Celebrate #9 + Friday 5 #3 + Freebie

Joining in once more with Lexa and the gang for this lovely, easy feel-good linky party :)

This week I am celebrating:

1) Meeting more new friendly and interesting people - through both my health pursuits and my artistic clubs :)

2) Catching up with friends who have been ill but are now on the mend!

3) Bagging some more bargains at the local charity shops :) yipee!!

I have been after some waterproof trousers for some time now (as my Nordic walking training will take place whatever the weather I'm told!!)  but even in the sales they are all about £40 and let's be honest I probably won't be using them that much so I was delighted when I found a pair (£3.50 in my local disability charity shop) that I could get into (my healthy eating is paying off) and that were not completely black and soulless either.

They will go with the bright red waterproof jacket that has been hanging up in No.1 son's wardrobe for the past year that he claims is nothing to do with him and fits me - so I'm bagging that too!

I also wanted a pair of waterproof boots that had a good deep tread on for those boggier places and even though I wasn't thinking pink these will do - certainly for £5 they will do :)

Once again I give thanks for being able to have the freedom to enjoy my life and all that it brings - there are so many opportunities out there for celebrating those small things so let me know (by leaving a comment below) what has made your day this week?

This week, I am also joining in with Five for Friday hosted by Doodle Bugs Teaching

I'm recycling these little counters I made last year in honour of the wet weather we've been having recently - March will soon be here!  Please feel free to use in whatever way you want for your classroom :)

It was really nice to be able to enjoy making things with children again when I was invited to lead a session at my local library to encourage children to have a go with wool arts.  Some children were learning to knit with some of the other ladies in the craft group there but I know that often this is quite a difficult thing to master so I went with making these Mexican/Aztec Eyes
They often have many names but I always did these with my class when we studied the Aztecs at school!

Here is quite a good link if you want to have a go -  http://www.auntannie.com/FridayFun/GodsEye/

I made a start on up-cycling some old curtains into ones that will fit the long windows in my bedroom and although I wish I could have done both pairs other events have intervened so here's to hoping next week will allow the other pair to be competed too.

  If you want to read more about what I did you can read my earlier post HERE

 I have also begun an on-line study unit for my sports tuition course.  I can't quite believe what I'm doing and who I'm involved with - Sport England and me - even my own family can't take it in!! Learning anatomy and physiology is going to be challenging as I didn't even carry on Biology past the third year at secondary school (Physics and Chemistry were my chosen sciences!!) so I will have to hunker down and get reading and testing myself as I want to pass this a.s.a.p. to be properly qualified as a fitness instructor in Nordic Walking.  You can find out more about this sport from my post last week :)  NORDIC WALKING

Finally, on the theme of rain I have a freebie to give away.  If you click on the picture below you will get a powerpoint presentation that you can use for a whole host of things e.g. teaching days of the week, alliteration, commas in lists and even a traditional rhyme with a twist.

Hope you have fun with it and any feedback would be really useful :)