Happy New Year!

I hope you are all enjoying the festive season. Wishing you all a super New Year and may lots of your dreams and wishes come true in 2010 with good health and happiness! Here’s some snowmen from my garden on Christmas Day! I’ll be returning to my blog a little into January. We are celebrating [...]

Happy Christmas Eve!

This evening, we are enjoying a relaxing evening with homemade pizza and wine. How are you spending Christmas Eve? I hope you’ve all remembered to treat yourselves for Christmas! : ) With all the gorgeous blue around this season, this was my present to myself - a Ted Baker handbag with matching scarf and gloves. I [...]

Jigsaws and Wasgijs

We love doing puzzles on winter evenings. They get so addictive and we are often found burning the midnight oil! Are there things you like to do during the winter season? I love having the candles lit and the curtains closed and feeling all snug and warm as we do puzzles. Here’s a few we’ve [...]

Christmas DVD Set

Handy tip of the day – have a Christmas DVD box set to hand for everyone to enjoy in case there’s nothing on the TV! We’ve been enjoying this delightful set of treats. Eight Charles Dickens collection. It is presented in a lovely case and makes a great gift.   The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, [...]

Storage for Rolls of Wrapping Paper

For years, I was always fed up with how messy it was to store wrapping paper, until I thought of this nifty idea – umbrella stands and laundry baskets are a great way to keep all your rolls of gift wrap neat and tidy. I bought mine from Argos. This bin travels about my home [...]

Christmas Sparkle

  Don’t forget the sparklers this Christmas. I love them – they are cheap and easy and provide lots of fun. I love to gather everyone outdoors at midnight on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve with sparklers. : ) Make sure you have a stack of napkins too for sticky fingers indoors and for [...]

Christmas Cake Stands

  I love cake stands and not just for cakes! You can use blu tack to tier them for a more impressive display! Pile them high with baubles for a table centre piece or how about filled with clementines – which are lovely for Christmas. I have them dotted all around my home. I have [...]

New party dress

We are off for a pre-Christmas long weekend break, so I treated myself to a new dress! Both dress and cardigan were in the sale at Phase 8 (one of my favourite places to shop), so I was very pleased. I’m loving all the colours this fashion season. The blue and fuschia pinks are my [...]

Cinnamon Decorations

I love to have cinnamon around the home at Christmas. It smells wonderful. Make your own cinnamon decorations and hang them on door handles and on your tree.

Table Centre Piece

  If you’d like a quick and easy centrepiece that is cheap to make but looks very Christmassy – all you need is some spray paint, a mask ad some pinecones and something to display them in. Make sure you wear a mask when spray painting and have plenty of newspaper. Lay the cones on [...]