What a Brilliant Day!

I have the best sisters in the world! Yesterday my two gorgeous sisters and I went to Masterchef the show! What a day! We all love food so you can imagine. We stuffed our faces, had a laugh, made a few suggestions to a big supermarket chain on how to run their business, did a bit of networking and met with some incredibly lovely people. We came home broke, tired but happy. Some of our purchases included a 3kg christmas pudding (Val's) Chocolates (Sue's) and Olives and Dips (mine). Val definitely had the heaviest bag.

Cute little cards

I thought you might like to see just a few of the little gift cards I have been doing for Drift. Cute aren't they?

Is this really my house!

My dear hubby has been working his butt off in our new house. Laying down a new floor, painting the bedroom and stringing up christmas lights. Our new house is starting to be our home and I just love this new wall art from Trin's shop 'Drift'. It matches perfectly with out new timber floor. Now I have to convince hubby to start painting the lounge.

I think this area just lends itself to a christmas decoration.....but what??

I went on to make these

These little cupcakes were put into a box to be taken home by all the girls in our Artists Association. I thought they looked so cute!

I'm feeling a little flat....

So I made this....

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Vanilla Butter Cream Icing.

The reason I'm feeling this way is I have now finished my Commercial Cookery course. No more TAFE, no more homework, no more assignments. What am I going to do with my time??

Maybe I can find the time to more of this.

After I settle down a bit I hope to become a chef in a little cafe somewhere. Hopefully there's a happy little cafe out there just waiting for me to cook in it. Its been a hectic year but I've loved every minute of it. What with selling our home of 22 years, buying a new house, having a fantastic holiday with my girlfriends and still working part-time at my other job my poor art work and blog has been sadly neglected. Thanks everyone for sticking around I promise not to neglect you any longer.

Ahhhhhh... back to the challenges.

This month's challenge over at Inkurable Stampers is "Shabby Chic Christmas". I got to admit I had to google this one! Of course I know what shabby chic is but all I could conjure up in my mind was pink and green. So thats what I did.

My ATC was mounted on pink card stock. The background was from Webster Pages with sponging around the edges. I stamped the christmas tree (from Stampin Up's Lovely as a Tree) in pink pirouette tipped in wild wasabi and added a little sparkle. Not sure where the word JOY came from. Added a little silver charm and some velvet ric rac and a distressed pink star on top. All up I was pleased with the results. Anyone want to do a swap????

I'm a little rusty...What do you think??

It's been a while. The creative juices are seeping drip by drip into my poor parched soul! I love Christmas!!! Squeal!! What better time to get back into it with some gift tags. You have to forgive the photography.