On Friday

So i had all these great plans to blog every day up to Christmas, one cause it I would love to get in the routine of blogging once a day and second cause it would be a great way to work on my december daily, as the kit i ordered still has not arrived :(. But due to keyboard issues I am only posting for the first time since Thursday today. 

So on Friday, Alexandra came home from her Swiss Playgroup with a cute little bag, made for Samiclaus' visit to her playgroup. Still today i am unsure if he actually came or if the teacher just said he came to them, but either way she got this cute little bag - and now since she has just started drawing people, we get a cute little picture too.  It was filled with Gingerbread, Apples, nuts, madarins and chocolate. She saved some for her friends too. 

 

I have a new keyboard

Sorry about the lack of blogging. Somehow my keyboard got water in it last week and from then on it wouldnt work. I finally got it to work a little on Sunday, but the space bar and the c would not work. Very hard to type a blog entry without a spacebar. 

So finally the shops re opened today after a public holiday yesterday and the first thing i did was run in and get a brand new keyboard - a one of the new flat ones too. 

I so love Apple!

Our first Christmas Card

It was such a nice surprise to recieve our first Christmas Card in the mail yesterday. Quite funny cause yesterday i had to get my cards done so i could sent them to Australia today. And do you know what, i forgot to take a photo of my cards. So will have to make another one so i have one to post. Thought that they were quite cute. I had planned on using the KOTM - Becky's Holiday Cards but my order that i pre-ordered was lost and only yesterday was another order placed.  Well this is their only chance, so i really hope that they arrive! Will probably end up using them for next year - might even get extra organized and write out the envelopes when they arrive

What a cool Santa

We had our first visit from Santa today. The Zug International Women's Club organizes ever year a santa visit. We headed to a restaurant and ate yummy cookies and fruit and waited for him to arrive. And how surprised we were this year that he brought his guitar with him. We sang Jingle Bells and Rudolph the Red nose raindeer. It was lots of fun and the kids, even though they were a little scared still got some cute little presents. 

Another DYL layout

We are almost at week 10 of the Design your life class and i am so enjoying it, espcially this one. I got to use my new scallop punch as well :) This layout was from week 9 and its all about line. Can't wait for tomorrow and the new topic of color!

Happy December! The first candle is lite. 

Ok, so i am one day too late, but my post yesterday got me

a little distracted. I love December, i really do, but this year, for some reason i am totally out of it. I am not really the organized at all. I have so many projects that i want to do and i have, as usual, have taken on too much. But I am hoping to complete my December Daily album. I hope that next week I will have a little more time and sit down and get to it. 

But I thought i would share our Advent Calendar. I got the idea from Ali's Blog,  and she got the idea from Martha Stewart kids 

Unfortunatly the boxes i had ordered did not come so yesterday I had to run out and find some. I then painted all of them green, red and silver (had to do quite a number of coats) and then finally by the time the kids had gone to bed they were dry enough to put the numbers on them. 

I did not want to hang them on my walls so i just bought a large cork board and i think they look great on there. I can then put them up on our table against the window so that my little boys hands can reach them. I think this could become a tradition in this family! But next time i would start earlier and perhaps paint the corkboard before i put on the boxes!

The easiest Present bar none.

I have just finished off what has become one of the yearly  holiday gift for my family back in Australia. This year it has been easier than ever to make. And that is thanks to Stacy Julian and her Library of Memories system! Well part of it. I have organized my digital photos by season, as Stacy suggested. So when it came making the DVD over the weekend, I literally dragged the photos from each season into iDVD, chose some music and i was ready to burn! So what took me last year days to finish, took me an hour over the weekend!