A #SundaySong, A New Baby and Two Birthdays!

Well, this was truly an amazing weekend.....

My niece Maisie was born Saturday the 17th!

Happy Birth-Day Maisie!

 My daughter Maddy and my sister Stacey also celebrated their birthdays on the 18th! 

Happy Birthday Maddy and Stacey!

December is such a fun month for our family!

Here are few happy snaps from our busy weekend that I would love to share with you!

Welcome to the world sweet little Maisie!

Isn't she a sweetie! 

With everything that is happening in our family and with Christmas literally only days away, I think that now is probably a good time to sign off for the year. I would like to thank you for your kindness, friendship, comments, emails and support over the last 12 months. I feel so blessed to have met such truly wonderful people through blogging. Thank you so much!

May the gifts of love, peace and happiness be yours at Christmas.

When A Child Is Born

A ray of hope flickers in the sky 

A tiny star lights up way up high 

All across the land dawns a brand new morn 

This comes to pass when a child is born

A silent wish sails the seven seas 

The winds of change whisper in the trees 

And the walls of doubt crumble tossed and torn 

This comes to pass, when a child is born

A rosy hue settles all around 

You got the feel, you're on solid ground 

For a spell or two no one seems forlorn 

This comes to pass, when a child is born

Spoken: And all of this happens, because the world is waiting. 

Waiting for one child; Black-white-yellow, no one knows... 

but a child that will grow up and turn tears to laughter, 

hate to love, war to peace and everyone to everyone's neighbor, 

and misery and suffering will be words to be forgotten forever.

It's all a dream and illusion now, 

It must come true sometime soon somehow, 

All across the land dawns a brand new morn, 

This comes to pass when a child is born.

#SundaySong

Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful holiday and a very happy 2012!

Natasha In Oz 

For unto us a child is born... Isaiah 9:6

Prayers needed please!

I'm sorry that this week's Say G'Day Saturday Linky party is not quite ready yet but today we found out that my sister Holly is finally in labour!

This picture was taken a couple of days ago...on the day that Holly found out that bubs had turned herself around and was not only posterior but she decided to lay on her side! Poor Holly was supposed to have an induction the next day but that couldn't happen as it would be too dangerous.

Today my cheeky little niece has decided that she is going to take her time to make her grand entrance! Holly went into labour this morning but still nothing has happened!

Holly is getting a well-deserved massage from Maddy.

As soon as I hear some news I will be back to regular posting! In the meantime, I am sure that Holly and John would really appreciate your thoughts and prayers at this stressful time!

Come on little one...hurry up!

Best wishes,

Natasha In Oz 

Say G'Day Saturday Linky Party ~ Christmas Tablescapes!

Hello dear friends! I'm so happy that you have dropped by to visit me in my little corner of the world Down Under today. I hope you have all been enjoying the first week of December. We have had a great week so far as my kids are now on Summer vacation! We have been baking, relaxing and catching up with our family.

Happy Birthday Johnny!

I have also been having lots of fun decorating our kitchen and dining room for Christmas!

I have nearly finished decorating but I am not quite sure what to do for our Christmas table.

I have tried a few ideas for the table....

I still have to work on how to dress up our table for Christmas meals...

What do you think about these ideas?

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What do you think of my Pinterest inspired Christmas tablescape?

I am quite happy with this Christmas tablescape. I bought nothing new, used what I already had and still managed to make it feel festive and Christmassy!

Have you shared any Christmas Tablescape ideas or pictures on your blogs recently? I would love it if you could share your Christmas posts at this weekend's

  

Christmas Say G'Day Saturday Linky Party!

If you would like to link up a post, old or new, about your Christmas decorating, Christmas planning, Christmas recipesor anything else Christmasy to my Say G'Day Saturday Party, just add the url of your particular blog post that you would like us to visit to the Linky tool below.

Please also link back to me @ NatashaInOz.com or if you would like to Tweet about this weekly Linky Party please add this to your tweets #SayGdayParty

Thanks so much for joining in and linking up! Don't forget to come back later and say G'Day to some of the lovely bloggers who have linked up!

I just wanted to share some other news. If you haven't already heard, I have created a central list of Blogging Pinners so we can all find each other's Pinterest pages more easily. It is called....

The Pinning Bloggers Master List.

If you would like to add your name to the Pinning Blogger's Master List just click the button below:





If you would like some more Christmas inspiration, please come and visit me at my Christmas blog. I am in the middle of my 12 Days of Christmas Traditions series at the moment and so far I have posted about Christmas Puddings, Christmas Stockings, Christmas around the world, Gingerbread Houses and Candy Canes! I will also be hosting a Christmas party over there on December 12 so please be sure to join in then!

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Before I go and find some more activities to keep the kids amused for another week I must thank the lovely people who are hosting the following linky parties-thanks so much for having me and hosting your fabulous memes each week:

Tablescape Thursday;  Holiday Dining Party;  Feathered Nest Friday; Common Ground's Vintage Inspiration Friday; At the Picket Fence; The Lettred Cottage; Tickled Pink;Fridays Unfolded; Show and Tell Friday; Home Sweet Home; Flaunt it Friday; Everything but the Kitchen Sink Party; Fabulous Friday; Feature Friday; Feature Yourself Friday; Free for All Friday; Weekend wander;  Pink Saturday with Beverly; Strut Your Stuff Saturday; Show & Tell Saturday; Serenity Saturday; Once upon a Weekend; Saturday show Off; Saturday Seven; Sunday Blog Love; Piquing my Pinterest; Sunday Linky Party Sundae Scoop; Amaze me Monday; More the Merrier Monday; Met Monday; Creative Bloggers party; Making The World Cuter Mondays; Market Yourself Monday; Show and Share; Rook no.17; Take it on Tuesday; One Project at a Time; Tabletop Tuesday; Wow Me Wednesday; Show & Tell;  Whatever Wednesday @Momma Hen's; Whatever Goes Wednesday; Pinterest Favourites; Whatever Wednesday; Anything Goes Linky party; Simply Link Party; Holiday Haven's Christmas Party; Christmas Home Tour; Pinterest Pinfest Party; Christmas-Scapes Linky Party; Christmas Bunny Hop; Shabby Creek Cottage

Thank you so very much for stopping by today. As always, your visit means so much to me.

Best wishes for a beautful week,

Natasha In Oz 

Say G'Day Saturday Linky Party ~ Peace on Earth

Welcome to this weekend's Say G'Day Linky Party! I'm so glad you stopped by to visit me in my little corner of the world Down Under.

I just want to start this post by saying a very big "Thank You" to my new friends, followers, pinterest followers, Pinning Bloggers who have linked up to the Master List, bloggers who share some linky love by always linking back to Natasha In Oz and to everyone who takes the time to leave comments on my blog and on everyone else's blogs when you visit them each weekend.

Thank you also to all of my wonderful bloggy friends who had have added this Christmassy button to their blogs!




My 12 Days of Christmas Series started yesterday and I shared some fun Advent ideas. If you haven't visited yet please do! Today's post is all about Candy Canes so if you have shared any great ideas, pictures or recipes that involve candy canes please visit and link up your post! If you would like to see the other posts that I have planned during my 12 Days of Christmas series, Click to here to read more and find out the full program! 

Now onto this week's Party!

12 Days of Christmas Traditions~Advent Calendars.

Hello friends-welcome to Natasha In Oz and welcome to the happiest month of the year!

It's December!
Time to get out those Advent calendars and count down to the best day of the year!

Today is not only the first day of December, it is also the first day of my 12 Days Of Christmas Series over at my Christmas Blog, Keeping the Christmas Spirit Alive, 365.

To start the series I thought it would be fun to post some Advent inspiration.

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Aren't these ideas so festive and fabulous!

If you would like some more Advent inspiration and to learn more about the Advent tradition please just click the button to visit my Christmas blog. If you have published a post about Advent I would be so thrilled if you could also link up your Advent post while you are there!

Thank you so much for visiting me in my little corner of the world today-your visits mean so much to me!

Blessings and best Christmas wishes,

Natasha In Oz