Decorating the outside of the house

 December is here and we are preparing for Christmas, one of my favorite holidays to spend with my brood trying to making it special for them with magic and sparkle.  A new house means a new way to decorate, and now all our autumn decorations are gone pumpkins and leaves we can do a new display for our home.

Here is this years wreath we made now we don't have firs growing in our garden we couldn't make a traditional living wreath, oh i miss that pine smell, at least it gives us a chance to try something a bit more modern, so we spent time wrapping a white ring in lights and silver ornaments and hung a reindeer at the bottom which was to cute to leave in the shop and i knew we could use it somewhere.

The Winter/ Spring pots are still blooming well and i added a mini pile of logs to the front of the house and with Sophie we dressed them in lights and used our pointy box bush to pretend it was a mini Christmas tree.  We even got some stacking light up presents to put by the front door and they glow really well.

 We have been collecting little pots and dressed them in different pretty ribbons and each night Sophie lights these and places them out as the light starts to fall

 Ali had the job of dressing the outside of the house and every since i can remember i have wanted a house with a point on it just for that one month of the year where you can dress it in icicle lights.  Lucky for us the local farmer was kind enough to let Ali go up in his JCB but this was all after another adventure which saw Ali up a tree.

So here is the finished results of our new home complete with icicle light, log lights, candles and a cheeky laser light, well we had the perfect blank canvas and the house lent itself to it really well.

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Celebrating Autumn

We are continuing to celebrate Autumn at home last week we went on an Autumn walk and made autumn crowns and this week we are decorating the house, we cant resist making a wreath for the front door and used some of the acorns we foraged for, as well as some pretty fabric maple and oak leaves to add autumnal colours .  Sophie is getting a dab hand at wreath making now, even with the difficultly of an excited Ella wanting to join in by running off with all our crafting bits.  We even made a second small wreath for one of the kitchen windows and to add a bit of warmth and sparkle we mixed rattan light balls to natural oak leaves, ivy and maple florist wraps to lay across the window sill.

2013 Christmas Wreath

Finally we have got round to making our wreath for the door, only 5 days late.  This year we are doing a very striped back wreath compared to what we have done in the past with the traditional leafy wreaths, mostly because i got this willow heart and partly the leafy plants were prickling Sophie and it is something we do together every year.  We love a lot of bells on our door wreath only for the fact the the door makes a lovely jinngle janngle when it is opened and closed. On the big black door knob we have 2 sets of giant bells too and as daddy says no one cant get through that door with out being heard.

2011 leafy wreath                                     2012 berry and bells 

Christmas hits the house

We have a tradition in our house that the first weekend of December all the Decs come out and the house starts to get ready for Christmas, tinsel, lights and baubles everywhere.  In the last 10 years we have been total been tree snobs and bought real Christmas trees.  

Easter wreath

Today we pretended to be florists, and made an Easter wreath to welcome granny and grumps to our house.

Xmas Wreath

 Another task for Christmas to complete is the wreath for the front door, its the only time of the year i pretend that im a florist, i really don't know how to arrange flowers and have never looked up how to its just good fun bringing together bits and bobs from the garden or from the hedgerows to make the wreath each year.