For this week’s challenge, we have ‘star’ to work with. Christmas being just around the corner, there are many star shaped decorations around the house, but I wanted to find something else. Staying with the Christmas theme, I came up with this:
A sweet Christmas treat
star of the show for Santa
Forget the sherry!
This will be my last Free-for-All-Friday for this year, due to it being Christmas and New Year, but I am sure it (or something like it) will be making an appearance next year!
I have got a sackful of treats for you to feast upon and I urge you to pay each of these blogs a visit. They have loads of delights in store for you, so go and have a poke about.
Twisted Short Stories Bee is back! This blog needs no introduction as the name rather gives it away, but suffice to say, she has a dark mind, and a brilliant way of telling gripping short stories, many with a macabre edge to them!
Beyond The Picket Fence I always love to look at things from a different perspective and this post is totally opposite to how I am (although it is how I wanted to be)!!!
Myths of the Mirror This is a great post with a wonderful message. That video was just what I needed to see this week. Brilliant.
Hummingbird Redemption Life is so fragile, and being at the wrong place at the wrong time can be catastrophic. This post is a reminder to live life.
Suzie Speaks This is a lovely story. There are still some wonderful people around, thank goodness, as there are also some idiots still!
So there you have your little stocking filler to keep you going for a while.
Wishing you Happy Holidays!
Occasionally I have a look at the Daily Prompt and today it asks whether we are an early bird or a night owl. When are we most productive, and when do we do most of our work.
For me there is no question, I am an early bird without a doubt. I am the kind of person that likes to try and get all the jobs done first things so that I can kick back in the evening and relax.
I always love that first hour or so in the morning when it is just me up. Usually, Roxy ambles on down to see what I am up to, scrounges a tidbit then buggers off back to bed leaving me on my own again. That suits me just fine.
For the past few days, due to one thing and another, I have been getting up between 2 am and 4 am as my brain is too busy whirling around to let me get any sleep. Despite being heavy and bleary eyed, I get up, make a cuppa and settle myself down at my laptop. Once I have indulged my guilty pleasure (Oh ok, I love Farmville, there I’ve said it) I can go to my blog. This morning I had a nice early morning conversation with Debby which was a lovely way to start the day.
Sunday mornings at 7 am, will more than likely find me piling into the ironing for an hour or so, again whilst everyone else is asleep so I can get on with it in peace. Mr Grump is the same, and if we have anywhere to go we are normally out the door as early as possible. This might not go down with others who are more relaxed about timekeeping than we are!
Another bonus to getting up early is catching a beautiful sunrise as in this picture. Miss Hap and I took these as she left for school, her photo was better than mine as it shows the pink in the sky more.
As for being a night owl, well, those days are long gone! I am usually falling asleep at 9 pm. I am pushing the boat out tonight as it is already way past my bedtime. It is a ploy so that I am not up at stupid o’clock again tomorrow, fingers crossed. There is early morning, and there is middle of the night!
Geoff over at Tangental has offered out a challenge to choose a Christmas card that we would send out using a favourite picture.
I too have gone with the collage idea, incorporating some of the things that mean Christmas to me. You won’t be surprised to see my Christmas tree or even some homemade mince pies, but I had to put my Christmas gravy boat in there as well! Of course, Christmas is also about children, and in keeping with being a cool mum (ahem, well I think I am), there is a selfie of me and Miss Hap with our Christmas hats on (Grump is a bit of a Grinch at Christmas so I left him off)!!!! However, I had to include the dog! Look at beautiful little Roxy with her pretty silver bow.
Thanks for the idea Geoff!
Welcome to another wonderful Wednesday when we get to explore a weird, wonderful or just downright wacky word. The one I have chosen this week has a wonderful sound to it which is rather pleasing on the ear! It is a word that still gets plenty of use (at least by me), but still deserves to be the focus of attention.
Flummoxed. This is a mixed-up, muddled-up word indeed; baffling and bewildering, confused and confounded. It can be puzzling and perplexing, not sure what is going on, kind of word, being all at sea, or at sixes and sevens.
This word is spaced out, shot to pieces, dazed and discombobulated, not to mention befuddled and bemused. It pretty much sums up how I feel at the moment.
It creeps up unexpectedly
Just when things are going well
It digs its mighty claws in you
And drags you down to hell
There’s not always a trigger
To warn it is on its way
It is just ‘there’ in your head
When you wake up one day.
You try to get rid of it
And pretend that you’re ok
But it has got a hold on you
And will not go away
No one understands you,
Yesterday you were fine
How comes now you’re moody
And miserable all the time?
I thought I had you beaten
Or at least, kept you at bay
But you’ve come back to taunt me
And are here to stay.
Ronovan has been kind to us this week and given us ‘charm’ and ‘look’ as our prompt words for his weekly haiku challenge. He has asked that we try and make the two sentences oppose each other, which I always seem to find the trickiest part. However, this week, I think I have managed to do it!
Always being up for a challenge, I also decided to try out a ‘Freku’ as created by Ronovan. It is writing a free verse then a haiku afterward that sums it up. You can find out more about this if you click on the link above.
Here is my attempt on both this week.
The sun so bright and warming
The sky a brilliant blue
The land so green and luscious
There’s sheep on the hilltop too.
But this was not the height of summer
Nor the middle of July
It was in bleak midwinter
When I was driving by
I was disappointed not to be able to take part in Hugh’s photo challenge last week as I didn’t encounter any funny signs.
However, he is back this week with a wonderful idea of a Christmas tree topper photo challenge that will raise money for charity. This I can take part in. It is such a wonderful thing to be part of as well.
My Christmas tree topper is a silver star. It came with my tree which you can read about here
Come and join in the fun and help Hugh raise money for Dog’s Trust Charity.
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