Wednesday 24 December 2008

Christmas Eve in Australia


We have as a family just celebrated Christmas Eve together. Four generations- Aunt Dorrie, my husband and I, our children Tracey and Glenn, and their fur babies Zoom, Jonty and Missy.


We decided on a typical Australian feast. Starters were nibbles of olives, gherkins, cocktail onions, kabana, cheese. Mains was seafood (prawns and coral trout) and salads, followed by pavlova (meringue, cream, kiwifruit and banana) with ice cream for dessert. The table was decorated and a Christmas tree was illuminated. We ate on the outside deck under the Christmas lights and listened to Christmas Carols from an old vinyl record (sung by Gene Autry). What a relaxing evening it was, before the hectic call of Christmas day.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Peaceful New Year.

Wednesday 17 December 2008

The Week before Christmas


The week before Christmas- and what am I doing?

Cleaning the house - washing internal walls, windows, refreshing curtains(good strong breeze and lots of sunshine today), rearranging furniture, changing quilt covers and preparing rooms for visitors. Plus the hugest clean out of cupboards for the recycling dumprun today- probably a car load full- periodicals and magazines from the last 5 years- family history, scrapbooking, Turf monthly etc.

And I'm finally moving some things into the new shed- jigsaws (of which I have 120 for my retirement) and suitcases and photo-frames. How all this stuff ever fitted in my cupboards is a puzzle in itself- the cupboards still look full, but so is the shed. Where did it all come from?

Friday 12 December 2008

Christmas Around the World Blog Train

Christmas Around the World Blog Train- my contribution.
My 2 photo quickpage (png format) and my minikit (papers, frames, wordart and tree design)





Christmas around the world Blog train for Digiscrappers starts today.


I am joining in with Hummie's group with a minikit called SandieH-2008 Catw in blues, green and silver.


Here is the preview and the links for the minikit and an amended file,


http://www.4shared.com/file/74841591/ae11a583/SandieH_2008_CATW.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/75462142/3c7f15e9/SandieH_2008CATW_extrafile.html

and my Quickpage


http://www.4shared.com/file/74839947/8c527360/SandieH-2008_Catw-QP.html


Hope you join the train and find lots of goodies to share.