Win a Tempest Ahoy Dino Hat!

If you head over to Charlie Moo's, you can enter for the chance to win a Tempest Ahoy Dino Hat! Good luck!

Make sure you check out the rest of the site too, owner Joanne is just great and has lots of interesting things to say and sell!

White Lotus Cooks

I can't quite remember how it happened, but somehow on Monday night, I discovered White Lotus Cooks.

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Please do yourself a favour and visit her site...wonderful recipes, gorgeous food pics and rich story telling behind each one.

Gorgeous Hat

Kristen from Rage Against The Minivan has posted a link to Krochet Kids, which has these GORGEOUS hats, handmade by women in Uganda, and soon Peru also. This company does good work to help women rise from poverty. As for this sunny yellow hat - WANT. That is all.

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Cute Slippers

How cute are these slippers at Craft with Confidence?!? Love em. May have to make some for the upcoming Australian Autumn :)

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Queensland Floods

The devastating floods in the state of Queensland, Australia have been wreaking absolute havoc here in the Land Down Under. People have died and many have lots their homes. It is truly a devastating time for Brisbane, Ipswich, Toowoomba and many other QLD cities and towns. Flooding is now also affecting northern NSW and even Victoria.

I read a little while ago that the amount of land affected by the floods in Queensland alone is equivalent to the size of 2 times the size of the state of Texas, USA; or Germany and France put together.

Please, if you can, donate to the Premier's Appeal for the floods. The Premier Anna Bligh is basically like a Governor in the USA; this is a legitimate disaster appeal.

Many of us Aussies donate to these causes all the time, like Haiti and Hurricane Katrina. We did not think that soon it would be here again; Brisbane's last major flood was in 1974. The next bit, the clean up, will take a long time and will cost many billions of dollars.

If you would like to find out more about the floods, there are constant updates here.


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A lazy January Sunday in the Southern Hemisphere

 Was such a lovely afternoon...sorry about the phone picture quality :)

Merry Christmas One and All

Merry Christmas to my dear readers!

I hope the day is magical for everyone...even if you do not celebrate Christmas, I hope you have a wonderful day anyway!

My day will be spent with my family, a pancake breakfast, a nice lunch, happy present openings, long lazy langushings and general fun.

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. ~Agnes M. Pahro