Oh boy. The gift guides are rolling out. Everywhere I look there are nice things to buy. I thought I would do something different today and make a nice list of things to do during your Christmassy holiday days.
1. Play Go-Fish or Happy Families
2. Play Boggle (I want to try the new Boggle Slam Card Game!)
3. Make Ginger Beer
4. Print your photos and put them in an album
5. Play Lawn Bowls
6. Make Tomato Sauce
7. Pick Berries
8. Play backyard cricket
9. Make your own Lemon Cordial
10. Paint a mural in your garden
11. Paint your dining room wall with blackboard paint
12. De-clutter one bag of unwanted things each day
13. Start a tapestry or cute embroidery
14. Read a classic
15. Learn to make fancy dips and pates so you always have good snacks
16. Go to a Classic Car Club Rally
17. Make jam
18. Practice making nice drinks (and drinking them too)
19. Buy a biscuit barrel and make lot of homemade biscuits
20. Do some colouring in
21. Buy some sketchbooks and start drawing (you don’t have to show anyone)
22. Make fortune tellers
23. Start a patchwork blanket
24. Go beachcoming and make a beachy nature table
25. Go for a walk every single day.
26. Make my favourite bread and have it with jam and cream
27. Learn to crochet
28. Start an inspiration blog on Tumblr and file all your favourite images
29. Play records
30. Dip your toes in a river
Ah. I feel MUCH more relaxed now that I have just thought about doing nice things like that! Not long to go until we get to skive off a bit!
xx Pip