christmas tradition since 2013

December 2023

All lined up for christmas.

Annual tradition since 2013.

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.

merry christmas

Merry Christmas Eve everyone!

And a joyful Christmas to you and your family and happy holidays!

december ☆

Just like last year no Christmas tree in da house, only a few pine- and eucalyptus branches.

The eucalyptus branch is a souvenir from the hotel in Essaouira where we stayed last October. The gardener was pruning the huge eucalyptus trees on the property and I asked him if I could have one to take home with me. The guy looked rather surprised, but he thought it was funny.

I have searched everywhere in the attic for our x-mas hares family this morning, but have not been able to find them yet. Well tomorrow I will make another attempt, because it's no Christmas without our cute traditional hares around.

For now we are okay with the a little extra 'green', a paper star and lots of candles in the run-up to Christmas.

Slowly getting into the Christmas mood...

let's stay inside

In my atelier, the very first woodwoolstool, I've made in 2007 standing next to a steel vintage stool. They are both blue and dressed. The vintage bed end coverlets serve as curtains. An embroidered postcard from Marrakech in a handmade scrapwood photo frame and the disco ball popped up between the Christmas decorations. A glance in the bamboo sunburst mirror.

In the living room the Hare Family and paper Christmas stars are lined up. And although it's freezing outside, the bougainvillea in the kitchen window sill is in bloom for the umpteenth time...

happy everything

Merry Christmas Eve everyone!

The hares have been brought out again. This year they hang out under the palmtree.

No x-mas tree in the house, but a simple pine branch in a large glass bottle. Last week we found a few beautiful branches in the Veluwe woods (I swear, they were already lying on the ground)

A joyful christmas to you all and happy everything!

december decorations

And suddenly it's December and freezing cold outside.

Time for warm woolen sweaters, beanies, candles and everything that belongs to this time of year. Christmas countdown...

The utterly cute hare family also has made its appearance.
They are my traditional models on the new collection of wooden x-mas trees last week.

Are you December ready yet? Do you have your tree up?
If you want a sustainable tree that lasts for years and takes up little space, you have 6 pieces left to choose from. This is the time.



Do you fancy one?

You can order it in my Etsy shop and you will definitely have it in time for Christmas.

jubilee for a sustainable evergreen

New sustainable and unique handmade trees in the SHOP

10 years in a row, a jubilee year for the original woodwoolstool x-mas tree.
I'd rather don't mention the x-word yet, but already got some questions about the trees this weekend.

Therefore, entirely according to tradition, I've made a small collection of the eco-friendly trees for the enthusiasts.

It's never too early (and late) for an evergreen! Have a look and pick your favorite.

t r e e - t r a d i t i o n

New T R E E S in the shop!

happy ★ holidays

Slowly getting into the Christmas mood...

Happy Holidays to you all!

cold ears & christmas eagerness

December is coming. Cold ears & christmas eagerness.
My advice; do not take it all so seriously.
Last 'green' x-mas trees in the shop.

all time classic

Peeking in. There are only eight trees left in the s h o p

easter wallpaper

Dorine de Vos was preparing the Easter pop-up gallery in H E R F S T at Villa Augustus yesterday afternoon.

During Easter the HARE drawings and illustrations by Dorine de Vos will be exhibited in this gallery.

For this occasion Dorine made a very special booklet. The 'test printing sheets' were delivered in the market and I was allowed to bring some of those fantastic illustration sheets back home.

I'm sure I will frame on or more, but for now the gigantic sheets are used as Easter wallpaper! LOVE IT!

Yesterday morning during work I met the talented E m i l y C h a l m e r s when she visited the Villa Augustus marktshop. We had a lovely conversation and I proposed to give her a Watertower Tour in the afternoon. It was wonderful meeting her and family. I was honered when she told me during our walk through the gardens, she came across Villa Augustus through my blog or Instagram and she wanted to go there one day...

We enjoyed the tour & chat and I thought it was special to have this spontaneous meeting with Emily. I'm an admirer of her work and we have several books of her in our book case.

I wish you all a Happy Easter.

If you are in the neighbourhood or don't have any plans for the Easter weekend yet, I can highly recommend you to visit Gallery Herfst.

about hares

The utterly cute hare family comes to visit during holidays traditionally! (I cherish them all)

Today we've framed the original drawing made by Dorine de Vos.
The past week the Villa Augustus hares were taped to the wall too, but once framed, the illustration looks even better I think. We're very pleased with this masterpiece.
In real the colors are even more beautiful of course, but hey it's dark in December.

You can still visit gallery H E R F S T to see (and buy) her original drawings at Villa Augustus. Dorine herself is also present the coming weekends and during Christmas.

the h a r e s tree

Today's tree is a natural tree with all kind of funny H A R E S made of different materials like plastic, paper and tin.

Jumping hare on top, some golden paper hares, a hare illustiation by Dorine de Vos and a pink hare of tin plate.

This tree is already sold and on it's way to a lovely home in France, however you can find more wood & wool x-mas trees in my S H O P.