Decorating for Christmas 2023

 It's time! The tree is up and we have decorated the house with our old favourite Christmas decorations and a few new ones. The theme is a palette of gold, white, green and silver. Lots of Christmas villages, gingerbread houses, various types of Christmas trees and reindeer are scattered around the house. 

Decorations have been collected over the years but are mainly from Adairs, Target, Pottery Barn Australia with the Christmas tree and garlands from Balsam Hill.

We are well and truly in the festive spirit!

Do you have your tree up yet?

Tis the season....Christmas 2017

The tree is up, a few presents have been wrapped and are waiting beneath it, garlands are hanging from the mirrors + doorways and Melvin our "Elf on the Shelf" has made an appearance. 

The festive season has begun!

It's always lovely to pull out the decorations each Christmas. We've been collecting them from various places over the years. The younger boys really enjoy decorating the tree and choosing the perfect spot for each one.

They also wrote their letters to Santa with a cool little kit that has special paper that you shrink in the oven to a tiny size so the elves can pick them up and take them back to the North Pole.

Melvin our elf will deliver their letters to Santa Claus and come back each day to hang around the house to make sure the boys are on their best behaviour. A full report goes back to Santa each night! 

Have you got your tree up yet?

Around here lately.......

Sydney had a bit of a heat wave this week and the only way to keep cool was in the water. 

It was all about the beach, pool and ice blocks!

The pre Christmas catch ups with friends has started. This calls for platters and Pimms.

They were too sweet and brought this huge bouquet of flowers for me. My favourites.

Noah never stands still for a photo so it was nice to capture this one of him!

Although he kept me busy this week with his new habit of pulling EVERYTHING off his shelves!

Let's hope this phase passes soon ;)

Jasper had his athletics carnival and he and Simon came first in the parent/child race. Lots of fun.

We also set up the Christmas tree as it is our last quiet weekend for a while! The boys took great pride in placing the ornaments on the tree. I only had to adjust a couple ;)

My Etsy shop will be closing for the year in a couple of weeks. 

So now is the time to get in your Christmas orders. All banners are on sale. 

How has your week been? Did you get any of the sweltering heat?

Is your Christmas tree up or are you waiting for December?