Christmas decorations (mittens & star £2.00 each) - Sainsbury's |
As promised, here is my Blogmas week 1 :-) Since December 1st 2013, I have been a busy bee! I've been shopping numerous times.. (for Christmas presents and myself), I've written a 5000 odd word assignment, which I still need to upgrade and I've been working a lot too! Ugh, that's all I seem to do :( Hopefully I'll be able to relax slightly over Christmas and New Year, in between working (obviously)..
Anyway back to the point, in the last week Matt and I have decided to get into the festive spirit and wrap presents, put the tree's up and buy baking ingredients! We may have gone a bit over board on the cake decorations but hey ho, it is Christmas right? :-) More on this in a future blog, so keep you eyes pealed ;-)
We bought some little red and gold baubles to go on our own miniature Christmas tree, we even bought some battery powered fairy lights from Primark for it! At £1.50 we couldn't say no.. :-)
My ancient advent calender that I have literally had for my whole life, I found it tucked away in a box in the garage :-) There isn't actually anything in the little pouches (at the moment) but I'm hoping Matt someone will magically fill them, without me knowing.. ;-)
These cute stockings were only 50p from Tesco, so I bought one for each of us :-) They are only stuck on with blue-tac as I couldn't find Matt's hammer and nails, so that will be his job tomorrow morning haha..
This is our finished Christmas tree! For the first time in about 10 years we decided to buy a real one rather than use our 429 year old fake one, hoping it would smell like the traditional Christmas tree's, to bring back memories from when I was younger. Sadly it doesn't smell as strong as they used to, unless you stick your head right in it (be careful though, as I managed to get a pine needle up my nose!)
Mmm, I really want to keep this for myself but I'm going to give it to my Aunty Vicky and her partner Steve, I hope they like it! Nothing better than proper Somerset cider with Applewood cheddar ;-)
This isn't Christmas related as such but it is what I am currently reading.. Cathy Glass is one of my all time favourite authors, her books are amazing and I never want to put them down! This one is called "Will you love me?" and it is a true story of Cathy's adopted daughter, who had a terrible childhood and went through many horrible ordeals and transitions..
On the back of the book Cathy has written a blurb to give an insight as to what the book entails.... It say's
"Lucy and I believe we were destined to be mother and daughter,; it just took us a while to find each other.
Lucy was eleven when she came to me. I desperately wish it could have been sooner. It breaks my heart when I think of what happened to her, as I'm sure it will break yours."
It truly is an amazing book, I recommend ALL of the books by Cathy Glass. There are reasonably priced on Amazon so do go check it out!
That's about it for my Blogmas for this week, I will hopefully do week 2 the beginning of next week, if all goes to plan.. :-)
Have you decorated your house all Christmassy yet?
Amy x