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Merry Christmas

 

Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let your heart be light. From now on, our troubles will be out of sight…..

 

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Dear all,

We want to wish you a very, happy, merry Christmas and a splendid, magical new year. May your days be Merry and Bright and may all your dreams come true. May you surround yourselves with the loveliest people. May you eat cake as if you are breathing air. May you look back at the past year, thinking about all the little wonderful moments that shaped you this year. Continue reading →

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The perfect Christmas

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas…

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Dearest,

You wake up on Christmas morning while the stars are still awake. Your eyes still filled with sleep from the wonderful dream you were dreaming. You look at your window to see if any snow has fallen. To your disappointment, you see no snowflakes on your window. The world has unfortunately not turned white over night. Not that any weather forecast predicted it, nevertheless you still had a tiny bit of hope.  But, that will not spoil your day. You go downstairs to make some tea for yourself. The whole house is quiet as no one seems to have woken up just yet. Continue reading →

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How to survive awkward Christmas dinner parties

 

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
~ W. Somerset Maugham

 

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Dear people,

We all know them the awkward (forced) family Christmas dinner parties. With family members you might not know too well or are not very fond of. For us, these night are rather uncomfortable and over the years, we came up with a few steps that help us out to make the evening a bit less awkward.  Continue reading →

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How we wrap our gifts

 

There’s nothing that says the heart racing in anticipation quite like a beautifully wrapped gift.

 

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Dear people,

Christmas is a time of giving people presents. And something we might enjoy even more than buying the presents and giving them, is the wrapping of the gifts. We always try to wrap every gift as fun and cute as possible. We tend to put a lot of effort in our wrappings, however, we do know that it can be very difficult to come up with some ideas for it. Here are the elements that we use to wrap our gifts during Christmas.  Continue reading →

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Ohh Deer stationary haul

The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.

~ George Carlin

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Dear Deers,

Recently we discovered the online store OHH DEER. And we absolutely love it!! We already love stationary, but, give it a Christmas theme and we’ll be obsessed. We bought quite a few things so here is our Ohh Deer haul. (All the products are linked) Continue reading →

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Christmas cookies recipe

 

First we’ll make snow angels for two hours, then we’ll go ice skating, then we’ll eat a whole roll of tollhouse cookie dough as fast as we can and then we’ll snuggle.
~ ELF

 

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Dear Cookie-lovers,

One of our favourite things to do during this festive time is baking. We love to bake all kinds of treats, but, we love to bake cookies the most. Here is our favourite Christmas cookies recipe. Continue reading →

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Picking a Christmas tree, a guide

 

It is not what’s under Christmas tree that matters, it is who’s around it.
~ Charlie Brown

 

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Dear people,

Picking a Christmas tree is a very hard choice every year again. There are so many key elements you have to keep in mind. You want the right size, the right freshness, the right shape. To help you out, here is a little guide to picking a Christmas tree.

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Favourite Christmas movies

 

If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around.
~ Prime Minister, Love Actually

 

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Dear sweets,

We love movies, we love Christmas, we love romance and all these elements combined create the most lovely Christmas movies. We tend to binge watch Christmas movies every december. Here is our list with our favourite Christmas films. Continue reading →

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Christmas Playlist

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Everywhere you go, take a look at the five and ten, glistening once again, with candy canes and silver lanes aglow….

 

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Dear all,

Here are our favourite songs during this festive time. We absolutely love to listen to these tunes everyday on repeat. Continue reading →

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What we love about Christmas

 

‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought ‘doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas means a little bit more!’

 

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Dear Christmas-lovers,

Christmas is our most beloved time of the year. We absolutely adore it and cannot wait until it is here again. Luckily, that will be very soon. But, something that we might love the most about Christmas is the days before. The days where you start prepping all your Christmas plans and start decorating your house. The days in which we appreciate all the things that we love about Christmas. These are the things we love most about it.  Continue reading →

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