Bean Bag Chair

I've been pretty rubbish at writing on here recently. Mainly because I feel a bit like noone really reads it any more and also because I haven't made much I care to share. However here is the bean bag chair I sewed from a 2nd hand pair of curtains a couple of weeks ago. I'm really quite proud of it. I made up the pattern to match Jacob's measurements and it turned out to be a good fit. I had real trouble getting the beans and ended up ordering them from the web.

Jacob seems happy with the results, although he refused to look directly at the camera for me to take a photo. Lesson learned from this project - filling a bean bag is a 2 person job, unless you want to spend your evening picking polystyrene balls off the floor.

Christmas

Happy Twelth Night everyone. Tomorrow is the official end of Christmas and so it's time to take down the tree and pack everything up. A bit sad really. We've had a good Christmas in Aberdeenshire and at home. Poor Jacob was a bit ill for Christmas Day with a fever (we think from his MMR jab 2 weeks before) so I don't have many photos of actual Christmas. But here's a taster of what the snow was like up there (look how far it comes up the gate). Getting through the boreders was fun (NOT).

Jacob wasn't really interested in his presents on the day so it was nice to see him having a good time when we had our second Christmas at home. Granny and Grandad enjoyed playing too.

On New Years Day we made it up to Whitley Bay to see all the crazy people swimming in the sea. It was fairly rough and freezing cold, though it could have been worse.

Back to normal now. Just need to find somewhere to put all the new toys.