My Life and Tea

Hello, I hope you had a fabulous Christmas! I found out the other day that the 12 days of Christmas is counting the days after Christmas, not the days before! Woops (I'll know for next year!) The last couple of days it has been so beautifully frosty. With the frost laying everywhere. I just had to take a few pictures of the frost because it was so pretty. These pictures were taken from my garden.

Seasons greetings all, It's Christmas eve! I had a very productive day. I prepped the veg for lunch tomorrow, Tidied the house, wrapped presents and I was very crafty. I made name holders out of candy canes. They are so cute. Here is how you make them. What you need.... candy canes, ribbon, pens, paper, loom bands, scissors Step 1. Tie 3 candy canes together with loom bands. One at the top and one at the bottom. Step 2. Cut a bit of ribbon and tie the candy canes together in a secure bow. Then take the loom band from the top off. Step 3. On a piece of card write someone's name. Step 4. Place the card between two of the candy canes, and voila!

Here you go these are the results 1. 2.

Seasons greetings, I don't really have a lot of time to write and do a whole bunch of stuff for this blog post. So I'll make it brief. I will post 2 crafts to do at Christmas and then I will post the outcome tomorrow! 1. Toilet roll reindeer 2. String Christmas trees Both pictures do not belong to me. I found them on pinterest.

Seasons greetings, So sorry i forgot to post again yesterday! I don't think i'm very good at this blogging everyday thing. You will probably get 2 blog posts again today "woops"! Anyway today I decided to tell you a few easy wrapping ideas. This Christmas i decided to wrap all my presents in brown paper and tie some red and white twine stuff around it. Until I found out that I didn't have any twine and I also couldn't find any in any shops either so I had to make do with what i already owned. 1. So I started wrapping all my presents in brown paper. Then on some, I found some old ribbon and tied that around it. 2. I also got some stamps and stamped all around the brown paper. I also stuck loads of glittery snowflakes on it with glue. 3. Then..... I ran out of brown paper! I was so annoyed, my cute brown paper theme was not going to plan. then I had a really good idea. Newspaper! So I wrapped newspaper around the presents. It looked so much better than

Seasons greetings all, I was looking on pintrest the other day when I came across all these different recipies for hot chocolate! I love hot chocolate so I had to look at all the recipes. These are some of the recipes I saw that I thought looked amazing! 1. One Christmas I got an amazing jar of hot chocolate. It was so thick and chocolatey. I haven't tried making this yet but I was so excited that I had found a recipe for it that I just had to share it! It's Italian hot chocolate. Ingredients 2 tablespoons butter 2 tsp cornstarch 2 cups whole milk 4 tablespoons sugar 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips 1/2 cup bittersweet chocolate chips Instructions 1. Melt butter in a medium saucepan for low heat. 2. Whisk in cornstach until combined and melty. 3. Add in milk and sugar. Increase the heat gradually to medium-high. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Mixture will start to thicken. 4. Once the mixture begins to thicken, turn the heat down to low and add in th

Seasons greetings, 5 more days to go! Now because rings are something you wear and today is "5 gold rings" I will be showing you what I will be wearing on Christmas day and what I will use for my hair and face! I will see if I can link these items at the end or things like them. 1. I think either my mum or granny found this dress for me. We were shopping together and I couldn't find a dress I likes at all subtitle for Christmas in any of the shops we went into. So when I saw this one I took it because I thought it looked ok. And now I am very happy I got it! I love it so much. 2. I got these shoes at the same time. My mum found them for me and at first I was like "emmmm ok, maybe" but now I love them and I can also walk in them properly now! 3. I really love this eyeliner it's so easy to use and its not the most expensive either. 4. Also I think this mascara is great it was at an ok price when I got it as well. The bottle is quite sm

Seasons greetings, I realise that I didn't post this yesterday, so I will be posting twice today! Anyway on Thursday I had a little Christmas party with my bible study. We ate Chinese food and watched a Christmas movie. That inspired me to write about my faverouite Christmas movies! 1. Miracle on 34th street http://hookedonhouses.net/2011/12/12/miracle-on-34th-street-the-sets-from-the-1994-remake-by-john-hughes/miracle-on-34th-street-remake-movie-poster/ 2. Home Alone http://www.andpop.com/2013/12/08/now-cast-home-alone-2/ 3. The Nativity http://hdmovielinks.net/2011/07/28/nativity-movie-2009/ 4. Elf http://www.domesstique.com/watch-movie-elf-advent-bells-12/ 5. Polar Express http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Polar_Express_(film) 6. The Grinch http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss'_How_the_Grinch_Stole_Christmas_(film)

Seasons greetings, One week till Christmas!!! Ahhhhhh! As you can tell I am very excited! Today I will talk about my 7 faverouite Christmas animals and also my faverouite other not so christmasy animals because swans are animals! 1. Reindeer 2. Robin 3. Deer 4. Cats 5. Zebras 6. Owls 7. And my most faverouite animal of all time is the magnificent Turtle!!!!!!!!

Seasons greetings, It's getting so much colder now and what I like most of all is a lovely cup of tea when I get home from school or a really yummy hot chocolate to warm my self up. So here is 8 drinks that I love to have in the winter months! (Also milk is a drink so....) 1. A nice cup of Yorkshire tea 2. Mulled Apple juice (I don't like mulled wine) 3. Cinnamon and ginger hot chocolate (my recipe) 4. Costa's gingerbread late 5. Twinnings settling ginger tea 6. Pukka night time tea 7. Cup of black coffee 8. Ginger beer (non alcoholic)

Seasons greetings, I was clearing out my room yesterday and came across a 2009 newsround annual! And again as I have no idea what to blog about I will write about the top ten of everything in 2008 (or in my case the top 9 because, 9 ladies dancing). And you may be thinking "all this is from 2008, how is that anything to do with the number 9?" Well remember it is from a 2009 annual so I'm saying that it counts! So apparently the top bestselling albums were: 1. Rockferry- Duffy 2. The Circus- Take That 3. Only By The Night- Kings of Leon 4. Spirit- Leona Lewis 5. Viva La Vida- Coldplay 6. Good Girl Gone Bad- Rihanna 7. Day and Age- Killers 8. Out of Control- Girls Aloud 9. Funhouse- Pink The top children's fiction was: 1. Tales of the Beedle the Bard- JK Rowling 2. Twilight- Stephanie Meyer 3. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas- John Boyne 4. New Moon- Stephanie Meyer 5. Brisingr- Christopher Paolini 6. Eclipse- Stephanie Meyer 7. Nation- Terry Pratchet

Seasons greetings, Again I am really struggling to find something to write about that involves the title, so hear goes! I am going to write about my top 10 favourite smells that make me LEAP with joy when I smell them! (See what I did there!) In no particular order....... 1. I absolutely love the smell of spices like cinnamon and ginger- so good! 2. The Christmas Lush bath bombs- they smell so nice and always look so pretty! 3. Hot chocolate, when it reaches November I start putting cinnamon and ginger in my hot chocolate and it makes it taste and smell so Christmasy! 4. Christmas trees! We have a fake one so I never get to smell it in my house. But when we go somewhere else that has a real Christmas tree I just love to smell it! 5. Christmas decorations boxes! This one is really weird and I wouldn't say that it smells that good. It just has a really musky scent that tells me that Christmas is nearly here because the decorations will be up soon! 6. Snow, it has such a fres

Seasons Greetings All, Now, 11 pipers piping? I had no idea what to write for this so i decided that I would just share my 11 favorite Christmas decorations that is on my Christmas tree! And share stories and pictures of them. (Also in no particular order!) 1. This is a really sparkly gold decoration. I don't think the picture really shows how glittery this actually is. Anyway right now it is hanging from the curtains so is doesn't really count as a Christmas decoration on my tree- oh well. 2. We got this decoration when we were in Disney land this October. I love it so much it reminds me of Disney! It has little chimes on the bottom as well so it makes a sparkly noise! Again this is not on my Christmas tree! I think this is the last one I chose that is not on the tree! 3. Ooooh look, it's another decoration from Disney! "Joyeux Noel" which means Happy Christmas (I think!) I really love this for the same reason as the last decoration. And

Seasons Greetings all.... We all know the song: "the 12 days of Christmas" and because there are 12 days left till Christmas i thought that i would try to blog for the 12 days left of Christmas. But let me say this again, "i would TRY to blog". Anyway today being the 13th means that today would be "12 Drummers Drumming". And sticking with the theme of  the 12 days of Christmas being a song and drums being a musical instrument i thought that i would tell you my 12 favorite Christmas songs at the moment. In no particular order because I cant choose my number one favorite. 1. All I want for Christmas is you- Mariah Carey 2. Merry Christmas everybody- Slade 3. Last Christmas- Wham 4. Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!- Dean Martin 5. The Christmas song- Nat King Cole 6. Savior's day- Cliff Richard 7. Carol of the bells- John Williams   (you know the one, from "Home Alone"!) 8. Christmas lights- Coldplay 9. I wish it could be Chri

Winter So I would definitely say it is winter now. It is so much colder and all the Christmas lights are going on. There is so much organizing of church nativities and Christmas workshops,  all the schools are starting to put on their plays and concerts. Every thing is so festive!  In celebration of it being winter and Christmas I am going to list a few things I love about winter/Christmas:  Snow  The colours; red, green, gold etc. Christmas trees Decorations Christmas food Christmas movies Seeing family and friends Wrapping paper The fire being on Blankets Woolly jumpers Fluffy socks The list could go on and on and on!.............