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Saturday 6 December 2014

I'm Dreaming of a Pink Christmas

gingerbread house ornament - Asda
making decorations - sprinkle baubles, fimo candy canes and button garlands
finished with sparkles and ribbon!
handmade sprinkle bauble on the tree
ice cream bauble - Maisons du Monde
Gingerbread decoration - Miss Daisy Gifts
cupcake bauble - Maisons du Monde
snowman decoration - Fayre Earth Gift Shop
sweetie decoration - Maisons du Monde
pastel button book tree - Macbelles
candle - Pebble / vintage plate - Rural Reads & Threads

We have our first proper Christmas tree up! I'm so excited because I've been collecting things for months and had decided a while back that I wanted to go for a 'winter wonderland/sugarplum fairy' theme with lots of snow, pink, pastels and cute sweetie decorations. We got our snowy tree from Asda and a selection of cheap tinsels, bead strings and simple baubles from there too as well as B&M. We didn't have a big budget for Christmas decorations so doing that for the basics meant we could buy more special decorations from local shops and on holiday. We got lots in Maisons du Monde in Nice which go so perfectly and of course we finished the tree off with some handmade bits and pieces! I have to admit that I didn't stop at the living room and there is lots more in the house including our homemade advent calendars in the hall along with a mini tree, snowy lights in the windows and some other cute things but I've decided to split this post in two as I took way too many photos! Here is the end result...

Tuesday 2 December 2014

Christmas Shopping Evenings at Pebble

On Thursday we went to Aberdeen to surprise my Mum at her first Pebble Christmas shopping evening. Mince pies, mulled wine, Christmas music and gorgeous gift ideas! After surprising my Mum I managed to get a lot of Christmas shopping done too. Pebble is the perfect place for finding a thoughtful gift since most of the items are handmade so you know that lots of thought and care went into each piece you buy... Plus you can get your presents wrapped beautifully for free! I've not shared photos of the presents I bought but instead here's a selection of festive stocking fillers and cute present ideas (JillyJilly mugs!) that would be worth popping in to pick up. Pebble has also shared some albums of gift ideas on their Facebook page. It was so nice just to pop home and see everyone for the night even if it did mean we had to spend the next day in a rush to catch up!

Pebble has one more shopping evening on before Christmas - Thursday 4th December 6-9pm with some special offers happening on top of the free nibbles and late night shopping.