{"id":595,"date":"2016-12-20T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-02-02T06:29:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T06:29:47","slug":"christmas-card-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/staging\/8794\/2016\/12\/20\/christmas-card-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Card Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Can you imagine what a nightmare it must be<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">when your blog is called <a href=\"http:\/\/fairybluebellscraftadventure.blogspot.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fairy Bluebells Craft Adventure <\/a>and your drawn&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">with Little Wandering Wren for <a href=\"http:\/\/lovemademyhome.blogspot.com.au\/2016\/12\/christmas-card-swap-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amy&#8217;s<\/a> annual Christmas Card swap?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Well fortunately we ended up being beautifully matched because there is nothing I like better&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">than a traditional English snowy Christmas card. Here is Debbie&#8217;s card below.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Thank you Debbie it has been lovely to meet you here.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">They say past behaviour predicts future behaviour&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">so poor Debbie drew the short, and rather long distance expensive straw,&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">when she was allocated an Australian blogger with as much crafting talent as a rock.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">We&#8217;re not talking an Uluru, Ayers Rock sort of a rock,<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">and yep I reckon you could count on one hand the amount of craft posts I have done&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"604\" src=\"\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m not exactly sure what I was thinking to add in Christmas card making into the mix&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">of packing up and leaving Australia.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Except that it seemed like a lovely idea!<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Zen Wren here I come.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">When, I couldn&#8217;t believe my luck, a dear friend&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">invited me for a night of Christmas champagne and card making &#8211; Yes there is a God!<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Back in the day, and we&#8217;re talking nearly twenty years ago, I confess to hosting a card making event.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">It was one of those light bulb moments, when you are staring down the barrel of who you really are.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Amongst my friendship group I am surrounded by perfectionists. I like things well done,<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;and admired their intricate designs and perfect cuts.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">They say opposites attract&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;I realised, having made copious cards, many saying&nbsp;<b>Merry &#8216;ristmas&nbsp;<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">that I was destined for a life where the motto of&nbsp;<b>&#8216;near enough is good enough&#8217;<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">was perfect for Little Wandering Wren!<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Twenty years on, I am about to move to a country where I have all the time in the world.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">I know no-one and have nothing to do (at the moment &#8211; wink!)<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">I could re-invent myself as anything I want, within reason.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">I had also, already written our 2016 Christmas cards with the big new announcement<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&#8216;sorry to be messing up your address books again but we&#8217;re moving to Bangkok&#8217;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">and so no need for Merry &#8216;ristmas cards this year.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;Here is the end result of our Champagne and card making evening:<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">two cards from Wren (you can see the little bird I copied above) with plenty of glitter.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">I figured my new life can be full of sparkle!<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"592\" src=\"\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">If Mr Wren is reading this that could either mean&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">sparkling seas at lovely Thai beaches or diamonds!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Christmas!<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine what a nightmare it must be when your blog is called Fairy Bluebells Craft Adventure and your drawn&nbsp; with Little&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,137,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-christmas","category-christmas","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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