Festive Colours

Hello Lovelies,
 on Friday I had an enforced day at home as one of my boys was off school poorly, so I decided to get the decorations out of the loft and get on with decorating the house. Master BM was able to help and we spend a pleasant morning building and trimming the tree.I love opening the boxes of decorations . This one really made me smile ....with it's mix of sentimental decorations . There are knitted characters, thrifted vintage baubles and even holiday souvenirs. But the most precious ones to me are those made  by the boys when they were very young ........

Other sentimental characters I'm pleased to get reacquainted with include this pair.......

My Nanna made these sweet Eskimos which always sit at the bottom of our tree......Nanna was a complete yarn addict and I've written about her before HERE.
We have so many decorations I have to be strict with myself and only add one more each year ( of the bought variety anyway ....hand made is fine :0)) . This year I treated myself to this colourful little sign. I love it's stripes and spots and touch of glitter..........

Something else with a touch of glitter that I'm loving is this cute piece of artwork done by my youngest. This is proudly displayed in my front room........

Another talented member of my family , apart from my Nanna and sons ,is my own lovely Mum. I have shared some of her beautiful paintings with you lovelies before. I really need to do a post dedicated to them as I'm lucky enough to have loads. Here is her latest gift to me ..........

Ooooh I love it , my favourite hog weed covered in pretty snow and the cutest Robin ....it's gorgeous ...THANK YOU mum :0)

I've just realised you can peek another of Mum's paintings ( a  portrait of our late cats " Henry and George") in this next shot of my wonderful candle bridge ...we have had this a few years and I love this too........

Last night when it was dark I played around trying to get a good shot of our tree, not easy . This one is O.K. I think....

Next I took a photo in macro to achieve this effect . It's not the best I've seen in blogland but I was pretty pleased with the result. It reminds me of when you screw up your eyes to see if the lights are evenly spaced...or is it just me who does this..........

I also tried the "firework " setting on my simple camera . The best results came from purposely moving the camera a little ........interesting effect.......

The boys thought this looked like fun and wanted to try.........this is what their scarily enthusiastic camera moving made..........

I actually REALLY like these :0)


Finally , I'm sorry this has turned into a rather long post, I've just got to show you my archway decoration. It goes over the doorway between our lounge and dining room. I bought this artificial greenery many years ago . It's been decorated in lots of  different ways but the last couple of years  it's just been red and white with white lights . I love this look. I've made quite a few of the decorations on here , like the crochet snowflakes and gingham hearts. There's also quite a few felt bit and bobs I made in red and white . .....

Hope you are keeping warm if you are in the U.K.
I'm glad to be staying indoors with the pretty lights and decorations
Jacquie x