Advent Blog-a-Long Day 10...

I've been pretty slack with the christmas themed posts for the Advent Blog-a-Long. Sorry Car!

But, I definitely have something christmassy to show off today.

This is the super gorgeous handmade christmas pressie that I received from Nicole for my NCB Kris Kringle gift.

It's looking rather lonely on the poor old unpainted tree that I bought before christmas last year.... maybe this might inspire me to get out the paints?

Oh Christmas Tree Yukka

My sister and BIL and the kidlets are heading off for a Queensland holiday this week (soooo, what do you think the chances are of the phone ringing at 4AM while they're away?)

I had to take advantage of the slave labour family christmas spirit before they left, and invited the boys over to decorate my tree.

I can't deal with any of that mess inside the house, so my original idea was to get them to decorate the silver birch tree in the front garden....

.... but using their own artistic abilities, they decided that the christmas baubles were much better suited to hanging from the dragonfly lights and the yukkas.

Once they'd finished, I tried to get just one decent ta-daa moment for the christmas album.

...and again

...and again.

I give up.