Sufjan Stevens Presents Songs for Christmas part 6

Happy Christmas and all good wishes for 2011 and, whatever it may bring, I hope at least some of it is what you wish for!

Sufjan Stevens Presents Songs for Christmas part 5

Sufjan Stevens Presents Songs for Christmas part 4

Sufjan Stevens Presents Songs for Christmas part 3

Sufjan Stevens Presents Songs for Christmas part 2

Sufjan Stevens Presents Songs for Christmas

I've been playing Songs for Christmas to Milo during our play time recently. It's a wonderful festive collection of tunes from Sufjan Stevens which always gets a good airing at this time of year in our house. Until Christmas Day I thought I'd share some of my favourites...

Happy Christmas

From our home to yours.

Santa made a generous stop here last night. Hope he made it to you too... x

Not long now

But the tree has been trimmed and the turkey ordered. I still have presents to buy let alone wrap, so it's just as well I'm now on holiday from work.

Toadstools & Pine Cones

I spent two days in cold and snowy Davos this week, where I found some Swiss chocolate toadstool and pine cone decorations for our tree.

Pure luxury as they're filled and not hollow... didn't you always wish for filled chocolate Christmas tree decorations when you were a kid? I know did...

Weekend

Time is flying by and I'm not really sure where it's going... among other things, I've had no time to post nor to catch up on all my usual blog reading. On the plus side, I'm sure there are lots of wonderful posts for me to catch up on.

This weekend started with my first Christmas get together, a very pleasant evening with friends for drinks and supper at Crazy Bear. The food was great, as always, so I was far too full to indulge in their (and my very favourite) salted caramel dessert.

We had a day of household repairs planned for yesterday, but instead decided to take ourselves off to the Norwegian and Finnish Church Christmas fairs. We stopped for a delicious coffee at Monmouth on Maltby Street, which is where they roast their beans. It is only open for a short time on Saturday morning and they are joined by Neal's Yard Dairy and Fern Varrow. The fairs were both fruitful, I came away with a variety of toadstool decorations from the Norwegian fair and a Finnish Moomintroll baking pan and Moomin some cookies.

Today I had the second of four Sewing Clinic classes at City Lit. I'm finally learning how to use a sewing machine and hopefully is my first step towards this little dream.

Festive Decorations

November brings with it planning for Christmas, arguably my favourite time of year... and probably my favourite part of preparing for the holiday is decorating our tree, which we always get at Columbia Road.

These stainless steele ornaments from Prismera would be a lovely addition to this years decorations!

Rob Ryan Charity Christmas Cards

The lovely Rob Ryan has designed this very special charity Christmas card for St Jude's, with 50% of the proceed being donated to Maggie's Centres who offer support for people affected by cancer.