bleurghhh

i have the dreaded sinusitis :( thanks to w bringing home the creche cold.... i woke up at 3 am on christmas morning with a sore throat and things have gone downhill from there. i have some gigantic and hopefully potent antibiotics which should start to weave their magic soon but until then i have a head full of wet cement and it feels like someone is standing on my face

and i missed my first blogoversary (december 19)- caught up in cmas panic i completely forgot about it....

on a brighter note there has been some creativity chez seahorse -


first the fox (or fock as w calls him) he was designed to be a hobby fox (like a hobby horse, head on a stick that you ride) but having seen what w can do brandishing a stick i have decided the mr fock would lead a quieter life if he were a hand puppet so i will make him a body rather than impale him on a piece of dowel. the old head on a stick is a bit too reminiscent of good old fashioned punishments like hanging drawing and quartering and having your head put on a stick and displayed on london bridge.....

and here is the 2006 gnessing box - (designed and constructed by A and decorated by A, E and W)

part of our family tradition of celebrating the season of christmas rather than just the day. due to ill health the cmas calendar has fallen by the wayside but the gnessing box has been a great success. it's full of small small tings like chocolate frogs, stretchy lizards, bubble mix and bouncy balls. the only problem is that the concept of 'one man one vote' is completely foreign to a 2 year old who sees it as a cornucopia...

and a photo will be taken tomorrow of A's quilt which i finished tonight. it's by no means a show quilt - basic stitch in the ditch quilting and a few dodges here and there but it's done and keeping A warm tonight.