Annie's Blog

 Craft Cottage Garden always a lovely time of year  across to the beach we go again... Mooloolaba Beach always interesting an ibis walks past a pirate ship in the playground... some lovely colorful autumn leaves a tour of the Agricultural College   and another trip to the beach on a different sort of day...just before the cyclone I think...  the always beautiful Mooloolaba Beach  in another of it's moods...

Always good to get across to the beach even if there is a storm approaching good to see the beach in all its different moods

 always fun to have a jigsaw to do...(I like  sorting the colors best )  some lovely flowers...  and the buckinghamias were looking great

 luckily it rained , for some of us...it has been quite a dry wet season this year so far   always nice to get across to the beach   always something interesting going on last chance for a paddle for some...   and the last few days of the long summer holidays  time to keep cool   and have some fun on the verandah Hope your weeks have been filled with fun and meaningful activity too!  May God bless you this week.

All the best for 2017 from me to you! Have been reading a good book  called The Rain Queen. by Katherine Scholes. Set in Africa, m ainly. A "cant put it down (during the day)" type of read! Just in case you are interested... What have you been reading? I am hoping to catch up with Light between Oceans soon. Is that what it is called?

 there were some interesting versions of Christmas trees in the church leading up to Christmas services...someone decorated a ladder (above)  some very pretty  this blue one might have featured in the "blue" service...for people for whom Christmas is not always the happiest time of year!!  a musical tree atop the organ  a wonderful traditional tree decorated in red and interesting original origami like green trees as well as very light and delicate ones. and of course I forgot to take a photo of the most original (and funniest) one..made out of a lawnmower a rake and spade all decorated with tinsel with an Aussie gardening hat on top..outside the entrance to the church.. I do hope you have been blessed by company,  friends and family this Christmas season and perhaps by a gift of quietude , maybe even a good book, and possibly an interesting satisfying meal.  We have been blessed by lovely cooler weather, and the skie...

This year a little  three year old helped to decorate the tree, along with multiple cousins who were visiting on their way to their annual holiday at the beach... I have a little giggle whenever I walk past and see how he put multiple baubles on the same branch... what a cutie pie.... The other day while I was minding him,  he announced he would like his cousins to come back again. I said I would let them know...so if they are reading this ...they will know now ;-) I love Christmas... I love the real meaning of Christmas, that Jesus was sent as a babe to tell us about God's love for us.  I pray that you will  have a wonderful Advent.