Harry and I had a wonderful day today, spent with our friends Tanya, Alexander and Nicholas over at Zannick : Our Home Ed Journey creating Christmas Crafts!!

Next weekend is our last day at our Dog Training Club for the year, and they're having a break up BBQ, complete with Fancy Dress!  Alexander's dog Bobby and my big boy Harry will be going together as Santa and his trusty Reindeer, so the majority of today was spent creating their costumes.  The boys also worked on some beautiful felt Christmas Stockings for their pets: Zander for his Ratties, and Nick for his new ferret Hagrid (when he arrives!).
Great Photos of the day over at their blog.  Craft (and everything else for that matter) seems to take that much longer when five dogs are trying to 'help'!

Yoda, she is!  Molly, her name!  Helping, she was!

On arriving home, a suprise was waiting for me in the mailbox - the Santa Paws DVD I won from Just Us Kids blog competition.  A big thankyou to Norlin!


An even bigger surprise was waiting for Broc when he took the dogs outside a few minutes ago...  A great big stick insect - for your viewing pleasure.

Well, a busy weekend awaits.  Here's hoping I can find some more time to work on those frugal Christmas tips!