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Use your TREASURES to add interest to your Christmas gifts, - pebbles, shells, leaves, berries, seed pods and other flotsam all add a lovely personal touch to gift wrapping.
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FRESHEN up with foliage from the garden - it brightens up the scheme and helps to bring the outdoors in. We used Chrysanthemum’ s in this display.
We’ve chosen fresh flowers for our table, a large bunch is displayed in our favourite blue enamel jug, and each guest has a large flower head in a beautiful ocean blue glass filled with water and glass crystals. Choose what is handy in your garden or ask your florist for beautiful seasonal blooms. Tea lights inside suspended glass baubles make up our hanging centrepiece, and we’ve made little ‘Message in a bottle’ place holders so everyone knows their place. This year we’ve decided to save on laundry and we’re forgoing the Christmas table cloth. I couldn’t bear to hide our Table’s lovely rustic patina, and while our children are still small I suspect they will add many more of their own little ‘decorations’ to it. I’m sure their table ‘etchings’ will become part of our Christmas breakfast conversation for years to come, especially once they grow out of ‘decorating’ it with their crayons. tickletheimagination.com.au 107