a day with Alex..............

Friday was a special day spent with my eldest grandson - it was a school in-service day and Alex had asked if he could spend the day with me.

We started off with an early breakfast and then Alex wanted to go shopping - he has a favourite bargain store that he likes to visit. The shopping trip was productive we bought quite a lot of party bag goodies and prizes in preparation for Finn and Noah's birthday party. We returned home with bags full of party stuff and a few extra things for Alex.

Then it was time for lunch, Grandad came home from work to join us and also managed to fit in an hour of football at the local park. Mid afternoon Grandad returned to the office and we went to Costa - coffee for me and a hot chocolate for Alex - now he is ten this is a super cool grown up thing to do................

After our hot drinks we walked over to Hobbycraft which is a veritable Aladdin's cave, after much thought we decided to try our hand at décopatch - Alex chose a little treasure box and a letter "A" and I decided on a heart as my first project.

Then back to the car and a quick drive home to start our décopatch................

We had such a fun afternoon and we were both really pleased with our first décopatch projects. I think it could become quite addictive and I have promised Alex that we will buy more shapes to cover soon.

I think I have to blame Ladybird Diaries for my new love of décopatch as I have wanted to have a go ever since I saw her beautiful pink flowery chair - have a quick peep here.

I hope you have a lovely long weekend and with luck the sun will shine.

talk soon x