Last week the PR Company for Consol Glass published their very latest eBook. One such landed in my email. Well to coin one of my many favourite clichés – Oh my goodness gracious me! It is seriously loaded with a ton of very inspirational images and ideas.  Ideas that will have your heart pumping, your hands and feet itching to get going to make it your own. If you are anything like me – well – your brain will get so stimulated that it feels like information overload. They have taken from their range of Consol glass containers and presented gob-smacking images of fabulous stuff.

I love brown paper, string and glass – it makes everything look beautifully rustic and homemade. This gorgeous image was styled by Sam over at Elephantshoe paperie – they’ve got the most beautiful things in their online shop btw | http://blog.elephantshoe.com/

We could not help but to share it with our readers. In the spirit of Christmas, we have selected from the Festive Season chapter because again, if you are anything like me – still plenty to be done for Christmas.  I have to get my head around the whole Christmas gifts and décor stuff.  But, I have been inspired to use glass wherever possible. To quote Consol’s eBook – “allow the allure of glass to add style to your celebrations”.  Yip – that is what I am hoping to achieve with gifts, table décor, general décor and I might even get around to some of those tasty looking cocktails.

Fiona Rossiter of Inspired Living SA created a gorgeous Christmas cocktail party themed shoot with her Consol jars!| http://www.inspiredlivingsa.co.za/2013/12/christmas-with-consol/lifestyle/

LOVE this Christmas snack platter – such beautiful colours! Inspired Living SA | http://www.inspiredlivingsa.co.za/2013/12/christmas-with-consol/lifestyle/

The few images we are sharing here are only there to whet your appetite for more. Check out the Christmas section (Chapter 6) of Consol’s eBook: here.

But please – don’t stop at that chapter. I would highly recommend that you nip over to view the entire eBook: here

P.S. – you will notice that talented local bloggers took part in the compilation of the eBook’s inspirational images, with credit  given to them at the bottom of each page as well as at the back of the book. Sadly, you will hopefully also notice that our blog is missing (says she sobbing away)! But there is a good reason for that – at the time the invitation came, we were deep in the throes of working towards a project deadline and could not tear ourselves away from it.  BUT – stayed tuned guys and dolls, because we here at The Design Tabloid have something up our sleeve for 2014 with Consol Glass products.

Kim Gray put together these trendy contemporary Christmas cookie jars. Don’t you just love the black & white washi tape bunting and the quirky reindeer?! | http://www.kimgray.co.za/

Another clever idea from Consol – fill one of the bigger glass jars with a home “spa” fun pack | http://www.consol.co.za/irj/go/km/docs/site/glass-inspiration/index.html#/96/

Our girl Lana Kenney over at Lanalou Style styled her lovely Consol items in traditional white, black & red… LOVE the chalkboard jars! | http://lanaloustyle.com/2013/12/get-crafty-this-christmas.html

Lana also put together this natural, rustic setting – so refreshing | http://lanaloustyle.com/2013/12/get-crafty-this-christmas.html