A White Shabby Chic Christmas

I always love the white shabby chic style and here are some inspiring images found at Country Living for creating a white and silver Christmas with some very pretty ideas. Sadly in my house, nothing would stay pristine for longer than an hour with dogs, cats and kiddies, so this is a scheme I have to avoid, although there are elements of this and one of my daughter's bedroom is very Cath Kidston with white furniture!

I am in love with the bedroom though, one of my favourite colours is a soft pale grey, in fact there are many inspirations on this wonderful website for decorating it is definitely worth dropping by.

A bit of Festive Fun continued

As our festive fun continues this week, we are delighted to receive these photos of Claire's fabulous gold and red Christmas tree.

A glorious festive, twinkling tree filled with with lots of lovely details from the gold reindeers, a personalised bauble I spotted and cute snowmen and gold angels. I love it and it is so glittery with the traditional rich deep reds and glorious golds.

Big thank you to Claire and it does look like there are some rather large pressies under the tree which is exciting, only 5 more sleeps!!!

Christmas Table Inspirations

A lazy Sunday morning spent surfing creative blogs has again bought me to so many hugely talented and creative people, who like me, love designing spaces, details and decorating.

This morning I was looking for festive inspiration and also midsummer night themes for weddings and I stumbled upon Hostess with the Mostess and found this lovely clean and fresh table setting using flashes of reds, white twigs and succulent plants. I particuarly loved the 'chandelier' using bleached branches and hanging lapiz shells, a lovely idea for a beach wedding as well.

Another idea we use is to wrap the containers with diamante, normally we buy cheap cosutme jewellery bracelets from a warehouse here in Malaga and use them to wrap around glassware and another fabulous idea which is also beautiful for table decoration is to use them as napkin rings, you can never beat a bit of glitter and sparkle at anytime of year, but at Christmas the more the merrier!