That's Noice!

Redkite is an Australian not-for-profit charity and they have asked that we all give a Gift-in-Kind this Christmas and lighten the load for families affected by childhood cancer. A gift of $75 can connect parents across Australia to vital counselling support over Christmas, no matter where they live.

Do you have people in your life who already have everything? This is the perfect practical gift to give to those very people — they can then start the new year feeling warm and fuzzy in the knowledge that they’ve helped a family who’s doing it tough.

It’s hard to think about sick kids at Christmas, but they’re out there. Imagine the  joy you could give these littlies and their families.

Redkite provides a range of services that help support families caring for young kids with cancer. This Christmas, over 8,000 families on the cancer journey will feel weighed down emotionally and financially. These gifts can lighten that load:

• A gift of $55 can pay for a child’s mobile phone bills so they can stay in touch with their family this holiday season.
• $75 can connect parents across Australia to vital counselling support no matter where they live.
• Donating $120 can help a child manage the stress of gruelling treatment by funding a Redkite music therapy session.
• Giving $800 can help a bereaved parent talk with others who are grieving in a Redkite telephone support group.

To donate, please visit www.redkite.org.au or call 1800 334 771.

Those with cats will know the drama that surrounds Christmas and cats. Eating the tree, eating the tinsel…then little puddles of glitter vomit. And that’s if you can even get the damn thing to stay up, or the decorations to stay on.

Sick of all of it, I had planned not to do the tree this year. Till I came across the idea of a twig tree. After searching everywhere for a decent one at the shop, I thought bugger it I can make my own.

It was harder than I thought, trying to find a branch that was a decent shape. After traipsing round the bush with no luck I ended up stealing one from the neighbours dead tree *shh*

Gave it a light spray of white paint, stuck it in a pot with some pebbles and there you have it.

I LOVE it, best xmas tree we’ve ever had. Of course, it is covered in cupcakes :P I think I love even more that there are hardly any branches so the kids can’t go jamming it full of ugly crap. And there is no hassle with storage. Toss it out and get a new one next year.

I am not the most Christmasy person. I hate Christmas lights (makes my eyes twitch to see people have their displays up already o.O)  I HATE all the snow at Christmas and well..pretty much everything else about Christmas…except the ham..Mmmm Christmas ham. Anyway…came across some Christmasy stuff just perfect for me.

Lolmart Bah humbug shirt, a wonderful alternative to the usual bright ugly red and green Christmas shirts with bloody snow on them! Will take great pleasure wearing this at Christmas (shame it is white tho, I may well have to throw it out afterwards)

Then we have these Christmas balls from Selfridges that will go perfectly on my cupcake tree.

We would like to wish all of our wonderful readers a very Noice Christmas and a super Noice New Year.

Thank you all so much for reading That’s Noice  and making our first year so fantastic. We look forward to bringing you lots more awesome noiceness next year!

We are going to be taking a few weeks break over Christmas, but you can always check out our past noice.

We have also taken a stroll through each others posts and picked out our top 5 to keep you busy.

Rah’s top 5 favourite posts by Leigh

1. Wear your donna to work even though it’s unthinkable in the Aussie summer, I’m dead serious about buying a set for myself before winter 2010
2. Boob scarf because I know TN readers are as dirty-minded as I am!
3. Winkers so wrong, yet so hillarious
4. 5 great laptop decals something I want to buy for my Lenovo in the holidays (yes, I also had to include it because it has Obama porn)
5. Lemon Meringue Cupcakes cause the world could always do with more cupcakes!

Leigh’s top 5 favourite posts by Rah

1. Cupcake Factory Of all the cupcake shops we tried this year, these were my favourite!
2. Cupcake Cupcakes and these were a very close second.
3. Dirty Dishes LOVED these, I even got some as a wedding present
4. Perfect cupcake recipe speaks for itself ;)
5. Twitter Pillows would love some of these!

See you all next year!

Laura & Leigh xxx