Fairweather Friends

who needs them

not me

that decision was oh so easy to make today

if she wants to see me she knows where I live.....

my guess is I'll see her next on the 1st day of school in 2011

unless she wants her youngest looked after......

Over it

over her

I'm moving on!


phew that feels soooooo much better getting that off my chest!

Oops, oops oops

I guess I didn't 'chanel' Nigella properly

Today I made shortbread

actually today I made 'guess the shape shortbread'

can you guess what shapes the shortbread is

supposed to be, from this picture???

Thats right the shortbread shapes are

Star

Heart

Flower

Gingerbread Man

you can see them can't you lol lol lol

Oh if only I had channel-ed Nigella properly lol lol lol

other than our shortbread adventure

the girlies did some christmas craft

and the plumber has been, all that is left to do is to re route the stormwater, so it

seems we will get to spend our christmas with the trench

lucky us lol lol lol

Hope your baking was better than mine lol

I'm ready

well as ready as I'll ever be for the Big Guy to climb in the window, to leave his goodies

Did the LAST of the present shopping today, hid some goodies in the boot of Mum and Dads car

Yesterday the girlies and I did the Christmas food shop, just need to pay a visit on Thursday to the Vegie Shed for the salady stuff we need for Saturday

Yesterday the littlest girlie and I bought my christmas present, which is now sitting on my bench waiting to be used. I was very spoilt this year because look what Santa has given me, the twice a year baker lol ok maybe I am the 4 times a year baker, girlie birthdays x 3 and Christmas



Tomorrow its getting a workout as I am going to attempt to make Shortbread, got mums biscuit forcer today as Grandmas recipe demands a 'biscuit forcer' wish me luck

then Friday it will get another workout as I am making pavlova not sure whether to use the pavlova egg or a recipe though, I am thinking I will attempt to make it from scratch and if that fails, I'll use the egg.

Mmmmmm pavlova

and tomorrow should see the return of the plumber to finish the work, after a not so nice phone call to them this morning they have promised it will be all finished tomorrow.......we shall see about that though, because that is what was said on Friday.......

its hard to get good help these days.

Oh and received a present in the mail from a gorgeous girlie in WA who I miss so much,

Meet 'Dead Fred'

Oh didn't I giggle when I opened the parcel up, and I giggle every time I stab him with a pen she also sent a magnet that reads,

'I tried to drown my troubles,

but my husband learnt to swim'

Love it Miss Toni xxx

I'm Not Here

I have pulled the blinds, hushed the children in fear of 'the knock' on the door, that I am afraid is going to come soon.

I am pretty sure I am going to be charged with 'Cruelty to Gingerbread Men'

the girlies and I have been assulting baking poor innocent gingerbread men,

our  victims gingerbread men have suffered

Some are missing limbs

some have crispy toes, arms, heads

some have broken necks

here's our next batch of victims gingerbread men

fingers crossed the shortbread survives tonight!

Happy Baking :)

and for the record, I have NEVER made GBM before and I am

pretty sure I never will again lol

Do you

like my new header photo?

I found it last week when I spent 2 hours transfering all my photos over to the external hardrive.

There were some pearlers in there

many moons ago when I was'into' scrapbooking, I would take a christmas photo each year for our christmas cards.

This was taken in 2006, in the middle of a North Queensland downpour in December.

The twosome were 5 and my baby had just turned 3

Makes me giggle when I look at it.

would love to know what Miss I was thinking, Miss E obviously wasn't doing what Miss S wanted, hence the smack on the head with the H lol lol lol

Hope your 'old' christmas photos still make you giggle.

I've been stitching

In my Garden, in random order

Down in the Garden by Leanne Beasly

block 1

and I am working on Block 2

and my girlies

Miss I

Miss S

Miss E

and the handsome boys

Harry Vincent

Henry cat

and finally a terrible shot of

Grandmas crystal cabinet

all the Jasper Blue wedgewood was her's

and the dolly on the bottom shelf has been handed down

through Mums family for ever, I just need to decide

WHO

gets her next.



Photo Heavy

I have lots of photos to share today

1st up are the gorgeous presents I received in Maree's 6 items christmas swap from the equally as gorgeous Miss Deb

a christmas decoration

a felted bag

candles

mmmmm M&M's, and a lil tin too

a needle book

a stitched tea towel, (purely for decorative purposes only in this house lol)

and I received a NZ quilting magazine

thanks Miss Deb, you know I LOVE them, and Miss Deb also

sent presents for the girlies, they were so excited when they got them

Love you lots Deb xxx

and there have been some changes with the furniture too

this hutch is now in the kitchen

this half a hutch was in the kitchen and is now in the

living room

the plates were in the other full hutch love my wall of plates :)

We found this sign yesterday, how could I not have it

sums me up perfectly

it lives above the doorframe into the dining room

and the cat scratching post has been modified and fixed

and can you see I can now use the footstool, because I also got a

basket to sit beside the couch for my night-time sewing bits and its got

a lid so the kitty's don't get in it

and I have the girlies santa pressies to get off layby next week and

my christmas shopping is DONE and DUSTED, except for the bits and pieces

I need to get from the supermarket on Thursday we are

ready for Santa to visit.

Told you it was photo heavy lol