Papaya homeware + Sparkly things ...

{images 1-4 taken by me in 2009 @ Papaya Westfield Bondi Junction, Australia}

When I lived in Sydney, one of my favourite homeware stores was Papaya. They always had such beautiful objects to decorate your home with. Christmas time was especially fun to visit, as the store always sparkled. The images above were taken by me the last time I was there in 2009. I purposely blurred the images to give them a feeling of living somewhere cold and misty (which Australia definitely isn't during Christmas!)

{images 5,6,7,8 Papaya Christmas Catalogue}

I haven't spent Christmas in Australia for 2 years now and it is definitely time to go back and visit family and friends again. See my last post of an Aussie beach Christmas here.

The decorations above are from the latest Papaya catalogue, which I might happen to visit again and maybe pick up something when I'm there ;) ;)

I thought it was time to start feeling a little Christmas'y ...

xx

Twas the Day before Christmas ...

Flickr fav

... and all but a little of the snow is left.

We were wishing for a white christmas,

but maybe not!

Here's hoping that the stranded make it home for Christmas,

fingers crossed.

The shopping's all done, the gifts all wrapped,

I can't wait to spend quality time

with my family in London.

I will be signing off for the holidays and would like to wish everyone

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

and may the New Year bring you

PEACE + LOVE + PROSPERITY

See you all soon!

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Holiday loveliness ...

Solid Frog

Bijou and Boheme

Italian Elle Decor

Happy Wednesday!

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Rockettes, Reindeers and Robins...

This weekend we finally bought our Christmas tree and unpacked all the decorations.

Here is a small snippet of some of the lovely fragments we have collected over the years ...

{All images mine}

xx

My kinda christmas tree ...

{Image from here}

This is the kind of tree decorating I like to do...

When we lived in Australia we used to spend Christmas at our beach house, see previous post here, and then we would go out hunting for a tree, not too dissimilar to the one in the photo.

I would place it on a large round, white concrete, resin table in our foyer and decorate it with silver and blue baubles ...

... the simplicity of it all ...

xx