Franny Gets Festive (part 3)

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Dress: Anthea Crawford embroidered mesh, satin, lace

Sandals: Forever New embellished vinyl

Bangles: Gift, mixed metal, beads, sparkles

Bracelet: Lovisa faux gemstones

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For the final installment of Franny Gets Festive, I'm sharing snippets from our wonderful Christmas Day celebrations with family & friends, where we exchanged gifts around the Christmas Tree, gobbled up homemade nibbles made from traditional family recipes, played games, pulled bonbons covered with pictures of Nutcrackers or Reindeer, indulged in roast turkey & vegetables for lunch... followed by Gingerbread Pudding or Trifle for dessert... & just generally relished the chance to revel in each other's company after a busy year.

For the occasion, I wore an absolutely gorgeous floral embroidered mesh midi dress with lace trim, ruffled hemline & satin slip from Aussie label Anthea Crawford (pretty much my go-to for any special event) that I had been saving for weeks for the right time, a pair of heavily embellished, rose gold metallic leather flat sandals from Forever New, a chunky Lovisa bracelet made from faux gemstones & a trio of sparkly, mixed metal bangles that a dear friend brought back for me from India a few years ago.

Scroll down to see how it all unfolded...

Ready & Waiting...

Rum Balls, Apricot Balls, Milo Balls, White Christmas, Rocky Road

Car Track Extravaganza

Lunch Table Set & Ready

Loving these gorgeous fabric crowns that I found at a little store on Etsy called EllyBellCreationsAU (oddly enough from Brisbane) that were the perfect little trinket for guests to take home & remember the celebration year after year...

Nothing better than sharing a meal with family & friends...

Always room for dessert...

You can never have enough cars...

Merry T-Rex-Mas!

In their PJs but still getting crazy with Uncle Louis... 

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Keep scrolling to see a few casual captures from a quiet, restful Boxing Day lounging around in my new-to-me antique embroidered cotton & lace nightgown, gifted to me for Christmas 2019 by my lovely parents...