Santa photo

Fuzzy, Squealy & String Bean with Santa.

We headed out to Brand Depot this morning as we had it on good authority that this was the place to get a quick and easy Santa shot. I had also heard that the Santa was really friendly and put the kids at ease.

We were first in line and walked away with 4 5x7 shots for $15. The photos were $5 each with the first one free! The kids really enjoyed the experience although we couldn't get either of the boys to smile at all. 6 shots later we gave up. String Bean of course looked radiant in all the photos!


















This afternoon we were treated to a rare visit from Uncle Ant and Aunt Bec. They bought along the adorable baby Olivia. The kids really enjoyed playing with the baby and Squealy even decided to share his toys with her! Cluck, cluck, cluck......;-)

The tree is up

Tonight has been the first chance we've had to set up our Christmas tree and decorate the house. The kids had so much fun. Squealy helped Fuzzy set up the mini tree (which will be placed on our dining room table). After he went to bed we started the big tree.


The kids were a fantastic help. They were able to follow instructions really well and hung most of the ornaments. I'm wondering whether Squealy will leave the tree alone? I guess we shall see tomorrow.

He got sad....

Captured the moon and his little pals again this evening. But instead of a smile it is now a frown! Too cool really.

Smiley Moon.

Wow. A really rare occurrence: a smiley moon. A crescent moon with Venus and Jupiter adding the eyes. Thanks to Steve and Lisa for reminding me to get off the 'puter and go outside to see this. I'm amazed my camera captured it so well!

Family catch ups.

All six playing beautifully together. Was fantastic to catch up with Lisa and the kids. Had a great chat and got some goss. Got to love family get togethers!

We could play lets spot the blanket and finger sucking! Squealy. Or who isn't going to join in the photo? Fuzzy Wuzzy.

Card Stack

Cards designed by Nicola Denny!

I caught up with an old friend who was visiting on the weekend. She is a Stampin' Up demonstrator and we participated in a Christmas Card Stack night. It was pretty frenetic and fast paced but I learnt quite abit of new technique and got some lovely cards to send to family and friends out of the evening. A really fun evening with friends.

Love To Stitch layout class with Ainslee McCallum

On a sadder note Scrap Junkie closed it's door for the last time on Sunday. Sob where will I go now to find all the pretty things? and avoid postage too? and get good customer service? :-( Just so sad that things didn't work out for the lovely Ainslee. Just seems so unfair. But Canberra doesn't seem to be very kind to scrapbooking stores in general

I was fortunate to book into the very last class that Ainslee taught last weekend and completed a gorgeous hand stitched layout. I will always remember the fun times and the lovely Scrap Junkie shop when I look at this layout.

Box Construction

Fuzzy Wuzzy came home with this from preschool last week. He is so talented in his own way. So carefully put together. With two eyes and four white wheels on the sides! He is really, really ready for school. He seems to have a really good sense of where things should go, as the wheels were all places exactly where they needed to go!
He is also enjoying his birthday present that Abi got him: some scrapbooks and a couple of sets of Brush Paint Pens. His Daddy helped out with the train outline but he did all the rest by himself! Love the sun and the clouds above the train!