Merry Christmas!

Hope you all have a lovely time with family and friends over the festive period. 

As they say, eat, drink and be merry...

Thanks for continuing to follow and read my goings on, and may I wish everyone a very happy and healthy New Year in 2012!

See you there!

(image credit - jules & tipinfold)

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Christmas things I've loved this week...

Thought I'd do a little round up of some lovely 'Christmasy' bits I've stumbled across this week.

There are soooo many gorgeous seasonal related images floating around the land of Pinterest at the moment to get everyone in the Christmas mood; lots of snow, amazing photographs, yummy recipes, decorations and pressie ideas...

See more of my 'Santa Baby' pins here.

Merry Christmas!

1. 'Tis the season to be jolly' - gather love

2. Merry Christmas tree - flickr 

(love this soooo much)

3. Paper stars - olof jakobina blogspot

4. Peace on Earth - Rifle Paper

5. A little sugar (bauble tree) - craftberrybush blogspot

6. Baubles - flickr

7. Bottlebrush christmas tree - poetichome 

(still have one of these, looking a bit worse for wear but I refuse to throw it out)

8. Vintage Santa - pinterest image 

(gotta love a bit of a retro Santa, ooh takes you back!)

9. Fa la la robins - Freya art etsy shop 

(slightly obsessed by anything Freya art does at the moment, yummy!)

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Freya Art Christmas...

I'm a massive fan of the work of Freya Art and have blogged about her etsy shop before.

She currently has some beautiful new christmas designs available in the shop so be sure to stop by have a li'l looksie...

Love love love her designs...yum!

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Oliver Jeffers...

I've always looked to childrens illustrations as a source of inspiration right from my days at University many moons ago through to today, and have admired the work of Oliver Jeffers for some time now...

So, I decided to treat myself to an early Christmas present and buy his amazing collection of books, every page is literally filled with yumminess!

My favourites have got to be 'The incredible book eating boy', 'The great paper caper' and 'Stuck'. 

(if I had to pick a top three, but all are gorgeous)

Here are just a few examples of his beautiful illustrations...

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