Snippets Of Christmas - Week Four

Happy almost New Year!

Today marks the final part of my mini Christmas series 'Snippets Of Christmas'. This has been the first ever series on my blog and i'm pleased to say it was one I came up with myself. I generally take a whole lot of pictures, but this mini project has had me taking a whole lot more, perhaps even of things I wouldn't necessarily have captured before!

This past week has been pretty darn wonderful, not just because of Christmas day, but because I finally managed to slow down, relax and enjoy myself! Early on in the week one of my closest friends came over and we had a baking session and made the edible place settings for christmas day dinner at my parents (and a Simon gingerbread too). 

Since myself and Simon became a couple around 6 and a half years ago, we have always spent Christmas Eve together having our very own little Christmas together and we continued the tradition when we moved in together. For 'Our Christmas' we got up bright and early to exchange gifts to one and other, and open those to both of us. We carried on a fairly new tradition of going to the pub for lunch with Simons family where we stayed for a good few hours before going on to the Harvester for tea!

On Christmas day we each went to our own parents for a morning of present opening and bacon barm eating before getting together again to spend the rest of Christmas Day at my parents house! My Mums Christmas dinner is absolutely huge and absolutely incredible every single year.

Boxing day to me is where Christmas ends and I begin to think about the New Year! We spent boxing day at simons parents playing with our nieces and eating more good food.

It wouldn't be a true She Andd Him blog post without Pookie now would it?

Well that is all from me and my Snippets Of Christmas. I hope you all had the most fantastic Christmas, and a big old Happy New Year to you too!

Snippets Of Christmas - Week Three

Only 4 sleeps to go!

This year feels like it has gone super fast, but this December, well it has gone super super fast in my books. Christmas is only four short sleeps away!

This week has been insanely hard and insanely awesome all at the same time. I have been really run down, and I've had a number of break downs (one of which at Tesco, no fun!) If Simon wasn't by my side, it was our fur-baby.

On Wednesday I finally began to feel like myself again, just in time for a get together with our friends! I don't usually drink, but with all the stress I decided to have a couple to relax me. It worked! We had a wonderful time.

The latter half of this week has been the awesome part! Filled with a nibbles night at our house, being treated to lunch in Garstang by Simons parents, meeting my best friends new boyfriend over lunch and a cinema trip. All in-between the madness that is getting ready for Christmas!

By the next Snippets Of Christmas Santa will have been! 

Merry Christmas :) 

Snippets of Christmas - Week Two

December week two is complete!

It has been a very hectic Christmas week once again, started wonderfully by an spur of the moment date night at the Harvester. I'll admit I was feeling a tad overwhelmed by the first week of December, it was lovely, but with pack after pack of lights failing and trying to keep Pookie out of the tree I was feeling quite defeated. So a lovely Harvester date was just what I needed to get back into the spirit of Christmas! 

This week I started helping my Dad with his Christmas shopping, it's a little tradition of ours and it's something I look forward to each year! I help him choose all of the presents he needs to get and wrap them for him too. We of course came back to our house for hot chocolate and biscuits (yummy!)

One thing I love about December is a busy calendar filled with lovely events with family and friends! One event we was especially looking forward to was catching up with my Grandad (who we haven't seen since Tenerife in February) over dinner with my parents and also my Nanna. We had a really wonderful time and it really kicked of the festivities! 

The festivities continued into the weekend as we had my Nephew come and stay with us, we saw Penguins of Madagascar at the cinema and did a spot of baking (much to his initial teenage disapproval!) 

Now to cosy up on the sofa to catch up on Strictly Come Dancing like the OAP's we are!

Goodnight :)

Snippets Of Christmas - Week One

Happy December everybody!

I've decided that this December I am going to do a little Christmas project here on the blog, each week I am going to share a few snippets from our week. As I've mentioned before I loooove Christmas, it is my favourite time of year and this project will help me to capture all of the moments throughout the festive season!

The first touches of Christmas arrived in our bedroom, I have been super excited to make our room all cosy and festive so we decorated in there first! We bought our scandinavian duvet set here. We also have a little tree on our dressing table and a musical sleigh, which I am sure I will share in future snippets!

 This week has been a typical December week, whilst Simon has been at work I have been doing lots of wrapping of presents and writing of cards. Anybody with a cat or small child around will know, these things don't get done very quickly with them around! The evenings have been extremely cold recently, which makes perfect weather to snuggle up and watch a movie, we have been watching The Santa Clause films!

The rest of our house slowly became more Christmassy as the week went along, today is Sunday and the tree is finally up! It's having slight technical difficulties, but it is up, finally. Well just about, until Pookie gets her paws on it. We rewarded ourselves with a hot chocolate at Dobbies, and later on we are looking forward to watching Hannah Maggs' weekly vlog!  

Christmas bucket list 2014

Christmas time has always been my favourite time of year, I feel like my best and happiest self around the festive season. Like the vast majority of people, there is lots and lots I would like to do and get done this December and I find the best way to do this is a bucket list!

Here's what's on our Christmas Bucket List...

Deck the Halls

Make our bedroom festively cosy

Get my Christmas on to Mr Buble

Bake lots and lots of gingerbread (yuuuuum!)

Donate

Wear glitter (Tis the season!)

Put together a hot chocolate bar

... And drink lots of it

Ice Skate

Write and deliver cards to family, friends and neighbors

Late night christmas shopping in town

Say 'yes' and get involved

Have a craft day

Make paper snowflakes

Wrap gifts

Celebrate our Christmas together on Christmas eve

Catch up with friends over scrummy food

Watch Christmas films, lots of them

Take our nephew to see Penguins of Madagascar (smile and wave)

Peep at santa (This still makes me so giddy)

Bake a biscuit tree

Go to Toysarus and have more fun than the children

Help father in law set up his Christmas villages

Make the place settings for Christmas dinner

Make festive marshmallow pops.

Halloween in the home

The clocks have now changed and Halloween is so close I can almost smell the cool air, the sweeties and scrummies! So I thought it was about time we get out the Halloween decorations to make our home feel spookily festive. Since getting Pinterest and discovering seasonal mantelpieces I dreamt of going to town on our own decor for the different times of the year. I adore season change, I adore how you feel the air change and the excitement of future events and holidays to come.

This is how our mantelpiece now looks after it's Halloween makeover! Ideally we'd have a neutral wall behind the decor to really allow it to stand out, but with renting our property and funds, that isn't feasible right now - so maybe next year ;). 

These ceramic pumpkins and the ghost were all from pound land, costing yep you guessed it £1 each. They are fantastic quality, and an absolute bargain, as you can guess as we ended up with three!

The Beware sign is perfect as a focal point and we purchased it for only £3 from Asda! The peeping ghost behind it is a DIY and gift from my friend Hannah. At the far end of the mantel is our mini Yankee Candle in the scent 'Black Cherry' which was also a gift, not necessarily festive but oh my it smells scrummy, and the red is festive right?

Due to our crazy feline we still have some decorations which we will put up just in time for trick or treaters, such as cobwebs, hanging skeletons and also our pumpkins (which actually as of yet are uncarved).

When Halloween is done and dusted, we still wanted our home to feel Autumnal and cosy (until Christmas wahooo) so we have dotted a few things around the house such as this candle surrounded by conkers.

A second budgetted date day

It's Monday and I am only just now having making the time to sit down and blog last weeks date day! I can't quite believe how quickly the last few weeks have been coming and then going. 

So for last weeks budgeted date day we visited a garden centre called Dobbies, I think I may have mentioned Dobbies in a blog post before. We love Dobbies, even though it is a garden centre it mainly has gifts, housey things, candles oh and the scrummiest cafe ever! We visited the cafe and Simon got a hot chocolate which was free with our dobbies card, and I got a not so photogenic diet coke. We was a bit naughty this week and broke our budget, we opted for pannini's rather than scones for lunch completely forgetting about our budget. (Still craving a scone with jam and cream five days on).

With full bellys we had a good old mooch around and the entire top floor was a Christmassy explosion, we adore Christmas, so we we're pretty happy to say the least!

After such a lovely date day we didn't want it to end, so we made the lounge all cosy with candles, snuggled up on the couch eating Halloween cupcakes and watched Get Him To The Greek. Miss Pookie was more than happy to have an evening of sofa snuggles! It was the perfect ending to a lovely, lovely day. 

In total our date cost us £12, which is £2 over budget but completely worth it!