Christmystified

Christmystified!

Decorating the tree with an eclectic collection of ornaments. Light some candles and  cue music!

I live in a warm climate so this year I have gone with a jandal theme complete with Havaiana gummy lights. The rest of the tree is also adorned with family tokens and treasures including an Italian Pinocchio-inspired dog (a gift from mum's travels this year), two family heirlooms from a Canadian Christmas in Whistler in 1990 and various sentimental trinkets and gifts. 

Our stockings are my sister's and my original childhood stockings.

Christmas in the 80's. Those coloured sunnies sure were a winner each year. And our homemade, Sunday-best sewn dresses. Bless my mum! 


Chanelling Sir Elton John with my round yellow sunnies and white blonde locks. 
A windmill could go so far!

Remote controlled Barbie Scooter, Strawberry Shortcake Dolls 
and My Little Pony. Spoilt!

Starbucks.

Nothing says Christmas more than a drizzly rainy day and a festive coffee. I love their holiday editions. Gingerbread Latte, Toffee Nut and last season's Egg Nog.  Scrummy.

I love the candy cane detail on this mug.

Living in the United Kingdom, it made so much sense to be in a snowy climate around Christmas. Dark by 3pm. Shopping in the evening. Lights sparkling in the streets, crowded taverns for drinks after work, ice-skating and hot apple cider in Hyde Park.  Heaven.

For everyone else reading this blog, if you don't live in the Southern Hemisphere, our hot holiday climate won't make sense. But there are bonuses. A classic Kiwi Christmas for instance.. Barbecues. Family holidays at beach houses, camping and long balmy evenings to play with your Christmas toys long after bedtime. Your parents would forget about you roller-skating in the streets, riding your new bikes with sunburnt noses and prickles in toes long into the night. They would be lost out onto the back patio, cracking open another beer or puncturing another cask wine with their other neighbourhood friends.

Then a long, hot summer to follow and five weeks off school.

So Merry Christmas everyone, wherever you may be in the world!

Budgie xo