Gingerbread House

(Completely forgot to upload this post! but better late than never ;)

 

During the festive season, there are a lot of things I love to do to make me feel Christmassy!

 

One of them, is to make a gingerbread house from scratch. (It always ends up messy, but making it stand up on it's own this year was a first!)

  

 

 

I start off by making the gingerbread, which I do by using the same recipe as I did for my Halloween Biscuits.When it comes to shaping the dough, I roll it out pretty thin - about 5mm , and use a template from the internet. This Year I Used one from the Tesco Website, which you can find here. I then baked all the sides of the house in the oven for about 20 minutes at 190°. After they had cooled, I decorated them with chocolate buttons and little coloured sweets (which ended up falling off the door of the house, as I managed to drop it on the floor :( ), and I then stuck them together with icing.

 

Hope you enjoyed this post!

 

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Snowflake Nails

 

Every Year, I like to make my nails festive! I end up changing the design about 5 times throughout December, but for now I decided on snowflakes. ❄

 

 

I recently purchased, Barry M's white nail art pen, which was perfect for creating the snowflakes. And I also just used some glitter over the top to make my nails all sparkly!

 

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Winter Wonderland

Last weekend, Me and my two brothers and his girlfriend, went on a 'spur of the moment' trip up to London, to visit Winter Wonderland.

 

(I think my eyes show how excited I was)

 

Despite it being absolutely freeeezing, and not actually going on any of the rides, we had a good time just walking round, and taking in the pretty, sparkly, festiveness that is Winter Wonderland. We also had fresh doughnuts, which were amazinggg! and I think I would actually go all the way back there just to get some more.

 

I had wanted to visit it again later this month, so I could go on some of the rides, but as I'm pretty busy at the moment, and the prices of hotel's are getting more and more expensive as it gets closer to Christmas, I think I will have to wait until next year!

 

If you're in London at all before Christmas, I would definitely recommend a trip here! It's so cute and festive, and helps get you in a Christmassy mood! (It's also free if you don't go on the rides.)

 

 

Thanks for reading!

 

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YouBeauty - Advent Calender

 

A few days before December arrived, this beautiful thing appeared on my door step. 

 

 Being the excited, impatient person I am, I found it difficult waiting each day to open just one door. So by the 6th day, this had happened...

 

 

I know it's a bit late to review this product, as the start of December was a while ago now, and many people would have probably wanted it ready for the countdown. However, I really love it, so I wanted to write about it! (no harm in that, ay!)

 

Although I was hoping for some of the products to be a bit bigger (a few of them are just samples) A good amount of them are really decently sized, and you obviously get your moneys worth. It can still be purchased online here, for just £49.95, which is a great price seeing as the products are worth over £240!

I had previously looked at buying different beauty style advent calendars, but ended up deciding on this one, purely because it has a wider range of products. (Mostly skincare, but also make-up, and bath and shower products).

My favourite products include the Stila Lip glaze, the Himalayan Detox Salts, the Steamcream moisturiser and Dr. Lipp.

I would love to know peoples opinions on other advent calenders!

Thank You for reading!

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