*snowy week!*

Phew! It's nearly all gone now, but we've had a fair old dump of snow this week, along with a good proportion of the rest of the country. It meant that the girls have had an extra two days tagged on to their half-term holiday next week, not that I'm complaining about that, it's been lovely to have them at home. Ask me whether I'm still feeling like this a week tomorrow!!! They've had great fun out in the snow, building snowmen and throwing snowballs to their hearts' content. I did venture out briefly to take some photos, but the novelty soon wore off, and the colder my feet got, the more I wanted to be back in the warm!!


This was Snowman Mark I and was made without any help in our back garden.


A's Mark II version, made with a little assistance in Grandma and Grandad's garden.


F's Mark II version, again, in Grandma and Grandad's garden.

The promise of a day off from school yesterday brought a request for a sleepover on Thursday evening - not to have a friend to stay, just for F to be allowed to sleep in A's room! We didn't think there was much chance of them lasting longer than about half an hour because we thought they would keep each other awake. They knew that if there was any nonsense, F would be moved back to her room, and this was the sight that greeted us when we checked on them, all appearing to be quiet:


They were so good we let them do the same last night, although this time in F's bedroom!!!

Was relieved to read that my SOSF Valentine parcel arrived safely with Sarah - it's always a bit of a worry sending stuff off across the pond, but thankfully it arrived in good time, and was well received.

And finally, for now, a layout. I have been a very infrequent scrapper of late, but have done a layout for my UKScrappers team's forthcoming weekly challenge, which I believe will be posted on the UKS home page from Monday, for a week. As it is Valentine's week, we decided that the theme was to be based around 'love' and had to include hearts and at least four different patterned paper scraps - no breaking into new sheets!! I had a short deadline, so stuck to a very simple design, and added text to the photo in Photoshop to save time.



Happy blogging!