Signing off for 2011

Hard to believe another year has flown...

As I was getting ready to write my post I stopped to read quite a few of the  Christmas tit bits, decorations and festive interior inspirations fellow bloggers from around the world were sharing.

It's really quite wonderful.

My quick attempt at a festive shot are a few wooden toys we have collected over the last couple of years. Can't beat the old wooden toy.

So, signing off. Sorry this year has been a little slack.

I have grand plans for next year. Maybe grand is too strong a word but we will see...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Christmas Tree - less is more

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At present I am loving the minimalist Christmas Tree.

Mine is not minimalist by any means - see a few posts back.

Something about a few choice decorations says so much...

Christmas bunting tree

I love Christmas time so much.

I especially enjoy the blogging world at this time of the year too because everyone comes up with clever, quirky ideas for Christmas decorations and we all get to share with one another craft ideas and interior inspirations.

My attempt this year is Christmas bunting for the tree. We can't use baubles this year because my little fellow takes one look and screams "ball" and then proceeds to throw them around the room. So ribbons and bunting this year for us made from fabric offcuts I had tucked away. O.K and maybe a bauble or two.

Miss B & me

Miss B and I started making our Christmas gifts today for close friends. This is the prototype. We designed the label and used bits n bobs we already had (apart from the jars). I'm afraid I can't take credit for the idea. I borrowed it from Peekaboo Magazine. Instead of giving 'already made cookies' you give all the cookie ingredients layered in a jar. All the recepient has to do is add the egg and butter. I think next time though I will use a different recipe as this one is absolutely ladden with chocolate and sugar.

My spindly twigs

daytime

at night under the light
you can see the white

So at the end of the day, I brought up the HUGE spindly bush / twigs I'd be drying all year half spray painted / half not and I kept it nice and simple out on the back deck. It seemed a crime to throw it out. It didn't come up too badly at all.

C is for Christmas

Is  this little arrangement a keeper?

After my sad attempt at trying to spray paint my dried Christmas tree twigs I decided to use these little Freedom white bauble sticks which suspecially look like something I arranged at Easter time.

It hasn't rained for three days so there might be some nice spindly branches somewhere drying in the sun if I feel like attempting this arrangment again.

A few Christmas twigs...

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O.K!!! Sorry for my absence. No excuse - just life!

I thought I would share these lovely Christmas images.

I just love Christmas.

Coming from a design and theming background it's the best time of the year to go totally crazy. Having said that I do enjoy simple, elegant decorations.

For the past 10 months I have had this twiggy-bushy thingy drying upside down under my house in preparation for the festive season but now that it has arrived I realise it really is a HUGE bush and that it really does have an awful lot of branches AND having already tried spraying painting it white (stupdily on a windy day to which the dog ended up more white than the branches and me with a headache) that I've lost the desire to continue and am now thinking perhaps a more simple branch of a few twigs may the best direction to take. This of course will be a difficult find because it has been a terribly wet season. So my lovely twiggy-bushy thingy drying upside down under the house may need a new loving home. Keep you posted...

Christmas wreath tutorial

Check out Red Thread's Christmas wreath tutorial. I am definately going to do this for next year.

http://theredthreadblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/paper-christmas-wreath-tutorial.html

Christmas table setting

Pretty and a move away from 'red'

all about you

Just love ticking

My favourite fabric is ticking in either raspberry or navy blue. I also love paper luggage tags. Oh and I love buttons too...

Thoughts from Alice

Christmas cheer

Lovely images to inspire more Christmas cheer. It also makes me feel less bad for not having anything inspiring of mine to post.

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More Christmas cheer

I found these images some time ago. Often I find images that inspire me and pop them into my screen saver. At the time I didn't write down the source so I do apologise. Re: the pegs, I would use wooden ones. Next year I am going to go all out. Impending baby has made me run out of steam this Christmas.

mondo cherry

Red and white Christmas setting

I would love to say this table setting belongs to me but it is courtesy of copy & paste. Just lovely!

Christmas wreath?

Not sure how I feel at my first attempt at a small paper Christmas wreath. An assortment of textured plain papers in creams, white and sage with one patterned print would have been better. My husband had thought a snake had curled itself around our door. I think I've used to much brown craft paper. Better luck next year...