Wool mark 2 and a nice Sylvanian surprise!

Feels like ages since I last posted as its been a busy couple of weeks at home! Its been the school holidays here for the past 2 weeks which means Bethany has been off college and Lindsay off work so we have been making the most of the caravan as we will be shutting it down for the winter very soon. I will really miss spending our weekends by the seaside but now the nights are getting colder and darker its time to swap the beach for a cosy log fire at home! We spent a good part of the holidays there but had to come back for a couple of days in between as my little dog had to have an op to remove some teeth. The vet had said it may be a tumor which was so upsetting but after the op he said he was very happy with how it went as was quite sure it was not a tumor so lots of happy tears that time. Shes back to her normal self now my poor little gummy Bean!

I also managed to gets lots of Christmas shopping done as I have to be organised as the weather can close in here quite badly from November onwards so its not easy to get out to the bigger towns to go shopping so I always get the bulk of my pressies well in advance! As well as Christmas shopping I had a productive visit to the dolls house shop and got lots of goodies more news on those in the next few days! I wont be up there again til we open the van again in the spring so I had to stock up on projects for the winter months!

I didn't waste the evening sitting in the van and took my little stash of wool sent by my good friend Deb with me so I could have another go at making some balls of wool. Once I started I kept going til it had all gone lol it was quite relaxing actually. I realised this time to make them the same size I needed the wool to be the same length so I cut all my bits before I started which made life a lot easier. Bethany printed me off some labels which I had taken with me so I could finish them off. Really pleased with how they turned out!

Last week Bethanys dad was up for a visit and bought a load of her old toys with him as we are doing a bootsale. I knew she had a few Sylvanian bits as I had a few of them already here that I kept from when she was small but had forgotten she had even more. Last night we were in the shed sorting it out and I came across a big box full of Sylvanian! She was laughing at me as I was so excited to find them and they will def be kept with the rest of her collection for one day when she has children of her own! In the meantime my Niece Lydia will be thrilled when she sees it all next time she comes up and will have great fun with them I am sure.

There was a cute little house called Orchard Cottage complete with furniture and accessories.....

A bakery complete with accessories.......

Lots of nursery and baby items........

A wedding day set.....

And a camping set. What a great unexpected find they were!