Christmas Traditions

Do you have any? We don't have many .. I wish we had more.
Jason and I started a Tradition when Riley was born. We took a Christmas photo of Riley to put on the Christmas card. It was inspired one year by my friend Jill who's Christmas card had her kids adorned in tinsel and ornaments and I LOVED the idea, so every year from then the kids have had a Christmas Photo Shoot and the favourite picture was on the front of our cards. Now my good friend Jennie makes Christmas CD decorations every year, one decoration for each kid each year, I thought that was a fantastic idea when she first showed me. This Year Jennie put photos on her Cd's and I was like OMG!!! And a new Christmas Tradition has being born for me! I am now going to make a Christmas CD Decoration each year with our Christmas photo! Here are the decorations I have made 2005 - 2010









Thanks so much Jill & Jennie for your inspiration! So what do you all have as Christmas Traditions? Share with me .. you never know someone might just start up a new tradition all because of you!!

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For some reason I missed some of the Christmas ornaments I recieved ... so here are the missing ones!





and since I didn't have a Christmas Tree when I took the photos a pic of them all on my Tree outside!!

Happy Christmas!

I Love Summer

It is my Favourite time of the year ... You have kids in shorts/skirts, swimming, summer fruit!!! - peaches, nectarines, strawberries, melons, cherries, plums, apricots ohhh my mouth waters at the thought! Christmas, beaches, BBQs, I just love everything about Summer.
Today finally feels like Christmas, we got our tree today and the kids had fun decorating it. I am sitting here in the dark with the Christmas lights on (and a few Christmas candles) and I can smell the tree and the candles and ahhhh smells like Christmas!



This year I got involved in a Christmas Ornament Swap. You make 10 ornaments and post them off and get 10 different ones in return. I made my ornaments from Cd's an idea I got from my Friend Jennie I was completely blown away by the AMAZING ornaments I have so far received in the letterbox. There are some amazingly talented ladies out there!
These are mine ...




and these are the amazing ones I have received in the post so far ...








Something else that I love about Summer is the garden! I have the most awesome Veggie Garden at the moment and OMGoodness the flowers I have around are simple stunning!







Nothing beats home grown veggies!!!

So I am also part way through making a few different Christmas Projects so watch this space! And I have a couple tutorials coming .. and I can't wait to show you my Homemade Christmas Presents!!