A hand-made rustic Christmas reindeer (thank you Paper Runway) is very happy roaming amongst the little wooden trees on my sideboard
A collection of identical free postcards from my local cafe (thank you Avantcard) are framed in cardboard and literally strung up over the fireplace with coloured wooden pegs
Co-ordinate paper, ribbon, handmade gift tags and decorations to make gifts visually gorgeous!
Add a red ribbon and red decoration to dress up plain brown or artist's paper - stunning!
I put items of jewellery in cotton bags adorned with wooden angels - so cute!
Handmade gift tags with Christmas ribbon is the perfect finish
If you don't want to hang your decorations, glue them onto wooden pegs and then peg them up for a change
My summer fireplace is full of fresh hydrangeas and bamboo rice baskets from Thailand...
and hanging overhead....
.... a rustic Noel to you!
© 2011 Francesca Muir
Confession not a Christmas decoration in sight at my place as yet!! You look like you are going to have a wonderful time.....
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What a feast of colour and ideas! Delightfully imaginative and redolent of the distant past when we made most of our decorations and all our own cards. Something home-made with love and creativity (however simple) at Christmas means so much more than a commercial product. Lots of love from us in France.
ReplyDeleteThese are just gorgeous, ours have been up for a while and each one is special to me. I was just telling a friend on fb who is worried about not having much money for gifts this year that she could create a personal gift that would be perfect and then I saw your post!!
ReplyDeleteI just love Christmas
ciao lisa
Hello and a merry christmas, Just found you,
ReplyDeleteThe kitten heade5r is darling and love the ideas,
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So many lovely ideas - I love the wooden angel -so cute!
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How not love the handmade touch ? :-) the paper reindeer is very sweet. Enjoy your Christmas preparations Francesca ! Am a bit late this year, i usually make pomanders and haven't made one yet!
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ps : thank you for your lovely words about the studio tea party xo
We had a couple of deer grazing at the edge of our wood last night; about twenty feet from the house; so, Rustic Tennessee it indeed is; wishing y'all a Merrie Christmas & a Happy New Year
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ReplyDeleteYou are so clever! xxxxx
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your wonderful comments - I love this time of year when anything and everything goes! Have a fun week - I am going to!
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It was time for some good old hand-made Christmas packages. Too much glitter & gold this year. I want to keep it simple & realistic. Well done !!
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Frannie, you've never changed. So clever, so artistic and so passionate. Gorgeous person!!! xx
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