oh Christmas Tree oh Christmas Tree

I'm very dangerously teetering on the edge of 'every post will be about my love for Christmas' territory over here.

Last year we had a small real Christmas tree in a pot, but that quickly died living on our balcony and under my supervision and I have to ensure that this baby lives until January 7 so wish me luck.

I spent Sunday trekking around looking for the best tree for the best price.

I cannot believe how much the price of trees can vary, from $55 - $120.

What I really want to know is how long do they take to grow, how much is a seedling and maintenance over those years? I can't imagine it working out as much of a profit.

I found this 7ft tree at my local fruit store for $70 (an extra $35 for the stand) and to make a good deal even better, they delivered it free.

We had been planning on putting the middle and right back seat down and letting Nelly room with the tree for the ride home but thankfully we didn't have to resort to that nonsense.

As all of our decorations are at my brothers farm we had to buy new ones this year so decided on a different color scheme, red green and silver as a more traditional look.

We ended up just going to Big W and buying filling the trolley up. The check out girl wasn't impressed with the amount of scanning she had to do and quipped that 'you are going to have too many decorations' but clearly she was wrong. 

I haven't found the 'right' angel for the top of the tree so this ballerina is perched on top for now, she may not be the star of the show but she can soak in the glory while she has the chance. 

She loves a good bauble, this much is evident. 

Oh Nelly, you did inherit something from me after all! Cellulite! That's my girl.

I wanted white flickering lights but apparently marriage is all about compromise so we ended up with colored lights as The Husband wanted them.

It was all worth it when I turned on the lights for the first time and his jaw literally dropped, he was like a child - it was adorable. 

This is his first real Christmas tree, ever. It makes it that much more special that he and Nelly have their first tree together.

I freaking love Christmas. How could you not?

Getting Festive!

Friday night we celebrated our work Christmas Party at Number 1 Fitzroy Street.

I must admit, I was at exhaustion point. You can probably tell by my crazy eyes in all of the photos.

We had Grants funeral on Friday afternoon and I had not been sleeping much during the week due to the heat, I am just not coping well in this heat as our air conditioner is broken but The Husband came home with a little portable air con for me to use in the mean time whilst I find someone to fix it.

I wore this Celina Tank Maternity dress from Soon Maternity, and now I see that it is on sale. Always the way isn't it? Damn.

You will probably see a bit more of this dress as I plan on wearing it to death to last me the entire festive season. 

I decided to jam my feet into my Sandler wedges and it was a decision that was regretted very quickly. 

Heat + elevation = swollen feet very quickly. 

I have not painted my nails in yonks. I don't have the effort in me to maintain them but glitter polishes wear quite well so why not get in the festive mood and go red and glittery?

This is China Glaze Ruby Pumps which does not photograph as awesome as it looks on. Take my word for it. 

Roses.

Chocolates.

I keep my GHD, Parlux, Curler and other essential electrical items in the cabinet under the bathroom sink (which was probably not my brightest move) so when my sink leaked last week, guess what got ruined? Fancy that. 

Anyway, I dropped into a random salon on Friday to have a quick blow dry before the party as my hair was frizzy from the rain during the day. Half way through my blow dry the hairdresser accidentally knocked my glass off the bench, causing it to smash and glass went everywhere, including slicing my leg and left me with blood gushing every where.

So not only did I have a soaking wet dress, I also had a bleeding leg.  They gave me antiseptic wipes and band aids but for some reason it just kept on bleeding.  Definitely not a relaxing blow dry, believe me. 

As soon as I stepped outside my hair went frizzy again anyway so it was a pointless exercise.

My hair is at such an awkward length. I cannot wait for it to be long again. 

When you ask for a virgin Cosmo, you will be given cranberry juice in a nice glass.

At least it matched my dress.

The staff were fantastic at making sure I always had a full glass of water handy.

Christmas Party Clutch Essentials:

Mace, Chafing gel & Paw Paw ointment. 

Don't mind the messy room, this was taken at 1am and at 1am I am more than happy to take a photo surrounded by mess.

I'm glad I bought an actual maternity dress, the ruching is actually rather flattering and I am contemplating getting it in another print in the next size up so that I have another nice dress but I only have 11 weeks to go!!

11. 

Can you believe it?!

Hello baby. 

I drove Kitty home after the party as she is a fantastic friend, often driving me home in peak hour traffic so I don't have to battle with strangers for a seat on the tram, and I told her that I actually felt drunk.

I think I had gotten to the stage of being so overly tired that I was delirious. 

So I got home at 1am and then was up at 4:30am to drive mum to the airport, I am getting in practice of having no sleep - but I am struggling. 

What are you doing/have you done for your office Christmas party? Did anyone disgrace them selves at yours? Everyone was very well behaved at ours! 

The Little Drummer Boy

Howdy. Now, this post is obviously bordering on the very belated side but what can you do? We are house-sitting at the moment and the house doesn’t pick up our internet connection very well so it took me 2 hours to load the included photos. There would have been more but I had the urge to drown the laptop and would have carried through had I tried to blog any longer.

The Christmas festivities started on Christmas Eve which was spent at Barbaras house (my photos are not in order so the photos where I have a white dress and red belt are from Christmas Eve and the Blue & White Stripe Dress is from Christmas Day) and then kicked on to lunch at Dads house on the 25th and dinner at our house (fear not, I did not cook) with my Mums side of the family. Needless to say, the person who holds the dinner always gets shafted as we are so full from the lunch that its hard to digest any more food.

This is the table at Dads house, which looked magnificent. My table looked crap so I wont even bother sharing it with you.

These Doves are from Ikea and are now hanging on our front door.   

The place cards contained little red lollies which I feel like are Jaffas but you just never know.    

I have a feeling that this tree was the ‘special’ tree at the Christmas Tree Farm. I can just tell that it got picked on for having no curves, not that I’ve ever experienced such a thing. It's always the tall and lanky kids.

I picked up this flower headband on Friday before my cut (I think it was from Ojay) incase I really hated my hair and thought that this would take away the attention from it, but now I realize that it would have drawn the attention in! Doesn’t matter though as I love my hair!!

I don’t normally drink soft drink (unless accompanied by vodka of course) but these little coke cans are too cute.

Sophia!!!! This kid is amazing.

I wore my old faithful dress from Forever New and whilst The Husband was taking this photo of me my mum walked in and then 5 minutes later asked me ‘Do you have anything to tell me??’ as in ‘You look FAT – Are you pregnant?’. Sheesh. Cannot even eat a big lunch these days.

As Faux Fuchsia said – this is Hamtastic.

I was really excited when I heard that there was so much hail in Melbourne that it was looking like snow, our car was underground so it didn’t bother me, but we didn’t get the hail!! Damn it. It’s terrible how much damage it did to cars and what not though.

My brother Lucas got out in the pouring rain to BBQ the Garlic Mushrooms for us, what a hero (and not in the Muzza way).

Yes, she is quite special isn’t she. She said the glass tasted like chocolate cake. It wasn’t just one lick here or there either, it was full on pashing the glass.

Just incase I needed some bags to carry my truckload of presents (which didn’t exist) home, I had them right under my eyes for convenience.

I want one of these!!! It does remind me of a cheery KKK costume though.

Hair cut twins!! Ashleigh-Rose said that she preferred my hair long though, as I look too different. Well, too late sunshine. I’ve been calling everyone sunshine lately.

As far as presents go, I got a trip to Daylesford from el husbo (post to come), cash, framed photos of my nieces and a basil plant. I hope everyone got exactly what they asked Santa for!

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Do you ever wonder how the polish companies come up with the names?? They must be running out of names like there is no tomorrow. Speaking of polish names, re: Senorita Bonita - here is a funny tidbit for you, when I was younger I was adamant of having a daughter named Bonita (I also wanted a girl named Calen). When I first discussed having children with S, I told him that was one of my names and he agreed to it. Never fear though, I have completely changed my mind.

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