Just popping in very quickly this Christmas Eve to wish you a wonderfully happy Christmas and an excellent start to 2016 and to share a few pics with you of the merry-making that's been going on around here. The Christmas bug was late to bite this year and so, unlike past years where I set … Continue reading The annual Christmas blog post
Homemade Christmas
Awesome finds at Renegade Craft Fair
The trouble with attending craft fairs, I find, is you go with every intention to buy hundreds of presents for other people but as soon as you get there you want all the things for yourself. Just me? Ah. I don’t go to nearly as many as I used to, due to a combo of … Continue reading Awesome finds at Renegade Craft Fair
A snowflake bedroom
Hello hello! Happy Tuesday-in-that-odd-bit-between-Christmas-and-New-Year. I hope you had wonderful Christmases and are ready for amazing 2015s. I'd meant to post this in the run-up to Christmas but, of course, what with everything else, I got a bit sidetracked and it never managed to make it out of draft mode. Still, it's not specifically about Christmas, … Continue reading A snowflake bedroom
On the mantel: December
Ahhh, the Christmas mantelpiece. It’s the one I remember most fondly from my childhood. Hundreds of cards jostling for space. An ever-growing nativity scene, ultimately boasting four baby Jesuses made out of clay, the child/sculptor’s name scrawled into the bottom and the constant pestering to my Mum to decide which of us had made the … Continue reading On the mantel: December
Print your own Christmas wrapping paper {and free printable}
I have to confess to suffering a little from blogger’s fatigue around Christmas time. Scrolling through my feed on Bloglovin is a bit of a groundhog day experience. It starts sometime in November. Ah, a homemade advent calendar, another homemade advent calendar, oooh, that’s interesting, a homemade advent calendar. And so on, through the month. … Continue reading Print your own Christmas wrapping paper {and free printable}
5 free Christmas gift tag printables
Well, I might not have got round to actually buying any Christmas presents yet, but, let me tell you, I am all over my plans for wrapping them up… I’m on an eco bent this year once again, and intend to make all my wrapping paper this weekend. Meanwhile, I’ve been building up a collection … Continue reading 5 free Christmas gift tag printables
5 lovely Letterpress Christmas cards
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you might remember that my sister set up her own Letterpress card business a year or so ago. She’s super talented (and I don’t say that just because I’m her big sister) and her wedding invitations and cards are always beautiful. So beautiful, in fact, that … Continue reading 5 lovely Letterpress Christmas cards
Homemade Christmas decorations: 7 of the best
There’s something about Christmas that never fails to bring out my inner crafting obsessive. Perhaps it’s memories of endless paper chains and papier mache bells and baubles as a child (the latter usually too heavy to actually be strung up anywhere in the house, for fear of head injuries if they pulled down the bit … Continue reading Homemade Christmas decorations: 7 of the best
Grow, forage, cook: a Christmas hamper
If there’s a better present in the world than a hamper at Christmas, I’ve yet to come across it. Oh, wait, I do know of a better one: a homemade hamper, stuffed to bursting with delicious goodies made over the previous 12 months. (Note to readers: please do feel free to read this as a … Continue reading Grow, forage, cook: a Christmas hamper
Make your own Christmas
So Halloween has been and gone, bonfire night is over, hmmm, I have a feeling something else is coming up? But just what is it? *Scratches head* Ha ha, just kidding, of course. Christmas looms large on the horizon from about September, usually with the result that I feel super-Christmassy in November and completely over … Continue reading Make your own Christmas
Wolves in London 