Santa Claus is coming to town…
{Santa & Moose Eva Melhuish // Pinned Here}
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Yesterday, while picking up a few last minute surprises, we noticed that one of our favourite little churches was holding their annual Christmas tree festival. We went inside and the smell of fresh pine filling those cool stone walls was divine!
A number of local organisations and schools had all designed and decorated their own trees, it was homespun and very sweet. The Ladies Guild was running a mini cafe with all profits going to the church. It was filled with delicious two to three tiered layered cakes, cookies, cinnamon rolls, hot coffee and tea. The tables were decorated for Christmas as well with evergreen, holly and candles. It was simply a festival of happiness!
The second best part of our day was stopping by another favourite haunt on our way home. BBQ for dinner on a frosty night, when the beer is cold and the BBQ hot, nothing could be better!
I spent the day by myself wandering in and out of my favourite London spots. I had a bit of Christmas shopping to do and my path took me from one end to the other. I passed the lego reindeer in Covent Garden:
The “Blush” entitled Paddington Bear designed by Nicole Kidman:
I went shopping at Fortnum & Masons, always a sumptuous feast for the eyes:
I stopped by Lina’s for some Italian Christmas pastries:
And I treated myself to an afternoon showing of “It’s A Wonderful Life” at the Prince Charles Cinema. Which is one of the greatest little movie houses in the world! It was bitterly cold outside, but I was snuggled up with popcorn and a coke watching an old black and white Christmas movie! It was a day of bliss!
The merry-go-round at the Leicester Square Christmas Market, where I waited for Mr. Michie to meet me for a dinner date:
I love when we get to have totally un-interupted time together. We even went past a Christmas Party Bus on our way home, too cute!
Today is my first day off from school! I’ve spent my morning drinking tea, reading a cozy prairie Christmas story, cleaning and hanging out with Gertie! She’s pretty good company. Although she prefers hot chocolate and marshmallows instead of tea, but that’s pretty easy to fix, I’ve even topped her little mug with whipped cream and a few green sprinkles, much to her delight! Happiness is…
Brown paper packages, tied up with string. These are a few of my favourite things! I was humming that line as I wrapped a loaf of freshly baked banana bread up with parchment paper and hunter green gingham ribbon this morning. The first of many baked goodies that are being delivered to friends old and new.
We woke up early this morning and ran out in the rain to get coffee and go grocery shopping. Everyone in the grocery store seemed to be in a bad mood, maybe it was the weather? It has rained all day without ceasing, but I don’t mind it. The candles are lit, we made a fresh loaf of buttermilk banana bread, tried a new recipe for dinner, drank tea, listened to Christmas music and worked on this:
Those objects were the beginning ingredients for our photoshoot that will become our Christmas card this year. I still had the watercolour of the evergreens I did last year, so I cut them out and made a stand for them and decided to make them part of the background. I’m going for a 50s/60s look this year.
You can see my previous designs here:
Christmas Card 2013
The Anatomy of a Christmas Card
A New Years Card
The Christmas Angel (our card for 2012)
{These cards are my original designs, please do not use without permission}
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
May this year bring you many blessings and much JOY!
Jennifer x
Well, it’s that time of year again and I thought I would share my Christmas Card with you. This year I took my inspiration from two very talented ladies. The first being Phoebe Wahl and her beautiful artwork and the second being Mindy Gledhill and her Christmas Album.
I collaged the front of the card with a selection of vintage wrapping paper and card images that I steadily collected and then cut to my desired shape.
The back of the card has a quote from Winter Moon, and a watercolor painting that I did.
I’m really pleased with how the cards turned out and I so enjoyed working on the painting of the forest evergreens that I might just make a card next year based on a painting of mine, but I have plenty of time to think about that!
My previous card posts:
The Anatomy of A Christmas Card
{These cards are my original designs, please do not use without permission}
I hope you have a very Merry and Blessed Christmas, wherever you may be today.
Jennifer x