The Twelve Gifts of Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone. I know it's a little belated but I hope everyone had a good time etc. etc.

Thought I would share with you my Christmas time in the style of one of my favourite little Christmas songs, The Twelve Days of Christmas.

So on December 25th my family and friends gave to me,

1. One baby bee necklace.

2. Two adorable little pugs. Anyone who knows me well knows I have a soft spot for little pugs and one day I want two living, breathing, walking and talking pugs but until then I have these two little cuties. I love their pink glittery eyes!

3. Three items of nightwear.

This is made of the fluffiest stuff and is extremely cosy. I feel like a little cat in it myself, it's so furry. 

To match the fluffy top I got these pyjama trousers with a lovely chaotic cat print.

I also got a super fluffy very pretty Cath Kidston-esque dressing gown. It will blend in with my wallpaper they are both so similar!

4. Four books, a mixed selection but I love them all.

I also got a tiny little 2 inch square book entitled 'The Quotable Oscar Wilde' containing quotes from the great man himself.

5. Five pieces of a crockery set by Spode I aim to collect to complete for my future Georgian mansion in the country. The design is called Woodland and is an almost direct copy of a gorgeous 16 person dinner service I saw in an antiques shop in Herne Bay this Summer.

The pieces I got to start my collection are as follows:

While looking for the photos of the pieces I got for Christmas I discovered Spode even make a matching cutlery set! Of course I would have to have this in my Georgian dining room~

6. The sixth season of Mad Men which I can't wait to watch. It really is one of the best things on television.

7.  Seven attempts to take a Christmas photo I was happy with!? I took the Meadham dress out for a spin! ^_^

8. The height in feet of the Christmas tree we managed to procure in the Homebase sale when they were flogging off their Christmas stuff. It was originally £240 but we got it for only £30! It's a beautiful realistic fir tree with pine cones and dew drops on the branches. ^_^

9. The time I arose from slumber on Christmas morning! The days of waking up at the crack of dawn as a child have long long passed!

10. I also painted my nails for the occasion dabbling in a bit of nail art with my Barry M nail art pens, but to varying degrees of success! The expectation seen in the top photo and the reality below!

11. On Christmas Day the last episode for the eleventh Doctor was shown. I'm yet to watch it as I watched a film in the evening but I'm looking forward to it!

12. Twelve months of a Gemma Correll Calendar. A tenuous finale to the song and my post but who receives 12 of something!?

How about everyone else? Did you all have a good Christmas?

Sally xxx