Thursday....

Susannahs friend came over today and they wanted to go to Southgate Mall to use up some Christmas giftcards...so we headed over there.  Sam and Abby had some cards to use up too, so we headed to Coles and Sam bought a little notebook...Abby bought a few things in Dollarama while we were in there stocking up on paper plates and hats etc for New Years Eve....

Abby and I had cinnamon swirls from cinnabon with tea and Sam had something from Tacotime...

Wednesday tag....

1. Share something you loved about your Christmas Day.

Our dinner - the food was perfect, the company was FABULOUS - pulling crackers was fun - sharing the jokes, trying on the pirate eye patch and scaring Susie - reminding her of the guy on the LRT!!  hahaha!  Sam going back to the oven tray to steal the last of the stuffing!!  Everyone raving about the swede!!

2. You get to put five items in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years, what items would you choose and why?

An Iphone fully loaded with apps, and pictures, music etc etc etc.  An art journal/ junque journal written in with lots of information, tickets, scraps, newspaper clippings etc etc, A grocery shopping receipt showing how much an average family spends a week on groceries, The Harry Potter books,  Some seeds from some of my favourite wild flowers.  

3. What do you like on a cracker?

Various cheeses...Boursin, cottage cheese, Philly, cheese and pickle, pate

4. Do you make resolutions at the start of a new year? 

Not really.  I pick a 'word of the year' and I then focus on that word for the year....that tends to work out really well each year.  I also have goals for the upcoming year but I don't plan on starting them on January 1st 

5. What's a song or song lyric you'll associate with 2011?

First half would be Adele's album 21, and the second half would be Kelly Clarkson.  Adele reminds me of my trip to Canmore with Susannah as we listened to it all the way there once we couldn't get Now Radio any more....and then Kelly Clarksons entire cd is like my new anthem hahaha :)  

6. How will you ring in the new year?

I have plans with friends :)

7. What is something you look forward to in 2012?

So many things :)

8. Insert your own random thought here.

Happy New year everyone xxx

Christmas Cracker!!!

Here is my gorgeous cousin Lynn after her Extreme Makeover on British Televisions show 'This Morning'!!  She was made over into one of their Christmas Crackers, and given Botox and dental work amongst hair and make up and clothing etc etc....and she looks amazing :)  Just totally gorgeous :)  

She is getting them to send me a dvd of the shows as I can't watch online from outside of the UK - how lovely are they to do that for me??  :)  and thank you Lynn xxx I can't wait to show you off to everyone xxx

Tuesday happenings....

I had planned to have a quiet day at home on my own yesterday, as the kids were heading off to their Dads for his version of 'Christmas'...however, I got a message from my Fabulous friend Ki asking me if I'd like to join her on a  trip to the Antiques Mall in Old Strathcona.....well, I could hardly let her go there alone now COULD I?????  lol!!  I mean, it's such an EFFORT to go there hahahaha, but one must force oneself for ones friends ;)  

So I got dressed and rushed off to Ki's and met her and her gorgeous Daughter who were already sat in their car waiting for me (shockingly as Ki is normally late for everything lol) and off we went, making a detour to Second Cup for Holiday London Fogs on the way - YUM!!!  

Once at the Antiques Mall, we spent a lovely couple of hours strolling round looking at everything. I didn't find much but love looking - I picked up a fabulous keyring with a mini on it that had a union jack roof - Laurence loved it :)  and some Lego wheels for Sam which he had asked me to look for for him :)  

Couldn't resist snapping a picture of the magazine above - now thats MY kind of romance hahaha ;)  

I thought it was so funny.....what a title for a 'romance' hahaha  :)  

:)