I mentioned ice cream pudding in the meme. I forgot that most people don't know what ice cream pudding is - and you are definatly missing out! It sort of started once we came back to Australia and wanted another thing for desert that wasn't full of dried fruit (Josh and I aren't fans). Basically it's ice cream full of chocolate in a pudding shape.
December 22, 2009
Ice Cream Pudding
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December 20, 2009
Christmas Meme
2. Real tree or artificial? Fake
3. When do you put up the tree? Generally around 1st December
4. When do you take the tree down? My brothers birthday is early January so we always took it down before then. I think we generally do it on New Years Day.
5. Do you like eggnog? Never had it
6. Favorite gift received as a child? I keep getting confused between birthday and Christmas presents. I think it was a Christmas when Mum and Dad finally relented and bought me my first Barbie (she had been banned on philosophical grounds before this). It was a gymnastic Barbie which had double joints on her knees and elbows so could do crazy gymnastic poses. Possibly the most surprised I have ever been by a present in my life.
7. Do you have a Nativity scene? Still trying to find the perfect one
8. Hardest person to buy for? I always find Christmas really hard because I'm always so sure that I'll get the wrong thing and people won't like the gift. Being an obsessive people pleaser makes gift giving stressful. A couple of years ago I broke down in the shopping center because the pressure was too much. I'm a bit better now.
But I'd have to say the hardest is my brother - it's so hard to judge his tastes.
9. Easiest person to buy for? Kids, I love how excited they get about everything (and anything)
10. Worst Christmas Gift you ever received? Can't really remember. I'm sure there was a pack of hankies at some point from an elderly relative.
11. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Don't really have one
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Mid December. I always start planning way before that but it always takes me forever to decide.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Maybe for a Kris Kringle?
15 Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Our Ice cream pudding, soooo good.
16. Clear lights or coloured on the tree? both :)
17. Favorite Christmas song? I LOVE traditional Christmas Carols. All of them.
From a purely musical point of view I like 'What child is this', Greensleeves sends shivers up my spine.
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Since we've been back in Australia we always had to stay where we were for Christmas because of Christmas day service. People came to us. Except that we now don't live with Mum and Dad so we have to travel.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? No
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Morning. A few years ago Mum and Dad started the tradition of waiting until after Church which I love. It's good to remind us what's the real meaning of Christmas and I'm the kind of person where the anticipation is half of the fun.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? People thinking Christmas equals Winter. In the Southern hemisphere Christmas has nothing to do with winter! Look around, it's the middle of summer! Just because part of the world (not here) has snow at Christmas does not mean that Christmas is in anyway connected to Christmas! A snow flake is NOT a Christmas decoration!
I could go on, but I'll spare you :)
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December 16, 2009
December 15, 2009
Marley and Me and Marriage
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December 12, 2009
Our First Christmas


Mum and Dad tried to give us a Christmas we were use to. We had a little tree and the parcels held presents which we opened Christmas morning. Being the first Christmas of our missionary life we were sent more that year than any other. After the first year people get use to you being away and only those really close to you send something.
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Labels: Christmas, Growing Up Island, Vanuatu
December 9, 2009
My very own Frangipani
What do we have here?
My very own frangipani tree (it's a little tree, but a tree none the less) given to me by my brother - and it looks like it will flower any day now :).
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December 7, 2009
Sale (or 'another post about the store')
After another unsuccessful market I was more than a little disheartened. I was ready to give up the idea of trying to have a small business and that devastated me because I love creating all my bits and pieces.
Two things stopped me;
- I have a market in February which I had already booked and paid for.
- I have several hundred dollars worth of stock hanging in my room.
I'm still not exactly sure if I will/should continue with Purple Frangipani store, but I know I have a big decision to make after February.
There are some designs I won't be selling at the market and so they are in my store at low prices - almost cost price because I just want to move them and not make a loss if at all possible.
If you are at all interested or know anyone who might be (hint, hint, it's Christmas soon) then get in quick, cos I have no idea how long things will stay around, or how long it will be before I give up entirely and my friends kids will get a new wardrobe :).
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