Happy Billy Idol Day!
Hope you guys all had a lovely day and a lovely end to the year! <3
Billy Idol Day / Christmas 2015
Hah I’m catching up on holidays! And this one was pretty good because for the first time ever we got ourselves a completely inappropriately sized Billy Idol Day tree! After agonising for days I ended up picking the fluffiest white one available and decorating it with pastel green, pink and gold. Our colours are always going to be green, pink and gold 😀
It’s pretty impressive at night! I wasn’t sure I was going to be bothered pulling it out again this year but it’s so pretty it might be worth it 😀
Lottie was too fat to fit in the hood we got for her. I am really not good at remembering sizes XD The lens flares around her collar look quite a lot like bells though so fitting!
I spent quite a while hand knitting us all custom stockings with special pictures on each.
Shockingly I don’t think they were all appreciated >_>
We went out for Dumpling Roulette which is basically what happens when you order a bunch of weird flavours of dumplings, forget what they are and then take turns seeing who ends up with the horrible ones.
I knit mini stockings for all of our friends pets!
We finally got to see the big yearly gingerbread exhibition and it sure made my house look a bit sad.
To be fair though, ours was delicious and when I tried the one I bought there it was pretty horrible.
My Mum had surgery the week beforehand so we ended up just taking it very easy on the actual day. Here you can see what I mean about us never being able to get a good family photo… ever.
We got all of our food this year from Last Minute Chef which was fantastic. No cooking! Well, James made crescent rolls but only because he loves to bake. Weirdo.
We of course did our yearly walk around town. The city was a bit odd this year for some reason. The Myer windows were a story about a lost dog which kind of just bummed me out.
I finally managed to buy an icecream from those carts in the mall though! It was just as melty as it looked…
But you know, someone else enjoyed it!
After all of that we headed back home to settle in for video games and knitting. I started Chrissy’s sock yarn that day too which is in an upcoming post!
Ok maybe it is time to get in the mood and start decorating for this year!
Billy Idol Day / Christmas 2014
There’s nothing like looking through old photos to make you realise exactly how long it’s been since you were regularly blogging! So here I am back again posting and I’m not exactly 100% sure where I’ll be going with this but the weather is warm and this year it seems like I need some inspiration to get myself in a holiday kind of mood… So photos from several Christmas’ ago!
My hair was so long!!!
I think it’s impossible for us to ever get a photo where we’re all in focus, looking at the camera and Lottie isn’t doing something weird XD
Our tree for the year was lights strung up with little clips, simple but so effective!
And Lottie had her own little feast XD
We went all out with the food this year too.
Cheese and snack table!
We bought some seafood from the market to try out, of course we thought we were getting it all cooked but in reality… not so much! James tried very hard to make the Moreton Bay Bug at the bottom work but it was pretty terrible haha!
We made up for that with roasted veggies and some kind of premade oven turkey thing from Woolworths!
YUM!
We did our yearly trek out in the afternoon to get some bubble tea and the weather was quite good!
Then the real fun started: NAP TIME!
We tried out the DIY slurpee cups that my Mum got us… they kind of worked haha!
The most satisfying part was smashing in that gingerbread house though! Demolition time!
Then it was just back to tea, video games and naps 🙂
…and stupid amounts of leftovers 😀
We’re Engaged!
Happy Halloween!
Our pumpkin last year! This year we’re traveling for a photoshoot so we couldn’t have a party >_< Maybe next year though! Hope you had a fun night!
Daisy Chains
Before I cut my hair… (in fact it was actually like last Summer >_> ) we went flower picking out in the suburbs so I could get some supplies to make fun resin things with. I ended up with a whole lot of flowers, but for the most part I picked daisies because they are my favourite. Melbourne is full of flowers in the warmer months and coming originally from a city that pretty much never had wild flowers, it’s like a beautiful fairy tale.
