It's beginning to look a bit like Christmas...

How are your Christmas preparations going?  

I have a little Christmas display on my hall stand (which is not in the hall), mostly things I've collected over the years, or made; from op shops or gifted to me.  I do like my little battery-operated candle that I found at the op shop this week for $1.  The light actually flickers like a real candlelight.  So pretty :)  

And I've been making shortbread biscuits for our church's Christmas outreach to the community.  We bagged them up last Monday, tied with a pretty ribbon, for our minister Darren to distribute in the town.

and I had to sample a couple just to make sure they were ok :)

This is the recipe we used...

Had another short visit from Natasha as she was in Australia for work.  We had a trip to Shearwater and fish and chips on the beach...

Marnie and Natasha

And dinner at the local Thai restaurant...

Tom, Marnie, Sophie, Denver, Natasha, me

I'm still not happy with the vest I'm knitting.  I think it's the pattern I'm using that I don't like.  But dare I undo it again?!...

I'm putting it away till after Christmas

And working on this crocheted blanket in the meantime...

which I started earlier in the year

Keeping up with my Bible reading in Luke's gospel...

to read the last chapter on Christmas eve

And a little Christmas bedtime reading...

Have a blessed week my friends!

xx