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Spending Christmas with the kids - it was my turn this year - was lovely.  I spent several days leading up to the day making their stockings (wet felting) as we had lost last years in the move and anyway, in my attempts to remove all fabrics from our lives that are not 100% natural fiber, I probably sent them to a charity shop sometime this year so needed new ones anyway. The stockings were such fun to make that once done, I went ahead and made myself a pair of slipper shoes using my "shades of green" wool.  Soled with scraps of leather and finished off with a band of rabbit fur, they look fantastic and are so warm that I can only wear them on really cold days.  Florida has so many of those, doesn't it?  The finished stocking.  Wet felted with needle felted letters and finished off with white rabbit fur. As the kids were sick on the run up to their Christmas school break I didn't get the chance to make their presents when they were at school....

First, a quick sorry that I didn’t post anything last month, but I was kept mentally and actively busy trying to get my court case - aka the Freedom File - ready for filing. Once I had my stuffed-full file-box of tricks already, I went online to look for free legal aid. I learned my circumstances were considered bad enough for me to get some free legal advice but were not bad enough for me to actually get any real help. Story of my life really. My Freedom File box.   ****** contents deleted by me, the First Amendment needs more teeth **** Now for something completely different! Devin recently informed me he wanted PROPER HAM for Christmas dinner and Amanda chimed in with "Roasted CHICKEN, Mummy!" - and I thought … OMG, is it Christmas ALREADY!?! We had eaten all the pork in our freezer, so on went the computer where, after a short Craigslist search, I found five pot belly piglets available. Having ordered feed two weeks before, I had just enough tim...