Life is a Journey – Page 241 – The life and times of Libby Withnall

The wool collection

Posted on November 4, 2010November 7, 2026 by Libby Withnall

Those of you who have been reading here for a while know I have a bit of problem when it comes to buying wool. Basically if it looks good I’ll buy…with no idea what I’ll do with it. Now have been much more controlled the last year because I know what a stash I already have. It used to be housed in 3 baskets in the laundry but the wool was spilling out and it was hard to find what I wanted. A while back I saw a great idea on Rachels blog and decided to do something similar with in my sewing room shelves (as gradually I have been selling off my books).

Here’s what I started with…

And after a bit of sorting and organising…

I wasn’t quite sure how to do it so I just sorted by type. Any advice here? I think the strangest thing is it makes my collection not look quite as big don’t you think?

Now that I can find and see all my wool easily I need to decide on my next project…. and tidy up the rest of the shelves.

Oh, and Rachel’s shelves look much better than mine….maybe I do some to buy some more wool after all…..

Trick or treat

Posted on November 3, 2010November 11, 2026 by Libby Withnall

Even though we were hosting our party the girls were still very keen to go trick or treating, so once all the guests had arrived they headed out (with two Mums accompanying them). Since there were 12 of them I got them to split into two group so as not to have all twelve arrive at each door :-).

When they got back they checked out their loot – they had quite a stash. It’s nice to see more people getting into trick or treating – we had around 8 groups to our place this year and the kids were made most welcome when they were out and about. One man didn’t have any treat so he gave the kids a packet of cookies to divide between them, which I thought was very sweet.

Unfortunately some of the kids, including Amy, left their goodies on the grass. Can you guess who had a private party?

I think he’s been on a bit of a sugar binge as today he helped himself to a cupcake (wrapper and all) that was on the coffee table :-(. He’s normally so good with food.

2010 Halloween Party

Posted on November 1, 2010November 12, 2026 by Libby Withnall

We had another fantastic night at our Annual Halloween Party. Kevin arrived back home (after a week in the USA) to find us in the midst of preparations. But before long it was time to get in our costumes. I think the stars were our pups. Introducing Elvis and Snow White.

Isn’t Rosie so cute?

Christy chose to be Padme from Star Wars…. because she wanted to have a gun :-).

Amy was Sally from A Nightmare Before Christmas.

Kevin was a highland cow…

and I was a hippie.

At 3pm our guest started to arrive…I that nearly everyone goes to effort to get dressed up.

The were games and fun to be had by the kids…

And the adults got to sit and chat…

And then there was the food. As you can we are all partial to desert.

Amy and her friends made these ones..

and these by friend Angela…

More Halloween Decor

Posted on October 30, 2010November 12, 2026 by Libby Withnall

NOTE: This is my first time playing with Hipstamatic – thought it went well with Halloween :-).

I had the idea to something like this last year but never got around to it so when I saw these cute brooms a few weeks ago I picked up two of them. Then just the other day I saw this free printable. Using an old blow up couldron and Amy’s creative endeavours and we have some broom parking for our guests tomorrow (though I hope they stay for more than one hour 🙂 ).

I also found a few other printables which, being the lazy person that I am, just printed up and put into frames. Talk about quick and easy and I LOVE them.

Source of printable. I also bought this candle stick and candle from the cheapy shop.

Source of printable. Very appropriate for the kitchen I thought.

I had wanted to make this bunting but it’ll have to wait till next year…when I get some Halloween fabric :).

I know it’s a bit late now but if you’re looking for same great Halloween decoration ideas be sure to visit Eighteen 25 – my latest discovery.