Jingle All The Way

A few days ago a friend of mine said she has already done her Christmas shopping, I was both surprised and worried. Am I doing the Christmas shopping wrong?
Every year I tend to get all my Christmas presents and decoration the first week of December, but when you have everyone around you shopping for the holidays, you start questioning your method.
So this year I am doing Christmas shopping a lot earlier!

I have started with getting a few small Christmas presents yesterday along with ribbons and wrapping paper. I have made up my mind about the colours; wrapping paper - either gold or red and colourful vintage looking ribbons, they are all so adorable, can't wait to show you the finished wrapped presents!

As for the table decoration, I am considering three different options, hopefully your comments will help me choose one of them. I am leaning towards the Winter Wonderland but love the other two as well.

Let me know what you think about the three options I am torn between and soon will post a
lot more Christmas updates!

                         Winter Wonderland // Winterly Red // Non-Traditional Christmas

Rocking Rudolph and Shimmering Snowflakes

Have you started your Christmas preparations yet? Well, I have, that is my first year in which I have actually started doing Christmas shopping before the beginning of December. Which in my case is a huge achievement having in mind I always leave things for the last moment? This year I casually started getting some nice pieces to decorate my Christmas table and around the house. I love the vintage and unique look not only for Christmas but for decorating your home as a whole. My family still have ornaments from my parents’ childhood, they are so pretty and no one can find them anywhere else now. However, there is a nice way to put new and old ornaments together. I still haven’t put up my Christmas tree but once I do I will put some photos of how it looks like. In this post I have put together the things I already have and what I want to buy for myself

I will first start with what I want to get and the place I usually look for unique stuff is Etsy. In picture I captured what I thought it will look perfect on my Christmas tree! See how adorable are the owl family in the first picture, my surname is not Sullivan, nor is 2012 but surely that can be fixed! And I think it is mainly for young families who have just had a baby and that is his/her first Christmas! Of course there should be something white and red to keep up the tradition and I happen to find exactly what I was looking for in the face of the lovely cushion like ornaments. Even though gingerbread man is not exactly popular in my country, I happen to find it quite fitting for Christmas tree so I picked that handmade gingerbread man ornament for my last pick (for now only!) from Etsy. 

Now slowly moving on to what I have already bought for the holidays. My first pick was the Scarlet Glory Table Centre which I think will make your table look really elegant. I fell in love with the colours and since I have never had a proper centrepiece why not get this and hopefully I can use for years. It is from The Partyware Shop, which is an amazing place at the moment for Christmas shopping, it is full of tableware decoration, honeycombs, garlands etc all organized in different themes. My favourite one is the Shimmering Snowflake, and I believe if you have young children the RockingRudolph will be perfect for them since it is playful and fun.

That's my Christmas shopping for now, once I fill my home with more small pretty things I will drop you a line! 

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The 10 Cliche Tasks of My London Christmas List

Planning your Christmas abroad is not much of a fun,there is no family dinner,no hanging out with old friends gathered from around the world home for the holidays...I kind of miss that!
The more I think about the holidays the sadder I get(usually it's the other way round) but instead of pitting myself I decided it's time to make a list of Christmas tasks I want to do here in London.

The 10 Cliche Tasks of My London Christmas List

1.Go to Covent Garden and visit the Christmas market.
2.Drink the most festive Christmassy hot drink Starbucks or Costa have to offer.
3.Go and see Wicked musical(obviously not on Broadway but it is still going to be great!)
4.Decorate a Christmas tree and make my room my festive.
5.Go to London Eye and see London from above with all the lights turned on.
6.Exchange a book in Carnaby...such an amazing project where you are able to leave a book you have read and get one for free.
7.Drink hot chocolate in Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park.
8.Visit the "Holywood costume" exhibition in Victoria and Albert Museum,which explores the central role costume design plays in storytelling.
9.Listen to Christmas music everywhere and enjoy being able to spend it here in London.)Because next year I will buy tickets for Bulgaria at least 5 months in advance!)
10.Invent a new Christmas cocktail.

That's pretty much how me and my boyfriend will spend this holiday season.Let me know about your plans,I bet they will be a lot better than mine!

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It's never too early for a Christmas decoration

As a big Christmas enthusiast,every year I start my preparation early,maybe a month and a half before,I plan the decoration of my flat and if I want to DIY something I gather the necessary pieces and materials.It's always more fun if you have enough time to make your family and friends feel the Christmas spirit around the holidays. I can almost hear the songs and smell my mother's delicious cooking!

I've gathered some nice ideas to keep your inspiration going until Christmas.