it's just around the corner...
we're not quite counting in "sleeps" yet...but it's close...
*RE* delivered my goodies over the weekend...
{i love that british post still does a saturday morning delivery-so old fashioned & relaxed...}
i've not hung them all yet...but i spent a good part of my saturday morning moving this gorgeous giant snowflake around the place...
sooo gorgeously gorgeous i can't tell you...!
so i'm keeping my baskets of goodies under the stairs a little longer...{well till my mum gets here...!}
& i'm just starting to re-arrange the fireplace...with a few new bits that we found this week...
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it's christmas time & we are in the english countryside...
but our feet have spent many a christmas covered in sand & salty water...
so shells & stones always feature in our christmas decorating...
shells remind me of our kids...our family...
our life elsewhere & they play a big part in our country life here...
our littlest has played with our wooden nativity scene & a bucket of shells endlessly over the weekend...
for the kids the two go hand in hand...
i love that...their two lives melding into one...
so for us tradition is shells...& candles...
& baubles & paper stars hanging from branches...
i have made paper stars with my son since he's been able to cut & fold paper...
bless him...it's our thing...
{i wrote about it here in one of my very first posts...including the *how to make them*...}
i love doing something with sol that doesn't involve a football...
the stakes are a lot more even for me...!!
so with our old traditions...& our new & gorgeous reindeer...& our giant snowflakes...
we are almost counting the sleeps...almost...
we have a wonderfully *sandy* mantle here in the english countryside
under baubles & paper stars made with love
&
a scottish-looking reindeer
&
a gorgeously-huge snowflake or two
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...i hope this inspires you a little to gather your christmas *bits*...
&
...to surround them with the *little moments* in your life
that make you smile...
i am linking up with the gorgeous christmas blog *Deck the Halls*
go check it out for more lovely christmas inspiration
