Do you Christmas shopping from home

it never made it to the front door...

I guess most of you have to buy Christmas gift and if you are like me you hate shopping this time of year...I found that online shopping is less stressful! So sit back and relax here are some of my favourite links:

• Etsy; you have to shop at etsy! handmade is the best!These are my favourites
• I love Abigail A. Percy's jewellery!
  
• This is a Swedish online shop but I still have to show it to you: Russinet
• Another Swedish interior decorating shop: Syster Lycklig
• I haven't bought anything here but love just looking around: Snirkla.se
• Some Danish interior decorating at grønlykke
• Sandra Juto makes beautiful things!
• Order prints from your photos and give them as gifts! Here are two I've used QOOP & MOO
  

the two Christmas trees

Finally there was enough daylight to take pictures of them!
This one is in the living room together with this little arrangement. I have put newspaper in the pot so that the little accident from yesterday won't happen again!

Here's the other tree. This one is upstairs and I can see this one from my desk! I have put some nice red felt fabric in this one. just to be on the safe side...

Are your Christmas decorating coming along?

Monday the 8th

Monday the 8th and I have started the countdown for our departure to Malaysia...As much as I love my job and decorating for Christmas, I need a break, a nice and long one! But before I go away on my trip I'm going to show you something here everyday. Today is the last pictures from the nice crafting from nature decorations that we made a couple of weeks ago:

a heart wreath made from moss both green and white and twigs with blue berries on.

and of course an amaryllis, a true Christmas flower with a little wreath and a red Christmas heart. This was so simple to make and looked to great!

The Christmas monster has stroked again...This time he broke one of the tree ornaments and dug a big hole in the pot where the little Christmas tree is....There was soil everywhere! Do you want him?

New Christmasy placemats

New Christmas placemats

I got the inspiration for these from my new Japanese craft magazine Cottontime. There was one in pretty pastel colours. I love that you can make these from fabric scraps from you stash. I gave a pair to my mother (the two above) and kept to for us:

Too bad I can't use them after Christmas...

..but then I guess I have to make new ones! :-)

Soft trees

This year I made them in time! It was last December that I discovered this free pattern from Stephanie. I love the simplicity of these soft tree. Then I bloged about it a while back and now finally I can show you pictures!

Some snowy white trees...

and two black and white trees for the living room!

happy 4th of December!

The Christmas monster

The Christmas monster lives here at my place. He can take on all kinds of disguises, here he looks like the cutest little kitten. But don't be fooled by his appearance! He attacks when he doesn't think you can see him, he eats the Christmas decorations or plays with it...

He is looking innocent...but moments after he was on the table eating the moss from one of the decorations!

And here he is in the act!

Can he come live with you during December?

The first candle is lit

I'm going to try to post every day until we leave for Malaysia. I would like this to be some kind of advent calender were there is something new to look at every day until Christmas. Well see....
Today I'm going to show my advent candles that I made on Sunday! And some pictures from last Christmas:
advent candles 2007
the beginning of December 2007
Christmas flowers!

Going Christmas crazy

It's the 1 of December and the last month of the year is here!! Finally it's here and I can let out all my Christmas crafting! We had a perfect afternoon at my mothers yesterday. Crafting and celebrating 1th advent. Here are some of the picture from yesterday:

This is my mothers advents candlestick, with moss and white candles and numbers. Simple yet beautiful!

We made wreaths...

and almond and nougat candy (Mr j's contribution)

I made the numbers for my candles myself. Easy, with some steel wire. Unfortunately I can't show you my advent candlestick because all the picture I took of it turned out really bad. I'll show you tomorrow!

here's my brothers girlfriend candlestick! Cute with the berries and cinnamon sticks

This is the mess we made!