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Two Days to Christmas

Everyone loves Christmas.  You know how much I love it.  And I have been doing all things Christmassy since 1st December.

First of all, may we never ever forget the real meaning of CHRISTmas!

The reason for the season

Dinner Parties

I have attended quite a few Christmas parties so far.  Two weeks ago I had two work parties, one within Finance, and one with the Debt Capital Markets bankers.  Followed by my annual Christmas dinner on Saturday with the girls.  I met Marketa first with the intention to shop around Marylebone (an area which I love), all decked up in lights and it was just beautiful.  We all couldn't make up our minds on the location and so I suggested my fail-proof Franco's on Jermyn Street.


That's us, missing Kine.  Franco's - my all safe option since I discovered this place

Found Mr Snowman at his dining table!
I was at a department store with Marketa.

I also took part in this year's Angel tree where we bought gifts for the elderly.
Mine says "would like to have a lap tray to eat biscuits and drink tea from".

The Home

Home wise, I was so excited I could decorate to make it Christmas-worthy, this being our first celebration at our new place.  First and foremost, starting from our fireplace.  So much potential to decorate!  I bought a garland and put some glittery candles in between.  Not forgetting a photo of us :).  And guess what - that NOEL bunting is actually a Christmas card!

Candles all round

And this is the Christmas wreath we got at Waddesdon Manor, made with real foliage.

The Tree


Even I surprised myself with this.  It would be so Bel to have a Christmas tree at home, decorated with fairy lights and all… but somehow the excitement of having one slowly faded away.  I thought of the disposal of the tree and it just felt like too much work.  Having some -ahem may I say - foresight, I bought two boxes of solar powered fairy lights a few months ago.  K and I draped them all over this real tree outside our house.  Tada!!  It became our real Christmas tree.  As real as can be!  With no hassle for disposing it afterwards!!  So proud of our grand idea!  We even went to buy some baubles and hung on it on Saturday :)

Our real Christmas tree!  As real as can be!

The Concert

On Monday night, K and I went to attend Michael Buble's concert at the O2.  Super excited at this one.  I bought 4 tickets back in April, meaning for Marketa and Rahul to join us.  It ended up Rahul had a work dinner and so they wasted one ticket.  I enjoyed the concert and was all grinning and swooning when he sang our wedding march-in song "Everything".


We were seated very high so almost impossible to zoom into Mr Buble himself.  It was a sold out show.

More to come :)

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