Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

An angel.

I’m getting later and later doing this. I don’t do it during the day in case I don’t feel like writing up the last missed thing which was my little cousin’s birthday. It’s a bit long and I’m still feeling drained from yesterday. So I wait and see what happens in the day so I can write about that if need be.

I’ve been a bit annoyed with myself. I did things yesterday but not today and I only got up an hour later but I went to bed about the same time, maybe ...

Well. I think it’s supposed to be a shepherd, since the little piece by piece story behind every door is a slice of this Christmas story and today says “Shepherds were living outside the town, guarding their sheep”. But it has a cute little moustache and a big round nose so it looks more like an otter playing dress up. But I think it’s definitely supposed to be a shepherd. Not sure what he’s holding though. It’s too square to be a sheep.
I was a shepherd once in the school nativity so I know. ...

(Alternative title: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Tree)

It was another big one today. A lovely little reindeer face with long curly antlers. That would look lovely as a little cake topper too.

I am so so happy today. The cards are no longer my problem

I stamped them before bed and left everything and I mean EVERYTHING mum would need to fill out the cards.
I left the cards on my desk in a neat little pile. I laid out all three ...

A cute little penguin in a scarf.
So it’s about 7am now so it’s actually tomorrow but never mind. I have finally finished making all my cards.
Well sort of. I’ve put them together. Now I just need to stamp a sentiment inside all 17 and then it’s definitely all done.

We were supposed to put the tree up today but I wanted to finish my cards first. The last post is the 21st for 1st class post and I rather it not be left that late. If I can finish my cards first then I can ...

A sleigh full of presents and a tree.

I baked some Nutella cookies yesterday. Haven’t tasted them fully, just a few crumbs. And today I made chocolate chip cookies but it’s nothing special. It was a premade cookie mix.
What is is is this. Particularly around this time of year you see tv characters and so on who make cookies for friends/family/co-workers and I see that and want to do it too but there are some issues. The main one being that mum doesn’t eat sweets as much as ...