Inspiration

With the big day drawing closer I am in full festive season swing. Even my work mates are commenting on my festive red nails, sparkle eyeliner and most importantly christmas themed earrings.

So the biggest question is how am I going to theme Christmas. Well obviously its going to be vintage, but do I go for standard colours or for more of a mix?

So I decided to dive head first into the world of Christmas and head to my local Christmas kingdom. Oh my did I head to the right place. It was full of everything Christmas however amongst my frenzy of decoration buying a question was raised that I never thought I'd ask myself. "Do I need a 5ft crystal deer filled with LED lights?" Thankfully the price tag answered it but for some strange reason I would like to have a couple of them on my lawn at the moment.

Thinking about Christmas

The stores are full of shoppers, christmas decorations and people scratching their head wondering why all this is happening. Personally I like to leave the world of Christmas to december but it seems the retail world won't let me. So I've put on my santa hat and started to plan.

This year I have the joy of hosting my family in my new home. *jumping up down with excitement here* so I'm in planning mode. At current count there will be a guest in every spare room and my theme is Rockabilly Christmas or maybe Vintage. Not sure yet but what ever I do its going to be big.

I'm thinking lots of 'merry' cocktails, cute little cupcakes and very cheery place settings. So time to hit the net for planning ideas.

A little bit of pixie dust

I just had to add this. I was recently asked why my work space is so dull and only full of papers and notices. To which my response was “this is the first time I’ve ever worked a desk job and I don’t know what you can display”. Coming from retail you don’t really get a place to display your photos etc so it never crossed my mind to do so. This was when I was given Tinkabell, partly because they said I remind them of her with the cute smile and mischief she creates and partly because this person was also (unbeknownst to me) under the impression everyone was calling me “tink” instead of Tiki. Oh well I still have her pride of place on my computer now.

Thank you to my gift giver!