We’ve had our first snow fall and this image of James Stewart on the set of It’s A Wonderful Life was too picture perfect (for how everything looked just a little while ago) to save for December. However, I have to say that I am not in the Christmas mood yet. In fact, I don’t understand this rush into what’s going to be next. We always plan ahead, are eager to get to the next weekend, to the next holiday, to our next goal, to the next big thing and, in doing so, we forget to live in the moment. So I am still going to ignore all the decorations around town and enjoy the last quiet days of autumn before the holidays fever kicks in. But because we all need a little beforehand inspiration and I don’t do Christmas gift guides, I thought I’d make my Notebook Pages series more Christmas oriented for the next few weeks. Also, I would like to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers!
• All I want for Christmas is books. A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in London, Ireland and New York
• A meaningful gift, like this Anne Fontaine bracelet, is all the more special.
• The kind of holiday card I would love to receive in my mail.
• On my list of films to watch in December: Oliver Twist
• For him: something cosy and elegant that you can borrow yourself.
• I’m not much of a party girl, so my outfits for the holidays will be either warm and chic or just a little more festive.
• Something special for the menu: chestnut soup.
• For more Christmas time ideas, you can visit my dedicated Pinterest board.
photo: Martha Holmes, Life & Time Pictures, not published | James Stewart on the set of It’s A Wonderful Life, 1946
That does sound like an interesting read from Angelica Huston. I can’t believe it’s nearing Christmas time already… I say the same thing every year:) Yesterday was 30degrees today it’s raining and tomorrow its going to be 17. No snow here, but still all over the place as usual:)
I am not doing anything Christmas’y yet either apart form the gift guides on the blog. I guess it has a lot of do with the fact that in Russian nobody EVER planned anything weeks (let alone months!) in advance when it came to New Year’s (we never celebrated Christmas up until recently). And I was always busy to even think of it – first it was school, and then – we had exams at Uni and those would always, always fall onto end of December (we even had them on 30 December once or twice and another few to follow on 2 Jan), So, obviously, all the prep including deco, food, tree was done a night or two before the actual celebration. And it felt right, it gave us the feeling of a special day, a holiday, the magic of it all…
Love the photo you picked for the post – here we are having such a warm weather than cherry tree outside is blossoming again!!!
xxx
Christmas has always been my favourite holiday of the year, and my enthusiasm usually starts to mount up two weeks or even earlier in advance. But that’s the part I like the most, the weeks leading to the holiday. However, as I was saying, I’m not quite there yet, plus this year there isn’t going to be any big planning or shopping frenzy and many presents, I want to keep it simple.
I can not believe it’s so warm in England. I hope you’re enjoying the beautiful weather.
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