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Time For Cake? #timesquare
This is what happened on my birthday! But actually it’s Jesus’s birthday today. Merry Christmas everyone. #timesquare
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Photo A Day, Ribbon.
Photo a day by City Sonnet. The subject is ribbon. I looked and looked and eventually came up with this old photo of my girls. There’s a ribbon on the tree!
MoreFestive – Photo For The Week 22
Photo for the week 22 challenge by Ryan Photography. I’m trying to keep as many of my photos related to my travels this week. The topic is festive, there’s not a huge amount of festive things going on here. But this is what I have got. Festive sand sculptures.
MoreDecoration. Photo A Day
For the 19th December the photo a day project is decoration. I decided to go with Christmas tree decorations, this tree is in a store, it was so festooned that I grabbed a photograph of it.
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Boxing Day Dinner
We have a little tradition in our house that we don’t have Christmas dinner on Christmas Day, but make and eat it on Boxing Day instead. In years past we did and I found sometimes it ended up being a flop. The children would be up from the middle of the night then fill up […]
MoreCan’t Go Wrong Christmas Cake Recipe
I have made this cake so many times I have called it Can't Go Wrong Christmas Cake. I try to make this at least a month in advance (I am making mine now), adding a few drops of your favourite tipple every week or so and the cake will be beautiful on Christmas day. Oh […]
MoreBe Prepared
It amazes me how much preparation goes into Christmas. I don't mean our family because we do very little prep, it just seems to happen in our house. We don't get caught up in the frenzy. Last Sunday, as I was leaving church I bumped into someone I knew. The girl, mother of three children […]
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