I am really getting excited about Christmas this year and am thrilled to have so much of my Christmas shopping under my belt already. I have been trying to get bits and pieces throughout the course of the year to save myself the normal trauma of a pennyless January due to Christmas overspending.
Today I spent the day up at the Spirit of Christmas show at London Olympia and it really helped to get me in the Christmas spirit. The show was huge and amazing and full of the best gift shops and Christmas shops and cheese shops, which are generally my three favourite kinds of shops.
As I was lucky enough to get a free ticket and skip the ridiculous £15 admission charge, I was quids in before I had even started. Meaning that, alongside various Christmas presents, I could afford a couple of treats for us.
A new addition to our photo wall....
The show was full of people selling monograms in one form or another. Letters like these or Christmas decorations, or cushions in various initials, they were all over the place. But resisting the temptation to have L & W in every font possible, I just went with these beautiful white letters. They are so light as well which is handy as all I had were glue dots to attach them to the wall with!
And this cute wire frame wall hanging thingy, which I must try to only add pretty things to, not "to-do" lists or bills that must be paid. But my favourite shop was this one...
It was amazing, they have taken tons and tons of photograhs of buildings, flowers, lamposts, benches, railings and windows that all resemble different letters of the alphabet.
Check out their website as you can enter the name/word that you want to have created and it will randomly select the letters for you, keep clicking "create" until you find a set that you love. Or you can pick each letter one by one.
I love them so much.
I want HARRISON as a wedding present, super cute right? In fact I might just treat myself to a wedding present, brides can do that right?
So all I need know is to know if there is a way that I can set up a wedding list that I create myself that features loads of different shops? So I can add things like this to it? And other bits and pieces from lots of different websites.
There are so many different unique bits and pieces that I would like to add to a list, and a generic John Lewis set up just isn't going to cut it.
Any ideas anyone?
14 comments:
the wire frame is really cute and I love the photo alphabet idea.
Love the photo alphabets. Of course brides can buy stuff for themselves too, especially if it is something that other's may not think of!
I love the monograms!
I am excited about Christmas too....really excited about putting up my tree....I don't have any gifts bought yet!
Very cute buys my dear!
For a generic list try boxed up dot com I think?? And you can add links to all sorts of sites! I used it last year at Christmas! X
okay, everyone needs alphabet photography in their lives... how fab are those pictures?!?
You have just given me a great idea, I did alphabet photography when I was at uni and I sooooo need to dig out those pics! xx
oooooh ihave that wire heart and its so gorgeous, i think i might have to pop over to the name website though, that looks really fab!!! xxx
Excellent question about the wedding list - I've been thinking along the same lines myself. I'll have a look at Boxed Up suggested by Leanne. Great post with lush buys!
Thanks for the little visit Laura! Our big day is not until April 2011 - I loved your mini book about what you had booked so far by the way. We've nothing but venue and church booked yet so need to get a move on!
oooh such a lot of lovely things. whattogive.com allows you to create your own wedding gift list.
have fun making it! Hx
oooh such a lot of lovely things. whattogive.com allows you to create your own wedding gift list.
have fun making it! Hx
Brides can definitely treat themselves to wedding presents :) Love those photos, too!
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