The new bed and bedside tables arrived on Saturday, in love with it. I love the look of actually having a bed head and end as well as being able to use the under bed area for storage. Am looking for baskets or boxes to fit, will be glad to get rid of the junk that lays around our room, especially husband's clothing, the man has more clothes than I have. He rarely wears a lot of it and has so many jackets from soccer and his favourite football team. For my side of the bed the baskets will contain my shoes and excess bedding.

With Christmas fast approaching gifts have been on my mind, I am trying to stick to a budget for nephew and nieces. Was hoping to make a lot of my gifts this year but have ceded to the fact I just won't have the time. My new job has been full on, until a week ago it was between 10 and 12 hour days, six days a week. With opening last Saturday it's down to 9 hour days over those 6 days. I am exhausted and with all the physical work very achey. I've asked to be cut to 5 days for my sanity. So this week Tuesday will be devoted to gift making and on Friday am going out with a friend for a well earned sanity day.

Am starting with a Pirate set for my Great Nephew, I found some pirate themed fabric and thought about making a back pack for him. Then realised he will need a Pirate hat and vest to go with. Not a moment too soon either, I found a photo my niece posted of him playing dress ups with his sister and cousin, he looked stunning in a tulle fairy outfit. It's claimed that he put them on himself but I remember his mother dressing up my son in his sister's floral swimsuit when he was the same age. There's a picture somewhere of that, I did find a picture of him at age 6 dressed up for a pirate party.