Monday 15 December 2008

Our tree!

Let me introduce you to some of the temporary additions to our living room that will be joining us for the festive period:


This is our tree! The husband would have liked a bigger one but as I had to pick it up by myself in a fiat punto, 7' was about the biggest I could manage!  We decided to go understated with silver and gold for the decorations, with a couple of special pieces.


Like this crocheted angel from our favourite Cath Kidston!


We have also decided to start a new christmas tradition and picked out a glass bauble from Liberty.  We plan to do the same thing every year and build up a collection of lovely ornaments that will remind us of the year we bought it.  So this is the bauble from the year we got married!


We got this garland of white metal tree shaped lights from Laura Ashley and they look lovely round the mirror.  For some crazy reason there is no fireplace in our living room which we really miss at times like this so we just have to make do with decorating the mirror!


They cast a cosy glow at night.

Wednesday 10 December 2008

Nearly time for the tree...

We will be getting our tree this week so I got the christmas decorations box down and dusted it off to see what we have got in there...


Our whole collection is made up of things from the years I lived with my sister and various other girls and frankly we could do with some more impressive baubles for our first christmas as husband and wife!


Maybe something like these bell hearts from Graham and Green

Or these cute gingerbread house candles from Oliver Bonas

I think we need to go shopping...

Monday 8 December 2008

Pikapackage

I am delighted to be involved in the December Pikapackage organised by Amy over at Pikaland.


I have sent in my Little Red Riding Hood books you may remember from here.


You can read more about the participants in the Pikapackage zine here.