Fellatio's Poncetastic Christmas Thread 2011 is.....

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open for business. Knock yerselves out.

Definitely true, Squitch, goes for NotOnTheHighStreet as well. I drooled over some poncey Scandinavian candle holder tealighty things last year....£9.99 on NOTHS, 99p for one and £1.24 for the other from ebay!

I want to get this for my DD (she loves stones)

Cox and Cox

Notonthehighstreet

Amazon

Spookily the same!

It's true sometimes, I'm afraid. For Cox and Cox and NOTHS. Although feel vindicated as my baubles and bud doodahs are all 'Exclusive to Cox and Cox'. sucker emoticon

Ok Winefairy I'd say we had evened out with those two then!

I am actually beyond excited at all this mail order stuff. I've not been able to justify it for the past 8 years as the delivery costs to Spain were crazy if they did deliver here. But.....now we'll be back, I can play play play

Greetings fellow Christmas-a-holics.
A quick plea. PLEASE don't mention any lovely things you are making or doing without a weblink. I am literally sitting here in panting anticipation reading about some of the stuff you guys are making or doing, and I can hardly google for myself as I am too excited.
Crocheted snowflake wreath things?
Pickled plums with star anise?
Plum liquor?
Above all, a COX and COX DISCOUNT CODE?

For the love of god and all things festive, please share links / info.

I have created a (so far empty) board on Pinterest and called it Poncetastic so we can add any thing we like to fill up the board and use it as a frame of reference for all this lovely stuff on the thread. My Pinterest name is Anna Louise - If you need a Pinterest invitation PM me and ill send you one. in the mean time i shall attempt to stock the board.

I'm on pinterest too if anyone wants a gander

pinterest.com/squitch/christmas/

Im already following you, you Pinterest Queen, Now I'm going to repin all your lovely things on my Poncetastic board :O

this is all very intriguiing -I've never made stuff for Christmas before but you're making it sound feasible!

What could I do with a load of damsons I've just foraged? Damson gin or something? any good ideas gratefully received

Damson Gin - absobloodylutely. Divine stuff.

Ooooo a keep up with my pinning challenge! I am a pinning whore :(

I've only discovered it recently, its like window shopping on speed!

Alouise, thanks v much for the pinterest invite. I have cracked on and already repinned a few of your bits (and LOADS of squitch's!). Am v excited about how poncey I am going to be this Christmas! Limoncello is the first thing on the list.....

Ha ha it is like that! And weirdly, before this thread I had NO followers - I have properly pimped myself out this year!

Right back to poncyness - do people dress for Christmas. I always buy DD something new and party dressy and I usually put something reasonable on, but I'm thinking that this year I might go all out and actually get 'dressed up' (not as a pirate or anything). Will just have to persuade DP

Lots of outfits! Glamorous pjs for Christmas morning followed by a pre prandial frock and make up. Boxing day needs a proper country walking outfit for the Barrell Hunt followed by more frockage for more lunch.

I have teenage ds' - therefore zero control over their outfits.

What is the Barrell Hunt? I have just requested an invite on Pinterest. I'm not sure what that means exactly - will they just email me with details of how to sign up? I can see that site could get addictive.

I wear a frock for the one and only time in the whole year for Christmas Day.

What is this pinterest thingy?

Oh my.

Hello can I join?

I am dreadfully behind with everything this year (except a few Xmas presents which I have secured), but I think I qualify as a true ponce because:
1 - homemade pud, pies, shortbread and Xmas cake which everyone in my Italian family HAVE to eat

2 - Homemade decorations with some careful additions from Austrian Xmas markets which are only about 1 hr drive-away from here.
3 - 7 course meal on xmas day, including an orange and cardamom aperitif decorated with edible golden stars (gold being part of our colour scheme)
4 - Cheeseboard for boxing day is carefully discussed and agreed with owner of local fromagerie and enhanced with local chestnut/lavender honeys, homemade flatbreads and walnut and parmesan biscuits which are to die for (great with red onion chutney too).

The crochet snowflake pattern is here Rnbsmums posted them last year and they are the first thing I have ever been able to crochet, the instructions are very clear.

As for the wreath, that is from a simply knitting pattern, but I will try to get a picture put up and if anyone is interested I could possible type out the instructions and pm them?

The Barrel Hunt is a village idiot version of the proper boxing day hunt. All us village idiots locals meet at the pub with dogs, kids and hangers on. We have a swift mulled wine then head off into the woods where the landlord has hidden a barrel (is it barrel or barrell?). We then roll it back to the pub where people carry on drinking. At this point I form a breakaway party to my house for winter cocktails lunch.

Most wonderfully poncetastic thread.
Last year my friend had some threaded cranberries on string and wire, but they were hard, not fresh. Does anyone know how to do this? She thinks the cranberries were varnished or something to preserve them and dried? But they looked whole, not like dried wrinkled cranberries. Any clues. They were very wonderful and poncey.

Minervaitalica Seven courses!

Minerva- IMHO that all sounds supremely poncey!! Cheeseboard AMAZING. But for a full ponce-tastic rating, you will have to wait for FN's verdict (I'm not qualified to judge really).

Hello, I'm hoping to pop my poncey Christmas cherry and am getting lots of ideas here. Am particularly taken with the Xmas pud vodka. Can someone please post their recipe?