Getting dark

Hello how are you today? As it slowly gets darker in the winter I am getting a cold, so i am here in my bed with some tissues and doctor who. As it gets darker I am slowly wrapping up warm, slowly closing my curtains earlier and earlier and going to bed. But I have spent the summer being blasted with heat so today I opened my curtains and saw the beauty of an early dusk. Te way everything is dark except the glow of my fairylights. Slowly I am remebering that this is my favorite time of the day.

 I would call it sunset of twilight or whatever the term is but it is my favorite. It is dark but not too dark. The sky turns a beautiful colour ( you cannot see on the photo but it is a brilliant orange and blue colour )

But all in all this time is beautiful and it happens once a day everyday. I guess the message is to treasure the small things and just because it is dark and cold it can be beautiful

A little deep

Heather

93 days

Christmas Facts!

So I just read this meme with a weird Christmas fact and I was all like

Hey

Why don't make a post about it so here goes nothing!

10 Christmas facts!

Norwegian scientists hypothesized that Rudolph's nose is probably the result of a parasitic infection of his respiratory system (He has a boo boo in his lungs).

The Germans made the first fake Christmas tree out of dyed goose feathers.

The world’s largest Christmas stocking measured 106 feet and 9 inches (32.56 m) long and 49 feet and 1 inch (14.97 m) wide. It weighed as much as five reindeer and held almost 1,000 presents. It was made by the Children’s Society in London on December 14, 2007.

Santa Claus originated from a newspaper ad.

The "12 Days of Christmas" costs around 1.3 million dollars.

Santa didn't always have a beard.

Santa has an actual zip-code. It's organised by a Canadian postal service. And the code is of course H0H 0H0.

'Jingle Bells' was written for Thanks giving not Christmas.

Candy canes used to be pure white. That's weird in my book.

Iceland has 13 santas, including one that kidnaps children...

Thanks for joining in today! 

I hope you enjoyed this post, and did you learn anything new?

Maybe leave a comment about it?

Hint Hint.

94 days!

- Lena

Pizza buns diy

Hiya :) So a while ago i made Pizza buns and I took photos and I thought I would post about them today as I love to bake around Christmas time and also these are perfect little treats for gatherings ( Although it is acceptable to eat them all yourself )

What you will need

A ml jug

Yeast 1 pack
Bread flour - 500g with extra for dusting

A sift, 

large mixing bowl 

scales (in grams)

Bun tray

Circle cutter

Rolling pin

Tomato sauce

Cheese

Additional toppings

The steps

1. So now you weigh 500 g of your bread flour into your bowl. Then add your yeast. To add flavor add a little salt and sugar. Also pre heat your oven to 180 degrees

2.Now gradually add 200ml of water and stir. When our mixture starts to clump together place a little but of flour on a clean surface and then your dough.


3.then knead the dough for about 10 mins. after that leave your dough to prove for 20-30 mins with cling film on top

4.when it has proved oil a bun tray put your dough on a surface and roll out

 5.the cut them into circles using a circle cutter. Then place them on top of the bun tin and press them in.

6.Now use pizza sauce, tomato puree and place a teaspoon full into the dough circles

7.now add CHEESE!

Okay there were loads more images but I could not move them and it go too much for me :/

Happy pizzas

95 Days

Heather

5 Winter Must Dos

Winters can be a really sucky season is you're a sweltering summer person, and not a freezing-don't-go-outside winter person like me. However, there is one thing that most people will agree on with me, is that feeling warm and calm in winter can be the best thing ever. I am like 100% with that and yet even I struggle with it sometimes (I mean with all the food around what else are you supposed to do). So, what I am about to do, is talk you through my 5 favourite things to do.

Ummm....

Roll the tape!

Hot Drinks

Don't you just love to just kinda take a break from the fast hassle that everyday life is by sitting down in your chair and taking a sip? Well let me tell you something that will change your life forever, it's even nicer in winter.

As if you didn't know that before.

I am the 1% that doesn't like either coffee or hot chocolate so my hot drink of choice is obviously tea. The brilliant thing about drinking hot drinks is that they make you really warm and therefore comfortable (saving up in dem heating bills).

Of course, I have no experience with coffee, but out of pure knowledge I suggest drinking the least coffee you can if your purpose is to calm down.

Jumpers

Yet another way to save on dem heating bills! There is a lot to jumpers that will make winter that bit easier, especially if you get one of good quality that you could just wear all day!

They're practical, don't get sweaty and of course cuddly :3

I only realised I wore them in summer too...

(England doesn't have the best weather).

Calm Entertainment

You might laugh at me when I say this: but sometimes it's good to take a break from scrolling through your Facebook newsfeed and do something different.

Stupid right?

Well, not really. 

It's sometimes really good to take yourself away from the reality and enter the world of books, video games, tv shows or even your imagination (drawing, duh). It's all very calming, honestly, you get to settle down without having to anger over how many pointless selfies there are out there.

Take a nap

Definatley my favourite thing to do. Just pull out some blankets and nap away all your problems whilst calming down and warming up at the same time! Simples!

Warning: Napping doesn't magically do all your homework for you.

Prepare for Christmas

At one point or another you will need to do this, so why not make it into an activity and make it fun? You'll get to sit down and think about stuffs. (Which is calming by the way, I need to say either warm or calm in every single sentence in this post). I've started doing this at the beginning of Autumn so you know... I've got my seasons right...

Alright guys, I hope you enjoyed this, mainly pictures post but ya know we do post everyday so you better appreciate the work we do!

TRUTH!

And besides it took me about an hour to get the pictures themselves...

See yall in a bit!

96 days! ^.^

- Lena

Christmas Baths

Hello there :) So int the winter I like to have baths and when I have a bath I like to use a bath bomb ie a lush bath bomb. I love lush and all the things there however I do prefer the bubble bars to the bath bombs as I think they are more moisturizing and also do not stain my bath ( because after a nice bath the last thing I want to do is clean it out ). So yes technically this is Christmas Bubble bars and some of these products are not even bubble bars :/.

My favorite Christmas bath bombs and stuff

Firstly there is my favorite ever lush product   which is the Comforter. Every time I get something from lush I always get one of these too. They last about four baths ( cut it into quarters) and they moisturize your skin so nicely and I adore the scent. I honestly cannot even remember how many of these I have had but this is a firm favorite

Another Christmas favorite from last year is The bath wand (right)  had this for the whole of  December and most of January. I never knew that bath wands existed but like the comforter this one lasts a while

Also there is The Christmas eve bath bomb . I remember having my Christmas eve bath last year. I get so excited on Christmas eve and this bath bombs soothing Jasmine scent was really relaxing.

Happy christmas bathing :/ This year I am planning to buy four different bath bombs and have one every weekend in December

97 days

Heather

Obsession with Fairy Lights + How I'm decorating my room

Hello! I am writing a late post like always but YOLO!
Ugh, never again.

So fairy lights! We've already mentioned them before, and I am going to mention them in today's post.
And they'll probably be mentioned later too.
What can you do though, they have so much swag.
Ugh, never again.

Recently I got really into the whole Christmas spirit thing (hence the blog, duh) and that includes me really wanting to have my bedroom top notch for Christmas as I spend a lot of time here. And that, as you might have guessed includes fairy lights. Sooooo before I introduce you to those let me talk you through my deco ideas:

• Fairy lights as main lighting
• Christmas cards hung on a string in my window
• Those hung up with mini green and red clothes pegs
• Christmas Bedding
• Christmas Pillows on bed and in mini cosy corner (that doesn't exist)
• Christmas stickers here and there
• Decorate notice board
• Gather a large crowd of teddies
• Hang the cards on thick golden thread

That's pretty much all the ideas I had so far. You see I enjoy interior decorating but when it comes to certain things I have a mind block. Deja vu?

Onto the fairy lights!

Previously, I had only one strand of warm white fairy lights, and that recently transformed into 7 strands of different colours. And those include...

4 strands of 20 LED white warm bulbs. I plan these to go on my desk, bed headboard, chest of drawers and this chest with pillows I have.

I also have 2 multicoloured fairy lights. They're in the usual red, yellow, blue and green colours. I got these with the thought of putting them on my door frame.

Last and not least I have the blue snowflake fairy lights. They're a little shorter than I wanted them to be but I can live with it. These I wanted to go on my window in between my Christmas cards.

The plan is to put them out at some point in November or at the start of December to warm up the area a bit and I think that warm white lights make the area seem a lot more fun and warm than the ordinary light bulb so that's fantastic for decorating your space for Christmas. This is a really big other reason I an't wait for Christmas, because I love me some fairy lights. ^.^

I got all of these from Ebay, and they were all under £2 except from the snowflake lights, those were around £4. I had to scavenge some batteries from around the house which made the lights quite dim (I needed 14 batteries ok) but I bought a pack of 8 a few days ago and they did make these a lot more distinct and brighter so all in all the quality is good.

One more thing is how well these blend in especially if you have white walls like me, so in day time you can't see these.

Hope ya'll enjoyed.

See ya next time!

98 days!

~ Lena

Christmas entertainment

Hello Heather here. So in the month of December I have set myself the task of watching a Christmas movie or TV special each day, as long as the movie/TV show contains Christmas then it counts. Then each weekend I will do a roundup on the 7 movies / TV shows. Here I will post a list of all of the things I watch so you can watch them too :)

 Christmas Movies and TV shows

-1st December - Elf

-2nd December -Arthur Christmas

-3rd December - Harry potter and the philosophers stone

-4th December - Harry potter and the chamber of secrets

-5th December - Harry potter and the prisoner of Azkaban 

-6th December - Outnumbered - Broken Santa 

-7th December - Outnumbered - The sick party

-8th December- Miranda - A prefect Christmas

-9th December - Miranda - It was panning

-10th December - Harry potter and the goblet of fire

-11th December - Harry potter and the order of the phonex 

-12th December - Harry potter and the half blood prince

-13th December - Harry potter and the deathly hallows part 1

-14th December - Harry potter and the deathly hallows part two

-15th December - The nightmare before Christmas

-16th December - Home alone

-17th December- The Grinch

-18th December - A charlie brown Christmas

-19th December- A Christmas carol

-20th December- The lion the witch and the wardrobe

-21st December - Home alone 3

-22nd December - I saw mummy kissing Santa clause

-23rd December- A fairly odd Christmas

-24th December- Frozen

99 days :)

Heather

:)