Perfect Christmas Programme

If you remember my crazy fan post from last year you will know that I love Kirstie Allsopp and you might remember how much I loved her Christmas programme too! Well she has joined forces with her usual partner in crime from the property programmes for this year's Christmas show. Apologies now for the very picture heavy post but I just cannot resist sharing with you everything I loved, beginning with the title shots below.

This year there are four episodes, each night this week, focusing on a particular theme; last night's was a children's Christmas party. As well as preparing for this, Kirstie tested out sledges in Lapland with elves and Phil made his own jigsaws.

Sixty second craft slots were used to show you how to make cute marzipan penguins, a snowman pinata and paper doily dollies for the tree.

For the food they went all out crazy (probably a little over the top for an actual children's party but very pretty to look at!) Kirstie made jelly using a sandcastle bucket as a mould.

They both had a go at decorating the most exquisite little cakes.

I adored this amazing bauble cake that looked just too perfect to eat, don't you agree?

Phil championed ice-cream snowballs covered in white chocolate and then anything from coconut to edible glitter!

Finally they used a location house to stage the party and decorated it for the season. Even though this was a children's party I think they didn't decorate cheesy or tacky but tastefully, what do you think?

They turned the plain kitchen into this:

I loved the show, it was different to last year but just as good. Tonight's theme is a guide to throwing an adult cocktail party and the preview, which showed them making their own chocolates, looked incredible. Do you have a favourite Christmas programme which helps give you inspiration for the festive season, do tell?

Just before I finish one more photo, I couldn't help but point out how pleased I was to see the one lady who confesses to not owning a single pair of trousers in ski ones on the slopes - couldn't imagine her trying out sledges in a dress after all!