✨ christmas 2023 ✨

✨ Christmas 2023 ✨

december at work

December at Villa Augustus.

Every now and then Pippa & Liam come by for a visit and a 'hare' cookie.

Liam even calls me 'oma haasje' or 'oma koekje'.

Christmas decorations at work for the 17th year in a row. Time flies...

christmas tradition since 2013

December 2023

All lined up for christmas.

Annual tradition since 2013.

december decorations

December traditions. colored Christmas lights in the ginkgo tree.

The multicolored LED festival lights we once bought from Habitat have lasted for many years. The bottom photos are from 2011, back then the beech hedge was still low and the trunk of the ginkgo tree was a lot thinner.

the tiny orange mini cooper

The tiny orange Mini Cooper. This weeks cool crochet project.

Pippa asked if I wanted to make a traditional Christmas sweater for Liam.

So I knitted a tiny tweed spencer and I made a crochet version of our orange Mini Cooper, which he thinks is a really cool car!

december traditions

Thursday 22nd of December

It always remains a convivial tradition, decorating the big colorful Christmas tree in the restaurant at work, also for the fifteenth time hahaha...

our tiny tree ✨

Our tiny tree ✨

This time we decorated the tree with Christmas hares of Anthropologie that we have collected over the years 🐰

The seven hares below you've have seen before and this Christmas season we have expanded our collection with new metropolitan hares from New York, London and Paris.

These hares will always remain a tradition I suspect and reappear every December.

icy cold christmas walk

Sunday 26st of December.

The traditional Christmas walk wasn't really long this year, we both had a very strong 'shall we go back to the car' feeling, because it's icy cold outside today.

Well we got some fresh air and are now going to have lunch with everything that's left from the past few days.

christmas 2020

For an extra special and surprising christmas brunch, we've set the table at 'le petit restaurant' in the living room.

Change of scenery creates a different atmosphere. The illusion of being a guest elsewhere, sitting at the table somewhere else, anywhere other than the kitchen table. Using different tableware, that we have not used for a long time.

Try to think positively and creatively despite all the restrictions. A lot is still possible and it felt extra festive to have breakfast at home this morning.

Happy Holidays to you all!