Decking those halls


My halls are decked, baby! Oh how I love this time of year.




Welcome, welcome. Yep, same front door as last year. Despite my love of festivities, I'm not one to do a whole new thing every year. I prefer to build on what I have so it just gets better and better every year. Plus, what do you do with the stuff that doesn't suit the new style? Seems wasteful.

Knock, knock. Do come in...


We've been very busy inside as well. Up went the Christmas tree.


 


There's a little bit of everything on that tree.... including a random frog.



It was Badoo's year to place the star. We rotate each year or there are fights. Who am I kidding, there are fights anyway so I have to produce photographic evidence of who did it the year before...

 

You could land a 747 by the power of our 2011 Christmas tree lights. We couldn't get the old ones to work (what is it about Christmas tree lights?) so we used our 300 light outdoor LED set. It looks ridiculous.

Because I'm slightly mad when it comes to festivities, each Tsunami decorated their own mini tree to have by their bed, complete with battery-operated lights. The Badoo's keeps falling over as she insists on hanging all of her (pink) baubles on the front.
Up went the freshly-made garlands. $4 ivy sprigs from Lincraft that I wrapped around some heavy wire and secured in about 20 places with fuse wire. They could certainly do with a bit more ivy (Lincraft ran out!), but I like. The little 'joy', 'peace', 'hope' (hope is elsewhere in the house, it seems) signs were on special at Spotlight for $1 each. I think you're supposed to use them as the basis for much creative painting, but I liked them just the way they are.





Noel joins them from the other living room. I took down all my regular photos and pictures and put up the Christmas photos from over the years.



My sisters are going to kill me... but, seriously, how cute are we? Al is left, then me, then MultipleMum. Send help if I don't blog tomorrow...


That wraps up Christmas for now - wraps up, geddit? Are you also over advertisers saying 'It's time to wrap up Christmas...' Such a booooring, overused pun... anyway.... Here's Cappers in a box.


Are you decked?

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$100 Shopbop Giveaway & Diane Von Furstenberg dresses

Shopbop Giveaway

Clockwise left to right:
Jovie maxi dress from Joie dresses
Tibi Farrah dress from one shoulder dresses
Akari dress and Jafartha dress from Diane von Furstenberg dresses

I'm so pleased to announce a giveaway of $100 worth of store credit for Shopbop, which you can spend on anything, and it's open to readers worldwide!

Shopbop is a premier online shopping boutique for the fashion-savvy female. Carrying everything a woman needs for her wardrobe, from dresses to denim; swimwear to shoes -- Shopbop has over 200 different designer labels such as Marc Jacobs, Superfine, Catherine Malandrino and Antik Batik. Shopbop has become recognized by consumers and the media as an excellent one-stop fashion resource. Unique site features, such as styling tips, look books and season trend previews are highlights on this easy to navigate site.

To enter, please visit Shopbop and then leave a comment below this post letting me know what you would spend your store credit on. The giveaway ends on Saturday, December 17th 2011 at 10pm (GMT) and I will randomly select and announce a winner on Sunday, December 18th.

To increase your chances of winning this fabulous prize, you can gain one additional entry for doing each of the following:
  • tweeting about this giveaway
  • blogging about it
  • following/subscribing to the Torie Jayne blog/twitter

For the first two, please leave a comment below with the link to your tweet or blog post.

This giveaway is open to readers worldwide.

Good luck and have a sweet day!
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