Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy Christmas and Merry New Year!!!

Thank you to all who follow my blog and all my wonderful clients and friends. I would like to wish you a very SAFE holiday season...have fun spending time with your families and be sure to relax and get some chill time.

I certainly am feeling quite relaxed even after such a busy lead up to Christmas. We arrived in Esperance at 10pm on Christmas eve to spend Christmas with both mine and Matt's family. By Christmas morning I was finally feeling like it was Christmas and it was a great day.

Opening presents is always fun with kids, I can remember thinking (7 years ago) "gee Christmas is not as exciting as when I was a kid myself" and the anticipation would be killing me, so having the kids say to me a hundred times "can we open the presents yet?" was all too easy to agree to - once everyone was dressed for Christmas photos of course! - and they had so much fun, and so did we watching them.


I still think of those who could not be with us this Christmas. My brother, Dean and his wife Cassi and the boys are all in California for Christmas with Cassi's family. This is a well deserved opportunity for them and I'm sure they are having a ball. Matt's sister, Kimberly and our nephew Miles are having a white Christmas in Montana where they live. I am looking forward to a white Christmas with them one day...it would be strange to not be swealtering in the heat and eating seafood and salad though...

We are still harvesting this week so we are back to work until its done so we can finish up the season in the office and then go on a holiday. At the moment I have been moving things around a bit in the shop for a fresh new look. We have new stock in for the new year and I am looking forward to playing with it when I get the BAS done.

We have new Basic Grey in stock, the classy 'Origins' range...
and the delicious 'Sugar Rush' range...
We also have October Afternoon new releases, 'Report Card'...
and 'Farm Fresh'...
These are all a very big bit yummy!
Thanks Linda and Lissa for your comments on my last post. It is always good to hear from you and know I'm not alone. Cheers everyone and have a happy New Year celebration!

Monday, December 21, 2009

The silly season...

That's what they call it! and now I know why! Everything is a bit silly at the moment...my brain, the kids, the harvest and everything that is going on. I am taking stock at the moment...of life. I have really struggled to get into the spirit of Christmas this year...struggled with the schedule of things to do, places to be, and responsibilities. I get the feeling I'm not the only one. I envy blogger's who are counting down the days with craft projects, taking photos every day, Christmas cooking and all the 'holiday frills' but I am not one of those and I think I am in the majority, not the minority. So how can this be avoided?...i'll tell you next year if I figure it out between now and then.

I lost a friend last week, a guy I've known for nearly 20 years. And the worst thing is that it is now... at Christmas time. And its so much worse for his family...so I've been a bit stunned to say the least.

Anyway, to cut a long story short I realised that my 'lack of Christmas spirit' was not fair on the kids so we got some decorations together and got our nativity ornaments out and did a little decorating on Sunday. I finally got to dress the kids in red and take our annual Christmas photo (which was not that easy as it took quite a bit of coaxing to get the kids to smile at the same time and not pull silly faces!). So hear they are...Phoeb's is till missing her front 2 teeth...there is a hint of a new one!


Despite the dramas I have faced, life has still gone on and stocking the shop for Christmas has been busy but fun. I have loads of new gift ware in...






and new scrapbooking ranges in as well like K & Co Evergreen - the Christmas line which is vintage this year...


...and Greenhouse which is a fun new Eco range that I am dying to do something with... projects are forming in my mind to work on in the new year.

Speaking of the New Year, my mind is buzzing with loads of ideas for next year (its the sleepless nights when I think this stuff up!) so I'll try to keep you informed in January of new ideas and plans for 2010. That's all for today...be back soon.