We are big fans of Home Beautiful magazine's relaxed, pretty style, so we're very excited to feature Editor Wendy Moore today! Here she shares her own Christmas plans, along with some of her favourite images from the Christmas issue of the magazine. 

My Christmas style is: 
Simple, Australian, and easy to carry! My whole family heads to our holiday house on the Hawkesbury River, it's a logistics feat every year. Everything - gifts, food and luggage has to fit in the car, then transfer to a boat, then off and up 86 stairs to the house. My sister is a florist, and she always makes a beautiful centrepiece for the table using the Christmas bush and the natives around the house. It's always lovely.



This year I'll be buying:
Lots and lots of kids' stuff! My mother spends a day taking care of our girls, so my husband and I can do a day of secret shopping – we both love it. I guess I'll be buying Peppa Pig and Angelina Ballerina! I always have fun shopping for my three sisters though, for every gift I give them; there is always a part of me that wishes I bought another for myself!



My failsafe Christmas styling tip is:
Keep the table simple and uncluttered; the food will become your decoration. The centerpiece should be low so conversation can flow easily over it, and I like a little personal place setting. One year I collected wooden scrabble tiles, drilled a hole in them and made a simple wine glass tag with an initial for each person, we still use them now.



This Christmas I'll be serving :
To be absolutely honest, I always cook something from the Christmas issue of Home Beautiful. I often get to watch our food economist, Kerry Worner, cook it at the shoot – so I've already seen how simple it actually is. This year I'm tossing up between the Cranberry and rum fruit mince tarts and the Mango, lychee and blueberry pavlova. I don't think my budget will stretch to making the Lobster tails with tarragon, shallot and vermouth butter – not when there are more than 25 of us in total!



My Christmas playlist includes:
I just go for the classics – who can go past a bit of Bing on Christmas day? Mix in some Dean Martin, Doris Day and Ella Fitzgerald and everything is right in the world.



All I want for Christmas is:
A holiday! I want days and days with my husband and children with no plans whatsoever.



My biggest Christmas disaster was:
I remember getting a brand new fishing rod as a kid and promptly dropping it into the river within a couple of days. Never to be recovered!

After Christmas I'm planning to:
Disappear somewhere on the South Coast of NSW, finally get back on my surfboard, and make no further plans for a couple of weeks!