I managed to complete Tom's Scrooge costume last weekend and it looks pretty good.

Tom getting into character.

We traipsed round to school on Monday morning with the costume, the waistcoats and my sewing machine only to find the school shut due to the snow. So it was back home for a duvet day....which turned into a duvet week with the school closed until Friday when we were able to repeat our earlier trip to school laden with sewing machine and costumes.

So we had a bit of a rush on to finish the waistcoats, especially when it was discovered that we had 60 to make not 40. So today I have sewn all the ones we cut out yesterday and we have a total at home of 44 with some completed ones left at school so I reckon Monday morning should see the end of the work. Thank goodness - then I can finally get on with making mince pies.

Fun in the snow.

Cool snowman with a scarf made from leftover material from the dreaded waistcoats.