Happy Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas Eve and a very Merry Christmas.

Christmas in Brisbane

Last night I went in to Brisbane to see all the Christmas decorations and shows. After the disappointment of the Christmas markets I was hoping for a much better display and I wasn't disappointed. If you live in Brisbane try to get in to King George Square to see the light show on the town hall. It was spectacular! My grandchildren were amazed!
These are just a few photos of the show.

This is the solar Christmas tree in the square.

One of the many large Christmas decorations throughout Queen St Mall.

The countdown is on.......

Six more sleeps.......

One week until Christmas Eve.

Its getting close, folks.

Last wreath

Well, this is my last wreath for this year. I have loved making everyone for family and friends. I am thinking next year I may try and sell them....hmm, maybe.

Disappointed

Well, today, I was hoping to be able to write a blog on how wonderful the new Christmas markets at Southbank were, but I'm sorry to say that is not going to happen. I was very disappointed. I went along with great expectations after hearing and reading all the information. It was advertised as being just like the European Christmas markets. I am afraid it was not.... Yes, they had decorated the stalls beautifully, yes, there were Christmas lights and yes, there were real Christmas trees, but that was as far as it went. All the stalls, bar a few, were the exact same stalls that are there week in week out. Where were all the stalls with the Christmas decorations? Where was all the Christmas food? Really, it was just the usual weekend market, decorated. Big let down Southbank!

A bit of fun.

I have found a website that is a bit of fun to use and children love the result. It is called PNP portable North Pole. You can go and make free videos of Santa, to have emailed to family or friends. My grandsons think it is amazing. Santa talking to them.
If you have some spare time, have a go and watch the children smile when they receive their email.

https://www.portablenorthpole.com/en/

Wet, wet, wet......what to do?

It's raining......not much to do inside. I have finished all the present wrapping, decorating all done. Hmmm......what to do today. I know, I will make another wreath. This one is for another of my daughter in laws. Hope she likes the colours I have chosen. I think blue and silver are an excellent colour combination. What do you think?

Two weeks until Christmas

So exciting , Christmas is only two weeks away!

More craft....

Today, I have made sleighs made out of candy canes and chocolate bars. You have probably seen these as they are in Pinterest and Facebook quite often. I have made one each for my adult children and then I made one each for my grandchildren. I made the ones for my grandchildren different to the adults. I added a Santa chocolate and made a Santa sack out of chocolate money and wrapped them in red tissue paper. I think they look really cute. What do you think?

Tree loaded and ready to go.....

Organised

All organised!
Yay, for me!
Presents are now wrapped and under the tree. Christmas cards are all written and posted and the only shopping that I have left to do is for food. I still have a couple of gifts to make, but they will get done next week or maybe even Christmas Eve as I don't want them lying around too long as they involve food.
I also made another wreath yesterday. It is a gift for my sister. I love how it looks.

Christmas cabinets done...

Finally, all the decorations are up at my workplace, and , if I do say so myself, I think they look pretty good.
As you will remember, I was making wreaths and Christmas trees out of old books and lettering out of vintage newspapers. Add to this some stars that I made out of cardboard boxes and vintage newspaper and then some shredded paper in the bottom of the cabinet and this is the result.

Looks great!
There are other cabinets that I decorate, and they are more traditional.

3 weeks until Christmas Eve

Finally, my Christmas lights

After 3 attempts, thanks to the heat and thunder storms we finally got all the lights up and running. Well, not all running.....seems a transformer on set has blown and of course the one broken switch on a set of solar lights, but other than that all good. Grandkids came for a visit and their look of wonderment made it all worth while.

What do you think?