Category: AC-’21
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BOXING DAY MENU- THE BRUNCH
Well we all know what will happen on Christmas day, those are mum and dad’s office hours, mostly mum’s, but for the sake of the season we will imagine it to be dad’s too. They’ll be in the kitchen cooking up a storm and bottoming it up with a cheeky glass of sherry here and…
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THE HOLIDAY COCKTAILS
So what are you serving? Food sure but what about booze? Get your cocktails skates on, stick with three options, make life easy on yourself. Set out the ingredients in a cocktail station, to encourage guests to make their own cocktails. Woah Maddie A Charming Number ingredients: 10 black seedless grapes . 1/2 a pomegranate.…
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THE HOLIDAYS- GUEST WARDROBE
In the event we go into a lockdown post Christmas, here is your chance to live it up high life style because you just never know when we’ll be able to dress up like this again. COVID is still circling back and touching base, and we are at her mercy. So, what are you wearing?…
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#12 | GIFT OF A GOOD NIGHT
My only New Year’s resolution for next year is to get more sleep and not just any kind of sleep, I mean a good night’s sleep as much as I can wherever I am. I want to be that insufferable person who is in bed by 10pm, listening to Rege Jean Page whisk me off…
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#11 | FOR WHEN YOU JUST DON’T KNOW
Light the fires, if you have a fire place, put on something christmassy from Hallmark or Netflix, get out the blankets, pull your nearest and dearests closer for a snuggle on the couch and indulge in a little picnic of your own making. Maybe offer to take your nieces and nephews for the day, the…
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#10 | FOR THE HOST/HOSTESS
As far as perfect gifts for hosts or hostesses go, this is it. The table planner; an absolutely excellent gift; the featured is from Not Another Bill. It keeps the party moving, creates the absolutely ideal setting for conversation to flow, laughter to ripple down the table and nary a boring seat in sight. Trust…
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HOSTING – PAIR YOUR WINE LIKE THE PRO YOU ARE NOT.
I am by no means a seasoned wine drinker, champagne is more my lane BUT countless wine making and wine tasting day trips when I travel has cleansed and to a great extent, refined my palette some. So if you’re hosting and need your wine paired, stick with me: Bacchus: seafood deserves a really good…
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#9 – GIFT OF A LITTLE LUXURY
Picks a brand and splurge on something just for you. It can be anything, beauty, home, fashion… whatever, just pick one and absolutely go HAM on their products. A treat, a necessity call it what you will. MADAM’S EDITS: Pomegranate noir diffuser Townhouse collection of candles; fig and cassis Cake soap collection Entire Townhouse collection…
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#8- FOR LITTLE AND NOT SO LITTLE ONES
All credit to my sister who is an avid children gift shopper and an expert researcher when it comes to gifting children because any old book just won’t do. Any old rag doll is not okay. Give books, always to children, but where books have been given and given and given again, try something from…