Two Nights Running.
Yipeeeeeeeee !! for two nights running I have had a real nights sleep, at last me and sleep are mates again and I have to say I feel so much better for it. It has made so much difference to my work, I've even been playing with some bright fun colours as some of you will have seen by the beads in my etsy shop www.etsy.com/shop/pebbledreams and I must say I'm having great fun making them, who needs drugs or a drink to have a wild time when sleep seems to be able to do the job just as well.
I'm getting my Christmas plans sorted and only last night Yvonne asked if we were having a tree this year so that tells me I'm doing the right thing. Later this week we are off to visit Yvonnes mum and my aunt so I'll have some time to look around my home village for holly etc and I've located the Christmas Dec's all boxed up in the spare bedroom so they are all ready to go. We have a huge stock of candles as we used to make our own and so that's all sorted too.
It's funny how Christmas always makes you excited, just like a big kid, my thoughts always go back to the days when I was around 10 and my pressies were under my mum and dads bed in a white pillow case, lots of drawing pads and felt tip pens, coloured pencils and paints were often in the case which was fantastic for me as I loved drawing and was never far from my pencils. I remember the smells of Christmas too, the cooked breakfast my dad would cook and my mum having coffee made with tin milk and one smell I still today find reminds me of Christmas is cucumber, yes the smell reminds me of those large Christmas teas when all the family sat around a big table which held a salad show never to be out done, salads of all sorts and pickles from the larder. Cold meats and cheeses were there alongside the fresh bread and butter, and I mean real bread !
And when I sit and think of those wonderful dinners and teas one thing comes to mind every time, they didn't cost the world, most of the food was home grown and the odd luxury was maybe the odd tin of red salmon with the salad and a nice jar of coffee, Christmas wasn't about how much we could spend or how many pressies we got, it was about being Christmas, feeling happy and sitting back with family talking over the year past, uncles having a cigar and a drink while aunties told stories about the village people, I'm bloody sure people enjoyed it better than they do today and I'm going to see for myself this year weather I'm right or not.
Ok I'm off to my torch I have more crazy colours to play with and it looks like I need more slidder toys to list as all have sold from yesterday, the rain has gone and it looks like we could have a bright day here in the fens, the garden is full of birds as I made sure all the feeding stations were full yesterday with seeds and fat balls, it's the least I can do after all the enjoyment they give me through the year, however cold it gets here the birds will always find a meal in this garden in winter.
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