Tuesday 3 January 2012

Festive Times

Bella our much loved pooch
Holly our new puppy and friend for Bella
Happy 2012 everyone form the not so frequent warbler.  It seems an age since I last blogged a reflection of  just how busy life has been of late. Nevertheless, I've been busy reading everyone's thoughts and I've loved the inspiration and pleasure of hearing of everyone else's worlds.  Keep the blogs coming please.

We still await the final sale of our house so that we can make the move out to the Huon but as usual Christmas has slowed things down for the people trying to sell their house, so they can buy our house, so we can buy our gorgeous cottage and in turn the people who now live in it can move on to their new home.    The dominos simply need to topple!

Christmas was a wonderful time spent at home with family, way too much delicious food and wine all coupled with a wonderful sense of freedom as the constraints of routine and schedule were lost for a while. I always find these times away from work allow me to enter a space where creativity and the pursuit of things I normally feel too exhausted for come to the fore.  So much so, that Amy my eldest daughter and I both confirmed non seamstresses, decided that we would have a crack at making Christmas stockings for those attending our Xmas lunch.  We cut and sewed and trimmed and chatted as we worked and were very proud of our final creations.

The holiday period has also seen us with a new addition to our family in the form of a beautiful 5 month old pound puppy  Beagle X Jack Russell (Jack a bee ) with a touch of staffy thrown in.  As she came to our family on Christmas Eve we have called her Holly.  Holly is being fostered at present by Amy until we are able to move to our new home and then she will join us to be a companion on the land for our much loved Maltese X Bella.

Our first Xmas craft venture
And the table is set let the feasting begin
So its back to work tomorrow not with a great sense of enthusiasm I might add but with a great sense of anticipation for the changes that the year ahead will bring.  Wishing everyone, loads of happiness, special moments and positive physical and emotional well being for the year ahead.