Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from a New Zealand summer! A lovely day of family and friends and lots of delicious food.

Pictured, a tower of mini pavlovas -rose, orange with black pepper, and coffee flavoured. Slices of orange and plums, and berry coulis to garnish. Toasted almonds in the wee bowl on top.

What do you call a tower of pavs? Apparently, it's a Pav-illion!!!!
 

 

 

What are you getting up to - or what did you get up to? There's no right way to do Christmas!

Sneaky Christmas gift opening before the 25th!

 I had a couple of outlier gifts arrive - one from a "Secret Glitter Elf" exchange with other people in the burlesque community in NZ, and one from a darling friend who also happens to be a performer.

Look at this lovely gift! The budget is $20, and the did so well.

This one was a really cool idea - a chain decoration made from fabric. Each loop has press snaps and I enjoyed organising what order to put them in enormously. Ellen knows me so well and chose the perfect colours. I have draped it artistically over the gifts around my tree. The rhubarb coloured mohair rug is thrown over all of the boxes and containers of makeup so the tree has a nice background.

SO artistic! Thank you Ellen! <3

Is it just me....

 ...or is this fabric motif somewhat...er...yeah.

I know, I am a child. Anyway I bought it, arguably BECAUSE of the.. er...rather than in spite of it. It is a rather nice brocade in metallic copper and black, and Constance I think would enjoy wearing it. and not even noticing the er....yeah.

She's like that, contrary to popular belief!

How goes your run up to Christmas? I'm pretty much under control, much to my own delight and amazement. 

The tree is up.

 Hi team, It's been a TIME. Since I got back from Canada I've had a nasty chest infection, requiring prednisone even. And we've sold the shop so lots of admin to do before the end of the year and handover.

I'd love to blog every day. Going Gently is my cliffhanger read, even when not much is happening, John tells us and it is a good read. But I am not good at habit forming.

There may be a reason for this - I had an assessment last week and am waiting for a report. Wish me luck because this may mean I'm not disorganised and lazy! 

Here's my tree. It is set up on the dining room table - which is usually CC's makeup table. But she's done for 2022 so yay!!!

Tiny but Mighty!