Christmas | anordinarywoman

24/12/2012

Christmas gifts

IICHRISTMAS – gifts, Christmas night, longing, joy & togetherness. Time together with my loved ones, no stress or any other demands – just tiiiiiiime. The joy of moments together – getting to sink into the comfort of your home, with the people you love. The TV or music is on in the background. The darkness that comes creeping towards the evening, lit candles, blankets & pillows & a long night of conversation & storytelling.

Christmas presents are of course a part of Christmas goodies, but not the most essential after all. It’s about being together, with time as a precious gift. To feel the joy in everything that’s great or small & above all – health. That’s my present to you – wishing you the best in health & love.

Shiny ribbon / chatelaine.com

Gold & glittery / baenk.com

Waiting for Christmas eve / seersuckerandmagnol

Wonderful image / Frenchbydesign

Simplicity / heartbeatoz

Last details / bymildred.blogspot

Inspiring / ullamaijahanninen.net

Aestethic / tinywhitedaisies

Practical / housedoctor.dk

Poetical / paigesmithdesigns

Creative / sundayinbed

Styling / google.com

Generous / mariawinckel via Pinterest

Enjoying / bobedre

Celebrating / bloomingville.com

Tagged Christmas, christmas eve, Christmas joy, diy, Gift, Gift wrapping, gifts, Holiday, home decor, presents

08/12/2012

Christmas cosiness

Christmas collection form the swedish We have some Christmas decorations at home, mostly in the kitchen & dining area. We are doing what we can to get into a christmassy spirit, despite the heat outside. It’s nice in the evening, when the darkness slowly falls. It gets pitch black outside which makes you feel switched off from the outside world. With the christmas tree, candle lights & the smell of gingerbread in the air, it feels as if Santa will knock on the door, anytime. I can’t say that we have stressed with any preparation at all. We have been busy with life, that rolls on, regardless. Jobs, schools, meetings & other everyday activities. Plus to bring order at home, after the move…nothing much really – some structure & things in order. So tonight, we have no plans, just a quiet evening with our boys – on the couch with tea, mulled wine, gingerbread, saffron buns & a Christmas movie … Christmas cosiness, simply.

Stylish with striped fabric / goodhousekeeping

Christmas collection from the Swedish fashion chain / H&M

Find your little corner / emmelines.blogspot

With small & simple means / lantliv

Nice & simple on the coffee table / stylizimo.com

Beautify the outside / skonahem

Christmas tradition / skonahem

Takes a person with flair to accomplish this feeling 🙂 / livethemma

No 1 on the must-do-list / heartbeatoz

Find the right place to decorate / skonahem

Perfect Christmas joy / heltenkelt

Nice still-life composition / anmagritt.no

White & fresh with well-chosen decor / neutraltones.tumblr

Simple decoration / heltenkelt

Wonderful mix of textiles / purplearea

Take care of your loved ones / Marie

Tagged Christmas, Christmas decoration, Christmas spirit, Christmas tree, decorations, gingerbread, home decor, mulled wine, Santa

30/11/2012

Strings of lights / 218

Christmas – the most enlightened feast during the year, don’t you think. The world should be filled with lamps in various forms as well as outdoor lighting, lightstrings, candles, lanterns, well – what else, yes I forgot the fireplace too. It creates a certain feeling, using lighting here & there … depending on which feast you are celebrating, what colors you’re using plus where & how much lighting to use. I live in a place where we have dark nights despite a lovely light from early morning to late evening…so we need some help to light up our lives. In this way, this is a great season.

I arrived home late from work one evening & thought lightning had cracking down on our street. But not at all, it was one of our neighbors who had been decorating with all the light that can be bought in the world, in his garden. They live a few houses away from us & I became completely dazzled. I drove by slowly as well as gently & when I passed, I returned into total darkness again. An amazing experience, I must say … but definetivt not an aesthetic one … but more as an unexpected thing that you do not believe can happen, if you don’t experienced it. It might be cruel to say that it wasn’t beautiful, after probably fairly hard work, but nonetheless an experience, which of course is not bad in itself 🙂

Festive with strings of light around the mirror / cherryblossom