I love to have a go at everything, knitting, sewing, patchwork, painting, drawing, baking, recycling. I love it all. I’m not perfect at any of it, but I do get immense pleasure from creating something and I get quite a bit of assistance from my granddaughter Lola. One of the biggest attractions of the Take A Break magazine is their competitions, prize draws and puzzles which readers can enter to win lots of small and large prizes ranging from holidays to vouchers. The competitions are throughout the magazine and take many different formats, from the traditional to the fun and funky. Readers can choose to enter all or some of the competitions via telephone call, text, post or online. Entry online is free and the most popular method. Example and list of Take A Break competitions Puzzles and Competitions Format Well…..when all of the building work and new extensions were completed, that wonderful man that just happens to be my youngest son, handed me the keys and said ‘there you go mum, it’s your fabric shop’! Can you believe it! …… No I couldn’t either!! But here it is YIPPEE ….. Each puzzle you solve results in a one-word or numerical answer. These answers must be submitted before the closing date. You can enter as many or as few competitions as you like. The closing date is approximately 10 days after the magazine publication date. Postal Entry Entry form / coupon We always recommend you read the terms and conditions for any competition you enter. A few general T&Cs for the Take A Break comps at the time of writing this post are;

There are many comps throughout the magazine, each with a different prize to win and some offering multiple prizes – for example one competition could have enough prizes for 5 winners. I’m fifty sixty something, married for 40+ years, have 3 grown up children in their 30’s 40’s and have a beautiful granddaughter aged 10 11 12 16 and 2 little Poochon girls (Bichon Frise x Toy Poodle) called Skinny Minnie & Crazy Maisie to complete my family. Although Minnie’s not so skinny these days but Maisie is still as crazy!I love all things crafty. It’s so easy to go and buy things off the shelf but nothing gives me more pleasure than when I can create it myself. Well….the moment has come for me to proudly announce “WE NOW HAVE OUR VERY OWN FABRICS SHOP”…ooops sorry I’m shouting! and guess what? it’s called ‘ DEANY FABRICS‘ It all started from my love of sewing and all things crafty. In that little room that my husband so lovingly created for me so that I could keep all my ‘mess’ in one room haha( photos below) I would spend hours in there doing what I love best …creating and have always yearned for my own business selling fabrics 🙂 but this is how my dreams have become a reality…..

Squared: provide the 4-letter answers to fill a 4×4 grid of letters, use the highlighted squares to find the answer word. Question Time: you have a list of 21 questions and 20 answers. Stroke the answers off and submit the remaining answer to enter the competition.