Challenge#85: What is your Country or Family's Christmas Tradition(s)?

Over at Unstampabelles, the new Challenge#85 is to tell us what is traditional in your country around this time or how does your family traditionally celebrate this time.

Produce a card; or tag; or a scrap page; or an off-the-page item to represent the tradition and then explain in your blog (as the twist) what it is all about!

OK - we share many different traditions in Australia from all the various groups who have come and settled here and the original inhabitants did not celebrate Christmas or similar before invasion. However, there are some things that have become quite traditional or significant here in Australia. One is the annual Carol singing session - not individuals or groups wandering around singing but a whole suburb or community gathering together to sing together and wave candles and wear Christmas hats. At the end, Santa arrives himself and small children are amazed! If we cannot make one in person, we watch it on the TV - either Sydney's but for us mostly it is the one at the Melbourne Myer Bowl in the park in central Melbourne. Usually they are on Christmas Eve and it is a good reason to sit back and drink eggnog or Baileys and eat mince pies and shortbread while enjoying the lovely music.

For my inspiration to day I made a card

This is NOT my idea - I did make this card but under supervision

I made one at a class with Jen at Bellbird Crafts back in October

I did change this one a little as I cannot use stamps

It is s Z fold card

The tradition is the story of the Six White Boomer's

My kangaroo's are in silhouette so this why they are black (and gold from the setting sun)!

There are six pulling the sleigh

The bird on Santa's shoulder is the white cockatoo!

Cheers and off you go to 

Unstampabelles