Working on my new blog look for 2013 and I really want some help picking the colour scheme.
You have 4 choices
Choice 1
Choice 2
Choice 3
Choice 4
Let me know which you prefer 🙂
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas
Stay safe and have an awesome day tomorrow
I’ll be back in the New Year (maybe a little before) with my Journal Your Christmas posts
Christmas – Pinterest Style
Ah Pinterest, what did we used to do before it? Oh that’s right – lots of things.
Seriously though, Pinterest is a great tool for keeping things we find on the net all in one spot that we can access anywhere we have a net connection. Throughout the year I’ve been Pinning various bits and pieces I’ve found that I may use at Christmas time. Ideas for food…
Decorating …
Scrapbooking & card making
Elf on the Shelf
and so much more! I’ve got a Christmas Ideas board, a Christmas Food board and a Christmas Scrapbooking board
Do you Pinterest? What great Christmas Pins have you found?
Life and stuff
Disclaimer – this post contains affiliate links
So I had another blog where I started to blog about my spirituality and things related to that. In all honesty I haven’t kept it up – I am so bad at maintaining more than one blog at a time LOL
What’s a girl to do? Bring that side of my life onto this blog of course. On of my resolutions for 2013 is to have a more spiritual thing in my life and since this blog is about my life, well it’s got a home here too.
I’ll be posting in a couple of days about one awesome resource I’ve been using for the last 2 years (this is my third year) and that is Leonie Dawson’s Goddess Workbook & Yearly Planner. This year it comes in 2 flavours – personal AND business.
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On the go at Christmas
Disclaimer – I received a sample of the four Smooze Fruit Ice flavours. All opinions are my own.
Most people are super busy at Christmas time and parents probably more so. When you’re on the go things like breakfast can be a super quick affair.
For something quick you can make and take try a super quick and healthy smoothie. Smooze Fruit Ice are a healthy base to have in the cupboard or freezer..
There are for flavours to choose from – Coconut & Mango, Coconut & Pineapple, Coconut & Pink Guava and Simply Coconut.
I tried the Coconut & Mango flavour, mixed with some crushed ice and some Fanta. Delish! So refreshing, and apart from the Fanta, pretty healthy. I can see that going down a treat with a dash of vodka or some fizzy wine (I’m not a wine drinker so have no idea when it comes to wine)
Looks pretty good yes?
I’m planning on trying the following out tomorrow for a slightly tropical breakfast
1 x Frozen Coconut & Pink Guava Smooze Fruit Ice
1 shot of apple juice
a handful of ice, crushed
I’m sure I’ll chuck a picture up on Instagram when it’s made – that’s if I don’t drink it first
Smoothies are also a great idea for fussy eaters. Most kids love a milkshake and you can hide pretty much anything in it 😉
The following were all found on Pinterest and might give you some other breakfast smoothie ideas
Strawberry Oatmeal Breakfast Smoothie
Almond Breeze Breakfast Smoothie
What’s your favourite go to for a quick breakfast?
Christmas 2012 – Our tree
Wow December 1. Where has the year gone? (It’s now Dec 10 – where is December going LOL?)
It’s tree day in our house. Miss K loves ‘helping’ to decorate the tree and this year she decorated 2 trees in one day.
This year we’ve gone a bit more selective – I’m being more selective as to what ornaments are going on the tree. More silver and purple, less tacky. Plus hubby’s decorations (he’s decided we need another tree just for his Star Wars decorations). Plus Miss K’s number decorations.
In 2012 our new ornaments include:
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Silver Reindeer |
#3 Frame |
#3 (coming soon) |
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Tardis |
Red Dalek |
Tie Fighter |
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Mini Death Star |
Mini Star Destroyer |
Original Series Cylon |
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‘dancing’ bear |
Do you have a tree theme? Certain colour schemes? Any special ornaments or new ornaments for 2012?
Summer storms
So today I was going to have a post for you all about Xmas trees and link to a heap of cute stuff on Pinterest but last night we had a wicked thunderstorm and instead of writing that post (and getting lost in Pinterest for a couple of hours) I spent a couple of hours trying to photograph lightning!
Now I don’t own a dslr or any fancy camera equipment. I have a Sony quick shot point and shoot and my iPhone. The Sony has absconded most likely into miss K’s bedroom as, even at not-quite-3 she loves taking photos and will often steal the Sony or just run round taking pics on her iPhone (yes she has an iPhone – it’s basically an iPod touch now as the antenna is bung and it has no sim). But I digress.
So I was left with my phone. Now the iPhone4s has a pretty decent camera for a phone and I tried to get some still shots just using the camera but alas I’m to slow.
Switch to camera mode and I managed to capture some awesome claps of thunder and a few bolts of lightning. Sadly most of the really clear bolts happened after I finished shooting 
I put a call out on twitter hoping one of the photo types might have an answer to how to get stills from video and while I waited I also did a bit of searching on Google. One app that came up a few times was StillShot (iTunes)
Grabbed it and had a play around and managed to grab these shots out of the first 2 videos I took. A bit blurry but pretty happy with that.
I did some more searching cause I thought well there might be some tips out there on shooting lightning with an iPhone and one of the first things that came up was an app called iLightningCam (iTunes) the only thing I managed to capture with it though was street lights. Next time there is lightning though I’ll be a bit better prepped and will try shooting from somewhere a little different – like undercover outside not inside where I kept getting reflection from the glass.
Christmas 2012–Getting organised
Up until recently I was so unorganised around Christmas time. I’d leave things til the last minute and would panic buy on the pay before Christmas. I’ve even been known to be doing shopping on Christmas Eve! Then, about 3 years ago I decided enough was enough and did some searching on the internet to become a bit more organised over the holiday period.
One of the first sites I came across was Organized Christmas. I already used the Organized Scrapbooks site for their printables so decided to check out the site. They, at the time, had two choices for holiday organisation – Christmas Countdown and the Holiday Grand Plan. I went with the Christmas Countdown. It’s a 6 week workshop starting in October and finishing on the 1st December, designed so you’re organised and can relax and enjoy the holiday season come December. Each week is assigned a theme – get organised, reality check, gifts & giving, get cooking, decorating and celebrating. And there’s the printables to help you stay organised and less stressed.
The first year I followed along a bit half heartedly but the following year I followed every step and was ready for Christmas (minus a few small gifts) by the end of November. A huge bonus as I was a new mum. Last year I followed along again, a lot more loosely, picking and choosing what worked for our family.
This year I’ve decided to check out some other systems to see if I can find something that is really me.
I’d seen The Organised Housewife’s Christmas Planner last year about half way through doing the 
Christmas Countdown. I bought it last week and have printed it out and added it to my Inner B organiser (thanks to Tina for the awesome idea of adding extra sections to my organiser).
I’m loving supporting an Australian mum and I love how this planner isn’t centered around American holidays (sorry to all my US readers but I really don’t need to know about celebrating Thanksgiving lol)
There are lots of great checklists and planners and the graphics are too cute. It’s actually making the planning process more fun. A couple of planners that aren’t relevant for me this year but may be useful later.
If you want to know how to put your Christmas Planner together you can always check out this post. And you can buy your own copy of The Organised Housewife’s Christmas Planner here for $14.95 (Australian dollars)
The boring bit – I’m doing a series on Christmas (again) this year. You can follow all my posts here
Welcome to Christmas 2012
Can you believe it’s nearly that time of year again?
I’m doing my bit of Christmas sharing again this year on the blog. We’ll look at getting organised, scrapbooking your Christmas (if that’s your thing), trimming the tree, what’s on Pinterest that I’m loving, ideas for wrapping all your goodies and more.
The blog is getting a bit of a make over too. As you can see it’s starting to look a bit festive 
I’ll be back later to share some tips for getting organised this holiday season.
Mind the dust
I’m working on my Christmas theme for 2012 😉