Well finally the 15th arrived - I went to buy our Christmas Tree from a place just down the road from work (near Villa Maria out by Auckland Airport), and only for $25.00 what a bargin./.....
Friday afternoon, left work an hour early to go and sneak some Christmas shopping in before picking the girls up from school - WOW having a Christmas List makes it soooo much easier - I managed to get & out of Botany within half an hour and all my Christmas shopping was done, quickly popped home to drop all the pressie's off and managed to get to school 10 mins early for the girls - RECORD TIMING......
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After picking the girls up we went to do the monthly grocery shop and got home around 5pm, afterwhich the girls quickly helped put all those groceries away so they could start decorating the tree. I took loads of pic's but only managed to use five.... here's my take on
CHALLENGE # 1 Janine's challenge "The first challenge is around the Christmas Tree
I've used the papers which I bought at Lisa's - the got the SEI Doodley -Doo Holiday collection - it was well work it, comes with 12 double sided cardstock, two loads of lettering stickers, 1 page of diecuts and 1 page of stickers plus some fuzzy iron on transfer's which are really YUMMY.
I scrapped till 1am on Friday night and managed to complete
CHALLENGE # 6 as well which was Emma's 1st School Concert held on Tuesday 12th December. It was rather nice to see a concert which does not have your normal Christmassy themes and her class decided to do a dance of the
"5 speckled Frogs" which was absolutely adorable. Have used a couple of rubons, some of those YUMMY KI Memory Ponseitta's from (SBO) and just a few odds of ends for this LO
Saturday morning Emma woke up at the crack of dawn, and made her room was nice & tidy as Saturday was the day at Taiga was coming over for a play - Emma was sooo excited and just could not wait, we collected taiga around 10h15am and the two girls played & played and did a couple of crafty things, and just had loads of fun. They decided that they wanted a sleep over, so we walked over to Kelly's to ask but unfortunately Taiga had her someone coming over - nevertheless - the sleepover was postoned until the Holidays. Luckily for me both girls are used to having their photo's taken and I managed to get some really cute shots of the girls, I have decided to make "Making New Friends" as
CHALLENGE # 8
. I used the scrummy SEI Velvet paper which was used extremely sparingly - simply because it's sooo YUMMY - cannot waste it at all, the letters are from the SEI Doodley-Doo Holiday range and some flowers & little embellishments. The hidden journalling reads "
Emma & Taiga met through MUM & KELLY's on-line scrapping.... Taiga came for a play and they played the whole day without on argument or fight - hopfully this will be the beginning of a very long friendship"
The last challenge which I have completed is the
CHALLENGE # 9 - Keeping in Touch
- I have used the Photo which was the one we picked for our Christmas Cards, used all the SEI Doodley Doo Holiday range together with some wonderul Poinsetta Flowers and a little bit of bling.
Well that's all the scrapping I've done this weekend, plan to do the rest next week, to everyone who reads my BLOG, I wish you a wonderful Christmas and a very very Happy new year.......