2015/2016

As everyone writes their end of year and new year posts I thought I would hop on the band wagon. This year saw us move into our first flat together, I was thrown the worlds greatest hen party by the worlds best friends, in February we got married and we became Mr & Mrs Portsmouth. We travelled to Tunisia and met some wonderful new people, we went to Liverpool to visit these lovely new people. Oscar turned four, I qualified as a pharmacy technician, David got a new job, I planned and carried out a brownie pack holiday and a district camp under canvas. We nearly combatted the garden, we went camping twenty minutes from our house and I started to expand my creative horizons with handmade christmas decorations and Oscar's minion. We spent time with family and friends and celebrated a good friends wedding too!

A rather lovely year all told leaving us looking forward to this one, celebrating one year of marriage, undertaking a half marathon because I can't say no to anything and maybe going on some more adventures soon. This weekend however, will be spent snuggled under blankets as David fights a terrible fever and requires lots of cups of tea and kisses.

Did you all have a lovely new year? Any mental new years resolutions?

Lil x

A Very Merry Minion Christmas!

Here at the Poyntz/Portsmouth household we had a truly magical Christmas which was lovely to share with all of our family. We got to have Oscar from Christmas Eve evening all the way through to Boxing day morning.

My mum had bought us all minion pyjamas and this was hilarious and created some of the best family photos!

David spoiled me rotten as only he can and surprised we with an iMac which I am writing this post from after he has passed out from excessive whiskey consumption! We shared Christmas day with my parents and all three grandparents and popped to see the in-laws in the afternoon.

Today was spent shamefully popping into town to view the sales before heading off for the boxing day extravaganza. I locked us out which caused a fuss but our lovely neighbours managed to hop over the fence so that we could get in!

All in all an extremely lovely time filled with gifts of embroidery, material and copious notepads - they all know me so well!

Did you have a nice Christmas?

Lil x

PS The addition of this beautiful computer should make blogging a dream!

Melted Snowmen and Hot Chocolate Baubles

This week at brownies we started making a few of our many planned Christmas themed crafts. We made melted snowmen biscuits and hot chocolate baubles which are great as decorations and as gifts.

The snowmen biscuits are made from a digestive biscuit, some normal runny icing, marshmallows and icing pens - not exactly rocket science on how they're made and the girls really enjoyed being able to be creative with what had melted off of the snowman and was floating in it's puddle. Our inspiration came from pinterest, the origin of all of our ideas! Some of them were so cute! Some of them just love icing!

The baubles were also a pinterest generated idea with the baubles being placed in a plastic cup filled with sawdust to protect them. We then made funnels out of paper and added drinking chocolate, little marshmallows and other decorative things like edible snowflakes and gold balls. The idea was to put them things in in layers so that the baubles looked pretty too - the girls didn't quite grasp this bit. I may have to have a go myself as they look so lovely (well, nearly)

What christmas craft have you started?
Lil x

A Weekend Away.

This weekend, David and I travelled up to Liverpool to visit some friends. Neither of us have ever been to Liverpool and it was just so much fun! We met up with Donna and Kevin and were shown the touristy parts - we walked along the docks, we saw the Royal Liver Buildings, we saw where the Beatles and Cilla Black had originated. We saw the beautiful library and then did some shopping and went for some drinks.

We popped back to our hotel to check in before meeting back up with Kevin and Donna and another couple we had also met on holiday; Chelsea and Daniel. We went out for a huge chinese and then went to The Cavern, a bar full of live music which was fantastic!

We had the best time!
Lil x

Is It Too Early To Be Talking About Christmas?

Daisy and I have been married since the 6th February this year and have been living in our flat since January 1st so this will be the first time we have had Christmas in our flat and the first time as a married couple - how soppy and exciting! In preparation for the sheer expense of Christmas (what with David being one of four, having seven nieces and nephews and a son) I decided, to his disgust, that I would start making Christmas decorations in August to try and balance out the cost.

I decided to make some felt tree decorations, taking inspiration from all of the beautiful designs on pinterest. I made the gingerbread man first, creating a pattern piece myself to start with. Since then, it has blossomed nicely with the most effective being the star I think. What do you think? Any suggestions for more designs?
Lil x