Crazy times and slops of paint for WOYWW

Arghhh, stop the world I want to get off!!!

It's just too crazy around here at the moment.

Mum's house has gone unconditional,

which means the sale if definite (yay),

but now we have to clean out and pack (boo).

I'm going out really early each morning

to hit the shops before the car parks fill up

and then it's back home to try and

 get my house sorted for Christmas.

I've nearly finished buying presents and

today I got a 7kg leg of pork for just $38,

now that's a bargain.

My desk hasn't seen much action

but I did get some goodies

I got this gorgeous tea towel, bookmark

and Loch Ness Monster from

the equally gorgeous Neesie of

Neesie Natters.

 

 How cute is this little guy.

I also got a beautiful card from Margaret and John

of glitter glue.

Thanks so much to you all for such beautiful things.

You may recall that I won two prizes

recently, the beautiful cracker from Margaret

and the gorgeous bunting 

from Lunch Lady Jan.

Here they are displayed proudly on our 

Christmas table.

Can't show the tree as it's still only

half up, we'll get there.

 

We don't need the dining table for Christmas day

as it's hot here and we all go out on the back patio

and have a Christmas BBQ and a swim.

(sorry to rub that in the everyone in the northern hemisphere)

In between the madness I've been 

splashing the old paint brush around

and splashing is an understatement.

At the moment I'm writing this with green hands,

kinda like the Hulk!

My poor bird has been going from bad to worse

I keep adding a layer of glaze and

not liking it

Don't ask me what happened to that layer,

so out came another colour

and then another

 Then I dropped a bit of purple and 

thought it looked okay so I did more.

Okay so I dropped a lot and it was too late to fix it

so I had to add more.

 Then I figured I've messed it now

so why not add more splots

and some red bits.

The real colour is far stronger and brighter 

than the photo.  It's nearly 5pm wednesday here

and the sun is coming through the window

and washing out the colour.

Plus I'm lousy with a camera.

I don't think I'll have time to do

any more posts until the new year

so I'd like to wish everyone a

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

and I'll catch up in January.

Now why not head on over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see what's on the other desks 

around the world 

this Wednesday.

Have a wonderful time.