merry christmas from the dotty wrens xx

advent calendar....day 24

its Christmas EVE ! one more sleep !!! and our last advent post,

...presents (nearly) all wrapped and under the tree...food cupboards fit to burst and baileys chilling in the fridge ! think Im almost ready!

love Wendy. xx

     
We want to wish all you lovely people that follow our blog a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a VERY SPECIAL NEW YEAR !! See you in 2014 ! Love from the DOTTY WRENS Xxxx

                                                 

advent calendar...day 23

Had so much fun doing the advent with the Dotty Wren girls, its day 23 and the last one from me! Wishing you all a wonderful and special Christmas.

Susan xx

advent calendar...day 22

I'm about halfway through wrapping presents and they're piling up under the tree. My kiddies are spending ages counting how many have their names on... just like my sister and I used to do. Wishing you all lots of magic and wonder too! 
Lizzie x

advent calendar...day 21

Hope you've all been good this year people 'cos Santa's on his way!

Dawn xxx

advent calendar...day 20

Let it snow...would love some snow....just for one day so everywhere looks pretty...then it has to melt away before we need to drive anywhere!
Enjoy the festive weekend everyone!

Wendy xx

advent calendar... day 19

A festive bauble for you today, I am feeling a little excited now!! How about you?

Susan xx

advent calendar...day 18

1 week to go peeps. One week to go! Arggghhhhhhh..... so much to do!! 

Calm down....think of nice christmassy things like snowflakes and little bunnies and polar bears...

advent calendar...day 17

How fast is this month going? 

Too fast!

I seriously need to get myself organised...soon...

Dawn x

advent calendar....day 16

Day sixteen sees a snowangel sitting serenely in a snowfilled scene! happy monday to you all!

Wendy x

advent calendar...day 15

Not long to go! Who's wishing for something special in their stocking? ...

advent calendar...day 14

I'm off to London Town for a Christmassy sing-a-long today... Fa la la! 

Hope you're up to something nice this weekend.

Lizzie x

advent calendar...day 13

Friday the 13th...lucky for some...
:)

Dawn x

advent calendar...day 12

Day 12 already!! We are at the advent half way now as we wont be posting on the 25th due to mass consumption of mince pies and bucks fizzy ;) here is my winter wonderland for todays pic...

Wendy xx

advent calendar...day 11

Day 11 already! some birdies for you today.

Susan xx

advent calendar...day 10

2 weeks until Christmas folks! You are officially allowed to start to panic! ;-)

 Lizzie x

advent calendar...day 9

Spotted loads of festive sweaters this weekend. Some looked better than others...
Actually ... they didn't really. They all looked pretty bad to be honest. Only little people can get away with a Christmas jumper. And reindeers...

Dawn x

advent calendar....day 8

Hope your Sunday is merry and bright!:) Only two more to go before crimbo ! love Wendy xx

advent calendar...day 7

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Susan xx

advent calendar...day 6

Friday already everyone! Hope your weekend's are spiced with a little Christmas magic. 

Lizzie x

advent calendar...day 5

The weatherman says it might snow in Yorkshire this week. Which means it probably won't. It only snows when the weatherman says it'll be fine and dry...

Dawn x

advent calendar...day 4

Day 4 brings a dotty wren bauble for your tree...our tree is up, I've gone for a prelit blossom tree with the teeny tiniest of baubles this year...zero interest from the cats...so far so good ;)

Wendy xx

advent calendar...day 3

Day 3 is here!

I haven't got my tree up yet, we get a real one but it always ends up being the last week before Christmas. must be more organised, I did manage to get my advent done though!

Sue xx

advent calendar...day 2

Day 2 already everyone! The craziness has definitely arrived along with frosty mornings and twinkly lights sprouting everywhere. Love December!

Lizzie x

advent calendar...day 1

Good old Lizzie has set us a new project... it's an Advent Calendar. Yay!
We have to take it in turns to do a day each. Stops us getting bored :-)
Here's day 1..

Dawn x

New York Digs!

We have booked our digs in New York for next May! It took a little while back and forth, we had a checklist,  Location...proximity to Surtex... bathrooms...bedrooms and roof terrace (obviously)

So we found some nice apartments, mailed them and then waited for them to email us back which they didn't, So we looked again found another which ticked all the boxes GONE.

Great so we booked a Hotel instead its a bit posh... which means we will probably all want a whole new wardrobe and nicer luggage too! it is lovely though and it has a roof terrace (obviously)....

Susan xx

I don't know about the other Dotty birds but, at the end of each day, my desk resembles this... a fine balancing act of bits of paper and many cups of tea (but minus the cute birds, sadly haven't got any of them flying about my mac.) I've even started to get my daughter to make me a cup when she gets home from school. I'm all about teaching her important life skills! :-)

Lizzie x

little bird house

So we needed a picture on the website....one that was like all of us not just one of us. And as we all live miles away from each other we couldn't just nip round, have a coffee (wine) and rustle up a quickie piccie.
So Lizzie set us a project. She sent us a birdhouse template each with instructions to colour it in and make it look super.
So we did.
This is what we all came up with....

 

Then we put them together and made this...

Cool! It's on our website now.

It will stay there till Lizzie sets us a new project. Its like being back at art school :-)

Dawn x

new website

Finally....these things always take longer than you think don't they?....we are pleased to unveil the new Dotty Wren Studio website....go have a nosey!

welcome to dotty wren

Yay! The dotty wren has hatched! Today a shiny new blog...tomorrow a shiny new website....I hope...just need to build it now...
Watch this space!

Dawn x