The best breakfast ever!

As you can see we finally enjoyed some sunshine instead of rain and managed to complete our deck!

How awesome does it look!

Even Rufus thinks it looks pretty special!

On Monday Spencer and I sat and ate our breakfast on the deck.

It was wonderful sitting out in the morning sun listening to the birds chirping, welcoming another day of sunshine.

Spencer thinks it looks pretty awesome too and has even been seen doing a spot of dancing on the boards!

This weekend we plan on sanding the boards and then sealing them with some decking oil.

Fingers crossed for more sunshine.... it's raining today!

Before Alan finished laying the boards on Sunday afternoon, I sat and beaded on the little deck that he had already completed.

You can see my little space below with my beading tray!

Me thinks it will be a perfect place to bead!

I just have to remember not to drop any beads down the cracks!

Here we come summer days,
BBQ's and afternoons spent staring at the clouds!

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My Creative Space

I am excited to announce that my creative space this week includes more than just beads. 

My creativity included timber, sponge cake and butter cream icing and Lego!

Here are some shots of what I have been creating in the past week.

Our timber deck

Ahhhh if only it would stop raining. 

Amazingly it will be a glorious day and as soon as we get the tools out * BAM * a down pour of rain.

We had a huge storm hit on Monday afternoon. Check out the view from my front door! The water nearly made its way to our front door, you can just see the edge of our front door mat!

But as you can see we are making slow progress. Alan has just put the last joist in so this weekend we will be able to start laying the decking boards... assuming it doesn't rain!

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Spencer's birthday cake

As you know my precious little man, Spencer, celebrated his 5th birthday on 2 October.  

He originally wanted a cake which was Batman's face, then he decided he wanted a skeleton cake and then (after much convincincing from me) settled for this. It was very simple but tasty nonetheless!

Apparently Spencer doesn't like cream and jam in his cakes... even though the icing, cream and jam were all he ate leaving the sponge!!

I bought the rubber skeleton to sit on the side to compensate for not making him a skeleton cake and he was absolutely terrified of it eventually asking me to put it in the bin saying he found it ''too creepy''! 

It's a good thing I didn't end up making a skeleton cake!

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Building Lego

Spencer got a total of 8 Lego kits for his birthday including 3 new Harry Potter sets (I think I was more excited about these than he was) and one Sponge Bob Square Pants set 

...so needless to say we have been spending the past few days putting together the kits.

He received a Creator 3-in-1 pack which was a house and it took me nearly 2 hours to build!

Isn't Hagrid cool!!!

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Artbeads Fall project

Here is my piece I am creating as part of the Artbeads Blogging Program. 

So far I have created nearly half of a necklace using St Petersburg stitch. I have to say this is one of my favourite stitches. I love the soft and delicate feel it creates.

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What have your creative little fingers been up to this week?

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