We had a gay old time!

Now what sort of blogger would I be if I didn't inundate you with photos from our family Christmas?

Before the carnage

Christmas dinner was at my house this year, and I was so excited! My sister, her husband and 3 kids camped in our old tent on the back lawn, my parents set their caravan up in the driveway, and we set up a blow up mattress in Ryleah's room for my brother and his wife. Harry got Ryleah's bed, lucky thing! My Uncle is the only extended family to come to our Christmas dinners. He's more like my older brother really, closer to me in age than my Mum. He sleeps wherever he falls! On this occasion, it may have been on the floor in the bar, who knows?

All set up for an Aussie backyard camp out Christmas!

Priceless: Mum's less than amused face during Dad's Christmas speech!

Cheers!

A bit of shuffling during Christmas dinner, why not?

A sozzled looking mother

Thus ends my photography for the day. You see, our family have a large tea, so my parents, husband and I spend a large part of the day celebrating with a few beverages. Then, when the siblings arrive with their broods, we eat, then get into it a bit more! Christmas is always a massive party in our house!

We ended the night at around 3 or 4am, after lots of shuffling around the camp fire, sing-a-longs with my new ukulele and harmonica, and tonnes of laughs!

Gee, I love my family!

Blondes have more fun?

A new do? Think it is!

Such a pose very natural photo indeed!

2 posts in one night? Unheard of!

Hello world!

Hello, internet? Is that you?

By golly it is good to be back online. Sure, it may be via a little, very expensive usb modem in which I must track my upoads and downloads every 5 seconds to make sure I’m not exceeding my limits, but I’m here! (no thanks to my lovely husband who won’t call dodo to see why our home internet isn’t working. I can’t call, I’m not an authorised person! Can you tell I’m not annoyed at this at all??)

And I must mention that I have bought my credit under top secret circumstances seeing as how everytime I get credit my son sucks the life out of it playing mind numbing games, and listening to music via you tube!! Who does that I ask you? 11 year old boys apparently.

Anyhoo, as part of the new year, I promised myself to make more effort with this, my blog. And with all my creative hobbies actually. The past couple of months' shenanigans have drained me of every inch of enthusiasm and motivation for everything I previously thought of as fun. Today I fight back! I will fight for my passion, for my creativity! Yes! Can I get a hallelujah!

So, for my first blog post of the year, I will show you what I recently put my creativeness (is that even a word? It is now!) towards. An ace stool!

This baby came to me all brown and vinyl, cool yes, but not cool enough. She sat in my kitchen area for a good couple of weeks before inspiration struck.

I decided to use a piece of patchwork material I had pieced together a few months ago. I had planned on making a small quilt for my bed, but I took waaay too long (more than one night!) so I chucked it in my craft cupboard and there it stayed, looking lovely but pretty useless… until Sunday afternoon.

A snip here, a staple there, and wha-la! Isn’t she lovely…isn’t she wonderful?

I'm not quite sure what to do with her legs yet though. Leave them? Stain them? Paint them? Any suggestions peeps?

Wow, that felt good! Hello blog land, I'm back!