Monthly Archives: December 2009

Adventuring

By Alice | Published: December 23, 2009

Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes! I hadn’t meant to be AWOL from here for the past few days, I had forgotten how full the evenings are in this season what with my birthday, Simon’s birthday, and all the Christmas events. These are the pictures from my family birthday, we went for [...]

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birthday!

By Alice | Published: December 18, 2009

Today is my birthday! I am having a great day so far. I am now 30 which seems such a grown-up age, how can I be this age? I am sure I must be 25? ;) I felt a little bit anxious about such an upcoming milestone for a while but now it is actually [...]

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Christmas Tutorial: Paper Leaf Decorations

By Alice | Published: December 16, 2009

Each year I make a few decorations if I have time. Here are two super quick and easy decoration ideas that I came up with this year. I have made a PDF template that you can download for free from here. 1. Christmas Leaf Decoration a. Cut out the leaf and circle from the template. [...]

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Cats update

By Alice | Published: December 14, 2009

I think we can safely call them cats now not kittens! The vet says that in a couple of weeks they can go outside. I will be so nervous the first time that we let them out.

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Christmas shopping

By Alice | Published: December 13, 2009

I took these in the Covered Market in Oxford. The bustle of Christmas shopping is quite nice in this kind of environment, seems kind of old-timey, like from A Christmas Carol or something. People carrying plucked geese and holly wreaths around, that sort of thing. Although probably they didn’t have watermelon in November in A [...]

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