My Christmas 2012: Baking and Family Christmas Dinner

My Christmas 2012: Baking Gingerbread Men Cookies for my friend and Friends' (second family) Christmas Dinner

I am finally succumbing to my repressed need to bake and also have satisfied my dessert craving. I cannot look at icing sugar any more, I cannot hold another spatula, I cannot knead any more dough. Well until next year at least.

I spent my Christmas day baking Gingerbread Men Cookies and personalising it with Writing Icing. Me and my sister found we had more than enough to do trial and error, so we experimented with skeleton shapes, 'Cabramatta' logos and bikinis on our cookies (my friend loved them).

At night I then headed off to my friends house for a (Second) Family Christmas Dinner. Every year me and my closest friends gather around the table with our eggnog, plate full of ham and chicken and bon bons. We laugh, drink and reminisce. 

Of course the highlight is always my friend's hand-made desserts. Usually creamy Tiramisu and Triple chocolate macedamia nut brownies are on offer but my friend added a delicious Pumpkin pie to the menu this year (with my cookies too) and I quickly surrendered to my annual Christmas Sugar Coma and soon-to-come Christmas Hangover.

Mad about MADHOUSE boots

Wearing: One Teaspoon T-shirt; Riders by Lee denim shorts; Kushla Blue All Tied Up Rope Bracelet thanks to Kushla; Beginning Boutique Black Cuff and Silver Armour Cuff; MADHOUSE boots thanks to Steve Madden

It's now after the Christmas Rush, and I can breathe again. I spent most of it baking, shopping, having Christmas lunches (mainly hotpot) and wrapping presents. And with a haze of Christmas lights, wrapping paper, unpeeled prawns and icing sugar still floating around, I need to re-coup to find more "me" time.
Recently, I was treated by Steve Madden with some wicked new MADHOUSE boots. It's now my favourite pair and I thought I needed to go out and show them my favourite hill in the whole world. And again I was able to breathe, soothing my soul and calming my heart.

Sydney Christmas Light Hunting 2012

An Event: Christmas Light Hunting in Sydney 2012

Every year, this outing always tops it for me. I try to go with friends or my boyfriend to look for Sydney's finest Christmas light displays. This year took me to Dulwich Hill, Drummoyne, Five Dock and Ashbury. The atmosphere is festive, with home-owners venturing  out to hand out candy canes, and children with amazed faces, and adults lining up for ice cream at the ice cream trucks. Merry Christmas everyone!