after a lovely couple of days being pampered and told to relax at Jan’s, we left this afternoon in convoy (Tim came up separately last night) and went to the children’s school’s autumn fayre.
I had managed to finish a set of fairytale finger puppets (pictures from Tim’s phone to follow), and do some crocheted jewellrey, as well as Big’s bead bracelets, although all of this was a bit pointless as no one bought anything 
I did wonder if they thought that I was going to pocket the cash rather than donate it!
There were quite a lot of expensive looking stalls, including a very expensive selection of handmade jewellrey, that made my £5 necklace and earring set look somewhat pathetic, but I still like them 
Then came the raffle. We had splurged on 5 strips of tickets (at a pound a strip) and there were loads and loads of prizes - the whole drawing must have taken at least 25 minutes, maybe longer.
The first thing we won was a set of expensive hair conditioner. The second was a bottle of bubbly. Then there was a bottle of white zinfandel with some biscotti. That was followed by a pop up tent (action heros, Small was suitably impressed). I think next was a pack of Barbie plaster moulds (bizarrely similar to the ones that Big was given last year for Christmas that we only recently used up by sending to school for use during holiday club!) with a chocolate bath set, and then there was a flying Pooh bear along with a set of paint your own breakfast stuff, and finally a set of fabric paints with attached book of ideas on how to decorate T shirts. We won 7 prizes!
We were however beaten on quality by the woman who won 4 prizes including the top one of a child’s bike and a family ticket to Eureka (cue hilarious suggestion that she ride there on newly aquired bike :grin:), and followed closely by Auntie Margaret who won at least 4 including the air soccer xmen car game.
It was a good afternoon. After all that I felt slightly embarassed and donated the fairytale puppets to the school 
The drive home was horrid and I’m shattered again. Going to take Jan’s advice and go to the doctor’s tomorrow for a sick note to take another week of work.
This will of course mean a higher frequency than usual of blogging. I hope you’re all up to it
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O (((Jax)))- It can be so demorallising when you’ve put all that effort into making things and nobody buys it (I know- I’ve been there
)but I’m sure it was appreciated. But look on the bright side- you’ve got a head start on those Xmas pressies! and you seemed to do OK on the raffle. Hardly surprising the experience was probably all a bit too much ATM. Looking forward to more frequent blogging 
Oh Ambassador, with these blog posts you are spoiling us.
Blog on
that was my first though too, head start on christmas pressies
Of course we are!
Sounds like a good haul of prizes! well done.
Looking forward to the pics of the finger puppets, did they work up okay in the end?
we can cope with all the blogging you care to throw our way hun! I do agree with Jan, you need a bit of time off to recover and hope you will actually make vauge efforts at resting (huh, who am I kidding?)