Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for the last few years. It’s my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of the adventures we have as a family. Five Happy Things {Week 520} Pumpkins have been appearing in the local food shops. I picked up a couple of the mini munchkin ones to decorate our home but hopefully we will have time to visit a pumpkin patch this autumn. In previous years we’ve visited The Pop Up Farm which…

Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for the last few years. It’s my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of the adventures we have as a family. Five Happy Things {Week 519} I am hosting a fun competition where you can win tickets to the Creative Craft Shows in Birmingham. Pop on over to this post to find more as it closes on Thursday. I love visiting craft shows and this one ticket gives access to five amazing shows:…

Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for the last few years. It’s my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of the adventures we have as a family. Five Happy Things {Week 518} Last week I finished reading The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose which is a Molly the Maid story. I loved the first book and this is also a great page turner. Taking place a little while after the first book, Molly has been promoted to Head…

Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for the last few years. It’s my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of the adventures we have as a family. Five Happy Things {Week 517} Last week the kids had their first full week back at school and it flew by. All their clubs started up too so it felt like our evenings were as busy as the days. I think they were happy to get back to their lessons and…

Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for the last few years. It’s my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of the adventures we have as a family. Five Happy Things {Week 516} The kids went back to school which I think they were happy about. It’s good to feel that we are back in a routine although the endless messages in Whatsapp groups has been driving me mad. I was happy to get back to my weekly yoga…

Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for the last few years. It’s my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of the adventures we have as a family. Five Happy Things {Week 515} Daughter had 3 days of art lessons last week and had a lovely time creating different pieces of art using pencil, charcoal and watercolours. She also finished a huge piece of crystal art she had been working on over the summer holidays. We’ve framed her crystal…

Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for the last few years. It’s my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of the adventures we have as a family. Five Happy Things {Week 514} Over the weekend we made a trip to Haynes Motor Museum. We’ve been a few times but the kids always love seeing the different cars on display and they usually have some fun extra activities during the school holidays. This visit there was a special trail…

Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for the last few years. It’s my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of the adventures we have as a family. Five Happy Things {Week 513} We went camping at Graffam in West Sussex which we found on the Camping and Caravanning Club Site.  It was a bit of a strange site as all the pitches were amongst the trees which made for lots of tree roots in all the wrong places.…

Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for the last few years. It’s my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of the adventures we have as a family. Five Happy Things {Week 512} Finished my Cotton Clara cherry embroidery hoop kit. I wanted something simple to take away on holiday and this was stitched with simple split back stitch. I also packed my EPP and stitched some more blocks for my Liberty Tumbling Blocks cushion. We spent the whole…