Don't just stick to traditional Christmas decor…DIY candles provide original impact made from cherry tomatoes submerged in water with wax pellets on top with a wick through the middle…

 

Feels like Christmas has knocked on the door waaaay too early this year...perhaps because I started these in September when feeling particularly creatively frustrated after a hard day at the office...All hand made with love to decorate not only your trees and garlands, but look great as table decorations for dinner parties or they make cute little christmas presents too.

I have one box left but can make them to order if there are some you prefer over others. 

Please email me for further details.

 

 

Blakes...always a fave but it exceeds it's dark and mystical charm when Emma Jane Thommen fills the downstairs bar and restaurant with her beautiful voice...let your ears drink her up with a martini in hand every Tuesday evening before LA steals her talent away from our shores in January!!

http://www.emma-janethommen.co.uk/

 

http://www.blakeshotels.com/

 

The first and loudest arguement I heard my parents have was my mother wanting to take me to the nutcracker ballet and my father protesting I was far too young and would be asleep in seconds...the result was me jumping from my mother pinching me every time my eye lids gravitated south!

The Stuttgart Ballet though is not one you need matchsticks to wedge your peepers open for.

An eccentric mix of ballet, modern dance and comedy all within short episodes- perfect for those with a shorter attention span than most (ahem)!

Some of the short stories/performances are intensely sexually charged but in a way that makes you wish your body worked as theirs does magically and electrically in sync with someone else's and the lighting throughout enhances the beauty of the dancers incredibly well.

Make a beeline for tickets when the Stuttgart is back in town- there wasnt a dry seat in the house and the air was thick with enthusiasm for this piece.

 

http://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/2013/Stuttgart-Ballet-The-Taming-of-the-Shrew-Made-in-Germany/