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 11/2025}
Last week I shared my thoughts on Bouquet in a Book, a lovely paper craft book which helps you make perfect paper flowers. You can read my review of the book here.
I finished my latest Hoop Club box which was a lovely embroidery hoop designed by Keely Reyes for Cotton Clara. It was stitched in just one colour which I’ve never done before. I got to learn a few new stitches too, such as reverse chain stitch, surface blanket stitch and pistil stitch. It’s currently on display as I like it so much.
My mum told me about a local pottery painting shop and I discovered they ran a mini Jellycat inspired clay workshop! My daughter and I love Jellycat so I booked two places and went with my daughter. We had so much fun creating mini Jellycats and bringing them to life in clay. We go back in 2 weeks to paint them!
My son will be celebrating his birthday this week so we visited Mercedes-Benz World as we had booked a young driver experience for him.
It sounds like you have had. a busy week, my daughter loves Jellycat and I will be looking to see if they do one near us as we are looking for things to do together, Mercedes World is very close to me, I am over that way today shopping I hope your son enjoyed his driving experience
This is very cool. I’m so glad your week is going well. Here’s to many more weeks like this.
The Jellycat inspired clay workshop is such an amazing idea to spend with your daughter. I will do the same. This is so much fun.
I did pottery painting for the first time last week and it was lots of fun, I can’t wait to get our items back! The jellycat inspired clay workshop sounds so much x
I love the job you did with the embroidery. The pottery painting sounds like a lot of fun, too!
You are so much like me. Every Happy Things post you do has some kind of crafting, and crafting always makes me happy, too.
I always love seeing what sort of crafting you’ve been up to when you post in this series. It’s always something new and sort of cozy feeling.
The embroidery hoop has such a cute design, and I love the message. Crafting is always so much fun, I love the pottery you made!
Bouquet in a Book sounds like a lovely paper craft book for sure. Thanks for ther recommendation!
The paper flower book sounds so interesting and like something you’d get a lot of use out of! It’s lovely reading about your week and what you found positive.