Welcome 2014!
It's my first week back at work after 2 weeks holiday. I had a lovely holiday spending time at home, hanging with family, friends and little Charlie - I think he loved having me around so much xo
I love hosting Christmas Eve at my place, particularly now with the veranda. There is plenty of room for everyone.
The evening is a shared hosting job with my niece, something I look forward to each year.
This year we went with a purple, silver and white theme for the table that we carried across to the ice cream dessert bar. I picked up the purple dessert cups from Big W who had them for $2 each.
We like to keep the table clear to allow lots of space for all of the yummy seafood so my niece hung decorations over the table.
The trees and stars were actually red and white stripe but after some silver spray paint and some purple glitter we had sparkles.
I made the tissue paper garland a couple of nights before Christmas Eve for the dessert bar. They did take a few hours to make but once you've made a couple, you get the hang of it and it becomes so much easier. I chose 2 different shades of purple and silver.
My niece even made the vanilla bean ice cream from scratch and we had lots of topping options like crushed nuts, sprinkles, chocolate sauce, wafers, strawberries, crushed chocolate, crushed picnic, crushed crunchy and I'm sure there was a couple more.
The next day I packed up all the presents under the tree and headed over to my parents (4 mins away) to spend the day with family and enjoy mums baked dinner - in air conditioning, of course!
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and wish you all the best for 2014.
I have a feeling it's going to be a fabulous year!
Lisa xo
Your Christmas table looks great really modern with the pops of purple :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a great time with the family and a nice break with your pooch ... I loved spending more time with my furbaby too :)