It seems as soon as October hits, things notch up a gear in the prep for the holidays. I know it may seem odd to be planning for Christmas so far in advance but as an interior design blogger, people start looking for inspiration for their projects as soon as the cold weather hits and as a result, magazines, retailers and designers want that content for their own platforms. So as a result of this, I’ve been pretty busy this week.
I’ll be sharing the details of all of these with you soon but just as a little sneak preview, here’s my week that was!
On Tuesday, I created a Christmas Tablescape… This is a really exciting collaboration I’ll be sharing with you on the 9th November.
On Thursday, as if I was going back and forth in a time machine, I styled up my table for Thanksgiving… I’ll be sharing this with you on the 2nd November.
And finally on Sunday, I created this DIY Christmas photo backdrop and then realised a photo backdrop with no one in front of it looks a little odd so I had to get in front of the camera for it to make sense – complete with Santa hat. Oh dear. That’ll be coming in early November as well!
On the upside, it’s been a bit of a fun and varied week and for that, I’m excited about November and for the things I’ll be sharing with you soon.
On the downside, I haven’t been able to do a single thing in the dining room! And now, the closer we actually get to Christmas, the less inclined I am to start any big projects before the New Year simply because planning for Christmas, upcoming smaller projects and the chaos that redecorating brings is not entirely condusive to ripping apart a dining room with a few weeks to go!
So apologies that the project has been put on a bit of a temporary hold but I have made changes to my initial plan and I’ll be sharing some of my thoughts with you on that soon!
Have you been doing any prep work in the run up to Christmas? Do you work in print or media or are you a blogger who’s already doing Christmas related content? Or perhaps you are like a friend of mine who already has all her presents bought?? (Yes, she puts me to complete shame!) Or are you someone who doesn’t start Christmas until it’s ya know, actually CHRISTMAS? I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Oh, man. I’m one of those people who doesn’t want to start thinking about the December holidays until at least Thanksgiving. And I’m such a perfectionist (and a Scrooge) that I hate shopping for people unless I know something they really want or unless they have a gift registry I can shop from.
I wish more of my family were into home decor because that would make gift buying much more pleasant for me! Alas …
Regarding decorating, I am so not a seasonal decorator, but I do like to do a bit of decorating for Xmas. However, I abhor putting up the tree (well, everything before the ornaments), and so does Jason, so we always procrastinate about it. Which is easy when there are no little kids in the house who are in the holiday spirit and demanding the tree be put up ASAP!
This is my first year blogging so I’m finding it very strange to be thinking about Christmas so early! It’s my favorite time of year, but in an ideal world it wouldn’t start happening until December 1st! I like to try and get presents done by the start of December (and mostly online) so that the rest of the month I can just enjoy wandering through Christmas markets and meeting friends for hot chocolate (with a shot of rum!) without worrying about having to fight the shopping crowds!
You look so cute! I’m one that loves Thanksgiving and it seems to get overlooked now…from fall/Halloween decor straight to Christmas. I love having a beautiful tree with white lights and turning off the lamps in the evening and just basking in the tree and decor. I do like to get things done early (after Thanksgiving!) and enjoy the rest of December.
xo
Pat
I’ve been quite lucky this year in that I haven’t been asked to decorate this early. Yet. I’ll be doing something in a couple of weeks, but that’s fine as it’s in November and that’s a kinda acceptable level of close to Christmas. Last year I had our entire apartment decorated before Halloween. That killed me because I had to take everything down just to put it back up again 4 weeks later.
I cannot wait to see your Thanksgiving spread in more detail (:P). Canadians celebrate their Thanksgiving in mid-October which, not to sound biased, but I think is nicer time as it’s not so close to Christmas and I like to even out celebrations. But again, I may be biased :P
OH, I can’t wait to see how you do holiday this year :) I know it will rock my world! I am struggling with the ed calendar this year, but I know it’s because of everything I am going through so I am just choosing to ignore when I am supposed to do things, it probably isn’t a good choice for the blog but the right one for me right now :)xo
So funny because I thought of this post when you were saying how ridiculous the editorial calendar is – and IT IS RIDICULOUS. I can’t believe how much Christmas stuff I’ve done and have coming up and it’s not even December *sob* xxx