So close to Christmas! This year Christmas felt like it snuck up so fast. So different to when I was a kid and it always seemed to take its sweet time.
This is our third Christmas in The Crap Shack and I decided not to put up our traditional-looking plastic tree (which my parents splurged on in the 80s and handed down to me when I moved out of home). Instead we have gone for the ‘dead tree’ look this year, which I love. Just thought I would share some photos. After writing furiously to try to get all my work done before Christmas I finally felt free to do something relaxing and Christmassy and baked gingerbread cookies yesterday... yum! One of my favourite Christmas foods.
Hope you all have a super Christmas and a lovely break! Don't forget calories don't count on Christmas Day people.
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ABOVE: Two points to you if you figured out that the little wax seal I stuck onto my sister's pressie was one of the House Nerd ones. What... it suited it! I get these from the lovely lady who runs Sally's Heartful Creations (look them up on Facebook or Etsy) and they are awesome. Maybe as awesome as gingerbread cookies.
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Yehh it's Christmas!! Dog Nerd is excited.
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ABOVE: I went through a geeky-buying-wooden-things-from-craft-shops-and-painting-them phase when I was 15 (what, didn't everyone?) These little horses I got at one such store and painted. I love horses and buy a couple of horse-themed decorations each year.
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ABOVE: Do you like my festive blackboard with wonky handwriting? I found it on the side of the road in Attadale during verge collection and put it in my car boot. Nala approved. I just gave it a fresh coat of chalkboard paint. I love gold frames and I LOVE the chalkboard paint trend! I think I will use this chalkboard in some way at our wedding next year.
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ABOVE: I enjoy things that look a little bit demented. I got this handmade snowman for 50c from Melville markets from a girl who looked at me in bewilderment when I asked how much he was, as if she couldn't believe anyone would want to buy him. I like his crazy stare.
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ABOVE: I painted this bear onto a bit of a wood when I was 15 (yes, how did you know I never had a boyfriend in high school??) I miss making things and painting stuff. I did it all the time when I was a kid and a teenager and then pushed it aside in adulthood. I realised how much I actually missed it the other weekend when I made a couple of props for our Survivor NYE party, making a huge mess of our dining table and getting glue all over my hands and paint in my hair in the process. It was so much fun, little kid-styles. I've decided that one of my New Year's resolutions is going to be to do creative stuff more often. I'm going to turn one of our spare bedrooms into a place for doing so. I think I've realised that it's important for some people to make time to create and be creative, whether it's through writing, baking, drawing, decorating, gardening, fashion, music.
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Christmas baking - gingerbread cookies.
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ABOVE: I love how the English decorate traditional homes with hearts so often. My mum handmade these little hearts for me after I told her how much I liked them and gave me the fairy lights (from Typo). The wooden heart was handcarved in Belgium. I got it from Ici et La in Sydney which is an amazing vintage shop. The wares are a bit too dear for me but the heart I could afford!