Something new for Christmas

I must warn you...many of the posts from now on will be about Christmas. So if you don't want to start the celebrations just yet, you'll just have to stop reading for a month or so.

I already have lots of Christmas decorations but a couple (read tens) of new ones still end up at our home. These small bigs are the latest, cute aren't they?

Delicate ornaments

Don't you just love glass balls - they are clear and beautiful and somehow they seem to create Christmas atmosphere without any colours. The red bird pops out nicely with all the white and glass.

The shortest winter ever!

If this is all of the snow for this winter, I am happy. The view from our bedroom window is from Saturday, today there is no snow left, great!

Snow whites

I love lace for Christmas. I have had these starched  lace decoratins for a couple of years. I guess you could do them yourself and maybe one day I will - I am dreaming of a stiff lace curtain. We saw one at an art exhibition, there were two of these in a corner, creating a room within a room and it looked amazing. Photographing was prohibited but luckily I still see the installation in my mind's eye.

Everything is black and white

Where are all the colours? I want summer and I want it now! Ok, maybe I want to celebrate Christmas first but after that, summer straight away, please.

It found its place

I moaned a while ago how I hate buying things from webshops as I can't get everything right away. But to be honest, Ellos surprised me positively - this rug arrived in just a couple of days and I got it before we went to the country for the weekend so I really have nothing to complain about (except that I still would like to have everything I ordered the minute I order it :)

The last of the last

It is very hard for me to see everything die before winter, thank God for sedums.

And then there are lots of weeds that look great even after flowering, e.g: