Iris's Christmas House

Iris was mooching in my crafty drawer and found this wooden, money box house (The Works) and she flew with it!

It started off very simply, I loved all the windows and doors and would have been quite happy for her to have left it at that, in all it's simple, childish innocence .......... 

........ but, then I went and suggested that, perhaps, she might like to put a couple of gingerbread men on it .......well that was it ........

....... because foolishly, I bought in a whole box of Christmas stickers .................

........ and I totally lost the girl!  Less is more Nanny,? You must be joking, right?

No space was left unfilled and Iris was sooooooo thrilled with everything she'd done. She had made something beautiful to decorate her Christmas bedroom and that she could put her Christmas pocket money in.

Sometimes, Nanny has to just sit back, be quiet and encourage, because what Iris actually put together, in the end, was a far more honest, innocent and genuine piece of pure pleasure and creativity than if I had tried to restrain her natural urges in order to keep things a lot more simple.  Lesson learnt Nanny!