Happy New Year!!

Fed up with the push and shove and general hullabaloo of London on New Year's Eve, we've decided to get away from it all and spend a couple of nights in the deepest, darkest countryside of England... more on that to come (next year) but here's wishing a very Happy New Year to one and all! Chin chin!

Retro Christmas Decs

Talking of handmade Christmas decorations, I spotted this little fellow on Simon's parent's Christmas tree on Boxing Day and wanted to share him with you! Simon made him when he was at nursery school all those years ago... Just amazing! I know who I'm going to rope in for making decorations next year!

Christmas Decoration Making

On Thursday I spent a wonderful evening with my good friends Kate & Chloe enjoying good food (the first proper feasting of this season), drinking mulled wine and making Christmas decorations for our respective trees.

I made some spiral shapes from beautiful patterned origami paper that Chloe found in Muji and will now thread them with cotton to hang from the branches.

Here's a picture of them:

And HERE's a good tuition on how to make them and put 6 of them together to make a star!