Firstly, I won a prize for this little fella I made. This is my sock Santa and I won lots of lovely bath goodies for a Christmas decoration competition I entered. I was very surprised and pleased.
Keeping with the Christmas theme, I thought I would share a picture of my tree.
Want to take a closer look?...
This spikey one I made from gold wrapping paper:
I also have some new decorations this year. The bronzy swirley one in the picture above is new this year as is this bobbly white one I got both from my local garden centre:
Whilst seeing santa with the children at Harrods this year ( a new tradition I have set) I also picked up the gold birdy in the above picture.
I bought most of these decorations about 3 years ago. I fell in love with a tree display at a garden centre and decided I needed to have all of them!:
I love the timeless colours which will go with any decor should I change it in the future and the variety of decorations which just make me want to stare at the tree all day!
I absolutely love adding foliage, flowers and glittery holly. About 85% of the decorations on my tree are by Gisela Graham.
Now whats this beneath my tree?
This is my parcel I received for the Secret Santa swop. It came all the way from Australia. Im afraid I had to open the card as I am taking part in several swops so needed to know which one it related to so I could do it justice and put it on my blog. So thankyou so much to my secret santa and I shall reveal their identity after Christmas when I open the beautifully wrapped gifts, and I need to add just how kind they are because they have also included a little something for my son and daughter, we are all very exited- Thankyou!
Well the snow here in the U.K has cause all sorts of havoc meaning I missed out on attending my husbands works Christmas party in Ireland. The good news is that we booked a local hotel to go to instead to have our own party. It was lovely and there were some gorgeous Christmas trees in the hotel. It was none other then the 5 star Four Seasons hotel in Hampshire, a mere 20 minutes from home. I new we were due snow the following day but I wasnt quite prepared for the images I woke up to and I never new I lived so close to such beauty.
Apologies for the dark photos but they were taken very early in the morning.
View from the breakfast room:
Is it possible to fall in love with a hotel? Here are some photos of all the trees in the hotel. Im sure there were more but I didnt have to much time to explore as we needed to get home before we got snowed in!
The tree at reception- My husband has promised me to get a real tree next year when we get our fireplace, I want it to be this type/shape of tree although I have no idea what it is!
This was the tree outside the breakfast room. I love that it had little tea cups hanging from it and I intend to emulate this next year and will definitely buy some childrens toy teacups and have a mini version for my kitchen:
This was the tree outside the entrance to the bistro:
I so wish we could have spent more time there and we fully intend to go back there one day. The food was out of this world and when we ordered room service we expected all three courses to be brought in on a tray but were wowed when they weeled in a 4 seater table with a heated cupboard to keep our main courses warm whilst we had our starters!
Speaking of food, our kitchen is almost complete, just a few finishing touches to be added and I will update you with photos. Never have I been to glad to see my washing machine, dishwasher, dryer and oven/hob!
xx
Your tree did indeed have many baubles like ours! Although you had more pale ones than we did. I love Gisela Graham decorations, so of course I loved your tree. Hope you had a great Christmas :)
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