Decor that Delights in Gold

Sparkles to hang with streams of garlands of glittering stars, candles that glow, confetti filled balloons, plates and platters with glistening gold. Crowns and stripy straws that shine, lanterns and balloons and a gathering of playful party pieces. 

Set the table with shimmering golds and sprinkle with an assortment of incandescent fun from cocktail cart to table. Here’s a few of our favourite festive essentials for the Christmas season (left to right);

Star garland here, honeycomb balls here, tassel garlands here, 

confetti printed balloons here, glitter crowns here, golden party plate here, 

merry & bright garland from an assortment of gold letters create your own words here, golden party hats here, more glitter crowns here, 

candelabra here, hanging paper lantern assortment here, golden confetti here, 

Star paper napkins here, Star paper cups here , hanging golden fans here, 

Star garland here, striped golden straws here,  shimmering star garland here, 

Sparkling star straws here, Confetti balloon kit here, and cocktail cart here.

Take a look at all our Christmas Inspiration and keep an eye on the blog for our festive finds and advent too!

C

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Advents 2nd Door

Its the 2nd of December and the children are begging to begin the decorating and asking when we'll be getting the tree. Though its far too early for our tree and i'm no where near ready for tinsel, pretty paper fans in delicate colours are just as happy hung up now or in the summer. So we've been making these beautiful paper snowflakes, printing them onto coloured and patterned card and threading them together hung in groups and here and there and used for pretty miniature garlands around the home. 

So simple to make and utterly addictive in their instant satisfaction these medallions that began as their playroom decorations have slowly drifted along the hallway into bedrooms and soon no doubt will be seen everywhere.... But thats just fine. They're beautiful and already our home feels like Christmas has arrived. 

Print your own here. with thanks to minieco.co.uk

Advents 1st Door

It's the first day of advent and we're beginning to feel a little festive. Present lists are being written and our first gifts bought. We've been planting hyacinths and mascari bulbs and home feels a little more magical. There's a sense of excitement in the air as the first advent door was opened with eyes not quite awake yet. Home feels as though it's alive with anticipation, eagerly awaiting all that the festivities bring; the tree, the wreath (yet to be made), the garlands and decorations, the cosiness that this seasons brings alongside its joyous rich colours. 

To celebrate our first day of the Christmas countdown we would like to give you 20% OFF everything in decor. So whichever room, for yourself or for someone you love,  big or small,  young or old you'll find something wonderful, perhaps even magical in our collection here.

enter code ADVENT1 at checkout

offer ends tomorrow 2nd December 10pm GMT

25 Days

Countdown to Christmas with Sister Guild 

We'll soon be counting down the days to Christmas and to celebrate we'll be giving all our readers and members surprises and treats with prizes to be won, secret sale prices and special offers, free printables and much more.

Keep an eye out as we spoil with our festive countdown!

Remember a few from last year......

33 ideas for secret advent gifts here

and a few of the ideas, printable, and special offers here

White Inspired

favourites from left to right : 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

Drawn towards white and warmth, the wild and the wintry

Number 22 - What's Inside Today

Does it ever feel as though the kids are climbing the walls? Then let them colour them instead. We return to Mr printable and discover the best of busy day activities in this 22 page print out gigantic Christmas tree. If you look closely you can see there are busy roads and star tunnels, apple houses, snowflakes and lollipop trees.

I cannot imagine anything more perfect for keeping excited children busy.

We'd love to see your finished posters too, so do send us pics.

Go get your colouring pencils, pens and crayons and get your free printable here

Thank you Mr Printable

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Number 21 - What's Inside Today?

T'is the silly season, and the silly season needs a silly game.

So today, we have a game of 'pin the red nose on Rudolph' 

Click here to get the printable of 6 A4 pages to complete your Rudolph, then using some red coloured card cut into little round nose shapes and some sticky tack on the back have fun blindfolding the kids and letting them try to get the nose in the right place.

It's a great game to entertain the whole family!

Have Fun!

If you're still looking for some last minute gift tags, gifts, cards or ideas take a look at all our advent surprises  treats and crafts here.

Number 20 - What's Inside Today?

Father Christmas Dress-Up courtesy of Lady Chiara

We've found this nostalgic Father Christmas Dress Up figure  - another free printable to add some festive excitement to these magical days leading up to Christmas.

Enjoy the festive holidays and have fun with all the free gift tags, calendars, cards, dress-up dolls, book notes & lacing cards we have gathered for you to print here

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Number 19 - What's Inside Today?

Free printable 2013 Calendar via lovevsdesign.com

Today we bring you something for the coming year.  For planning, organising and dreaming of the days that will unfold in 2013. A free calendar for your wall to scribble and circle.  The one above is from our new obsession lovevsdesign.com

And this one below is for Owl lovers, like myself - oh those tawny plumes and big eyes! Here you can design your own 2013 Calendar by selecting the owl design for each month. It's a wonderful collaboration of artists for a project by Shivani at My Owl Barn

Create your own 2013 calendar - choose between 43 owl images over at My Owl Barn

Loving these printables.

If you've missed any - they are all gathered together here for you.

More to come for the festive holidays.

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Number 18 - What's Inside Today?

get these free printable Gift Tags here

.....and these too

It's that last flurry of 'Christmas is nearly here' excitement (headless chicken) and shopping (10 different lists). We are finding ways to make it easier this year and free printables are our saviour.  Today, thanks to Kitty Genius, we have these Gift Tags for you with such wonderful illustrations.  

More to come so do pop back tomorrow...

xx

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Number 17 - What's Inside Today?

There's 50% OFF Renaissance Life jewellery and Hop Hop Hop too!

This offer is running for 2 days and will end 19th December.

Take a look at Renaissance Life here

and Hop Hop Hop here

Number 16 - What's Inside Today?

Free lego gift box printables

 I'm not sure who'll love this more, children or grown ups but I am crazy for them. I quite fancy making these and filling with gifts for my husband as much as I do for my children. They're great for stocking filler treats as well as party favours and I have been printing and printing, folding and sticking since I found them. 

There are two sizes to print those above;  4 dots (small) or, the larger 8 dots lego gift box.

I'll be downloading a lot and I'm sure you will be too.

Grab your free printable at lines across here

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Number 15 - What's Inside Today?

get these free printable Thank You cards here

.....and these not-just-great-for-saying-thank-you-but-so-much-more monogrammed cards here. 

p-p-p-p-pick up this free printable here

and these cheeky looking elves are a wonderful festive Thanks you can print free here

Thank you cards are perhaps the most important activity post Christmas, we're usually quite good at getting them out simply because I've learnt that if its a fun thing to do the children will enjoy writing them as well sticking on the stamps. 

These free printable thank you cards are sure to help inspire the children to say a big thank you. The hardest thing you'll have to do is to remember in the frenzy of Christmas morning who those beautiful gifts were from!

Alternatively have some fun making your own personailsed thank you cards with some guidance from Capturing Childhood here who'll show you how to make saying thank you fun as personal as saying it face to face. We've not done this before but I've bookmarked this page to have a go ourselves this year and knowing what some of the gifts are I know this will be an hilarious afternoon spent having fun and saying a big thank you to all our friends and family.

Saying Thank You should be easy and fun and free

xx

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Number 14 - What's Inside Today?

In the countdown to Christmas we've been bringing you  a new offer, treat or surprise each day. Today is the 14th day of advent and here's our gift to you:

We're giving you all 20% OFF everything in our GIFTS selection, with designers such as Rice DK, Belle & Boo, Angels Face petti skirts, Maileg, En Gry & Sif, Kidsonroof, love mae, Lucky Boy Sunday, kiko+ & gg* and many more there are fabulous gifts galore and something for everyone.

Forget the highstreet, make a cup of cocoa, put your feet up and let us make it easier.

Shop the selection now

enter code 'SPLENDID' at checkout to receive your 20% discount.

offer ends 17th December 2012

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Number 13 - What's Inside Today?

Children love to watch things grow.  Fascinated in the changes they have made happen when a seed they have planted grows it's first shoot, each day growing a little taller and slowly blossoming into something beautiful. This time of year is perfect for planting Hyacinth bulbs and when placed in Hyacinth vases like these here, you can watch their roots grow and the bulb open up to reveal first it's leaves until one day it's beautifully scented flower appears. As though by magic this flower grown from in inconspicuous brown nut like ball.

pic via here

These beautifully illustrated notebook covers are perfect for creating books for the little budding gardener, the explorer, the blossoming botanist. They can fill the pages with notes and drawings of the discoveries around them.
You can create a little garden space for them, it needn't be big, even an egg carton with cress seeds is wonderful to watch grow.
I'm planning on taking these books on winter walks and as we walk the same path every day we can note down the changes we spy as Winter turns to Spring.

What a perfect gift for curious minds.

get your free printable here

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Number 12 - What's Inside Today?

This set of bookplates by lavenders blue designs would make a great teachers gift for the end of term, a gift for a book lover, and of course children, who will love to label their most treasured books as their own.

The free printable contains 16 bookplates with 8 different designs, simply print, cut out and they're ready to be personalised and gifted.

Lavenders Blue is a beautiful blog written by Becca, a teacher and designer, she also blogs with her sister over at Meat Loves Salt where together they share delicious family recipes. Becca also has an Etsy shop as well as a small collection of invitations and thank you cards here

You'll discover lots of inspiration whether its for throwing a wonderful party, crafting or cooking and I'd recommend popping along for browse around.

Click here for the printable

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All I Want For Christmas Is....

Christmas is all about the family, the big feast, or rather the endless feasts, the smell of the Christmas tree, the silly games of charades, watching it's a wonderful life, the excitement of Christmas eve and Christmas day morning discovering that Father Christmas has been. There's whole host of things I have on my wishlist of gifts (hint for hubby: anything by Lucky Boy Sunday here, this, this, this, or this)  but, the one thing I wish for most of all every year is to wake up Christmas morning and see a blanket of snow from the window.

I want to walk leaving footprints in the fresh crisp snow, feel the snow fall on my cheeks and catch snow flakes on my tongue, build a snowman, have a snowball fight and make snow angels until the cold forces me to retreat for hot chocolate....and then of course we'll be out again. Oh please please please let it snow for Christmas!

pics my own via pinterest

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Number 11 - What's Inside Today?

I love paper dolls and so do my children. They're beautiful even before they've been made and this is especially true of the vintage inspired ones by Alice Cantrell. Lucy Ann is all ready to be dressed with four outfits, two of which you can colour yourself.  

Her etsy shop is full of wonderful delights to buy and I've got my eye on a few of her art prints already. As there are lots of printables to purchase and download you can even have them in time for last minute gifts too, great for stocking fillers and advent treats or those last minute birthday gifts.

Take a look at her etsy shop here her beautiful blog a number of things here and

click here for the printable paper doll here.

Happy Crafting

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Number 10 - What's Inside Today?

It's the 10th day of advent and here's what we have for you. 

A small little makery to print, cut and play.

Have some fun at the dinner table with this printable list of 52 questions to ask your children.

You'll find some silly questions and some a little more serious but all will reveal your childs character, their heart, their fears and their fun side!

Get to know each other a little better and have lots of fun too.

Downloadable and printable document here

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Number 9 - What's Inside Today?

It's Sunday and it's the 9th day of advent, today we have some great free printable colouring pages via activity village. 

When I'm looking for some themed colouring pages, dot to dots, numbers or alphabet colourng sheets the activity village is the first place I look. There are pictures designed for every age and here are some of my favourites we've been busy colouring in already.

Click on the images above to be taken directly to the printable or here for a whole host of more pictures to choose.

Why not print off several pages stick them together and create your very own festive colouring book.

Happy colouring!

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