Right lets try to get this finished now - I want to pack a few more boxes up before I get to bed as I have a mattress being delivered for Johnny's bed first thing and want to bake a cake before my visitors come at 10am - no rest for the wicked xx
From Julie Hurrell in Suffold we had 13 pads, 13 covers, 3 dog coats and 1 scarf - thanks Julie xx
from Lorraine in East Sussex we had 3 animal blankets, 2 dog coats, 1 crocheted sands blanket, 3 summer tops and 1 square - thanks Lorraine - your crocheted version of the sands blanket is very good - clever you working out how to do a very similar border in crochet xx
from Sylvia we have 2 toys, 3 blankets, 4 squares, 5 puppy coats, 2 baby hats, 2 kids hats and 1 vest top - thank you Sylvia these are great xx
also in Sylvia and Lorraines package was a donation from Mrs J Spice - a lady from Sylvia's church - 10 hats, 10 bonnets, 7 prs bootees and 2 kids jumpers - thank you - you are so kind xx
from K2tog we had 2 sands blanket, 10 pads, 4 covers, 1 kids top, 1 boob, 1 prem blanket, 8 balls of yarn, 1 kids shrug and 2 patterns - thank you these are great xx
from Helen (Helenknit) we had a lovely Oxfam Jumper - thank you!
and from Elaine Helen's mum's friend there were 9 kids jumpers - thank you Elaine! xx
from Julia in Lincoln we had 2 kids cardies and 4 kids tops - thank you Julia xx
from Cath Hall we had 1 boob knitted by her daughter, 4 pet blankets and some odd balls of wool - thanks to Cath and her daughter.
from Glenys in West Sussex we had 3 blankets, 7 baby cardies, 10 baby hats and 2 prs bootees - lovely Glenys xx
from Eve (Only girl onMSE) we have 7 blankets, 1 dog coat and 1 kids bag - thanks Eve and welcome to Loving Hands xx
Another interruption there folks - had to go and remove a rather large and superfast spider from Miss jenna's bed - she is a real fraidy cat! Mum is the fearless spider catcher around here (dad is a bit scared as well so won't pick them up).
Right from our lovely Barbars in Wales we had some knitting books and patterns from the huge amount of donations she got when her advert was in the local free paper - she tells me the paper should be printing her article about us next week - fingers crossed - she lives close to Friends of teh Aimals so is helping Nia out by making some items for them to sell at their Bazaar - well done Barbara xx As well as the books there were 2 towels, 7 t shirts and 2 jumpers - all pre loved. 4 blankets, 1 boob, 2 dog coats, 1 scarf, 3 cardies, 1 tank top, 1 jumper, 1 sun top, 5 hats and 1 pair of mitts - wonderful donations Barbara - thank you xx
from our wonderful Portsmouth group a huge box filled with all the lovely things they have been posting piccies of after their meetings. Thanks girls for the lovely caps you sent me as well - I will have a choice now when I am getting dressed ;0)
In the box were 6 sands blankets, 26 bags, 121 covers, 121 pads, 18 toys, 2 cones of yarn, 2 boobs, 1 pr bootees, 8 sun tops, 16 kids hats, 12 prem cardies, 12 kids jumpers, 4 kids cardies, 10 blankets, 2 skirts, 1 top, 5 kids tops, 3 t tops and 2 pairs of fingerless gloves - phew - what a donation - well done to all of the Portsmouth members xxx
from Ruth Ginarlis we had 2 kids cardies and 1 kids tank top - these are lovely Ruth :0)
from Nicola and the St Mary's Church Knitting Group another 17 knitted boobs - these ones all done in an intarsia pattern - how cool is that! Thank you ladies we love them xx
from B Rothwell in Coventry we had 4 blankets, 10 hats, 1 kids jumper and 4 bags - thank you so much xx
and finally from Andrea in County Durham we had 5 lovely fleece cat blankets made by her very clever 8 year old grandaughter - that is what we like to see Andrea - get them interested in crafting when they are young - she has made a beautiful job of these xx 4 sands blankets, 2 teddies, 3 cardies, 1 suntop and some spare fabric and dpns - thank you Andrea xx
Right - pretty much caught up to date now - I have a box to open from our very own Mad Maureen in the morning and the photos of Mondays Kelty meeting donations to take but that will be that until I go back to the post office and the delivery van turns up again :0)
Off to have a nice cup of tea and get on with another square xx
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(I hope i got it right i thought i remembered reading somewhere that the challenges ended somewhere near your birthday. I think we will have hammered the targets you set for us, the only one im a bit worried that we didnt make up to was the sands blankets - if you need any more of these please shout up wont you
Do take care!
Here we go then - lets see if I can get all of these phots and thank yous on before I have to dish up the dinner - hubby is ever so good he is happy with a slow cooked stew and tinned veg and potatos so I can have more time on here - bless him 
