Christmas & diamonds

This year's Christmas season has started and in our bedroom it's all about diamonds!

copper diamond | Louise Roe

vases | feinedinge*

candle holder | Iittala

paper diamonds | Ikea

1st of December

The best time of the year starts today... Now I'm just waiting for snow and my baby!
Have a wonderful Christmas season!

copper diamonds | Louise Roe

green vase | Kähler

big glass bottle | House Doctor

copper candle holder | Tom Dixon

glass cube | Asplund

tree candle holder | Kähler

Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree!

This year's Christmas tree - a stately fir, decorated with different Christmas balls in copper, white, green and brown and a super cute tree topper, which I am particularly proud of.

In this way I want to wish you a wonderful Christmas, happy holidays and that all your wishes come true!  

paper stars, white paper balls & tree topper | House Doctor

copper paper balls & wooden stars (in window) | Ferm Living

sequins balls | H&M Home

wrapping ideas with kraft paper and self-made embellishments

Only a few more days until Christmas - high time to wrap the gifts!
This year I prefer kraft paper and different self-made embellishments for wrapping. Get inspired!

1 | For the first one I've used gold and white baker's twine and these printable gift tags.

2 | The rosemary wreath was made according to this instruction. There you'll find also a printable template for the tags.

3 | For the version with the golden ivy leaves you'll need two ivy leaves, golden spray paint and yarn (I've used this one). Paint the ivy leaves with the spray paint and fix it with the yarn on your wrapped gift.

4 | This is the most simple version. Just fix a boxwood branch with a strip of golden washi tape on your present. Simple but pretty!

5 | Fold a sheet of golden paper (ca. 30 x 10 cm) step-like and bring it in a circular form. Fix it with some glue or staples and yarn.

Merry wrapping!

red wine cake with a DIY garland cake topper

My all-time favorite, especially at Christmas time, is red wine cake. Red wine, almonds and cinnamon are the perfect ingredients for a Christmas cake. And, as the crowning, a self-made garland cake topper with shining copper stars.

red wine cake

- 100 g dark chocolate

- 250 g butter (soft)

- 150 g granulated sugar

- 1 sachet vanilla sugar

- 4 eggs (medium size)

- 250 g all-purpose flour

- 3 tsp. backing powder

- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon

- 1 tbsp. cocoa powder

- 125 ml red wine (dry)

- 100 g ground almonds

for the frosting:

- 150 g powdered sugar

- 3 tbsp. water

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grate the dark chocolate and grease a cake pan. 

For the batter beat the butter with the granulated sugar until fluffy. Then add the eggs and mix in. Mix up the flour with the backing powder, the cinnamon and the cacao powder and mix in briefly. Finally mix in the grated chocolate, the ground almonds and the red wine.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for about 60 minutes. Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn it out.

For the frosting stir the powdered sugar with water until smooth and glaze the cooled off cake with it. 

recipe found here (German)

garland cake topper

For the garland cake topper you will need two wooden skewers, copper mirror cardboard, a star punch, yarn and glue.

Punch out 8 stars and glue them pairwise together with the yarn between. Fix the ends of the yarn on the wooden skewers and stick them into the cake. Finished!


cake plate | Depot
paper balls | House Doctor
candle holder | Tom Dixon
yarn | Garn & mehr
all other craft materials | craft store

Christmas moods | III

candle holders | H. Skjalm P.

string lights | House Doctor 

vase | Ikea
bells | Lederleitner

Christmas moods | II

paper stars | House Doctor

vases | feinedinge*

paper ornaments | House Doctor

candle holders | Iittala

Advent calendar | Ferm Living

Christmas moods | I

Christmas has arrived, also in my apartment.

tree candle holders | Kähler

paper balls | House Doctor

copper candle holder I | Hay 

copper candle holder II | Tom Dixon

black candle holder | Normann Copenhagen

DIY cork trivet with a golden highlight

As christmas is not far off, here's a little DIY! It's a simple trivet made from cork balls and a leather cord. It makes the perfect underlay for hot teapots and pans. As a little highlight I added a single golden ball, which I've painted with spray paint. A perfect little christmas present which does not take too much time to make it.

You need: 15 cork balls (3 cm diameter) with a hole (in case you can't get bored cork balls, you can bore them yourself), 60 cm leather cord, gold spray paint

Start by carefully spraying one of the cork balls with the spray paint and leave to dry. After drying string the cork balls onto the leather cord and tie the ends firmly with a double knot. Finished!