Home For Christmas
I am slowly but surely recovering from Christmas – I ate far too much and suffered for it. I think the amount I must have consumed on Boxing day alone was enough to feed a small army. I have spent the last few days detoxing, sushi, fruit tea and lots of soup. It was really great to finally be home, and back with my family and Miles after being away for the best part of 3 months. I was very lucky with all the lovely presents that I received this year, they were all so pretty – just how I like them!
My Mum hand knitted me the best scarf ever, I love it. It is over 6 feet and I love that it is one of a kind, she is so clever – I am a terrible knitter! I got so many great things I have so many things to do and make. Miles got the prize for the most innovative present when he found me this unique paint tube door stop from the London Graphic Centre. He also managed to hunt out Rice products in London and got me a fabulous floral oven Mitt and cometic case – too cute for words. I hope everyone else had a great Christmas, also ate too much and was very merry. Almost the new year, exciting stuff!
Yuletide Greetings!
This post is a little greeting to everyone out there. I hope everyone has an amazing Christmas and a fantastic new year!
The above illustration was made my my very talented designer boyfriend, Miles. I am so pleased with how it came out he made it especially for me to post here on my blog. All I said was ‘I would like a Christmas image with some snow flakes and maybe a deer’ and this was the result – I love it so much, I almost cried! I love how he always gets it right, and I never need to tell him what I like or want – thank you Miles! I am completely in awe of your ability to create things that I really can’t. As you probably guessed I am quite taken with the picture, I hope you all enjoy it too – even if it makes you smile just once.
Also a really big thank you to everyone who has read my blog and supported me in my first year blogging, I have met so many lovely people – with lovely things to say and share. I hope next year will be just as much fun!
Happy Christmas everyone!
Present Time
Its happened again! This is a snap of mine and Holly’s Christmas presents – to each other. Yes, that is right we managed to get each other exactly the same thing! It’s mental we live together, but we spend most of our time apart and we still managed to end up buying the same thing. It’s getting creepy. Holly has gone home for Christmas so yesterday we did presents and this is what emerged, we had both bought each other these rather fetching and super cute Petra Boase mugs. Mine is the one at the back with the two big birds, though they look so lovely together. We went shopping in Liberty and both spotted them and ‘Oohh’ and ‘ahhhed’ over them but I really thought I was the only one who had remembered them, turns out I was wrong!
This is the tag that came with the mugs, I thought I would jazz it up a little with the cool mini stamp set Holly bought me from Muji - I love it! I also went to the London Design Grotto yesterday at Somerset House. It was pretty cool with stalls by Tatty Devine, Beyond The Vally and many more. I managed to win a canvas shopping bag in the tombola and a canvas shopping bag from the tatty Devine Stall. It was great so see some of London’s fine craft talent all in one place.
9 days until Christmas!
Meeting John Bird
I very rarely blog about things to do with my work on here, but meeting John Bird (the Founder of The Big Issue) was a too exciting for me to not mention. On Tuesday I attended the Wedge Card ’Shop Local Challenge’ day. The event was hosted by Wedge Card and welovelocal.com was one of the supporters. The event was kicked off by a really moving talk from John about the benefits of shopping locally. He spoke not only of the economic benefits but also of the benefits to the social fabric of our communities. The idea that local shops help to keep our communities together, and without them we would lose a huge part of not only our community, but also our identity and consumer choice.
As a graduate of Sociology, and a big fan of The Big Issue meeting John was a pretty big deal. It was just great to here some of his and Wedge Card’s ideas about shopping locally. It is very inspiring stuff. I know I carry around my Wedge Card with pride – the discounts are good! Money off in most of London’s best independent and unique shops is too good to be missed.
So, I can’t believe it is so close to Christmas, I am totally unprepared. This is most unlike me I haven’t even managed to get round to opening the last three doors on my yummy Thorntons advent calendar! Oh just a little girls tip here, I have recently discovered (well with help from Holly) a magazine called Lula, it is divine – take a peek you’ll see what I mean.
