Christmas Workshops and Craft

These little fold out books are really pretty. They make a nice gift as made larger you can place photos in them or these ones were small enough to be used as Christmas decorations. They aren't difficult to make - just a bit fiddly. You can see how they fold out to make a star.

These are one of the sets of cards which I did for my stamp a stack of Christmas cards. This set was made using the traditional Christmas colours.

Then for a change we made another stack with Blue and Gold themes.
Along with some Christmas decorations, these are the cards which we made at Stamp Club which two other demonstrators hold. It's nice to go along and just play instead of having to do preparation and teaching.
These cards are from my December workshop at home.
In December I also had a Christmas decoration class where we made a few different bits and pieces. This one is made from 6 squares which can be a large or small as you want. The smaller the better though.
The 'Bag in a Box' workshop. These are so easy but effective and can be used for many different occasions. This one has a little note book and bookmark.
These are some more decorations which we made. A little bag made from the Top Note Die in the Big Shot and then Embossed with Petals a Plenty folder.
These were made using the Decoration Punch.

This little wallet can hold a Chocolate Santa or if enlarged you can make something similar for a gift card or even a coffee or tea bag.

More little Christmas goodies which we made at the Deception Bay Library Christmas class.

This is the Christmas Album which I did at one of my Off The Page classes. There were lots of pages to decorate in any way you wanted. It was a great day with everyone sharing ideas. I was thrilled with the wonderful ideas with all the class participants came up with.

Our Weekend at the Bunya Mountains

In November, Graham and I spend a wonderful weekend in the Bunya Mountains with some very good friends of ours from church. We stayed in a very spacious home with lovely views and lots of feathered and furred visitors.

We were so fortunate weather wise the entire weekend as the week prior had seen storms and heavy rainfall hit at home but God was good and blessed us with perfect weather.

Graham and I arrived Friday afternoon to fine Mavis and Peter already settled in. Then Lorelle and Noel arrived later on Saturday morning. We went for a walk before lunch .... I love this area. The forests range from rainforest to open eucalypt.

We think these are surveyors markings on this tree.
A beautiful example of a crows nest fern on one of the trees.
The marks in this tree would have been made years ago by the Aboriginal people for foot and hand holds when climbing the Bunya Pines to harvest the large cones.
Mavis and I during our Saturday walk ..... in our hiking gear .......
Saturday afternoon we were summonsed by noise King Parrots. These birds have the most spectacular plumage. They are such cheeky birds and were even climbing up the screen on the doors to catch our attention.
The parrots are so friendly that they will eat out of your hand.

Sunday morning and as the mist cleared we could see all the wallabies in the yard. There were no many ... some with Joeys and one pair were courting. It was so lovely to watch.

You can see how full her pouch is and if you look carefully can just make out part of the joey's face.
Courting wallabies.

These are some of the wildflowers which we saw on Sunday morning's bush walk. After heading through rainforest we came out in more open eucalypt forest.

The view from the clearing after we walked out of the rainforest.

These are some of the different ferns, fungi and lichen which we saw growing on the forest floor and on trees. There were also lots of native orchids but unfortunately none were flowering.


In our hiking gear. Unfortunately I didn't have my tripod with me so couldn't be in this photo.

One of the falls and cascades we came across.

This little grotto was a lovely, cool area for a break.

Some unusual trees and climbers. This one has raised prickles all the way up the trunk.

Some of the vines get so twisted around the trees.

Due to the high rainforest and damp misty mornings lichen grows on everything. Even the houses as the following photos show.

Our Native Animal Visitors

These were our visitors who dropped by. We regularly have Koalas visit but this time had a pair of them in the one tree.
This 'lump' in the foliage of the tree is actually a possum curled up.
A closer look ...... you can just make out 'possie' if you look carefully.
One of our nightly visitors in a palm tree in our pool yard.
A couple more photos of one of the koalas, this time it was visiting on its own. They are completely unperturbed by the goings on beneath them and will look at us and then go back to sleeping.