Creative fun over Christmas

The build up was immense yet it all seemed to be over so quickly. Christmas that is. 

Apart from the endless food and wonderful gifts we had a great time getting crafty and creative too over the festive period.

We made our own cards using fingerprints and potatoes...

We coloured in some cards in glitter gel pens to send to our family and friends to say thank you for the lovely presents they sent us...

We had Peppy Tum-Tums visit who helped us to make paper chains...

We met Santa and pretended that we had traveled all the way to the North Pole to visit him...

And we did lots of baking...

We were asked to share our creativity over Christmas As part of Carcraft’s Drive Happy initiative http://www.carcraft.co.uk

What creative fun did you have over the festive break?

Reasons to be happy

I'm really glad I took part in this weekly link up to concentrate on the good things in life and I continue to do so into a new year - 2013. It can often be hard to see the positive when there can be so much hurt, stress and loss but I find it really uplifting and it makes me appreciate the things that make me smile, however small, that little bit more.

My reasons to be happy

We welcomed in the new year surrounded by loved ones; parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and siblings which was really lovely. My Grandma came along too and I was surprised she managed to stay awake to hear the fireworks go off at midnight, as did the Mini Mes for the first time. They are usually tucked in and snoring away so it was nice that they were involved too enjoying everyone's company and the delicious buffet meal my mum had prepared. We were told it was fancy dress but it was only Jamster that wanted to wear costume!

Blogging has given me some really great opportunities over the past few months and for that I am grateful. We have enjoyed some lovely days out as a family and even a weekend to Blackpool in 5 star luxury reviewing 7 Merlin attractions. I already have some goodies on the agenda to review this year and I won a luxury spa trip during December for my Reindeer Pops.

Having things to look forward to always keeps me smiling and we are already thinking of holidays for this year. It looks like we will have some camping trips when the weather improves, some UK breaks and a trip abroad. I need sunshine!

What reasons to you have to be cheerful this week?