I always wonder how early is too early to start talking about Christmas, I'd quite happily be walking around mid October with the Christmas play lists blasting on Spotify, never too early for Buble IMO. But with it now nearing December, I'm figuring pretty much everyone is at least getting a tad excited for the festive season. I feel as soon as all the festive coffee menus drop, the need to justify playing the Christmas play list in the office, lessens.
Even though there is always that one person that plays the Grinch role but secretly stashes chocolate coins in their desk - AKA the undercover buddy the elf.
VELVET. EMBELLISHMENT. RICH COLOURS.
The jacket here was probably the 10/10 piece, the angel on top of the tree, the last mince pie in the box when you thought your sister had finished them. I always find that building an outfit from one statement piece makes it a lot easier, which has always been one of my go to tips when I'm stuck for outfit ideas.
Find one, build the rest from it.
I actually styled it a little different at the event, I had THIS black top layered underneath but when I went home and started to play around with combinations a little more, I found that a plain tee contrasted so nicely with the lavish embellishment, it also opened my eyes to how I thought such a festive statement piece could only been worn for evening wear, when in fact it actually looked really cute layered with denim jeans and basic pieces.
We spent the evening learning the basics of calligraphy, PSA : it's not as easy as it looks, but oh my goodness the end result is just so damn beautiful. It really showed me how putting a little more of a spin on the decorative part of a present can make it mean so much more. Even the box you see here was hand decorated at the event, not by myself! (I wish.) But by one of the artists at the event, it's safe to say how blown away we would all be to open something like this and to be told it was all done by hand. Even though most of us probably haven't got quite the same artistic hand to be able to do what the artist did here, but just to do something a little different can make the gift mean so much more.
It reminds me of when I was in primary school, during the last few weeks before Christmas holidays we would spend every day doing (v non educational) festive things. Making paper chains, decorations, normally one or two things to give as presents and of course making our own Christmas cards which would normally feature a poorly drawn, lop sided, Christmas tree. I remember that feeling when you would go to give whatever it was you made to someone that you loved, and even if they looked it at it and couldn't tell what it was supposed to be, it would probably still be one of the favourite things they got that year because it was made by you with thought behind it.
I really adored the meaning behind the event, it opened my eyes to how special a gift can be made by small touches. I'll be trying my hand again at calligraphy when it comes to writing the tags for presents this year, even if they don't look perfect, it'll hopefully be an improvement on what I did as a child but I'm not making any promises.
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