monk, a devil or two - very cute ones in the form of Lucy and Isabella though her outfit lasted all of two minutes before she stripped off the dress and accompanying Father Christmas hat! - Rasputin and verious other witchy people present. I was a black cat, though as usual I left getting ready to the last possible moment and then rushed so had no tail or ears.



All good fun, but now I must turn my attention fully toward Christmas as I always do when the half term holiday is over, and judging by my order emails I am not the only one. A Christmassy picture as I head off on the school run before settling down with the sewing machine and Radio 4.



Bye for now x

Meeting & Making.

The half term holiday has been a wet and windy time in Cornwall. Every day seems to have been a mixture of showers, both torrentially heavy and drizzly light, and odd bursts of weak sun which fails to last. Today the sun is bursting through in a clear, bright sky turning the rosehips twining through the camellia outside our bedroom window the most brilliant shade of vermillion against a backdrop of glistening green leaves. Even Davey's lemon is putting on fresh growth, though I fear it will regret that when it turns colder and we get our one frost of the year.



Earlier this week I met up with lovely Diana from Pebbledash, another blogger from Cornwall. I have been so looking forward to meeting her and we arranged to meet up in The Yellow House, a pretty little shop in Penryn once featured in Country Living, selling all sorts of gorgeous things with the ability to drink coffee and scoff cakes to your hearts content... and goodness did we test that to the limit; I walked home thinking a couple of hours had passed to find it was actually closer to four! Oops.



Diana was just as I knew she would be - warm, interesting, funny (very funny - rats, that's all I'm saying Diana!) and so very easy to chat with as the amount of time we spent proved. I could quite happily have whiled away the remainder of the day, but we'll save that for another time instead. Diana also gave me the gorgeous stamped cards seen above made by her own very talented hands. I really think she should be allowing us to purchase her beautiful paperwork which you can see by popping over to her blog if you haven't already. My photographs don't do them justice I'm afraid, but Isabella thought they were beautiful too and chose this one to keep...



then changed her mind in favour of this one...



Such a lovely time... thank you Diana and next time we'll have to persuade Ginny down for a holiday! Well, off to finish making the skull pinata with the children for tonight's Hallowe'en party. Dressing up, apple bobbing and Dave's Boston Baked Beans are all on the agenda so plenty to do. I am actually on top of - nay, ahead of - the orders which is a lovely feeling and means I can risk doing something about my list of Christmas gifts niggling away in the back of my mind. Hmm, will probably regret saying that!



Happy Hallowe'en everyone xx