christmas is for kids

That's one of my mothers many truisms which I have tried not to buy into all my life. However it is nice having kids around on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.

All ready for Santa with a beer and cherries plus a carrot for Rudolph. Sorted!

It's taken me over a week to get this published. 

Maybe my New Years resolution is to be more on to it!

kinda looks like christmas

The cake is iced, the tree is decorated..kinda looks like Christmas.

christmas cake - √

The Christmas cake is made. I bake it in a wooden box which cooks it perfectly with no burnt edges. It has been 'fed' with brandy top and bottom, wrapped and put away. I will feed it once more at the beginning of December then again when I ice it. Feels good to be organised and I know it will taste all the better for it.

celebrating kaffe

Today I wandered out my front door to find a parcel of Kaffe shot cottons that had arrived, all the way from America.

Any then my friend Paula, completely out of the blue, sent me a link to a Kaffe video. It must be a day for celebrating Kaffe.
This is the link she sent me.


Then I explored Vimeo for some more movies and found these two:


Kaffe 2014: The Colourful World of Kaffe Fassett from Animated Magic on Vimeo.


Meet Kaffe Fassett on Creativebug from Creativebug on Vimeo.
It just makes you want to get out all your fabrics and start playing!

birthday bash

We all survived the joint birthday party! Max was very excited and Iggy was quite oblivious but happy to tag along. An extremely hectic but fun event held at their Playcentre due to inclement weather. That brought back memories from long ago. The boys loved their gifts and the cakes!

 

whaingaroa

the grandies

My two grandsons are about to celebrate their birthdays at a combined birthday party. That should be fun.! Obviously I'm biased but I think they're pretty cute. Iggy is so much more grown up looking than Max was at that age due to his head of hair and Max has a great grasp of language and strong opinios for a soon to be three year old.

IMG 7470 from Sheryl Madigan on Vimeo.