Our Christmas

Hello!  Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year!

Ours was just as we like it – not too fussy, with lots of good food and drink, and our loved ones around.  We ended up hosting family over three days, which was good fun.

I didn’t take a lot of photos – I was too busy eating, or with a glass of prosecco in my hand! However I did capture a couple of snaps I thought I’d share:

A sneaky selfie from a work Christmas night out in the pinkest toilet I’ve ever been in (keeping it classy!)!

 About five years ago I found a load of vintage tree decorations in my local charity shop for the princely sum of 10p each.  They give me so much joy every year I unpack them and hang them on the tree.  This cheeky Santa is my favourite:

My daughter says he’s her favourite too!  I think it’s his cheeky face that does it!

I got a couple of these bells in the same charity shop vintage bauble bonanza and managed to smash one a couple of years ago.  Devastated was not the word.  This remaining one is extra special:

I also had a few homemade decorations dotted around the place.  I made this little star garland two years ago out of scrap fabric, felt and a length of twine. I used a star cookie cutter set and traced out two large and one small star shapes.  I then just glued the small star shape on to one of the large star shapes, then glued the other large star shape on to the back, making sure I’d sandwiched the twine between them.  Hope I haven’t made that sound harder than it actually was to make!

My crafty endeavours don’t stretch that far though.  Every year I say I’m going to make a wreath and every year I never quite get round to it, so this year I admitted defeat and hung some mistletoe on our front door instead.

I never normally buy cut flowers, so sometimes I treat myself to one bunch of festive flowers for the house at Christmas time:

Over the festive period my daughter also had a birthday.  I decorated her cake with some bunting* and some felt bunnies* (* affiliate links) that I found on Etsy.  I bought the bunny cake topper for her 1st birthday cake.  Last year she went through a pirates phase, but this year I thought it would be nice to reinstate the bunnies as we are in a bit of a bunny phase at the moment.  Although annoyingly I could only find one of the bunnies!

She had a wonderful day, and she said the best bit was the cake and having all her grandparents over to see her!

Finally, after her birthday it was Hogmanay.  We’re not big New Year kind of people, so ours was a quiet affair, just how we like, it with some wine and a film.   And that was our festive period!  I’m a bit sad it’s over, to be honest, and the tree is still up which is a rarity for us to be up at this point – probably because we’re in denial it’s over!

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ps: as promised, the blog has had a bit of a facelift for the New Year!  What do you think?  And apologies, I’m still having issues with commenting.  I’ve tried everything I can to fix it and I think there may be a problem with my web host so do hold tight.  You can still write comments and they’ll still appear on the site – you’ll just get a “no data received” error message which you can just ignore!