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christmas ideas [day 1] : advent calendars
From now until Christmas Mel and I will be sharing some inspirational crafty Christmas projects and ideas. We'll be posting every Tuesday and Friday until Christmas. In preparation for the silly season, I created a Christmas-y blog banner, just to get me in the festive mood. Mel and I thought we'd start our festive ideas with a post about Advent Calendars. I wanted to find out a little about the history of the Advent Calendar. I knew it was a way of counting down the days to Christmas, but I wanted more.... Wikipedia to the rescue, this was one place that appeared in my search. A brief hist

poor neglected blog...
... I've just checked and it's been over 2 months since my last blog post. The days, weeks and (dare I say) months have just flown by. In October we took a trip overseas to our beautiful neighbour, New Zealand. We had a fabulous time staying in Christchurch, Lake Tekapo and Queenstown and driving through the most gorgeous countryside in between.  I've finally uploaded our holiday snaps to Flickr, if you are interested you can take a look at them

ribbons galore news...
There are so many new ribbons now available at Ribbons Galore. Above is the retro owls on brown ribbon (15mm wide). Also available with a red, turquoise and lilac background.

paper lanterns
Just thought I'd show a photo of some paper lanterns I made recently.   Each lantern is made from a sheet of 12" x 12" paper. I made them up in about half an hour to decorate our family room for Emily's birthday recently. They looked very pretty, and Emily's friends were suitably impressed! So my beautiful girl is now 14! I don't get too many photos of her these days, but here is one I managed to take of her a few weeks ago. My gorgeous and tale