A Bit of Fun on Christmas…

All I wanted for Christmas was some peace and quiet at home. I’ve done the fun things with friends and wandered around town both shopping and watching people shop.

I’ve been stuck in grid lock traffic. I’ve had people bump into me. All the rushing around. It;s over!!

The weather is windy and quite chilly today (11degrees C – 51.8 degrees F) with off and on rain. I know, it’ s summer but the upcoming weekend is to be hot. So moving on.

As far as presents, etc go I wanted chocolate and I got a fair bit of that. I wanted a book. That wasn’t hard at all. One of the books I received (from myself with leftover birthday book voucher credits) is called A Year of Junk Journaling by Martina Calvi.

I love my journals. I have my small journal for just noting what happened today. Such as an animal to the vet, paid an electric bill, walked to town. It is a day to a page. I have my Commonwealth Journal to record things I enjoy reading about. Maybe a new comet in the sky. Maybe a new recipe or a book review. I read a lot of photography magazines and there are always notes to take from that. 

Then I have the day to a page that is just a brain dump. Maybe something fun happened. Maybe some idiot showed road rage. Just getting out the day so sleep comes easily.

I can add little pictures or stickers to that. Then there is the Junk Journal. Anything and everything goes into that. I can get as creative as I want using any bits of paper, buttons, feathers, menu items, receipts, you name it. This book of Junk Journaling has many ideas and illustrations of things I can do if I want to.

One page I have in one of my older journals is just a page of the wrappers from all the different teas I drink. I have a lot of T42 teas and the wrappers are different colours. You get the picture.

I’ll share a couple of more pages. It’s also fun to cut out the heads of people on magazines, then draw the clothes and bodies. I’m so hopeless at drawing it becomes very funny.

Another book of activities is Hobart’s Best Walks, published last year as part of the Woodsman Walking Guides. There are over 40 walks listed just around the Hobart area (southern Tasmania). I can include that in my days out to do photography. I’m always trying to think of places to take my camera that I’ve not been to for awhile.

I hope to post a few photos of the Penguin and I as we traverse these some familiar walks and some not so much.

On this note I will now wish my North American friends and family a lovely, peaceful Christmas for tomorrow and hope my Australian friends have had a good day. Merry Christmas to all the other countries people might drop in from no matter how you celebrate these days or ignore it altogether.

From our family below I’ll share a bit of cuteness.

Ollie.

Peanut (Peanny)

12 yr old Cousin Eddie

9 year old Grizzy (Griswald)

And for her first Christmas with us is 3 yr old Pickles who we inherited from our friend and neighbour Denny, who sadly passed away this year.

Pickles has settled in well and is almost running the household single handed.

See you next year!

And no we don’t have snow. The good things of AI. But it feels like we have snow.