A New Year....2014

Happy New Year cupcakes from Paper Scissors Cake....

Gold balloons for midnight...

New Years Cake...

Celebrate...Happy New Year!

C'est Noel...

Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance.  It may weave a spell of nostalgia.  Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.  ~Augusta E. Rundel

Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.
~Christina Rossetti

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays...wishing all peace & joy!

the beauty of a white Christmas...C'est Noel!

Christmas Eve is a week away...hopefully we are all gathered, decorated, baked, wrapped and ready to enjoy this magical season! I love the tradition of red & green at the Holidays, in the last few years I have fallen in love with an "all things white" Christmas. I love paperwhites, an all white dining table and white roses with pine, I have it in almost every room, the contrast of the fragile beauty of the rose with the strength of fragrant pine is one of my fave combination & smells wonderful! Sharing with you my fave white Christmas ideas...

beautiful greenery with candles from Fern Creek Cottage

Christmas whites at Rue 27 Maison...

fabulous setting from marleyandlockyer

love this charming holiday table...from vintagemorrhar

white on white from Craftberry...

Always beautiful white paperwhites wrapped in burlap & tied with a ribbon...

Rue 27 Maison

                                                                
Cheers & peace to all!                                        

the magic of the season....C'est Noel

Greetings...can you believe Christmas is less than two weeks away...the most magical time of year! Sharing with you what makes Christmas magical to me...besides gathering with family, friends & celebrating this Holy season, all the holiday details, which have the stage once a year, reminds me of Christmas's joys & magical past....

French farmhouse etoiles garland from bourbondaisy...

 

the most wonderful time of year..C'est Noël

 

C'est Noël....the holiday season is upon us...Christmas wreaths are hung...trees are decorated...joyous celebrating with family & friends...C'est noël...the most wonderful time of year, a beautiful & holy season! Sharing Rue 27 Maison's, all things Christmas...

boxwood wreaths, rosemary, lights & poinsettia in the courtyard...

angelic faces keeping watch...

candles everywhere...

Christmas sweets for our holiday fete...

French macaroons served in an English tea caddy & madelines....

and always Southern divinity, a holiday tradition...

Christmas brunch table...

stockings with holiday greens adorn the chairs...

Wishing all...peace on earth & good will...Cheers!