CHRISTMAS DECORATION OUTSIDE

Three days ago I still had all the summer decoration on my front door terrace. We left the chalet in August and only game back now, so I wanted it to get more a winter look... Around the chalet we have one hectare of forest, so it was easy to get some branches. I was looking for a big branch to hang it up and luckily during autumn one big branch had felt down just next to the terrace almost waiting for me to pick it up. I have lots of different decorations in from previous years, so I choose few nice white and gold decoration for my big branch. The metal bell ornaments comes from Vancouver, I bought them years ago.. And found them now in my stuff that I have still in South Africa...I just added some tree branches and copper colour ribbon to fit them better with the rest of the decorations...Still need to add some lights...it is so dark all the time here...

SNOWBALLS

Few years ago I made these snow balls... They have been knitted around a polystyrene ball, complicated to explain how to do it but when I will have some free time I want to make some more, so then I will show how to make them step by step...

REINDEERS

These three silver coated reindeers are from a Finnish designer, Anu Pentik.

DECORATING THE CHALET

I have been busy for few days since I got here in Finland... The weather got colder yesterday... this morning -14 degrees Celsius... From the attic I took down all my Christmas decorations and for two days I have been preparing all kind of different decorations, easy to do...
Here some photos of the dining area in the chalet... With my angels on one shelve and the Noel (means Christmas in French) on the other one and in a large metal bowl from Ikea ,I have put three ceramic hearts with Christmas balls silver and pink colour and a heart shape led lights...

FINALLY IN FINLAND

After 3100km driven through Europe and the night on the boat we finally arrived to Turku in Finland... The day we arrived it started to snow... The days are really short so what ever I want to do at day time have to done between 9.30 -14.30 after that it will be too dark...So these two day I have been here I have been busy decorating my holiday house for Christmas... So for two weeks no travelling only Finnish Chritsmas traditions, decoration and good food and wine...