{First Christmas Party in Chota House}

Over the weekend I hosted my first Christmas party in the new house. It was fun to get the house decorated and amazing to see how much has been done on it since I moved in August (for early renovation pictures click here)
Below are a few pictures, and there will be more to come on renovations in the new year!

{starting the fire}

{the mantelpiece all decorated}

{finally painted stairs: remember it used to look like this!}

{crackers are opened!}

Happy Christmas!
x
L

{easter}

I hosted a little get together at my flat for Easter--it was very low key, but fun to decorate and get festive! I took inspiration from my easter pinterest board, and decided to do some not totally traditional eggs, which were super easy by simply drawing a silhouette with indelible black marker. 

{my decorated eggs}

{I baked some sugar cookies}

{a little bunny engraved on the butter}

{my profile rabbit egg with a lovely pisanki not made by me}

{and we of course had Pimm's}

{Simla posing with the easter decorations}

{someone was eager to play with the dangling eggs}

I also did a little easter egg hunt-the plan was to do it outside but it was a rainy day (our first in ages), so instead, we hunted around the flat. I made little bunny bags out of simple sandwich bags from tesco: 

1) fold bag and cut out shape from fold outwards to make the bunny ears:

2) draw bunny faces on them with black indelible marker:

 3) voilà:

{someone was very eager to play with eggs}

xo,
L

{quotable thursdays/madhatter hen}

{madness}

This past weekend, we all went mad. Well, we had a Madhatter Tea Hen Party, celebrating a friend's soon-to-be married status! It was in Filey, a little town on the Yorkshire coast. simply fun. simply mad!

 It was a really great idea for a hen party...tea pots were filled with cocktails, and it gave us the excuse to just go mad & let loose!

All 7 of us stayed in this gorgeous house: 

{went for a lovely walk in Scarborough}

{ice cream by the sea shore}

 

{table all ready with Mad hatter props}

{pin the bow tie on the Madhatter game..and Alice bunting}

{we're all a little bit mad}

Go out & enjoy your mad side;)

xo

L