So I thought we could play a little Christmas game today! I came downstairs this morning to find that my son had provided some additional decorations on the Christmas tree...not decorations that I would normally use or class as Christmassy but funny nonetheless! My tree has turned into a war zone complete with my son's collection of toy soldiers...Toy Story..eat your heart out!! I must say that they are pretty well camouflaged, so your challenge today is to find them!! Your mission is a GO..GO..GO...

If I have counted right, you should have about 21!! Let me know how you get on...you may now stand down!!
'Sergeant...I think we've lost one under the tree.....'

'Pull him out...Pull him out...we never leave a man behind...'
Happy Christmas with the family!!!

10 days to go...I get a countdown every morning from my kids, just in case I didn't know! We are in full swing of Christmas fairs, school plays, shopping, baking and all that lovely stuff!! I am trying to get my life a little more organised so I was impressed when I won a weekly planner at the school fair for a family of six...these things are never produced for a family of six!! Prizes are always for a family of four...holidays are always for a family of four...meal deals are always for a family of four...as you may be able to tell this is quite an irritation to me!!! Needless to say I am very happy with my new planner! The only thing I can't get organised right now is my Christmas table! I see all these lovely ideas and make lots of different things but now I can't decide what I like the most!! It's quite a dilemma! I'll let you know...

But in the meantime, here's another offering and it smells divine. Oranges and cloves arranged on different sized cakestands with a little bit of greenery make such a simple but effective decoration. Let me know what you think...you might want to use a skewer to make the cloves push in easier or risk a very sore thumb if you push them straight in like I did!!!