Splendid

This lovely grey sunday morn has suddenly become bright with the light of our dear sweet sassy Julia in her fab new Christmas dress. :) (sassy has been added to the list of descriptive words for miss J simply because it is true....she has some real sass at times. haha)

Yesterday i picked up some lovely dark locust beans (i think??) off the ground, beneath the empty trees of late autumn. Dark, like mahogany, and firm like wood, these are fabulous additions to the decoration pile. I really like natural decor: fruit, pinecones, twigs, etc. I suppose it refreshes me to see things that were once growing and know that after a long cold winter the spring will bring more living blooming color to our world again.

So tell me, what are the first signs of Christmas in your home????