Sidmouth Donkey Sanctuary

A couple of weekends ago I went to visit my Nan who lives on the Somerset/Devon border in the middle of Exmoor, I love visiting her there it is such a beautiful part of the country so idyllic :) 

Whilst there we visited the Sidmouth Donkey Sanctuary where they look after sick and abandoned donkeys, you can visit there website here, and if you ever in the area I would highly recommend it as a day out. 

I thought I would share with you a few piccys of the donkeys they are soooo cute. 

Time....

I wish there was more time in a week. In the last couple of days work has been super busy so I haven't found as much time to craft as I would like. I have so many ideas buzzing around my head but haven't had chance to get properly working on any of them which is so frustrating. Does anyone else find this any super solutions for really portable crafts that could be done on the commute to and from work?

One of the ideas I have been floating around is doing something creative with some of my photos, I love to travel and am lucky enough to have been to some amazing places all over the world. I love to take photos much to the annoyance of my traveling companions so usually end up with hundreds of pictures from each place. I thought about scrapbooking these photos but I'm not sure I would re look at the books very often I was thinking of doing some sort of wall art framed montage type thing ( a bit vague I know any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated)

I thought I would end this post with a few of my favorite pics from this years travels which included a tour of Morocco and a Rhine Cruise.

Xmas Markets

Earlier this month, I went on a Rhine Cruise to check out the German Markets...well it was supposed to be a Rhine Cruise but this year the Rhine is suffering, Germany hasn't had much rain so the Rhine is too shallow for the river cruise boats to sail in. As well as this the low water level has led to the discovery of some unexploded WW2 bombs which we didn't want to sail over for obvious reasons. This meant our itinerary slightly changed so we cruised on the Moselle River and visited towns and villages both along the Moselle and Rhine Valley.

Moselle Valley 

We sailed through the most amazing scenery, it was so beautiful lots of quaint little towns and villages and beautiful festive xmas lights. I loved the markets too, I am a shopping savage and there was lots of variety in the different markets we visited. I found lots of unusual decorations and ended up buying some hand carved wooden trees and baubles.

Cologne Xmas Market 

My favorite market had to be Cologne, although it didn't have the quaint atmosphere of Bernkastel or Ruddesheim there was such a vast array of handmade wonders on show and it really inspired me with a few craft ideas that hopefully I will be blogging about soon when they are finished. In the mean time check out some of the photos I took...truly stunning.

Giant Nutcracker