She's graduated. My little girl has finally finished Primary School. Although today is the last day of school the Year 6's had their graduation ceremony/mass last night. It was so beautiful and so very hard to take as a Mother. I am sure it was only yesterday that I dropped her off for her first day of Kindy, really, I am sure in was just yesterday. Well at least thats what it feels like. I can't get over how fast its all gone, all those ups/downs and experiences of primary school. It was an emotional day yesterday for everyone, we went and said goodbye to some of Alex's teachers from previous years and caught up on old times. And of course there was the signing of the shirt. I think this was Alex's favourite part, running around getting teachers and students to lay their final mark on her primary school life.
Here are some more pics of my DD. some of the pictures aren't very good but you will still get the idea. 
I am still up to date with my DD which surprises me just as much as it surprises you. I will show the other pages soon but I am still having a few problems with my computer so please bare with me. Day 7 is all about my daughter making special little notes etc for her KK at school. I even turned the photo into a pocket to put the notes that she has received from her KK so far.
Day 8 was our school christmas concert. I made this a double page because I knew there would be a few photo's.
Day 9... me cooking my 134 choc cherry muffins. Remember to include yourself in your DD. You may not like photo's of yourself (who does) but your kids will want to know later, trust me.
As well as my computer giving me a little bit of stress I decided to add more stress by being part of a Christmas Treat Swap. One of the lovely Mum's at school organised this little swap for a small bunch of ladies (turned out to be 15 of us) as a way to get together and share in some holiday cheer.
Yes I am still on track with my DD. Can't believe it myself really. Whenever I do these sorts of things I usually get to about day 5 then completely bom out, and then I am always going to catch up but never do.
Sometimes when I think what will I do today (because nothing major has happened) I then stop myself and say its not supposed to be about major events but the little ones, the ones we do everyday, the ones that we will forget about. Day four is about one of our Advent calanders that we have where you change the numbers to count down the sleeps and my son, Joshua gets very upset when I don't change then quick enough so he has decided that this will be his job, along with turning on/off the christmas tree lights every day.
Day five was all about relaxing and trying to catch our breath over this busy period.
and day 6 is all about our love of Advent Calanders, the chocolate ones.
Just wanted to share some little christmas tags that i made over the weekend. I was just playing really but loved how they turned out. I have used kraft cardstock (my favourite) and pink paislee (my other favourite)
I cut my cardstock 16.5cm x 5.5cm. I scored and folded my card at 9cm. You tag should be shorter at the front and longer at the back. Cut down pattern to fit front flap. Punch holes, add eyelets and string and your done. There are so many ways you can decorate these little cuties. I still might add to the front of my yet, see how we go.
Yesterday it was time to take a little R & R. Rest and relaxation time. We went down to Crawley, found a spot on the river and went kayaking. Some friends joined us and it was heaps of fun. It was so nice sitting back, watching the kids, slight breeze blowing and taking time out.
Oh and the odd glass of wine helped too.
Sometimes you try really hard to get that perfect photo. And sometimes it doesn't seem to matter how much you try it just doesn't work. 
I also did some stamping which I haven't done in ages. I even stamped the white cotton fabric and then hand cut them into butterflies.
Hope you are having a great day and that you weekend will be just as great.
Just a quick share, day two of my DD and all is going well. It should be really we are only on day 2 LOL.
Happy December everyone. Can you believe that we are now in December, boy hasn't the year gone fast. As busy as December gets it is still my most favourite time of the year. I love all things christmas, decorating the tree, buying presents, giving presents, the food... oh the food but most of all I enjoy watching my kids enjoy this time of year.
If you are doing the December Daily, enjoy the process. I am going to this year.
A couple of weekends ago we went kayaking (you probably remember me telling you about it) and you would also know that I took my new camera (cause I can't stop playing with it) to photograph the day. When Colin and Josh were out paddling I was just mucking about with my camera, you know photographing this and that to see what would happen and I took several photo's of my thongs. Later on when Colin was looking at the photo's he laughed and said what on earth did you take photo's of your thongs for. At the time I was just mucking about with the focus etc and didn't really give much thought to the fact that they were just thongs.
It wasn't till later that day when I got a blister from my thongs, that it all made sense. When I realised that I had a blister, it occured to me, that the first time I wear my thongs for the season I get a blister. Every year, never fails and it doesn't matter if they are old or new thongs. I thought I should scrap about my blister thing and then remembered I had the perfect photo.
Sometimes it pays to photograph the not so obvious. It just might turn out to be the perfect photo.
Hope your week is going super well.
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