News & Updates from Jan Mason Designs

This is 3 of our grandchildren out for a shopping day to spend some of the money they had for Christmas.

Daisy is 11, Amy is 10, and of course little Frankie is 4, but she also loves to join in the shopping trip.

Their brother, Callum, also 11, was at the football match with Dad, and Grandad. They had a lovely day, and bought lots of clothes and accessories and even managed to bring home some change!

I think Ill take them with me next time I go shopping, they can certainly find a bargain!

This is my 3 year old granddaughter Frankie, baking cakes for her brother an 2 sisters, for when they come home from school.

She is such a clever little girl and although she doesnt have her 4th birthday until July, she starts infant school in September.

She has been going to nursery for the past year, and she still doesnt like it! I dont think she is going to be very impressed with school either.She does love to help mummy, and of course licking the bowl after is the best part.

These are my grandchildren, all dressed up for their Halloween party. Their mum had done a marvellous job of dressing them all up, even down to the makeup.

The whole family dressed up and they really looked the part.They arent taken door knocking, so we have a Halloween party so that they can dress up.

I wouldnt liked to have met them in the dark!

On our recent holiday in the USA, Tennessee, we went for a meal one evening at a restaurant by the side of a river.

You can imagine how excited we were when a family of racoons came out from underneath the bridge right at the side of the restaurant.

At first only one came out, then two, then four, and eventually there were five. Apparently they appear every night hoping for scraps of food.

This little chap (could be gal, for all I know!) is one of a family of hedgehogs who live in ours and our neighbours garden.

They come out at night to feed on the sunflower seeds that the birds spill from the feeders during the day.

They must walk hedgehog miles a day because our gardens are way long, and the feeders are at the top of the garden, near the house, but the only place they can get through to our neighbours garden is right at the bottom.

He (she) was put back and he ambled off.