Mess, Muddle and Fun Week Three - Kitchen

 So for this weeks challenge from Carolyn (How do you come up with all these lovely ideas BTW?) was In the Kitchen. After reading her suggestions I immediately felt drawn to the wooden spoon puppets as I knew DD would love them. I managed a quick scurry into Wilko's while I was watching the shop for OH a few days back and picked up 2 spoons for just 37p each.
 We decided to make Jubilee spoons because we are on trend lol. The first became the Queen and the second a Union Jack. DD loved decorating the other sides of the spoon and the Spoon Queen has been introduced to all her other toys as a new friend.
 Please excuse the awful photos, I took them this morning at 5.30 am thanks to DD having night terrors again, so just be glad the cameras the right way round lol. I will pop some better photos on shortly.
  Can't wait till Friday for Carolyn's next set of challenges. x x x

On my mind/Declutter challenge

This post is a double whammy to get me back into blogging. Firstly it is my On my Mind post for Down to Earth's blog. And secondly its my weeks efforts for A Thifty Mrs's 30 Day Declutter Challenge.
So here is my first bag of items for the charity shop, including books I've read, clothes I don't wear, shoes that make you bleed after 3 steps and plenty more besides. The Thrifty Mrs challenges is only supposed to be 3 items per day in November, but once I started I just couldn't stop so I'm tweaking the rules to a minimum of 3 items decluttered a day.
Also on my mind is my brother Ian. He ran the Great South Run for the first time last weekend, 10 miles in 1hour 46 minutes. I am so proud of him, and he raised just over £500 for a local children's cancer ward.

x x x