Our Christmas Tradition

It's that time again when the kids are on holidays and they are allowed to stay up a little bit later than normal. This is the perfect time when we go out and see all the houses decorated with beautiful Christmas lights. The little man even came this year.

They get bigger and better every year. Bubbles, dancing penguins, sparkle sparkle sparkle!

This is my favourite -

Every year we buy some new lights to add to the house, but I don't think we'll ever go that far!

Billy Bonkers!

"We are the one's who make the chocolates sweet,

Who shake it and stir it till it's ready to eat!"

This year the girls did drama classes and presented us with this performance "Billy Bonkers and the Shake and Stir Factory". There was Billy Bonkers of course, Wiz Fizz, the big one was Poppy Fairy, and the little one was an Iggy Pop. We were very proud of our girls, they showed no signs of nerves and really enjoyed giving us a great show.

A Simple Message

Filled with chocolate too!

Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree

This week I finally got the stockings up and the beautiful personalised ornaments I bought off Etsy. Nanna has been and gone bringing all her Christmas goodies, the kids had a great time with her. Only 4 school days left until the Christmas holiday break. I can't wait!

Every year the kids get christmas cards and candy canes from their friends at school. This year I wanted to do something a little different. We've been making these little christmas tree ornaments that was inspired by the ones sold at "thecupcakery" on Etsy

They are sweet little things but we're halfway there (oooh Bon Jovi!) still more to make.

Sugar and Spice and all things nice....

This order reminded me of that sweet poem. It's my largest order of personalised pillowcases. Someone's been Christmas shopping! I think they are all just adorable.

If you're looking for a sweet girl baby name there are some good ones here. Some oldies but goodies I think!

I love the pinks on the white pillowcase. I wish my girls were still into pink.....

It's beginning to look like Christmas 2008

The first day of December is always my favorite. We usually put up the tree and the kids decorate and think about past Christmas gifts, ornaments and holidays! This year we'll put the tree up a little later because we have a little destructo boy at the moment. We will hang the personalised stockings up and put the Christmas Quilts on their beds now.

I am very excited to say that these Personalised Ornaments arrived today. I purchased them from this Etsy Store. They are beautiful. The kids love them. We'll hang them with their stockings until the Christmas tree goes up. They are something special to add to their personal collection of Christmas treasures.

Birthdays and Presents

It seems all my daughter's friends birthday's happen at the same time.

They all reached that milestone of double digits, very exciting. I can't believe it was 10 years ago when I had her, another 10 and she'll be 20. That makes me........older LOL.

She put in her gift orders so that all her friends can enjoy a personalised gift from her. She made the birthday cards!

Here are some. Personalised Pillowcases of course. Gel pen rolls in their favourite colours filled with carefully selected Gel Pens. All the fabric colours were picked by
my little colour consultant too.

For my girl, I had to make a new quilt in the colour that she loves GREEN. We made it together, she chose the fabrics, I did the sewing. I even managed to finish it in time for her birthday.