Wednesday 31 December 2014

christmas and other bits..........

Christmas has come and gone........and yes I have a few posts going up today as I want them in before then end of the year and OMG thats today...........
Here's the Christmas tree........we had friends come and stay from Christmas Eve until Boxing Day........and another couple joined us for lunch..........no extended family here for Christmas...first time ever.........everyone off in different directions...........
the most exciting thing about Christmas was my Mum actually sewed me a present............
my Mum doesn't sew or craft........the only time I remember her sewing was when my siblings were babies and one was walking and sticking their fingers in the needle and the other one was crawling under the table pushing the foot control.........she packed it all up and I don't ever remember her getting it out again......so this is a major effort.............she was so proud of herself.........she made me sit down to open it incase i died of shock...........lol.......
She even has a chook on it........just for me.........
this i am sure is the first and last hand made present from my Mum so I will hang it up somewhere special........she even put a hanger on the back............
the table for Christmas day...............
I spray painted some sticks silver and put them into the bottles..........
I had some candles in the glass jars.....
breaky we always have some neighbors visit and sit out on the front verendah...........
(actually the Bird on the Border flew by this week and we sat out here too.............)
the weather for the Christmas period has been beautiful..............the house all open.........nice breezes.........no air con needed........nice sleeping weather....amazing for our part of the world........
higher in the 30's for the next few days...............
This is a bag Fairy Girl made at school..................
no yabby salad on the christmas dinner list this year..............with the dams be so low or empty for so long there aren't many in the dams.............this one we caught we put back..........
such interesting creatures..............
a boring job the other day......escorting a tractor and sowing thing Mr Chooky was moving...........top speed 30kms/hour...........traveled like this for hours..........only passed about 12 vehicles............
was enjoying seeing things green while driving along........the rain before christmas made everything nice and green for Christmas and we sure are starting the New Year much better then this time last year................
I won't be disappointed 2014 is over.....the start of it was the most difficult period of my life.......
drought is soul destroying........makes dealing with anything else so difficult...........
our back packers spent nearly 4 months living with us...........I think it was the only thing that kept me going there for a bit..........sadly they left but we still keep in touch........they are like my foreign children......one day I will see them again.............
Boy Wonder started doing school at home........not a choice for everyone but it is the best decision I have made for him.........wished I did it earlier...........he got 4 awards at the end of year presentation..........he's only 6ft4in now........and works like a man even thought he is far from that age.......not many kids do what he does at his age.........
Fairy Girl is growing and maturing.........doing well at school.....I am now the shortest person in the family........I say we need short people to make the tall people feel tall..............
so proud of both of them..........
Anyway
onto bigger and better things in 2015..........green grass sure is a good start...........
First up is the new SAL..........
no new year resolutions...........they only get broken just live life as I believe...........
live today like it's the last............
if you can't say something nice don't say it at all...........
I don't understand how people can be nasty.........I just cant do it.........
friendship is precious and treat it that way..........
I love blogging and will be here for quite some time yet...........the friendships formed thru blogging are so special............pictures only say so much........its the words and interaction that go with it thats special...............thanks to my blogging friends.........keep blogging.............its how we connect...........
Catch you later
Chookyblue

SSCS gifts L-Z..............

the last of the swap gifts..............enjoy..........
Laila for Leanne
Leanne for Marica
Lisa for Lyn
Lou for MariaW
Lou for MariaW
Lyn for CherylH
Lynda for Martine
Lynda for Martine
Lynn for Melanie
MariaG for Denice
MariaW for Diane
Marica for Tracy
Martine for Julie
Melanie for WendyF
Michell for Annette
Nancy for Jenny
Noemia for Suze
Peg for Clare
Raewyn for Sue
Raewyn for Sue 
Sharon for Katie
Sheryl for Lou
Sue for Florence
Susan for KarolAnn
Suze for Carole
Sylvia for Chookyblue
Tonje for Lisa
Tracy for Grethe
WendyB for Gracie
WendyF for Lynda
i'll say thinks now for the comments you leave as I may not get to reply to all of them......
better still go to the girls blogs and leave comments for them on the gifts they made...........
links for all the girls names is on a tab at the top of my blog..........2014SSCS.........
Catch you later
Chookyblue

SSCS gifts A-K............

I may organise the SSCS but the girls make the swap as wonderful as it is by making beautiful gifts for their buddies......stalking initially but then once you are known to each other getting to know new friends over the ocean..............mostly 1/2 way round the world............the internet makes us close............sharing one interest and a wonderful part of the internet "blogging"...........

With spammers and trolls giving the internet a bad name let alone the rest of the bad/evil stuff.......I love our part of the internet full of goodness and friendship..........constant inspiration................
So here are all the wonderful presents the girls made..........
don't think this swap is something you can't do...........your not good enough etc..........you just need to do the best you can and make something you would love to receive for your partner.....
Don't forget the links to the girls blogs are on the tab at the top of my blog............
Anne Heidi for Jeanette
Annette for Tonje
Berit for Susan
Caroline for Sheryl
CherylH for Caroline
CherylS for Raewyn
Chookyblue for Berit
Christin for CherylS
Clare for Jan
Dagmar for Kris
Denice for Peg
Diane for Dzintra
Dzintra for Dagmar
Fiona Bubz for Sylvia
FionaH for Michell
Florence for Sharon
Florence for Sharon
Gracie for Fiona Bubz
Grethe for Kate
Isabel for MariaG
Isabel for MariaG
Jan for Anne Heidi
Janice for Isabel
Jeanette for Christin
Jenny for Lynn
Julie for Laila
Karol Ann for FionaH
Kate for Noemia
Katie for Janice
Kris for Nancy
More to come..............
Catch you later
Chookyblue