Things I Have Been Enjoying Lately,,,

1. Christmas Pudding on Christmas Day which tasted very good thanks Frankie!
2. The Christmas sun, which will hopefully last a while.
3. My new Picnic accessories, which are just amazing

As is my new Picnic set, which i have been coveting for ages, and was so happy to receive it from Claire and Shaun on Christmas morning!

I Hope everyone else has been enjoying lovely things lately too xo

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to everyone! We hope that everyones day is extremely lovely and pleasant and  full of good things too!!!

Christmas cooking!

Here are some of the results of yesterday's Christmas cooking afternoon, Mum and I made some peppermint truffles, marshmallow chocolate cups, which are the simplest, tastiest treats ever and some little shortbread christmas cakes!

A Christmas Dinner!

Last night some friends and I had a small Christmas dinner. We went to the market, got lots and lots of ingredients and dreamed about eating even more, we went home put the roast in the oven and started making a trifle, we didn't put it in the traditional round glass bowl because we didn't have one, but instead improvised with the shallow lasagne dish, it didn't impact on the taste at all.

Right now though I'm about to begin the annual christmas bake with mum, its always lots of fun!

Meaghan. 

Yesterday I...

...did so much travelling, so much walking, so much shopping and so much wrapping. For a while I thought Christamas was going to be to much for me to handle this year, i've been so busy working and trying to catch up with poeple that present buying has halted, but yesterday I got on top of it all and am feeling much better, I can't wait for the actual day now. Oh and I caught sight of a huge flashing star hung on the side of a house! but now i'm off to the market!!

From Meg.

We Love Christmas!

Yesterday I visited Mum and Dads and decided put up the christams tree, it a little early for us this year but we did it anyway. Pullling out the Christmas decorations box is like going back in time for me, we still have haeps of the decorations we made as kids like the peg reindeer and the knitted stockings mum made us all. Every Christmas moring we would wake up really early and run into Mum and Dads and go through our Christmas Stockings Together, then at about lunch time we would remember the little stocking hanging on the tree, Santa always put a packet of life savers in them for us. This Year Mum even quilted a little mat for the Christmas tree to sit on, which i think is really lovely.

From Meaghan.

Christmas Pud!

This is the Christmas pudding I made the other week, it took quite a long time with all the soaking, miking and baking that is required, but it was lots of fun, i can;t wait for christmas day to see exactly how it turns out, here's hoping its delicious!

What I'm Looking Forward To!

This year I have decided that it will be my turn to cook the christmas pudding, I'm going to use the recipie thats in the current edition of frankie, beacuse it looks extra good, and i'm going to make it on the traditional stir up day too, which is Sunday the 23rd this year, so the article says!

From Meaghan.