christmas presents

I was very lucky to receive some very lovely presents over christmas.

Cute stationery

Pampering

Lots of domestic presents - especially for the kitchen !

catch up post: christmas hosting

Wow it has been a long time since I posted a blog! I have been meaning to post about my little christmas dinner I hosted a few weeks ago. Each  year, my friends from highschool and I get together over christmas to catch up and exchange secret santa presents. This year it was decided it would be hosted at my place :) My roomate Jess has a wonderful eye for design and helped me set the table to look most festive including a very masterfully arranged centrepiece.

All in all it was a wonderful night with good food, lots of laughter, and just a great time with old friends :)  

Table places

Our centre piece

Indoor table setting

The outdoor table setting

Hannah opening her presents

 Liz and Emma by the christmas tree

The boys chilling

 Some of the desserts spread

live love listen

homemade christmas treats

Tis the season! This weekend I made a few christmas treats.

Fruit mince pies... I used a star-shaped wire napkin holder to cut out the stars!

We then rolled out the left over pastry with a rolling pin  to make a second batch :)

Rum balls using my grandmas recipe ;)

Eggnog!!! I have always wanted to try this and now I finally have! Verdict? Delicious!

I used a recipe for one found here and skipped step 3 to serve it cool :)

giggles

Lots of giggles tonight and just wanted to share a few :)

1.  I Love Lucy's Job switching (chocolate factory) and Vitameatavegamin

2. This adorable "I love you" morning jump

3. The 15 greatest Google autocomplete fails

4. HelloGiggles - Hilarious articles like The indirect 'Come look at this' or No gifts please. Yeah right.

5. Postcardsfromyomomma

christmas time

This is a particularly special christmas for me as it is my first christmas living out of home! 

Here is a picture of me with our little christmas tree after setting it up last night :)

We had lots of fun christmas decorating and listening to christmas songs

Our baby Christmas trees 1st christmas in the new home.

They had sold out of the larger ones but when we got it home it looks so adorable we couldn't imagine any other!

block colour suede

tony bianco

strive

enlighting - keep striving for your best

 thanks for sharing, ariaintrepid

carnival of flowers

Our weekend trip to Toowoomba coincided with their annual Carinval of Flowers, which is held each spring. Jenna's mum took us for a stroll through Kings Park, where we saw a spectacular display of the most beautiful flowers- all in full bloom.

lovely toowoomba

A few weekends ago Jenna  and her mum took me to a gorgeous homewares store in Toowoomba. Here is a collection of some of the treasures they had there :)