My Life. The Blogable Bits.

A few things, Christmas was wonderful. It was so much nicer than I imagined it would be. No, my house wasn’t decorated like I wanted it to be and no, I didn’t cook the massive big feast I wanted to, but you know, it was still perfect.

Steve’s low salicylate, anime and glutomate diet has been going well. Except for the Christmas Day incident where the lure of BBQ sauce was just too great, apparently. But now we have the RPA Elimination Diet Handbook, it has made everything so much clearer to us and it has been great. Steve has even lost over 3 kilos.

I am just going to list 2 links to recipes here so I can refer back to them and also if anyone else needs them.

http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/information/recipes.htm

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~failsafe/recipes01.html

Ok, so I didn’t complete my 25 Days of Christmas. It’s all good. I only have 2 days left, and well, why not upload them today?

Day 24

Something special you can do with the kids. Lisa from The Red Thread has created these beautiful baubles.

Day 25

Well, I found the most cutest Elves. Just follow this link for the tutorial. This tutorial comes to us by way of the Make Baby Stuff . com site.

Day 22

Today I took the kids to get their Santa photo. There were many protests, all by Kate of course because she did not like the shirt I wanted her to wear. Lucky I am bigger and older or the kids might not have had matching clothing. I will upload the photo tomorrow.

Today’s 25 Days of Christmas is brought to us by Becky Oehlers of Hemidemisemiquaver Design blog. Her cards are just fantastic and a treat for any paper crafter. But it’s her partidge ornament that caught my eye. Click here for the details. And please, for the sake of paper, check out her cards while you are there!

Day 16

While typing I am eating my dinner. Tonight I made a low chemical side dish – rice and cottage cheese pie put of the Friendly Foods book. You know what, I wouldn’t have thought it, but it is actually yum. Steve has an appointment with the RPA allergy clinic in january so there is much progress with that side of things.

Today I have the most special Christmas tree bunting to share with you. I think this would look great hanging across a mantel. I don’t have a mantel. I have a buffet which at the moment is adorned with a ceiling fan that the electrician was supposed to put in about a month ago. I think I need to find a new spraky. Hmmm. Anyway, it would probably look good across my buffet too. The bunting is brought to us today by Sadie from the Sadieandlance blog. Follow the link to her detailed tutorial. Gorgeous, huh?

Day 14

I have spent the better part of the day at school as both Kate and Luke received awards. Kate’s award was for ‘excellent reading skills and contributions to class talking and listening topics’ and Luke’s was for ‘being a quiet achiever’. Pretty proud mumma.

Today’s 25 Days of Christmas craft has been made by Sunghee of Creativity in Progress blog. She has created the most divine bunch of paper flowers ever. Follow this link to see her tutorial. It really looks like it took a long time, the results are worth it though! Just stunning!!