Hello my festive creatures,

How are you all? Good I hope. I myself am rather well and am enjoying my Christmas break.

Today I went ice skating with my brother and his girlfriend which was both terrifying and brilliant. This evening I'm either going to watch a Christmas film or have a Lush bath, but either way there will be festive booze being consumed.

Last time we spoke I did a little Autumn post, nothing special, but in keeping with that I thought I'd share my top five things I love about Christmas. I also am hoping to do a Lush product post soon as I'm coming to the end of some of my bottles and want to give them a little review! Anyway, stay pealed for that.


Top 5 things I love about Christmas

Food - I love food. And Christmas is the BEST time to forget our useless diets and binge and enjoy the flavours and scents.

Shopping - I absolutely love buying people presents. I get really organised and make lists and spreadsheets (which I enjoy doing also, lame I know). I adore seeing the look on people's faces when they open their gifts. I work really hard to get unique and thoughtful gifts so I love watching others open them.

Family - I am blessed to have such an incredible, loving and supportive family who get on really well. We have such a laugh and I really don't know where I'd be without my family- they are my rocks! So at Christmas I love getting to spend as much quality family time as possible, including cuddling my gorgeous golden retriever, Marvel. I also can't wait for me and my boyfriend to get our own place so we can finally spend Christmas together.

Christmas traditions - I think everyone has their own, but we enjoy watching Christmas films each year. The list keeps getting longer though which means more organisation is needed each year to arrange when we are all available to watch them! Our all time favourites are Home Alone 1 & 2 and Muppet Christmas Carol. But other favourites include Love Actually and Nativity! and who could forget Elf.

Kindness - I know we forget about this sometimes and unfortunately we see plenty of UNkindness throughout the year and around Christmas. I think it is easy to forget about those less fortunate and others around us when we are so caught up in our own worlds and buying presents for our own families. But I truly believe that Christmas should be a time for kindness and forgiveness. Some people don't have families, or money, or even a home, and if we all share a bit of kindness, even just a warm hello, or a thank you, you could make someones day. Kindness goes a long way, and I like thinking about it at this time of year because it makes me realise how lucky I am and how grateful I should be for what I have. But it makes me realise how much I want to be able to help others.

So what are you top 5 things about Christmas that you love?

Let me know in the comments!

I hope you all have a marvellous Christmas and a happy New Year!!

Speak soon

IT'S CHRISTMASSSSSSSS! *SCREAMS WITH EXCITEMENT!*

Hello my lovelies!

Just a quick, festive post to wish you all a Merry Christmas.
 I don't expect anyone to be reading this today, I expect you all to, hopefully,

be with your friends and family eating a lovely bit of turkey and being merry. But for anyone who is reading this, or is reading it after Christmas, I just want you to know, that I am thinking of you all and of how thankful I am to have all the lovely support from you, my readers!

So I hope you have the best Christmas, and I wish you all well and luck for the future! I hope this blog continues to bring you joy. There will be of course some posts before the new year, so please stay tuned for them!

Much love

Hello my festive friends! Today I have an awesome recipe for you. Now it's not one of my own but it is one that myself and my dad have followed this year, and honestly it creates such yumminess! I got the recipe from All Recipes. I'll post the recipe here too, but please follow the link to the website for more recipes. I love this site and use it a lot!

Ingredients

• 110g (4 oz) butter
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons golden syrup
• 4 teaspoons cocoa
• 225g (8 oz) Rich Tea biscuits, crushed
• 1 handful of raisins
• 225g (8 oz) cooking chocolate - half milk & half dark

This is the easiest thing to make and taste super! So if you're looking for a quick and easy recipe for Christmas, this Tiffin will do the trick!

Method

1. In a saucepan, melt the butter, sugar, syrup and cocoa. Add the biscuits and raisins when melted. Stir to combine.
2. Pour mixture into a Swiss roll size tin and press down. Melt the cooking chocolate and pour over the mixture in the tin.
3. Pop the tin into the fridge and leave for about 1 hour to set. To serve, cut into about 20 pieces.

 I hope you enjoyed this recipe! Let me know if you use it and how it went!

Speak soon
 and MERRY CHRISTMAS!
 

Hello my lovelies, as you can probably tell by the title of this piece, I recently hit 30,000 views on this blog. To some it may not seem much but to others it is a lot, and it is the constant care and support from my followers that have helped me reach it.
         I could have reached that target a long time ago had it not been for moving back to uni and having to focus on my dissertation, but nevertheless I reached it! So a huge thank you to every single one of you.
         Also, once again thank you for all the lovely comments, tweets and likes on social media and on here - they are always read and always appreciated. So I won't ramble on too much, but I do have some beauty posts coming up and some baking posts - yum! Of course it's getting nearer to Christmas now so I'm hoping to do a few Christmas segments!
        For now, here are the top 5 things I look forward to at Christmas: