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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Franziska's Scrap-Blog: Vintage Flowers!

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Franziska's Scrap-Blog: Vintage Flowers!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Christmas 2008

As seems to be the tradition we were back Perth a couple of times in December, with Simon and Angela's wedding on the 13th and Phill's 27th on the 14th. We were back again in time for Steve's birthday, and a lovely dinner of free fish and chips due to a mix up! It was also great to see Kath as she was in town.

After Christmas day morning at Mum and Dad Okely's with present opening and a roast lunch we spent the afternoon at Shanhun's - Les's Christmas pudding was too good to refuse so I had to have some of that too.

We headed up to the Turnbull's for Okely extended family Christmas BBQ which was fun too! It was great to have Angela and Simon there (the newlyweds!) and see all the Okely rellies.

My dear friend Sarah got engaged to her boyfriend A Spencer on Christmas day so I flew back for the Engagement party on New Years day. On my arrival on New Years Day I got picked up from the airport in style as Dan and Amberley just got their very cool new XR6 and got to celebrate the new year and Lauren's 18th

We had our 20 week ultrasound and everything seems to be going well with the baby (or Pebble as it is currently known). We are really looking forward to our holiday down south as Phill has had a really busy year. We will be taking the 'scenic' route home to Kal via Margaret River, Albany, Esperance and a few places in between.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Remembering our Christmas Traditions

I've been thinking about what made my Christmas special as a child:

One new Christmas decoration Mum would buy each year
Putting up the Christmas tree on December 1 while listening to the cricket on the radio/TV
Putting up Christmas lights on the house
Opening doors on the advent calendar (nope - no chocolate just a picture behind each door)
Wrapping presents on Christmas Eve (to avoid any poking or prodding)
Opening some little gifts from Father Christmas from our personal red felt stocking to keep us amused and leaving Mum and Dad to sleep peacefully!
Mini cereal boxes for breakky on Christmas morning
Waiting until after Church on Christmas day to unwrap the presents
In later years, going to a Christmas eve service and coming home to a midnight snack of hot chips!
Grandma's roasted stuffed sausagemeat
Backyard cricket on Christmas day
Catching up with the family
Watching the Boxing Day test (OK did I mention we are a cricket loving family?)

Thursday, December 11, 2008

More Double Jeopardy

I just could not resist telling you all about Set 2 of Double Jeopardy. This one is Christmas themed - Double Jeopardy: Holiday Edition. It included seven Christmas 24?x12? papers, to make seamless double page LOs. I just can't wait to put them to use.

To give you an idea of how wonderful these 24�12? papers are, here's a Christmas page I created last week using Double Jeopardy: Bright Basic Solids and Prestige & Holiday Prestige Bundle.