Bring on the turkey

Tonight I'm going over to my parents for Christmas dinner. I love it when the whole family gathers round the table and we can indulge ourselves with delicious food, great wine and sparkling conversations.

These tables look ideal for dinner parties:


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And these look ideal for Christmas:


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Snow keeps falling on my attic bedroom

It's been snowing like mad. Getting to work is a hardship, sometimes I think I would be faster walking. On days like this, you just want to stay in bed. If I had an attic bedroom, I could watch the snow fall on my windows and feel truly cut off from the outside world...


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'tis the season

I don't know about you, but when it comes to Christmas decorations, I always have these brilliant ideas which are great and easy in my head but complicated and frustrated in reality.



This year I thought how wonderful it would be to integrate a bit of typography in my decorations so I decided to print out some words, stick them on cardboard, cut it out and with the help of some gold spray paint, add a bit of holiday spirit. But off course I had to choose a serif font which looked wonderful on the computer but was hell to cut out. Luckily in the end all turned out well as the following photo proofs.

I have to say that with the baubles I cheated, I wanted to make my own sequined baubles for a while, but when I spotted these ones at Habitat, I thought I'd save myself the trouble.



And then, as the French would say, the pièce the résistance.



I spotted bauble wreaths popping up at various blogs. I wondered how hard it could be – I mean it's just sticking balls to a wreath – so decided I might as well give it a try. I kind of underestimated how many baubles exactly go into a bauble wreath. For all you decoration virgins, I think there are about 150 in mine. That amount means a lot of glueing, and even more annoying, a lot of watching glue dry. But I think the result is pretty stunning. Because I like it so much I'm actually too afraid to hang it up like I was planning to, so I think I just leave it lying on the coffee table. Nice and safe, just the way I like it...



So what about you? Have you been busy crafty for the holidays?

PS: I know, no Christmas tree. I might still put one up, but the Christmas cards have priority now...

Design that makes me smile: RGB wallpaper

This must be one of the most awesome wallpapers I've ever seen. At first it looks just like a beautiful patterned mayhem of animals, but when you turn either a red, green or blue lamp on it you can see the different layers separately. How brilliant is that!









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Dreaming of a decorated Christmas

I can't believe it's already the 14th of December. So much Christmas decorations still to put up, so little time! I'll just stare at some inspiration in the hope that thanks to some Christmas miracle my home will suddenly look like that... ( And there are still the Christmas cards to do too, yikes!)


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I heart...

... Chrismas Creatures by Upon a Fold.

And it burns, burns, burns...

Staying in tonight for a quiet evening with the boyfriend. Watching a movie, sipping some wine and the occasional log thrown on the fire. Now just hoping that I don't fall asleep on the couch...


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I heart...

... my tumblr. I decided to start one to keep track of my many non-interior inspirations.

It's that time of year again...

I've been very busy, the last few days making a Christmas wreath. It involves a lot of glueing and watching glue dry, so process is slow but as soon as it's finished, I'll let you guys have a peek.

But to give you a bit of an idea what it looks like, these are the lovely wreaths I used for inspiration.


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White as snow

It's been very cold the last few days and the snow has been closing in on us. I wasn't brave enough to face the outside world today so I'll be working from home. There are worse things...

In honor of winter, here's a post filled with white.



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