Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all, thank you for keeping me company on my new blogging journey and for all your wonderful comments and encouragement.   I will be back in the New Year to continue the journey with many new adventures with all my lovely new friends.

Have a wonderful New Year and may 2011 bring you love, happiness and many new adventures.

I am sorry but the images are from my pinterest account and they can no longer be traced back as pages have gone.  If anyone knows who they are by and where they are from, I will be very happy to credit them.  ax

What's on the top of your tree?

The tree is up at last and our wonderful shopping fairy is back in her rightful place.  Have you put the decorations up yet and what has pride of place at the top of your tree?

Here's to a wonderful week.

This weekend I will be…

Christmas has finally come into my view, to this end I will be making and putting up the decorations this weekend.  I have spent a happy afternoon looking at Martha Stewart and getting lots of ideas, there are so many great ideas on there that I thought I would share my favourite ones with you.

So many great ones, bells, gumdrops, buttons and cotton wool balls.  I think I am going to make the pretty parcel one and I may display our cards in the fantastic peg and hoop style.  What about you, I have seen so many ideas around this year whats your favourite?

I am such a big fan of the baby sock advent calendar but am a little late this year, but I will definitely make it for next year.  I am also loving the crochet snow flakes but I will need to learn to crochet first.  Hehe.

Such wonderful trees, I am loving the seaside one with glittered shells.  How lovely is the fairy light tree, a great idea for small apartments.  I may also have to make the small gift parcel tree even if all my parcels are empty.

So many table ideas but I am loving the sweetie place settings, just card and ribbon so simple huh.  I am also thinking about the old magazine trees and those coloured ball cloches.  I love a dust easy display.

I currently have a couple of cute stockings but I may add to them (well the dog does need one) with the great old sweater idea.  I am sure the Mr will donate a sweater for a good cause.

Doilys, paper dics and pretty parcels oh my!  I want all of these and even though my pretty parcel tower may be all empty boxes, maybe Santa will get the hint and fill a few of them.

So how are your Holiday preparations going, do you make or buy your decorations, or do you just go out and leave all the bother behind?  All these great ideas are from Martha Stewart and she must start in February to make all these.  If you head over there you will find all the instructions on how to make these and many, many more lovely things.

I am wishing you all a lovely weekend if you have any snow where you are, keep warm, stay safe and go make a snow angel for me please.

Christmas Decoration Idea

Whilst reading the great blog almalus place yesterday I saw these wonderful balls.  I have seen them used for weddings and as lanterns and they always look amazing.  With Christmas just around the corner I thought these would be make wonderful decorations.  You can find the whole tutorial here at Ruffled.  They have used balloons but I was thinking for small tree decorations a tennis ball or ping pong ball would be ideal (cover the tennis ball in cling film first).

 Sorry I have just thought that using the balls will not work as you can not take them out afterwards!  Oh silly me!  Just use small balloons and do not blow them up to much.  hehe its always a live and learn life.

Then it is just a case of painting, metallic paints would look great and you can never have to much glitter.  Ribbon or string could be used to attach them to the tree, or just fill a large bowl and use as table decorations.  Once you start thinking about it the uses are endless!

Our tree is usually decorated with silver and white decorations but last year I added lots of brightly coloured feather butterflies that we had used at our wedding.  It was lovely to use them again and the bright pops of colour worked really well.  The colours are similar to those used as table decorations on the above photo.  I think these lovely snowballs are going to make a wonderful addition to our Christmas décor.

This weekend if I can get all the ingredients together to make these I will give it a go.  I will get back to you with the finished results.  Has anyone else got any Christmas crafts on the go?

Happy weekend everyone.