Have a No-Bake Christmas

Christmas Cake decorated with santa strawberries

If you are running short on time but want to make an impression with your Christmas deserts and cakes here are some no-bake Christmas ideas. Mini Christmas Puddings This is a quick non-bake recipe which the kids enjoy helping with.  You crumble a store bought Christmas cake, add ingredients so that it stays in a […]

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Holiday Blues – Don’t Let Them Get to YOU by Dr. Erica Goodstone

Happy woman in Santa hat

Holidays are wonderful – or they’re not.  People are excitedly buying gifts and sharing exuberant moments together – or they are feeling rejected, neglected, sad and lonely. If  you have lots of caring family and friends, each excitedly searching for the perfect gifts for each other including you, then holiday time can feel like a […]

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10 Ways to Get Into The Christmas Spirit.

Pinterest Christmas Food Board

Do you find it hard to get enthusiastic about Christmas but would like to rekindle that Christmas Spirit that you felt as a child? I used to get so over-excited about Christmas when I was a young child that by the time the day arrived I was tired and run down and invariably ill in […]

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Christmas Word Search For Kids and Adults

Online Christmas Wordsearch Featured

I have included games, puzzles and printables in the Christmas Tree Farm’s Advent Calendar, making them myself when possible. I came across this good Christmas Word Search game but, because of links in it to a games site, I did not want children to do this unsupervised. It is not possible to know where links […]

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Simple Strategies to Beat Holiday Stress

Book Cover Christmas BY Design

It’s inevitable. It seems no matter how well we plan and organize, something inevitably disrupts even the best laid plans for the perfect holiday. Someone gets hung up at work, favorite ornaments are broken or the Christmas tree lights are hopelessly tangled. We run out of money long before we get to the end of […]

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Get Creative with Christmas Baubles

Wall Christmas Tree made from baubles

When I was growing up in England it was usual to decorate the living area as well as the Christmas Tree and I have carried on that tradition with my own family. When my children were younger they preferred lots of tinsel hanging  from windows, doors and ceiling. These days I like to be little  […]

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Our Advent Calendar is Live

Advent Calendar screenshot

Our Kid’s online Advent Calendar begins today and will continue for 24 days until Christmas Eve. Each day there will be a new children’s activity.  Our Christmas Printables will include gift tags, Christmas Cards, decorations  games and quizzes. We will have some online games and videos too. You can follow the progress of the Calendar […]

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Frankston Christmas Festival of Lights

Santa Clause

Last year was my first year living on the Mornington Peninsula but I was away, visiting my daughter, on the weekend of last year’s Frankston Christmas Festival of Lights. I will not be missing it this year, especially after how much I enjoyed the festive community atmosphere of the Frankston Waterfront Festival in January.  This […]

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Christmas Tree Farm Is Open

Santa Decorations Shop

Christmas Tree Farm is now open for the 2013 Choose and Cut season. Our hours are 9.00am to 5.30pm, 7 days a week, with our last day being 24th December. The new Peninsula link Freeway makes it quicker and easier to visit us, whether you are coming from Melbourne, Dandenong, Frankston or anywhere on the […]

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Christmas Tree Farm Preview Night

invitation to preview night

We are pleased to announce that we are holding a special Preview Night at our Christmas Tree Farm in Moorooduc on Friday 22nd November 5.30pm to 7.30pm. Take the opportunity to buy Christmas Decorations from our shop at a discount of 20% off. RSVP by email or call 03 5977 5822   Getting To the […]

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