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Super Easy Christmas Mantelpiece Garland

2 December 20192 December 2019

One of the things I’m really grateful for in our house is the beautiful fireplace. Every year at Christmas I like to decorate the fireplace with a garland. I usually use fresh foliage, but this always ends up crispy and dry after about a day and a half as we use our fire. This year, inspired by my faux foliage wreath making workshop at OKA, I decided to create a Christmas mantelpiece garland using faux foliage, dried flowers and pampas grass. It won’t dry out, and I’ll be able to reuse it year after year!

 Christmas-Mantelpiece-Garland-with-Faux-Foliage-Tutorial-by-Life-with-Holly - Victorian Fireplace at Christmas

Greenery Foliage Christmas Door Wreath on Period Railings Front Door

Plastic-Free Christmas Wreath Tutorial

2 December 20192 December 2019

Another week, another wreath! This weekend we started to decorate the house for Christmas. I say we – Mr R helped me move the bookcase then went out to buy a part for the car, and Holly helped put the baubles on the tree the decided to do some crafts. With glitter. Eugh. I put the tree up, made a mantelpiece garland, a staircase garland and two door wreaths. Here’s my (pretty basic) plastic-free Christmas Wreath Tutorial – it’s so easy to make!

 

Greenery Foliage Christmas Door Wreath on Period Railings Front Door

Victorian Front Door with Christmas Wreath - Faux Christmas Wreath Workshop with OKA Harrogate by Life with Holly

Faux Christmas Wreath Workshop with OKA {gifted experience}

22 November 201922 November 2019

Last night I took a little road trip over to Harrogate to visit the beautiful OKA showroom on West Park for their Faux Christmas Wreath Workshop. You know I love a wreath – my house is full of them!

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Instagram post 2195622530832554906_6413025398 You know you're a parent when you are fishing around in your toilet, armed with a stick and a carrier bag, to remove the loo roll tube your child and her friend had accidentally dropped down there. Well, I say *I* was fishing around - obvs I asked Mr R. There's no way I'm putting my hand down the loo! 😂

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Instagram post 2194901301184015279_6413025398 Yesterday I learned that I am too old for bouncy castles. I've given myself a bad back from bouncing with the children 🤦‍♀️ It's OK though, because I've got a week off work! Woohoo! 🎉🎉 Hopefully I'll get time to recreate some pics like this from last year - back when we had flooring (albeit manky carpet) in the dining room. Once I've paid my huge tax bill in January 😫😫 I'll be saving for Project Parquet, and Project Hallway Panelling, and aaaaaalllllll the other things that need doing... Have a happy Monday!

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Instagram post 2194195504518928890_6413025398 Yesterday's trip to the Christmas Market ended up in the pub, as usually happens. After a few drinks I found myself booking tickets to the local indoor inflatable theme park (basically a sports hall covered in bouncy castles). So that's today's activity, being slightly hungover on bouncy castles. Just hope my pelvic floor is up to it... 😳

Have a happy Sunday!

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Instagram post 2193470982887085342_6413025398 No glitter in here! Well, there probably is, as the bloody stuff gets everywhere. Holly did a craft thing the other day where you make a snowglobe (🙄🙄) with these tiny white balls, then blow into it and it makes the snow move. She didn't fasten the top up properly, so when she blew into it the balls went everywhere and I'm still finding them in my kitchen. It also came with glittery snowflake stickers, which have left glitter all over my dining table 😠

Happy Saturdays, anyways. I've got a jolly jaunt to Bolton Abbey for a wedding delivery then I think we're off to the village Christmas Market to buy some Christmas tat we don't really need. Happy days.

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Instagram post 2192719693853050478_6413025398 I still have a Rightmove alert set up on my phone for our village, so I can see what houses are coming up for sale - even though I'm never ever moving again. Moving into this house was stressful! One of the houses that has come on the market is one that we viewed when we bought this place, and is what Mr R and I called "The Sex House" due to an unfortunate amount of "erotic" statues all over the house and a dart board on the back of one of the doors featuring a lady with a rather ample bosom who had forgotten to put a jumper on. It was certainly eye opening, viewing the house with a small child 😳😳 Luckily whoever bought it then has de-sexed the house and it's now a lovely little cottage for someone!! Worst house you ever viewed? Can you beat the Sex House?

Unrelated picture, obvs! Happy Friday! X
Instagram post 2192006349076768595_6413025398 I had a proper mum guilt moment yesterday. Hols went to the dentist and needed a tiny filling to one of her back teeth. She doesn't eat a lot of sweets and brushes her teeth well but still needed a filling. I'm mortified! Clearly watering down her fruit juice until it is only colouring the water isn't enough 😕 Bloody sugar is everywhere! She saw the good dentist too, not the one who swans in late carrying a kebab and after the appointment gives you a random load of mini toothpastes. 
Totally unrelated pic of my bedroom for #storyofmyhome and Through the Looking Glass - it's not very festive in here but maybe this weekend I'll put some decorations up. Maybe. If I can be bothered.

Have a happy Thursday!

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Instagram post 2191277852796513712_6413025398 So yesterday's shopping trip with my gran wasn't too bad - we went to the one shop she wanted to go to to find it was closed for a refurb, got a bit lost trying to drive to another one, she accused the poor shop assistant of flirting with her (poor guy!) and managed to get a tenner off, but she bought a freezer!! 🎉🎉 Happy days. 
In other news, here's my Christmas wreath that I made for free! I've scavenged bits from the village Christmas tree (with permission, obvs), some old wreaths I made from birch twigs mad have had in the shed for about 3 years and some foliage from the garden. I obvs did a blog about how I did it - link in my profile if you fancy a read (or a comment, or pinning it to Pinterest - any of that would be great thank you kindly x) It's all plastic free too - no oasis here.

Also check out my photo shop skills - you'd never know there was a house number and some ribbon there, would you? 😂

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Instagram post 2190550067199126560_6413025398 Up bright and early for the Advent calender. Woo. Also today I've got to take my grandma shopping for a freezer. I can think of eleven billion things I would rather do than take her shopping - it'll involve all afternoon even though she wants to go to one shop, and she probably won't even buy anything. She'll exasperate the shop assistants and we'll all be fed up by the end of it. Great!

Hope your day is better than mine 😂

I wrote a quick blog post on how to make the mantlepiece garland and door wreaths - link in my bio x

#storyofmyhome - Magic and Sparkle - one of the most magical things is watching Hols decorate the tree (swipe to see). I haven't even had to rearrange the baubles this year (much)
#myhousethismonth - Let there be light - swipe to see the tree lit up 😍

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Instagram post 2189827441342446854_6413025398 Deck the halls you say? I've made a start, but these early mornings are leaving me with not a lot of energy! Also there is a window of approx 32 seconds of daylight to take photos at the moment, so I'm kind of limited. We put the tree up yesterday, which meant we had to move the rickety old bookcase (see Stories - it's leg fell off 🤦‍♀️) and I went on a forage yesterday in the garden and on the lane and whipped up a couple of wreaths too. All in all a rather festive day!

Have a happy Monday!

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Instagram post 2189109890559849378_6413025398 Pinch, punch, start of the month! It's the start of Advent! It's the end of any possible hope I had for a lie in - we've been awake since 5.45am as Hols is too excited for her Advent calendar. A friend kindly gave her a Harry Potter lego one and she has an Advent village I reuse every year filled with chocolate coins. This year she helped me fill the village, so she knows what's in it, but she's still beyond excited. Mr R and I are not excited. We are hungover.

Happy Sunday! It's a day of tree trimming for us today. Hope you've got some good plans?

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