My favourite Birdies do Christmas

My favourite birdies from the wonderful blog Little Doodles are celebrating the 12 days of Christmas. Here are a few of my favourites so far. I hope you all had a great weekend! Hard to believe that the week before Christmas is here!

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me five golden riiiings

On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me, seven birds a slimming

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, six birds crocheting

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, eight birds a milking

Top o Tree

We will be setting up our Christmas tree in the next couple of days and I realized that we don't have anything for the top of the tree. I thought of making an owl or critter for the top but I think I will go with an Angel. I took a photo of this guy in Homesense a couple of weeks ago and I think that I am going to use him as inspiration for the angel.

I will have a few posts next week but I am going to be wrapping things up [haha] here at Half Sweet for a couple of weeks to enjoy the holidays with family and friends. The new year will see Half Sweet get a make over which I am very excited to share. Happy Friday!!

Holly Jolly

A couple snaps of our exterior decorations. We were very lucky to have been left a beautiful holly bush in our back yard so although the garland is fake I think that the real twigs of holly nestled in with some pinecones make it feel quite real. We are adding some nice white lights tonight!

Even Princesses Goof Around

I hope you had a great weekend! Ours was one of those weekends that was jam packed but still felt relaxing. I came across this print and couldn't help but laugh. Great for a chilly Monday morning. Found here.

Whooo! It's Friday

This little guy has been a big inspiration for a few of my projects. I also just love everything about the photograph. Happy Friday everyone. I hope you have a fabulous weekend.

Inspired by The Paper Wall

While my crafting projects are in full swing I realized that I can't share what I am working on as it will ruin the surprise for certain recipients. I will do a recap of my creations after Christmas but in the meantime I thought I'd share some shots of a few things that really inspired me this year. These are snippets from the paper wall at Deserres Art Store. Some of the paper is frame-worthy! I was inspired by the homemade/hand stamped feel of a few of the designs.

In the Bag

If you are a reader of Half Sweet you know that I love sneak peaks into design processes. This is a great one from J.Crews blog [Their blog is fantastic!]. A look at how their 2011 holiday shopping bags were designed.

A Must Read

From winter storm tips to drool worthy cranberry themed recipes, the new issue of East Coast Living Magazine is full of great winter themed articles. I had the opportunity to work with the wonderful ECL team on a festive table setting story that appears in this issue!

Enjoying a cup of Kicking Horse and the latest issue of ECL magazine in Mahone Bay.

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas

It was a great weekend [aside from a stubborn plumbing problem]. Lots of crafting, running and time spent with good friends. A highlight was spending Saturday in one of my favourite places, Mahone Bay, with my Mom and Grandmother. The town was bustling with Christmas spirit as the Annual Father Christmas Festival was taking place. Between the shops that were decorated to perfection and the Enchanted Villages in the beautiful old Suttles and Seawinds barn, I was totally inspiring and wanted to rush home and decorate the whole house from top to bottom. Before heading home we refuelled with delicious soup and scones at The Biscuit Eater. In all the years I have been going to Mahone Bay I can't believe I had never been there. It has officially been added to the "must stops" on all trips there in the future. I hope you all had a great week as well!

Soup at the Biscuit Eater, A woodland fairy themed enchanted village, Beautiful display at Zack & Nemo's,
The whole town was decorated!

Masters of the Window Display

I have been wondering what Anthropologie would be creating for their Holiday window displays and they shared a few photos just the other day. Gorgeous and clever as usual.