25 DAYS OF BLOGGING CHRISTMAS- DAY 20 | DECEMBER 20TH- BE PERFECT, BE THE HOST

The key to the Christmas party is to put up your paper chains and all your Christmas cards the day before so as to look organised and popular. You should also make sure all your Christmas lights are on and the advent candle is lit before your guests arrive to look much more calm and ready than your house normal seems. Cheerful Christmas music should be playing quietly in the background and a cookie-scented candle should be lit to give the impression of recently baked food, even though you baked it two days ago and the cake has sunk a little bit in the middle.

Now that that is over here are the basic ways to make your house look lovely for a Christmas party (in this case it's George's birthday party but as his birthday is on the 27th they're basically the same thing...)

1. Music. Simples.

2. Paper chains. We have our fancy M&S ones up in the living room and then the childish cartoon Christmas characters ones up in the back.

 

3. Food, a given. We got busy baking the brownies and rocky road (yummy) and Mr Kipling do Christmas versions of their French Fancies which are so pretty. There is also the yule log (but there is also more to come on that one...)

4. Christmas lights- on the tree, obviously, and in the hall for a nice welcome.