'tis the season...for consuming

the minnie mouse side of dress 3.  oh and merry christmas from the de Greenlaw kiddies.

aaah christmas.  not to get all bah humbug but with every passing year you get more about 'giving' and less about family, love and relaxing.  growing up christmas was the shizz.  we got six weeks off school, i got a heap of presents and we went on our annual road trip to sydney.  as i got older christmas became more special because no matter how much my parents fought during the year on that one day we all came together and had a day when none of that mattered.  my favourite christmas's were the ones that were just the melbourne family, just the four of us eating tinned oysters on the beach or yogo for breakfast then watching silly movies all day.  now that i'm a 'big girl' all i can think about is whether i'm going to get all my pressies sorted in time and how early is too early to make an escape from christmas lunch with my dad and his new partners family.  it's not that i don't like my dad's lady friend, i really do, it's just that christmas does not hold that magic for me anymore.  i would so much rather just hang out with my best mates who i consider to be my real family.
and don't even get me started on the whole presents thing.  i could count on one hand the things i have recieved that were exactly what i wanted and completely awesome.  it's become so important to just have something, anything, to give on the big day that we just hand over dollars by the fistful without even thinking about it.  i know i would appreciate a thoughtful handmade card and a donation to a charity a million times more that any gift basket or trinket that i will never wear.  maybe that's just me...i guess it will come as no surprise then that i am making all my gifts this year.  and as per usual i haven't started sooo this week is going to be a flurry of stitching and pasting and baking.  i feel at this stage that i have it loosely under control but i will report back...

the pretty pink summertime side of dress 3.  as to what's going on in this photo all i can say is that my bro and i are making a calendar for dad.  can't really explain why we chose to do this for March...

on a completely different topic dress 3 is almost done.  i wore it to the chrissie party and on the weekend, all it needs is a bit of tulle on the hem and it will be ready to party the summer away.