Tuesday, December 11, 2012

I love Christmas!

I love Christmas, I love the decorating, the glitter and glitz (but no tinsel).  I love seeing my children's faces on Christmas morning.  I don't love my face waking up to them though after wrapping presents all night (but that's another story)

So here is a little decorating in our home.  I won't even apologise for it being pic heavy. 

I love Christmas x


Thank goodness I have this buffet.  We don't have a lot of walls in the living room ( two sliding doors + window = no real walls)


 
We have an angel for anyone no longer with us. 
 
 
 
We also add a new decoration each year.  This tin Santa is from our Bali trip.  'Joy' was last years.
 
 
 
Our Christmas Countdown corner.
 
 
 
A little dining table love
 
 
 
Miss Matilda's room.
 
 
And finally...our tree.  This year I went with just red decorations, I usually have a mix of red and gold but never with tinsel.  I use gold or red ball garlands.  Love!
 

 
 I should have gone with more lights..oh well, there's always next year.

xx Bec
 
 
 
 
 

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Gran's 90th & a Dessert Buffet

Hubby's Gran turned 90 recently which is a pretty amazing milestone and one we definitely wanted to make a big deal of.

We hosted a family bbq at our home and as Gran is a bit of a collector of things, namely tea cups we chose a high tea themed dessert buffet.  The centrepiece of which was a stunning cake made locally which had amazing detail right down to the fondant teacup. 

Gran recently gave me some stunning heirlooms, lace doilies which belonged to her Mother and Grandmother and I decided to use these as bunting.

As Gran's eyesight isn't the best at the moment, I described some of the details to her including her wedding photo and she loved the teacup which she got to see up close after the cake cutting. 

She had a lovely night surrounded with love.

Some photos of the day.