Last year myself and the other Style Treaty girls posted our Christmas wish list and on mine was an Apple Mac laptop, well Santa was obviously reading the archives coz a shiny white MacBook arrived down my chimney yesterday. (I know he was a little bit early but there were logistical reasons.) To [...]
I’m a sucker for a nice table setting, here’s one I did last year!!!!
I printed out little A5 size menus and tied silver and black wrapping ribbon (the stuff that can be curled with a scissors) around them. The candle holders are very simple glass cubes, a little bit like these
Only I paid about [...]
I’m pretty much done with the posts for the year, so I’m just going to cheat and put up pictures with a festive theme!!!
These are my precious snowglobes, the one on the left came from Edinburgh, the other two were gifts from Margaret, the white one is from Austria and is soooo pretty!! [...]
So is there someone that you just can’t buy for…..come on, everyone has someone that they find impossible to find that perfect present for???? I know making your own gifts is a bit 4th class but sometimes there is another way…..get someone else to do the making, that way the idea is yours but [...]
If you are looking for something for that friend of yours that is allergic to everything then you should check out the Nádúr website, you can buy online and they have a great selection of natural beauty products and candles.
The candles, when lit will give off a divine scent and they do not contain toxic [...]
Christmas is a time for eating, which means cooking, which (for me, at least) is one of the more enjoyable parts of the festive season. Of course, the trick is to do as much as you can in advance, keep it simple, and remember that it’s the cook’s prerogative to order take-out if that’s what [...]
I’ve read a lot of books this year. (Not that that’s different to any other year…) Some were new releases, some were older stuff. Here’s what I’d reccommend for Christmas.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Brilliant and moving story of two women married to the same man in Kabul during the Soviet invasion [...]
This was Christmas Tree chez Style Treaty 2006
You might notice that the presents under the tree are themed, I used Silver and Black last year to wrap all my presents, black and silver was big news last year, all the shops were decorated in those colours. My significant other went for the more traditional Gold [...]
23 years ago Band Aid released one of the most successful Christmas songs ever, it still makes all the compilations and we all sing along but I’m guessing we often forget the point of it. In recent years it has become easy for us to donate to charities at Christmas, Squid posted a list [...]