A Day In The Life | Blogmas Day 23

Hello Everyone! 

So Christmas is well and truly upon us and today I thought I would share with you what I have got up to on the day before Christmas Eve. 

Me, my sister, my brother and my mom decided to brave the last minute Christmas shopping and took a trip to our local shopping centre. It wasn't too busy which was nice, and we got there just as the centre opened. I didn't really buy too much today other than what you can see in the photo above. I picked up the polar bear phone case from Primark, reduced to a pound which I thought was soo cute, and an absolute bargain! I then bought two Yankee candle tarts in 'Cranberry Ice' and 'Snow in love' for around 90p from the Yankee store. I picked the two Yankee candle samplers up from Asda for £1 each. Whilst in B&M my mom spotted these little jumpers which go on wine bottles as a little novelty item, and joked that we should buy them for the kittens, so of course we decided to pick some up. Which brings me on to my next few pictures...

So this is Thor, (not sure whether to stick with this name or not) he is the youngest of the four kittens but he is also the biggest. As soon as we got back home, the first thing I did was to put the jumper on him, and although he really did not approve of his new festive jumper ( as you can probably tell from the photos) I thought he looked very cute. Also we all couldn't help but laugh at the way he walks around when he has this jumper on as the sleeves are a little too big, so he stumbled around a lot.

After deciding to take the jumper off the kitten I decided to make myself a festive little snack , I made myself a hot chocolate in my Christmas mug ( 99p from Home Bargains) and used a candy cane to stir it which made the hot chocolate minty.  I then made one of these really cute chocolate, candy cane, heart lollipops which I saw Zoe and Alfie make in her DIY Christmas Treats video, and it turned out pretty well. 

I think it is safe to say I am well and truly shopped out and plan to spend tomorrow watching lots of films, and probably doing a bit of tidying as my room is a little bit of a mess at the moment. 

What have you got up to today?

Sarah x

Christmas Treats | Blogmas Day 19

So I have put together a little compilation of the cutest Christmas snacks which you could have a go at making yourself for a Christmas party or even for Christmas day.

These are some links to some how to videos from youtube...

DIY Holiday Treats ~ Rosanna Pansino

DIY Christmas Treats ~ VelvetGhost

DIY Holiday Treats ~ AlishaMarie

Quick and Easy DIY Christmas Treats ~ Zoella

I absolutely love all of these DIY Christmas treats as most of them are all super easy to make. I might give some of them a go and let you know how it turns out.

Be sure to let me know if you do try any of these yourself as i would love to have a nosey :)

Sarah x

Christmas Cupcakes | Blogmas day 2

Hello Everyone!

So today I thought that I would do something simple yet super Christmassy - Christmas baking/cake decorating!  

On Saturday, my little brother and I decided that we wanted to make some cupcakes and I just thought I would share them with you. If you don't know already the ingredients you will need to make 12 cupcakes are:

110g of butter

110g of caster sugar

110g of self raising flour

2 medium sized eggs

We chose to make butter cream to decorate our cakes and then used various Christmas decorations to make them look really cute. We used green food colouring for the butter cream and also topped some with melted chocolate to make them look like a Christmas pudding. I was actually quite impressed and proud of the outcome of these cakes, which I know isn't much of an achievement but its a big step up from some of my other decorative attempts. I also think that these designs would look really cool on cake pops but I didn't have the moulds to make them so I had to settle for normal cupcakes.

Be sure to check back tomorrow for Blogmas Day 3!

Sarah x