Tag: christmas
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ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 8 | READ COFFEE TABLE BOOKS
Coffee table books have become part of a culture of home, something we use for decoration more than to read, but with more time spent indoors, (remember outside?) I have developed a habit of not simply oogling the pictures of a coffee table book, but properly delving into them as well. I have a few,…
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ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 6 | WITH THANKS
Tis the season we would normally traipse from party to party, hosting people in our homes but this year we cannot so we are going to host things a different way. First things first, get your thank you cards out and write a thank you note to your guests for the times they graced your…
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ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 5 | SWEET MAGNOLIAS – SOOTHING
This was released in the summer but I cannot help but include this in the advent calendar ritual because it is such a series that it ought to be repeatedly relished whatever the season or occasion. Sweet Magnolias… from its release in the summer, at the peak of the pandemic, I have watched this show…
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ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 4| SELF CARE; HOME CARE
As we go through this calendar, I will be inserting self care every so often, the aim here is not to out-Christmas ourselves before we get to Christmas Day, rather, we must slowly glide through the holidays, breathing evenly, deeply feeling and making sure to take every care. Self care is what we make of…
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Advent Calendar day 3 | Get Your Silverware
This is where I know I trolled myself big time because most everything I have in my house is not dishwasher safe, I have a dishwasher that I have never used for dishwashing, and for someone who HATES to do the dishes? I really played myself on this one… BUT for Christmas, get your dishes…
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NOT ANOTHER GIFT GUIDE!
Yes another one because ooooh baby it’s been a wild year, and there has never been a better time to celebrate than 2020; some of us made it, some of us will never be whole because of it. All of us lived through it and it will come to define our time here on earth.…
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The Holiday Windows | Fortnum & Mason- Cats
I love this window so much I could cry and I am not much of a cat person, they play way too hard to get for my patience but this window, this incredible window, is all the joys of Christmas wrapped up in one; Happy, festive, traditional, whimsical, fun, lovely… and all the superlatives one…
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The Holiday Windows | Selfridges – Futuristic and Minimalistic
I hated this window when I saw it, it didn’t make sense, where was the pomp and ceremony? Where was Christmas, the glitz, glamour and tree. I didn’t even think s’nice I just thought wtf is this. BUT as with the liberty window it took a few visits for me to actually really love this…
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The Holiday Windows | Harvey Nichols- Tipsy & Tinsel and A Secret Forest
At first I was unsure about this window, I thought s’nice but not at all festive but having had time to digest it, I rather like it. It reminds me of this window from Harrods that led to my short-is story, but this feels like the continuation, the arrival in the alps of all the…