There’s no Designer Desire post this week because IT’S CHRISTMAS DAY!!! Seasons greetings to all our customers, readers, fellow bloggers and indie shop owners.
We’re having a very quiet one at home, just the two of us with Barley – it will be his first Christmas, although he’ll be completely oblivious to the fact!
Do you wear something special on Christmas Day? Perhaps you have a penchant for bad taste jumpers or like to make an extra effort and get dressed up. Me… I like to lounge in comfort, grazing on finger food all day. I’d love for these pyjamas to be available in adult sizes!
The three selected Christmas Day clothes items are – if you order very soon – able to be delivered to you before the big day.
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There are little things and big things that you can do at home this year to ensure you enjoy a more eco-conscious Christmas.
In previous years on the blog, we’ve recommended green alternatives such as DIY salt dough decorations and making your own natural wreath.
The cheapest option shown above – the wrapping tape – is a simple switch that is easy to make. Unlike the usual clear sticky tape used to wrap Christmas presents, this tape is biodegradable. It can also be added to your recycling – no need to pick through the pile of discarded wrapping and removing the tape before disposing of it in the paper bin.
Crackers are part of most sit-down Christmas Day dinners. Usually, they contain cheap plastic trinkets that are cast-off within nanoseconds of the cracker being pulled. The ones in the montage above are nothing like that. There are three zero-waste versions, my favourite contains a selection of wild-flower seeds.
Christmas dinner leftovers are a huge problem annually. Excess fruit and veg can simply be put on to the compost heap in your garden. The meat, fish, cheese etc shouldn’t be disposed off in this way. That is, unless you make bokashi compost – this set allows you to create just that. Why not make an early new year’s resolution to try to recycle 100% of your organic household waste?
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I’ve held out for as long as I could! It’s December… I’m coming to terms with the fact that Christmas is just a few weeks away. Everyone’s Instagram squares are full of Christmas crafts & decorations; welcoming wreaths on front doors, advent calenders on the go, tastefully trimmed trees, home-made mince pies, puddings and sloe gin. I’ve just not got my act together this year – nothing has been prepared!
This week’s house is one of the most like our own that we’ve ever featured… we too have garlands of hops hanging from our old beams, we’ve also re-purposed a vintage steamer trunk as a coffee table (and make good use of the storage it affords inside). We have brown leather armchairs, enamel chamber sticks and brass candleholders, wicker baskets and woollen throws…
…and this image is most likely what we’ll be doing on the 25th of December – enjoying a cosy fireside cottage Christmas day.
We’ll be spending this Yuletide ‘à deux’ or ‘à trois’ if you include Barley the Weimaraner. At 4 months old, it will be his very first cottage Christmas, and he’s already discovered that he loves sitting in front of a warming fire!
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