lebellebow: December 2012

Last Year I visited the V&A museum with my family whilst up in London looking at Uni's. In the little shop there they were selling stag heads. This has recently become a new trend especially in small businesses and websites like 'not on the high street . My Mum instantly fell in love with them and we all thought that this style of decor would go perfectly in our country cottage house.

Seeing as these were hundreds of pounds, we decided against the idea of purchasing as they were only made of cardboard! So for ages now I have had a secret plan to make my mum one and after about a year I've finally gotten round to doing it and thought I'd make it as part of her Christmas present.

I had wrapped it up in a big box (that I got from our oven door :p ours broke at uni thanks to some drunken housemates 'spinning'... don't ask :p) so perfectly wrapped it lay under the Christmas tree, the excitement building up inside me. This is what I was most excited about on Christmas day, my mum opening her present. Finally I couldn't wait any longer so I made her open it, and it now proudly hangs on top of our mantle piece in the lounge :).

How I made the Stag Head:

Viola!

I am now selling these on my Blog shop, Please visit lebellebow.bigcartel.com to view

Well hello there, long time no see! I cant believe I've not blogged in literally months after starting uni I've realized I've had a crazy amount of work to do and I had to apply for uni for next year by December so its been pretty crazy here with me trying to decide what I want to do!

Anyway, I have decided not to dwell on the past and I'm going to start the new year fresh and start up blogging again. Before writing this post I've been looking trough my previous posts and outfits over the last year and realized I've really missed blogging, chatting away and posting my looks.

New years resolution #1 - Try to blog everyday or at least three times a week :)

So in forgetting the past few months I'm just going to start over with my Christmas celebrations.

I came home from uni like Mrs Clause with a big bag of presents for the family and all my things. I came home with my housemate to surprise my family, although they were all out when I got home so I had to hide in my room wrapping presents til they got home :p. Still for me who's a little obsessed with wrapping with tissue paper, ribbons and bows, making things look pretty, I quite enjoyed myself. On to the festivities:

Every year we go to a lovely Christmas party in Winchester where we have a lovely evening with the most amazing canapes and fun chatting to the families friends and listening to Christmas tunes played by the pianist. Every year we say, once we've been to this event (one of the highlights of the year) our Christmas can begin!

We put our tree up just a few days before Christmas this year as I was away at uni and my sister was working til the 21st. So the weekend I was home me and my Dad took our traditional trip down to the little garden center at the bottom of our road to pick up our tree. We always manage to find a gorgeously big tree to fill with all our decorations, however this year as we were a little late in getting down there, we only had a choice of the hugeee 10ft trees (shame ;)!) so this year we've had the biggest tree we've ever had the only downside is we have to squeeze into the kitchen so as not to get a pricked bottom from the branches!

I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas and look forward to the new year and a new start for my blog hopefully I will be much better this time round! I will leave you lovelies with snaps from my Christmas break :).