Christmas all wrapped-up

Well the christmas tree is being taken down as we speak and the presents are slowly finding new places to live in the house. Stomaches are still bloated and the empties have not yet been taken to the recycling place yet. But what a great few days Christmas was this year. Hwew are a few pics wrapping up the days spent celebrating.


making gingerbread men for Father Christmas


all laid out with a beer (of course- this Father Christmas doesn't drink milk!)


putting water and carrots out for the reindeers

Little Spunky Monkey Santa Sacks in full swing

the beautiful Christmas lunch table

and plenty of this to wash it all down.

Merry Christmas to you all,

Rebecca ox

Its nearly here!

its getting closer...

Some beautiful baubles to get excited over...








Rebecca ox

GIVEAWAY! Printable Christmas Gift Tags

Because I am full of Christmas cheer today, I have decided to have a GIVEAWAY!

Up for grabs is a printable PDF file of 9 Christmas Gift Tags. Print it as many times as you like and put them on all your gifts!

All you have to do in order to receive the file via email is:

1. Become a follower of this Little Spunky Monkey Blog

2. Post a link on your Facebook or blog to either this LSM Blog or the website (http://www.littlespunkymonkey.com.au/) and leave a comment about where you have linked it.

Easy peasy!

Happy printing and happy gifting! Here is a sneak peak of some of the gift tag designs...

Rebecca ox

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Christmas Bauble Template Download

I did up a Christmas bauble template today to print off and decorate. I printed them up on green and red paper and also cut out some old Christmas paper for the kids to glue on the baubles.

I hole-punched some holes and tied them up with some wool and hung them on the windows (in the absense of a tree at the moment).

The kids had a blast and the house is slowly getting into the Christmas spirit.

To download the template click on the image below, right-click and save image onto your computer to print.

Rebecca ox

My love of printer's drawers

I used to have a printer's drawer growing up, that I would fill with little treasures I would collect and buy along the way (maybe this is where my inate ability to hoard pits and pieces to this very day?).
I had lots of compartments filled with all sorts of things from shells from beach walks, to coins we put on railway tracks to get flattened by passing trains, to minature perfume bottles, to thimbles.
I really must dig all of these out one day and put it back up.
Or start another one maybe...

Rebecca ox

Beautiful nursery- one for the boys

Rebecca ox

Homemade microwave popcorn!

What a better way to try and keep the peeps inside on stinking hot days like today, than to make our very own mocrowave popcorn!

AND its easy peasy!

1. Put 1/4 cup popcorn in a brown paper bag. Fold top over a few times and tape it.

2. Place in microwave folded side up for 2 to 3 minutes or until there is 5 seconds between pops.

3. ENJOY!

You can eat it healthy and plain, but what fun is there in that?!? I believe it is best served with lashings of icing sugar. Mmmmmm.

Rebecca ox

Alphabet Nursery

The letters first caught my eye with this adorable nursery, and on closer inspection I found more and more to fall in love with.

With the slight industrial base to the room, the crisp white furniture and the bold red and the natural woodgrain- it all comes together to make a beautiful space for one lucky little person.

Rebecca ox

New hair clips...

Just the start of the new lot of hair clips we are making (and have the blisters to prove it!)...

Christmas Flower $9.00

(part of our Christmas range, with matching tshirt)

Pink and Green Flower $9.00

Red Apple $5.00

Blue Butterfly $5.00

Rebecca ox

Cherry cherry yummy yummy

Our gorgeous God-daughter-to-be is having a combined 1st Birthday/Christening in December so it is party central in a couple of households planing beautiful things for her big day!
One idea mum had was a cherry party- how fitting for a December celebration!
A feast for the eyes...

Rebecca ox