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Sorry for those who are only here - I keep forgetting to copy things over from LJ now and again.

So - quick potted version of the last month;

A few trips to the hospital for S2C and I to both go to blood clinic, and for him to see the urologist.

Coffee with friends a few times.

A Remembrance Day service in which we considered the repercussions of war on the whole world.

Held a small social event to raise funds for Christian Aid, during which I showed people how to make needle-felted Christmas cards.

Helped NYK2 make a hat for Edith -

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Went to a chocolate workshop with a WI group, where we made our own chocolate bars, and then had decadent hot chocktails. (Mine involved pain chocolate, maple syrup spices, biscoff crumbs and a shot of amaretto...)

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Spent an evening with my daughter at a wreath making workshop. (We do this every year now - it is a sign of the beginning of the Christmas season.)

Mine is on the right, hers on the left -


Christmas Wreaths


Did the Advent ring for Church;


Advent wreath

Attended a whole-village craft fair in a very wet Laxey (there were indoor and outdoor venues all around the village with over 100 different stalls). Both of us did some Christmas shopping.

Bought 25 small gifts to fill the family Advent Calendar

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Which is now over 30 years old!

And yesterday we had Messy Christmas at church where our main theme was stars-


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We told the story of the Star of Bethlehem, and added making night light holders and window decorationd.

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And my contribution to the food was Christmas tree brownies -

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Oh, and NYK2 had her 13th birthday, I have knitted small Christmas gifts to leave as anonymous surprise gifts here and there, and I have been involved with the all-island 'Warm Spaces' initiative; through the winter various places are committed to providing somewhere where people can come along, have a bit of company, hot drinks, and not need their heating on at home. Our church has opted in and we open our coffee room on Tuesday afternoons. So far some members of the congregation are coming along, and also some people who are not, both of which are good.

This afternoon the plan is to flop out for a while!
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You may remember I felted some eyeballs a while back. Well the full project was completed for a WI croft competition on Saturday. Each branch had been given a wooden cut-out shape and asked to decorate it using the theme of gardening and/or harvesting.

My niece, a member of our WI, suggested we use the WI resolution supporting organ donation as our starting point, and from then on Gnoma took on a life of her own. Almost all of the 30 or so members of the branch joined in one way or another - and here she is - with her donatable body parts labelled, her donor card, and her harvest of organs ready for transplant in her wheelbarrow -

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If you click you can zoom in on Flickr. She even had my knitted spring chicks to show she was ours.

To be honest the judging committee were probably looking for something more traditional, as all three that were placed were clearly lady gnome gardeners - but all had been beautifully sewn and embellished. But we were by no means the only branch that took a walk on the wild side - there are more pictures under this cut )

My niece and I, and baby Edie, went to see them all, and had tea and cake, and a gossip, before she went off to meet her sister, and I went to a 'crafters' stash-busting sale' where people were selling some of their unused/unwanted crafting stuff. I was very pleased as I came home with 100 assorted blank cards for a total of £7.50, and four bags of assorted embellishments for another £2.50 - which should keep me, and the church children, in cards for the next 2 or 3 years!

We are sometimes asked what there is to do on our island outside of TT - I could also have attended the Fair day at Laxey, A Village Jubilee Day picnic in our village park, a vintage tractor Rally in Port Erin, watched a ride out of around 200 scooters (old mods not modern toys!), or spent an hour or two wandering around a display of vintage Bentleys!
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Here is a link to my most recent Ukraine LJ post - it is a public post you do not need a journal to read it, if you are interested in things like Hands of Hope and Armstreet.

Now to the current knitting -

Another one for my new grand-niece Edith - this one will go into my box to give her later as it is age 6 months.

I have had this wool/yarn for a while - I knitted a lot of teddies with it last year. I was really pleased to find a nice all-in-one pattern so that the colours worked. I took the time to unravel the yarn for the sleeves and then wind it into two balls that started at the same place, I am glad that I did. The buttons are green and pink - I decided they were fun.

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Our WI group is called Spring Chickens. As part of a group project I decided to knit... a couple of spring chickens.

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Chick on the right looks a bit odd because she has her beak open!

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