Ab Fab Christmas.

Christmas Eve completely wore me out.  I had been working up until Friday evening which left me with so much to do, I decided that as much as I love Christmas, I actually hate the day before and turned into some moaning old witch, in fact I am still moaning about it now!

Xmas Eve started off with an early trip to the Salon for the Christmas blow-dry followed by some last minute shopping in town which saw me arrive home at 11.30am with all the food preparation, housework, beds to be made up for my eldest daughter and her boyfriend who were staying over and last minute wrapping of the stocking filler bits I had bought earlier in the day and as I flopped exhausted into bed at almost midnight, I felt so tired that I honestly thought I wouldn't wake up until Boxing Day and would miss out on all the fun but of course that wasn't going to happen, after all, who would cook the dinner and pick up all the mess from the sitting room floor?

Time to start opening the pressies with young man and daughters 3 and 1.

Young Man was just a little excited as he unwrapped his ipad.....

and Albert seemed pleased with his Reindeer ears.

Our traditional Christmas breakfast of Cream Cheese and Smoked Salmon Bagels (Bagels from Kossof's in Middlesex St, London - don't give me those shit supermarket ones!) and Bucks Fizz kept us all going until lunchtime and a few glasses of pink bubbly stuff got me through the stress of cooking an enormous lunch with all the trimmings easily.....

Daughters 3 and 2 awaiting their lunch....

Young Man and Daughter 1.

Then it was time to change into something a bit more comfortable to wear off some dinner on the Wii with the Dance Fit.....

Which completely wore out Daughter 3 and the Pug by the looks of it!

This Christmas seemed to be all about the "onesie" and Claudia found her's very comfortable as she snoozed on the sofa and eldest daughter's boyfriend looked a treat in his "Tigger" one but I didn't get a photo.

Luckily for me, in amongst the usual Slippers, smellies, DVD's, earrings etc I was very pleased with the new make-up I received, all bought by my three gorgeous girls, thanks kids!......

I don't wear a lot of make-up but feel I need to go for the make-up no make-up look, so asked for foundation (Jemma Kid), bronzer (Nars Laguna) and eyeshadow (Estee Lauder Surreal Skies) which I never use, along with a new Chanel mascara, Nars powder blush in Deep Throat and a Chantecaille lipstick in Geranium. I found all these pieces and more (which I still have to purchase at some point) from a make-up tutorial and I can't wait to try it all out!

The evening consisted largely of M&S party food and Poinsettia cocktails which I found on an old Nigella Lawson programme on the food channel and consists of 750ml of Cava or dry fizzy wine, 125 ml of Grand Marnier, Cointreau or Triple Sec and 500 ml of Cranberry Juice and was very festive but sadly the delightful colour of the drink got lost in my red cocktail glasses!

After eagerly awaiting the Downton Abbey Christmas Special, I then proceeded to fall asleep halfway through it but lucky OH saw me nod off and recorded it, which meant as everybody else had a lie in on Boxing Day morning, I got to catch up with Mary and Matthew and Patsy and Edie in Ab Fab!

Now all I need to do is decide what to spend my Christmas money on, which is proving far more of a dilemma than I envisaged!

Did you have a wonderful Christmas and did Santa bring you everything you wished for or do you have money burning a hole in your pocket like me?