Sorted with Style

This year I decided to create an Advent calendar with a countdown activity list to keep us on track ( and also to encourage us to have some fun along the way!). I used a mixture of handmade and bought decorations to symbolize each of the activities we plan to do each day.
                                         1.   Decorate the Christmas Tree
                                         2.   Send Christmas Cards
                                         3.   Hang the Stockings with care.
                                         4.   Write to the North Pole.
                                         5.   Build a gingerbread house.
                                         6.   Attend Carols by candlelight.
                                         7.   Make Orange & Cinnamon potpourri
                                         8.   Put up Mistletoe and kiss beneath it!
                                         9.   Sing Christmas Carols.
                                       10.   Make the Christmas Pudding.
                                       11.   Make Cinnamon Hot Chocolates.
                                       12.   Complete the Christmas Shopping.
                                       13.   Crack Nuts and eat Pretzels.
                                       14.   Decorate Snowflake Cookies.
                                       15.   Make Gingerbread men.
                                       16.   Donate to Charity.
                                       17.   Wrap the Christmas Presents.
                                       18.   Do a good deed!
                                       19.   Have Photos with Santa.
                                       20.   Watch Christmas movies - elf!!!
                                       21.   Decorate the Christmas table.
                                       22.   Light the Christmas Angel.
                                       23.   Tour the Neighbourhood Christmas Lights
                                       24.   Attend Midnight Mass.

Linking with Sorted with Style   Natasha at Keeping the spirit alive365, Romantic Home, French Country Cottage

This year we have decided upon a Reindeer snow theme for Christmas. We decided that although we had no chance of a White Christmas here in Sydney, there was absolutely nothing stopping us from creating our own!

We made glitter houses on little trays

Our little reindeer surveys the snow scene

A Coastal White Christmas??

We are having so much fun creating our little touches of a White Christmas! Linking up with sorted with style My Romantic Home,French Country Cottage and Tatertots and Jello

The Jacaranda's are in full bloom and Sydney is awash with colour! Everywhere you turn splashes of purple and lavender abound.