Christmas Countdown – Project 85

In 2011 I was excited to finally host a Christmas in July celebration, it had been something I had wanted to do for a long time!

Each adult guest was required to bring one small gift of less than $20 for their designated recipient.  The gifts were all fantastic.  The Secret Santa was deliberately drawn so that couples would not get each other.   I guess without the typical December frenzy there was more time to get creative and find something particularly meaningful to each recipient.  I organised for each child to receive a wheat/rice heat pack, they loved them!

I didn’t want to spend a lot of money to decorate the table, but I did want it to be nice and festive.  I gathered a lot of twigs and pine cones from our area and went crazy with some gold spray paint.  I then happened upon these great vases from Crazy Clarks for $4 each…

As I was scrounging around the house I found a couple of green candles which matched my colour scheme, so I incorporated them with the pine cones and an additional centre piece…Each place setting…

I made these Fruit Mince Tarts (and left them near my Dad);