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Christmas 2009 – Gift Ideas For Children

November 5, 2009

As you may have noticed I do so love a plan! To me one of the greatest things about planning is the flexibility it actually gives you, whilst still helping you stay on track. For instance this week, according to my 10 Week Christmas Plan, this week I should be working on the Family and [...]

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Christmas Planning – Christmas Present List and Shopping

November 20, 2008

Image by chatirygirl Five weeks until Christmas!! I am actually getting quite excited about it too. We will be spending Christmas in the country with my family and all my 3 sisters will be there with their families as well this year. We haven’t had that happen in a few years, so it will be [...]

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Christmas Planning – Homemade Bath Salts

October 23, 2008

This post is part of my series on handmade Christmas Gifts. Instructions for the other items can be found here: Handmade Fabric Covered Notebooks Handmade Fabric Necklaces Homemade Works Of Art The countdown continues – 9 weeks until Christmas. My countdown is naturally of a planning nature and I am working through a Christmas Preparation [...]

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10 Things To Do Before Christmas

September 9, 2008

Image by tanakawho As I mentioned in my last monthly review in order to achieve everything I want to before Christmas, I needed to create a short term plan. Below is the top 10 things that I want to achieve before Christmas. There is actually a secondary list with things like taking the family raspberry [...]

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Christmas Planning – Handmade Fabric Necklaces

August 16, 2008

SPOILER ALERT – To my family and friends, please do not read on as you may see your Christmas Gift for this year! In my attempt this year to be well and truly organised for Christmas and the busy period leading up to it, I have been making some handmade gifts to give to people [...]

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Christmas Planning In July – Making Handmade Fabric Notebooks

July 23, 2008

Earlier this month I got together with a talented and craft friend to make the first batch of hand made Christmas Presents for the year. Our first get together in July was a planning meeting. For my crafty friend, this was very kind of her to indulge by planning nerdiness as she is a far [...]

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Christmas Planning In July – Presents

July 17, 2008

I have traditionally not been one of those organised people who buy up presents at the sales in June or July, but have tended to leave my shopping until November or December. Although I haven’t bought anything at this year’s sales either, I am going to try something a bit different this year and buy [...]