Feeling grey

When you read that title did you think, 'oh dear, is she feeling down'? Well, quite the opposite actually. This post is all about the colour Grey. I love grey.

Some people think grey is drab and borring - but i love the colour.

Here is why:

Pictures from we heart it and my own 

One of the cutest animals ever is grey:

And the most beautiful car ever, in my opinion, looks fab in grey:

Photos always look fabulous:

Mmmmm Bradley Cooper in Grey: 

Cute:

Bedrooms look elegant in Grey and white:

Pink goes wonderfully with grey:

I am a winter, so grey suits my skin tone. I love to wear grey:

My favourite grey things:

My lovely hot water bottle 

 Dressing table pretties

Silvers - practically a shiny grey

Two of my gorgeous grey dresses, i like to wear them with a black belt and turquoise heels

My grey mac, Audrey style

Lovely grey bags that go with any colour

My new grey cushion from Next. This has a lovely slight tinge of purple to it

We have had this clock for years. i think it was one of our first purchases when we bought our first home together. 

Keepsakes

Even books look great in grey, especially with my lovely bookmark

xx

Yum Yum!

Here is a quick yummy recipe for you:

Make a tomato sauce:

Fry a large chopped garlic clove and a pinch of dried chilli in some olive oil. Add a tin of whole plum tomatoes. Keep them whole until the sauce thickens and then mash with a fork. Add a little red wine vinegar and season:

Cook tagliatelle in salted water. Steam some spinach over the pot:

 Drain and stir in the sauce and spinach. Scatter with ricotta:

We had ours with this quick yummy starter:

Asdas chilled feta and veggie parcels, with olives and hummus.

xx

Christmas happenings

Most of my gifts are wrapped now. I have been thrifty this year and tried to use the leftovers of last years wrapping paper and cards cut up to make tags:

My little purchase from the school baazar. I left it too late to look for pine cones this year, so i was chuffed to find these at 20p a bag:

A yummy dinner, Goats cheese tart from Asda with a spinach and olive salad and onion and garlic mushrooms all washed down with my favourite tipple:

The boys playing swimming on the Wii - their little wiggling bottoms made me laugh!

The lovely Laa Laa organised two great swaps. Here is my Advent swap parcel from Blueberry heart:

I loved the festive packaging.

I recieved some handmade decorations, lovely smelly Christmas pot pourri, a tissue holder, Snowman soup which conists of hot choc, marshmallows and a candy cane, and some festive tags: Thank you Blueberry heart xx xx

Here is what i sent:

A handmade star decoration, and then: a mini Baileys, a yankee candle (after reading this was at Blueberry hearts wedding), Fluffy Christmas washing up gloves, a keep calm and carry on notebook, Snowman tissues and some other bits that i have completely forgotten!!

I have been eating a lot of Mince pies with Baileys cream, squirty cream, clotted cream ......... Well tis the season to be jolly. Anyone else get excited when the Christmas tv guide comes out??!!

There is a lovely Vintage and Handmade fair in Leigh on sea. I have sold there before and will do again next year. This time however i just visited which was lovely. I saw this gorgeous Bambi picture, which my Mum bought for me. Thanks Mum!! She suggested it goes in my downstairs loo. And i thinks shes right, it will look perfect there. I also bought a deer tree ornament and a little bowl. After we went to a nearby church baazar where i bought the boys cute knitted snowmen for only £1.50 each. Bargain!! for the amount of effort that goes into them. And won them Christmas pens and pencils in the tombola. I also stopped at a charity shop and picked up an advent calendar for next year and a gorgeous blue vase:

 Laa laas other swap is the advent one. This swap is so exciting!! pressies for every day of advent and an extra one for Christmas day. My partner is Vintage hearth

 So far i have had:

Thank you lovely, can't wait to open the rest

xx

White Christmas

Every year around this time. White Christmas has to be watched. I love this film:

After leaving the Army after W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, is the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General. 

Great Quotes:

Phil: I want you to get married. I want you to have nine children. And if you only spend five minutes a day with each kid, that's forty-five minutes, and I'd at least have time to go out and get a massage or something.  

Phil: Give me one reason, one good reason, why we should spend our last two hours in Florida looking at the sisters of Freckle-Face Haynes, the dog-faced boy.
Bob: Let's just say we're doing it for an old pal in the army.
Phil: Well, it's not good, but it's a reason. 

 Phil: It's cozier, isn't it? Boy, girl, boy, girl. 

 Judy: We're booked for the holidays.
Phil: Vermont, huh?
Judy: Oh, Vermont should be beautiful this time of year, with all that snow.
Phil: Yeah, you know something... Vermont should be beautiful this time of year, with all that snow.
Judy: That's what I just said.
Phil: We seem to be getting a little mixed up.
Judy: Maybe it's the music.
Phil: Maybe it isn't only the music. 

 Bob: Miss Haynes, if you're ever under a falling building and someone offers to pick you up and carry you to safety, don't think, don't pause, don't hesitate for a moment, just spit in his eye.
Betty: What did that mean?
Bob: It means we're going to Vermont. 

 Phil: How much is "wow"?
Bob: It's right in between, uh, "ouch" and "boing".
Phil: Wow! 

 Phil: We like to take care of our friends.
Betty: But we're practically strangers!
Phil: Uh, we like to take care of that too.
Betty: But I don't understand. Why are you doing this? I mean, what's in it for you?
Phil: Forty-five minutes all to myself. 

 Judy: [to Phil] You are not exactly Superman, but you are awfully available. 

 My favourite bits from White Christmas:

-The whole musical start up of old films

-That Bing Crosby reminds me of my late grandad

-Sisters song and the blue fluffy fans

-Judy and Bettys dressing gowns

-The waterside bar

-The snow scene on the train

-Pinetree Vermont - is that not the most gorgeous sounding place to stay at christmas?

-Sandwiches and buttermilk round the fire

-Counting your blessings:

 When I'm worried and I can't sleep
I count my blessings instead of sheep
And I fall asleep counting my blessings
When my bankroll is getting small
I think of when I had none at all
And I fall asleep counting my blessings

I think about a nursery and I picture curly heads
And one by one I count them as they slumber in their beds
If you're worried and you can't sleep
Just count your blessings instead of sheep
And you'll fall asleep counting your blessings



-When General Waverly comes in to the room and everyone starts clapping

-Opening the big doors to see snow and a horse and sleigh

-The gorgeous red christmas outfits - i so wanted one as a little girl, i had a white hand muff which i loved,

-The cute little blonde ballerina

-I'm dreaming of a white christmas



xx


Please also visit me at my other blog - todays post is 'A rather lovely weekend'

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas:

The house is almost decorated - just a few more bits to do. I loved this sign, that i got in Boscastle:

Meet Moose - stuffa:

We have two trees in our new house. The tree we have had for years is in our living room. In our old house the star used to almost touch the ceiling, but in this house there is over a 2 foot gap!! This tree is filled with bits we have had for years, like my eldest sons handprint tree we did when he was one, painted wooden decorations, and decorations from disney:

The new tree in the dining room is my tree. I was going to go out and buy new matching decorations in teal, green and purple. But when i started sorting through boxes, i found enough decorations to fill it. Now i'm really pleased. There are decorations from bloggers and my fairy is a lovely gift i recieved a few years ago from Charlotte:

I filled my late Nans cake stand with left over baubles:

I bought this traditional calendar from here in the sale last year. I love a traditional advent calendar even more than the chocolate ones. Although the Hotel Chocolat one that my Mum bought for me and my hubbie to share is pretty good :)

I saw this gorgeous coat on Love Audreys blog. It feels so right for Christmas time. I was lucky enough to get it in the sale for half price. I picked it up yesterday and also got some lovely socks:

Although the style is more me. I bought this for my husband yesterday as i love the words. Its going to hang in our bedroom. Whenever i buy him something i leave it on his pillow so he finds it when he comes home from work and gets changed.

I also treated myself to two Christmas novels. Both writers who i have read before. 

 I picked up these yesterday for my Dad, to be part of his Christmas present. I'm not even sure if he still likes them, but i remember him eating them when i was little. I love the nostalgic packaging:

I have a gorgeous big Nursery Ryhme book from my childhood. My eldest wasnt that interested in it when he was younger. But the little one likes to get it out every now and then. Aren't the pictures lovely?

 I am enjoying Christmas treats. Lots of tea, hot chocolate, mince pies, and Christmas tree shortbread:

xx