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christmas wishes
Hello there! I cannot believe it is that time of year again – this time last year I was heavily pregnant, cursing the heat and wishing Christmas and New Year would hurry on (despite my long-standing love of the Holidays) as all I could focus on was mentally preparing for the imminent arrival of baby. […]
Christmas! favourite films & some decorating ideas
December 11, 2011
Happy festive season, beauties! Today’s write-up is a medley of Christmassy things: my favourite Christmas films as a child (and one I discovered as a grown-up), and a few pretty pictures for Christmas style inspiration. Oh and here are some tips for keeping a live Christmas tree fresher for longer. As for the movies… Serendipity […]
Hello again & merry Christmas!
December 4, 2011
Hello Beauties! I’m back from my Victorian sojourn and ready to embrace all things Christmas. I have just put up our Christmas tree; this year the tree has these beautiful new additions (pictured above). I found them in a gift shop and although (or perhaps because) they are somewhat roughly made I adore them because […]
Christmas breakfast
December 28, 2010
I recently wrote about my Christmas Eve breakfast, held on my sunny balcony on a hot but breezy summer morning. I have promised a few people photos of the table setting; unfortunately I was silly and did not take photos of the table before people arrived, food was consumed and the table became happily, contentedly […]
Merry Christmas from the beach
December 24, 2010
It’s Christmas Eve today which to me is as exciting and happy as Christmas Day. I hosted a Christmas Eve breakfast with girlfriends in the morning, on my sunny balcony: serving champagne, cold chicken drumsticks marinated in Jarrah honey, lime and soy, poppy seed muffins, fresh summer fruit and peaches poached in raw sugar, cinnamon […]
Merry (snowy cottage) Christmas
December 22, 2010
I adore this petite snowy cottage in Vermont, USA. I think if I had a white Christmas I’d want it to be here. The first image in particular is gorgeous – like something from The Snow Goose or The Mitten. *Images courtesy of Country Living via Apartment Therapy.
John and Jackie Kennedy’s Christmas tree
December 21, 2010
I love this picture of the (very large) Kennedy family tree at the White House: Christmas 1961. In true American Christmas style Jackie O is wearing festive crimson. More Christmas cheer right here! *Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons via Apartment Therapy.
Hallmarks of an Australian (and very festive) Christmas
December 20, 2010
I heard a British person remark that it did not feel like the festive season in Australia, believing, most probably, that without snow and icicles and mulled wine, Christmas cannot truly exist. Of course I wholeheartedly disagreed. Yet for many of us Summer Christmasites – myself included – do dream, deep down, of a classic […]
December 12, 2012
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