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Focus on Hallmark Homes Plus 6 Happy Holiday Cocktail & Platter Hacks!

Christmas Cocktails? Check. Beautifully styled Designer Homes? Check. Perfect Platters? Check. This week’s North Harbour Christmas Blog is good to go!

Cocktail

This week the events team served up two Christmas events, the Residents and Builders Christmas parties respectively. The North Harbour Residents’ Christmas Party was huge and attended by over 300 of our lovely residents who enjoyed a visit from Santa, delicious food, cold drinks, climbing wall, bouncy castle and games – all in the future parklands, next to the heritage precinct on the banks of the beautiful Caboolture River.

If you’re planning on joining in our events, please note there will be a slight change to our programme for the holiday season. North Harbour parkrun will continue during the holidays with a special event held on Saturday 23rd. Dress up in Christmas outfits and spread some Christmas cheer. Please bring a plate to share and Santa will be providing Zooper Doopers at the finish line for everyone! You can find the event here.

Sunday Sunrise Yoga in the Park will be taking a break on Dec 24th and Dec 31st, and returning on January 7th.

Hallmark Homes

Hallmark Homes

North Harbour’s Display Village has 35 homes on display from 14 local and national builders, all styled to the max and guaranteed to have something to impress even the most jaded house hunter.

This week we’re showcasing Hallmark Homes whose four Display Homes are located adjacent to the sales office at North Harbour. The Hallmark Homes team is proud to have earned an enviable standing within the industry for building exceptional quality homes to superior specifications. With over 60 years combined building industry experience, Hallmark is recognised as one of Queensland’s most dependable and quality-driven project home builders. The team is still as passionate about building quality, affordable homes buyers will love, as they were over 30 years ago.

Hallmark Homes has four designs showcased at North Harbour, The Serene 196, The Edge 208, The Vista 245 and The Aspire 284. To find out more about Hallmark’s designs at North Harbour click here.

To view pricing on Hallmark Homes House and Land Packages head here. If you’d like to discuss land and house options the North Harbour Sales & Information Centre is open until midday on Friday 22nd December and will reopen on January 2nd, 2018.

Christmas Cocktails & Snacks

Picture the scene. It’s Christmas, the lead up has gone too quickly, again, and you’re about to have a houseful of guests. Lucky for you, the North Harbour team has tirelessly searched the web for the best Christmas cocktail and snack hacks, bottoms up!

1 – Espresso Martini – A perennial favourite, the espresso martini can easily be added to your Christmas drink menu. Jamie Oliver’s website has a great recipe here and we’ve put together the below for with Christmas twist:

To make two espresso martinis,

  • 2 shots espresso – unless you are a coffee snob, any kind of espresso will do and you can premake it and pop it in the fridge to speed things up
  • 1 shot Vodka
  • 2 shots Kahlua (or Baileys if you want to go for the full Christmas experience)
  • coffee beans/ chocolate/ nutmeg for garnish

Fill a cocktail shaker (or put two large scoops in a tough blender) with ice and pour in the espresso, vodka and kahlua/ baileys. Shake until chilled. Pour into two chilled glasses. Garnish with a few coffee beans, sprinkled chocolate or nutmeg for a Christmas finish. 

2 – Cheese straws: Easy to prepare ahead of time, cheese straws are another favourite which add flavour to any platter. We found a great recipe on BBC Good Food with only three ingredients, definitely a winner in the busy lead up to Christmas. Click here for more

3 – Snowballs: Time for a sweet treat now and these snowballs are easy to make with kids and delicious to eat for all ages.

4 – Bloody Mary: It’s red, like Christmas, and has also been known to gently soothe the odd hangover you might experience at this time of year. You can go posh and try this recipe, or simplify and make it classic by clicking here. Both taste great and tomato juice is full of vitamins so it’s really a health drink ;)

5 – Baby bocconcini, cherry tomato and basil skewers:

  • Take one cocktail stick
  • Skewer a baby bocconcini on it
  • Then a basil leaf
  • Then cherry tomato
  • Add more basil leaves if you want a stronger taste

Et voila! If you want to use this as a finger food version of salad for BBQs, use a bamboo skewer and add more layers, maybe drizzling the platter with balsamic and olive oil

6 – Bucks Fizz: To make sure your Christmas buzz doesn’t become a drone, make some fruity delicious buzz fizz with orange juice and sparkling wine. Adjust the ratios according to how alcholic you want your beverage to be. Click here for more.

Hope your Christmas shopping and partying go well – and have a great week!

Christmas greetings

The North Harbour Sales & Information Centre will be closed from midday on Friday 22nd December to 10am Tuesday January 2nd 2018, as our busy sales team takes some time out to enjoy the holidays. But we’re open every day prior to then (10am-5pm) if you’d like to buy yourself a pretty awesome Christmas gift! For more information on Hallmark Display Homes and available land at North Harbour please contact us or visit our Facebook page to find out more about upcoming local events.

 

Christmas Countdown, School Holiday Activities, & more!

Christmas is coming. School holidays are here, the shops are crazy, parties are many and the jolly fat man isn’t too far off, bringing us all a welcome rest. We’ve been rushed off our feet as the Christmas shopping frenzy seems to have spread to buying land at North Harbour – our latest stage release, stage 20, sold almost 50% in the first week! Thank you to all our new buyers, we look forward to welcoming you to North Harbour in 2018.

Chrismas balls

The Sales & Information Centre will be closed from midday on Friday 22nd December to 10am Tuesday January 2nd 2018, as our busy sales team takes some time out to enjoy the holidays. But we’re open every day prior to then (10am-5pm) if you’d like to buy yourself a pretty awesome Christmas gift!

If this is your first time building your own home, you might be thinking of a house and land package. For those of you not familiar with the term, a “house and land package” is when the developer (us) who is selling the land, asks a builder to provide an example of one of their designs (for example one of Coral’s Display Homes) which would fit on the block on question. The developer and builder then package the house design and the land together into a house and land package. To find out more about how this might work for you, contact our sales team.

Coral Display Homes

Coral Display Homes

Coral Homes was the first of our 14 builders to open a display home at North Harbour, in March 2016. Coral is one of the largest, most respected home builders in Australia, with a vast building area and display home network spanning from Bundaberg to Sydney and west to Toowoomba.

Each home constructed by Coral Homes showcases the highest standard of quality and workmanship with the best materials sourced from leading suppliers and every member of the Coral Homes team, from their trained sales consultants to Head Office staff and qualified tradespeople, is committed to making the process of constructing your new home a stress free, pleasurable and rewarding experience.

With an emphasis on flexibility, value for money and out of this world quality, it’s no wonder Coral Homes has made thousands of Australian families so happy. Coral has three designs on display at North Harbour: The Kingscliff 23, The Noosa 25 and The Daydream 30. To find out more about Coral Display Homes visit our website.

Five Things to Do in the School Holidays

If you’re looking to get the kids out into nature these school holidays, Moreton Bay Regional Council’s Osprey House is a great, free activity for the whole family.

  • See Ospreys raising their young and observe their nesting habits  
  • Visit the Osprey House Theatre  
  • See koalas and learn about dugongs and other wildlife  
  • Learn about sustainable practices in the home and much more

Or, you can find an elf at Australia Zoo between 9th-24th December!. Not the usual suspects you’d find at the Irwin’s place but…

Santa stopped by Australia Zoo with his elves,
but they must have got lost,
they haven’t returned to their shelves! 

Can you lend a hand to Santa to find his five helpers?
So he can get his elves back to their shelters.

They’ve left us some clues so we know the way,
If you can find all his elves,
Santa has a reward for you for helping him on his way!

Click here to find out more.

And…Be a Viking at The Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology! – January 8-12th 2018

Viking fun – Abbey Museum style! Come in costume and expect to meet a Viking. Learn at the Viking Masterclass, find out about Lucet weaving, Naal binding and more. Choose from some of the old favourites (such as archery and the archaeological digs) and some brand new and never offered before. http://abbeymuseum.com.au/events

Keep cool at the Caboolture Regional Aquatic & Leisure Centre. Set in lush bush surroundings, the centre boasts an indoor 10 lane Olympic swimming pool heated to 26 degrees celsius, and an indoor 25-metre pool heated to 32 degrees celsius, perfect for all forms of swimming. The centre (located 5 minutes from North Harbour) also has an outdoor leisure pool for the kids to splash around in, complete with beach entrance and water features, perfect to keep them entertained for hours. http://www.australiancrawl.com.au/index.php/venues/caboolture

Get active with free activities from Moreton Bay Regional Council. Activities range from self-defence to hockey, exploring Burpengary Creek, learning to skateboard, tennis, hip-hop and much more. Click here for more information.

North Harbour also has regular free activities every weekend: North Harbour parkrun, Saturdays at 7am and Sunrise Yoga in the Park.

Have a great week ????

The North Harbour Sales and Information Centre & 35 Home Display Village are open every day from 10am-5pm. For more information on Coral Display Homes and available house and land packages please contact us or visit our Facebook page to find out more about upcoming local events.

Coral Display Homes