‘Organise yourself a Merry Little Christmas‘ is a series that will help you to have everything planned and ready for Christmas day.  

Each day I will be sharing a new Christmas task to ensure you have completed everything needed by Christmas Day,  yummy Christmas recipes, fun Christmas activities. a gift guide with ideas on what to buy or make your loved ones and more.

Use ‘The Organised Housewife Christmas Planner’ to help organise tasks throughout the series.  This 45 page planner will keep all your checklists, planners, budget, travel information and more together in one folder.  It is available as a digital download so you will receive it instantly after purchase and can start organising!

 Today’s Tasks:

• Prepare some of the food for tomorrow today so you don’t have to spend as much time in the kitchen
• Don’t forget to recharge the battery in your camera and video
• Leave cookies and drink for Santa
• Make some reindeer food for Rudolph (click image below to view how to make reindeer food)

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4 days till Christmas Day

‘Organise yourself a Merry Little Christmas‘ is a series that will help you to have everything planned and ready for Christmas day.

Each day I will be sharing a new Christmas task to ensure you have completed everything needed by Christmas Day,  yummy Christmas recipes, fun Christmas activities. a gift guide with ideas on what to buy or make your loved ones and more.

Use ‘The Organised Housewife Christmas Planner’ to help organise tasks throughout the series.  This 45 page planner will keep all your checklists, planners, budget, travel information and more together in one folder.  It is available as a digital download so you will receive it instantly after purchase and can start organising!

 Today’s Tasks:

• This weekend shop for fresh ingredients
• Make a timeline for cooking Christmas Day meals
• Spend time wrapping presents
• If you like to be extra organised, you could write a list of people you need to buy gifts for in the next 6 months, ready for when you visit the boxing day sales
• Breath, find time to relax and enjoy this silly season

Chocolate Butternut Snap Tartlets

Find more details at Arnotts (click image above for recipe)

Fruit Cake

idea from Good Maker (click image above for recipe)

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‘Organise yourself a Merry Little Christmas‘ is a series that will help you to have everything planned and ready for Christmas day.  

Each day I will be sharing a new Christmas task to ensure you have completed everything needed by Christmas Day,  yummy Christmas recipes, fun Christmas activities. a gift guide with ideas on what to buy or make your loved ones and more.

Use ‘The Organised Housewife Christmas Planner’ to help organise tasks throughout the series.  This 45 page planner will keep all your checklists, planners, budget, travel information and more together in one folder.  It is available as a digital download so you will receive it instantly after purchase and can start organising!

 Today’s Tasks:

• Make sure you have enough and the right sizes of batteries for Christmas morning.

Aussie Pavlova Layer Cake with Red Berries

idea from MyFoodBook (click image above for recipe)

Boozy Sultana Cupcake with Brandy Butter Frosting

This recipe uses a brown sugar brand that we don’t have in Australia, you can easily use one from our supermarkets.

Find more details at Witmworths Sugar (click image above for recipe) 

Christmas Playdough

Find more details at Children’s Books Daily (click image above to view details)

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‘Organise yourself a Merry Little Christmas‘ is a series that will help you to have everything planned and ready for Christmas day.  

Each day I will be sharing a new Christmas task to ensure you have completed everything needed by Christmas Day,  yummy Christmas recipes, fun Christmas activities. a gift guide with ideas on what to buy or make your loved ones and more.

Use ‘The Organised Housewife Christmas Planner’ to help organise tasks throughout the series.  This 45 page planner will keep all your checklists, planners, budget, travel information and more together in one folder.  It is available as a digital download so you will receive it instantly after purchase and can start organising!

 Today’s Tasks:

• Check over your Christmas Gift list and ensure that you have purchased all you need

Santa Hat Brownies

Find more details at Taste.com.au (click image above for recipe)

Christmas Trifle 

Find more details at Taste.com.au

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‘Organise yourself a Merry Little Christmas‘ is a series that will help you to have everything planned and ready for Christmas day.  

Each day I will be sharing a new Christmas task to ensure you have completed everything needed by Christmas Day,  yummy Christmas recipes, fun Christmas activities. a gift guide with ideas on what to buy or make your loved ones and more.

Use ‘The Organised Housewife Christmas Planner’ to help organise tasks throughout the series.  This 45 page planner will keep all your checklists, planners, budget, travel information and more together in one folder.  It is available as a digital download so you will receive it instantly after purchase and can start organising!

 Today’s Tasks:

• Purchase non-perishable items early
• If you weren’t able to mail your Christmas gifts earlier, now would be a great time to ensure you have completed this task. Also confirm that your parcels have arrived at their destination
• If you can, finish all your gift wrapping

 

Chocolate Ripple Cake

Find more details at Taste.com.au (click image above)

Bloggers are welcome to submit a recipe, see page here

Easy Christmas Windows

Find more details at Country Life Experiment (click image above)

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Each year I decorate the tree differently, I went through a stage a few years ago I liked the pink, blue and silver theme on the tree, however this year I wanted the traditional red and green.  So as you can imagine I have quite a collection of ornaments.  I like to organise the ornaments by colour to make it easier to decorate the tree and not having to rummage through and damage them.

I have purchased a few glass ornaments this holiday season, I will wrap them in tissue paper before storing them to ensure they don’t break.

I’m using the Easi Store 6 Shoe Underbed storage boxes to store the decorations.  Each box has 6 compartments with removable dividers so you can create bigger spaces like I have below for our Christmas linens and plates.  In this box I am storing tablecloths, tea-towels, Santa sacks, Christmas cookie cutters, cups and plates.

We have a lot of tinsel, we decorate inside and out of the house with tinsel, but have been very tame this year with how much we have put on the tree.  I roll the tinsel around my hand and place into the storage box.

I like to store all the Christmas DVDs, CDs, hair ties, colouring and activity books away through the year, clutter free approach only have it out when needed.  In this box I also store candles, Santa hats, reindeer ears and stockings.

I used a big 90L Easi Store Box on Wheels to store all the bulky Christmas decorations.  I use plastic shopping bags to wrap around the products to protect them.  While these Christmas ornaments are on display I place our usual ornaments in this box.  Eg, I put a santa where a gorgeous vase and Buddha sits, I put the vase and Buddha away so it still looks tidy and clutter free.

All these storage tubs have lids so they can be stacked on top of each other.  I keep ours in the top of our walk in robe, but we are hoping to put up some shelves in the garage soon to create some extra space in our wardrobe.

When I picked these up at my local Howards Storage World they were on display and used to sort Lego, brilliant idea as they are on wheels they can easily slide underneath the bed and be brought out when the kids want to play with them.

The  Easi Store 6 Shoe Underbed with Wheels storage boxes can be found in store and online at Howards Storage World.

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‘Organise yourself a Merry Little Christmas‘ is a series that will help you to have everything planned and ready for Christmas day.  

Each day I will be sharing a new Christmas task to ensure you have completed everything needed by Christmas Day,  yummy Christmas recipes, fun Christmas activities. a gift guide with ideas on what to buy or make your loved ones and more.

Use ‘The Organised Housewife Christmas Planner’ to help organise tasks throughout the series.  This 45 page planner will keep all your checklists, planners, budget, travel information and more together in one folder.  It is available as a digital download so you will receive it instantly after purchase and can start organising!

I am winding down for Christmas, but I will be continuing the Christmas Tasks to ensure you are ready for Christmas Day xx

 Today’s Tasks:

• Do you have items ready to decorate the table on Christmas Day?
  • Christmas Table Cloth
  • Napkins
  • Bon Bons
  • Decorations
  • Name cards (optional)
  • Place mats (optional)
• Update your Christmas Budget with latest gift purchases, food, decorations etc.

Candy Cane Fudge

Find more details at Allrecipes.com

Melted Snowman Biscuits

Idea from Be a Fun Mum (click image to view recipe)

Paperclip Angels 

Find more details at Crafty Mummy (click image above)

Brownie in a Jar

Idea from Masiy and Grace (click image above for more details)

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