“Sleigh bells ring, are ya listening?”
Ahhhhh, we’ve landed. Tomorrow we enter December. One of, if not THE, coziest months of the year. The shops are getting busier, the weather is finally getting colder and the feeling in the air finally turns its attention towards Santa. My gift list has been given to my husband and was surprisingly hard to compile. When I’m asked what I want I find it really hard to think of anything, but of course at any other time of the year I sit there lusting over all manner of ‘stuff’ found online.
Before I get on to more important things I wanted to draw your attention to something I’m trying out this year. I am ‘doing’ Christmas according to a colour palette this year. I picked out four colours, blush pink, soft green, a couple of shades of blue and fluffy white. I then decided to stick as closely as I could to these shades as I decorated the house. The most remarkable thing about doing it this way is just how easy it is to decorate. I knew how to decorate the Gingerbread House. I was certain on the colours for the stocking garland and when replacing some baubles I saw my colours immediately.
If you asked me I couldn’t tell you why I went for this colour scheme at this particular time. I think it had something to do with wanting the house to be as bright and as fresh as possible. If I’d opted for dark red and green it would have been like living in a traditional gentleman’s club which would have made me very grouchy indeed.
Of course now my challenge is to find a way for all of these current decorations to fit in beautifully with my chosen palette for NEXT year. But I’ll think on that anon.
Now to the good stuff……
Tomorrow sees the first day of advent. It also sees the launch day of my DOWNLOADABLE ADVENT CALENDAR. This wonderful widget will sit so neatly on your desktop or dock and is deliciously shaped liked a stocking. Once downloaded it will gently remind you each day to click on it and you will be taken through to a brand new section of my website that has been especially dedicated to the days of Advent. I’ve even added an extra day and will have a wee message for you on Christmas Day itself.
There will be several chances to win some amazing prizes as well as 24 rock solid hints, tips, trims and things from my home to yours!
And don’t worry as soon as Boxing Day has passed you can remove the widget and it will not be there to remind you of Christmas until next July. A more depressing thought there never was!
So tomorrow is the day of the big launch. Visit my home page or the daily post and all of the details will be there on how to download one of the cutest widgets you’ve ever seen. Oh, and it’s darn handy too!
Love to you all…….”JOY TO THE WORLD”!!!!!
It’s finally here!!!
Cherry xoxox
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