Happy Holidays everyone...Had a lovely Christmas with my kids, Craig, and of course Amandine. I was stupidly busy right up until Christmas eve so I was appauld that I hadn't set anything up for the holidays. Will's is allergic to real Christmas trees so on Christmas Eve. I took one of those willow garden thingies...you know the kind that you can grow peas up and I put it in the lounge and decorated it with Pahutakawa flowers....My mum and I when I was still at home in Atlanta, used to go completely bonkers for Christmas and would have a tree decorated perfectly, all of the presents meticulously wrapped with designer paper and real ribbons (of course we had bought it all in the sales the year before). It never snowed but last year I went back home for Christmas and we got snowed in...in Georgia if you can believe it. Now I have lived in New Zealand for 10 years and I had always heard about Christmas's at the hot summery beach but thought they were a bit of a myth because the temperature in Wellington has been blustery and cold or rainy for the last 9 years but certainly not this one. What a blessing and our silly little Christmas tree with the jellyfish tree topper (a two dollarshop hair piece), looked right at home. Those flowers were part of a shoot I was doing for the Gaya Aotearoa collection. This one involved getting Emma (Craig's beautiful daughter) painted up like a Pahutakawa tree....beautiful.
I hope you have had a Christmas filled with moments that touched your heart and made you happy.
That you found time to think about all of the things that you were grateful for. I hope your next year is amazing, beautiful, soul inspiring, juicy, and succulent.
Be amazing.
Love,
Mandi Lynn
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