December update ... so far

I spent the weekend at the beginning of the month with 2 friends and our 9 children staying at Coffin Bay and scrapbooking (for me) and patchworking (for them).

The weather was beautiful and the kids had lots of fun.

The Christmas tree finally went up at home ...

Hannah is getting very excited about Christmas ...

I found this idea at Pintrest and made them for Hannah's class party. The trick I found was using the right icing ... royal icing worked well.  I used this recipe from taste.com. The cupcake recipe I used was also from taste.com.

The red "hat" is actually jelly crystals, then a red M & M for the nose, white choc bits and the coarser shredded coconut for the beard.

And this for the eyes ...

Last night was the "Traders Night" or Christmas parade / festival in our local town ...

Doesn't Hannah face painting look amazing?

And now a couple of nights with the kids at the shack while John tries to get the harvest finished.