01. My Annual Family Trip - I love December because every year my family and I head to Scarborough (a seaside town in England) to see my Mum's side of the family! I love it so much, it honestly is the best day out of the entire year to me because everyone is so happy. We all feel really close, we go for a meal with my granddad who I only get to see once a year (on that date) and then we do loads of Christmas shopping! Just so we know we have something to do that day we always leave our shopping to do there, so this year I'm pretty excited because we're going on a Saturday for a change instead of the Sunday so all the shops will actually be open! I want cold winter walks by the sea and seafood <33333 Now that I'm older every year my Dad really worried rings me to ask if I'm still coming and I kind of get offended that he has to ask, I love that day so much it will crush me the year I can't go.
03. Decorating Our Home - So this will be mine and Joel's second Christmas together but the first that we've lived together, so it's the first time we've bought a tree and decorations! I feel so grown up and I've managed to get everything I wanted for under £50 woo! I took to cheap places like Ebay, Poundland, home sense and Tk Maxx for decorations and even managed to find cheap packs of baubles when doing my food shop at ASDA! I have quite a full collection which is fantastic because it means less to buy next year! I just want our flat to be incredibly homely because I get so home sick at Christmas time, my parents go full out with decorating and now that I don't live with them I'm finding it strange but thankfully I am spending Christmas day at their house!
04. FOOOOOOD - This isn't necessarily a Christmas thing, but in winter my boyfriend Joel makes the best food. He is such a good cook and makes really good comfort food like chilli, stews OMG THE BEEF ALE STEWS! We always make our own soup and with the weather now being incredibly cold we've started to cook more homely meals which I love! We literally smoother everything in gravy which is such a British thing to do, but that sums up my winter. I can't wait for Christmas dinner at my mums house srsly, I do plan to pack on some weight freely.
04. FOOOOOOD - This isn't necessarily a Christmas thing, but in winter my boyfriend Joel makes the best food. He is such a good cook and makes really good comfort food like chilli, stews OMG THE BEEF ALE STEWS! We always make our own soup and with the weather now being incredibly cold we've started to cook more homely meals which I love! We literally smoother everything in gravy which is such a British thing to do, but that sums up my winter. I can't wait for Christmas dinner at my mums house srsly, I do plan to pack on some weight freely.
06. THE BLOGGING GROTTO! - If you follow me over on my twitter you would of seen that I've set up my own magazine called The Blogging Grotto! I've put this little project together and I'm going to call it more of a zine and ALOT of bloggers have pitched in with articles which I am so thrilled to share! It's a blogging magazine written by bloggers, for bloggers about blogging! It's being released for purchase this month and there will definitely be a post up!
I was really undecided whether to do Vlogmas or Blogmas this year and then my camera decided to break so I thought it wouldn't be the best time at all. My life seems incredibly busy this month so I would struggle so much with both ideas, so I may have to save all the Christmas content I have pented up inside me for another year! I will be posting some Christmasy content on both platforms but just more casually and mixed with my regular content like OOTDs. I feel asif I haven't done a good outfit post in a while which makes me sad.
I think the main thing I'm excited for this month is just spending time with my family! Living not even in the same city can be incredibly hard so it's going to be so nice being back at home with everyone for the Christmas period woo! What are you up to this December? Note that I didn't include shopping, I'm such a stress shopper haha
Until next time guys,
