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Merry Christmas🎄! I hope you have an AMAZING day today and I don't expect you will read this on Christmas day because you will be so busy but if you are, let me know how your day's going so far, in the comments! In this post today, I'm going to tell you are Christmas traditions. I wouldn't say we have that many but I find it really interesting to listen to other people's traditions! So, here are mine: 30th November The sound of people heading upstairs clunked through the house as my family gathered in the spare room. Clawing for the bag on top of the dusty wardrobe, I pulled it down and tore it open to reveal our new advent calendars. This is the point when everybody clasped their own to their chest, leaping and bounding down the staircase, attempting to be the first to put theirs down, above the fireplace, ready for the morning. 1st December When that morning does arrive, we have an unspoken rule that you have to eat your breakfast before you can op

One sleep to go! Don't forget to look out for my post tomorrow about our Christmas traditions! Ages ago, I decided that I was going to do a post on the Elf On The Shelf, today. However, I used that idea on the 17th of December ( http://ellycuriouswords.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/12-days-of-elfmas-blogmas-no-17-2017.html ) so I needed another idea. I get quite a few ideas from Pinterest so that's where I went. As usual, I wasn't disappointed. That is where I got this idea from. Melted Snowman Cookies. Digestive Biscuits Water Icing Sugar Squeezy Icing White Fondant Icing 1. Take out the number of digestives you want to use from the packet and lay them on a plate. 2. Next, you will need to make the icing. To do this, add water to icing sugar, adding a little bit here and there until you have the perfect consistency which is quite stiff. 3. Use a spoon to place a blob of your icing into the middle of a biscuit and wait about 20 seco

I love to share new ideas with you guys so... here are some more!!! Even better- they're from Pinterest ! If you don't know what this is, it's a website where you can save images add ideas to 'Boards' that you make. Hot Chocolate Cakes! https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/803470389743854226/ These are so cute! I'm not sure that if these were sat in the middle of a table in my kitchen that they would last 5 minutes!  Reindeer Christmas Cards https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/803470389743770907/ A wonderful card to make for family or friends. It would be a very thoughtful gift. Rice Crispy Reindeers!  https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/AbrID69wemishoOSTiFE7Vt7DYe7BaVOD3sOQIGqlO1xH5dVOTz4AKo/ Perfect for a Christmas party or for little children! Who doesn't want to have a little fun at Christmas? Snowmen Doodles!  https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/803470389743699398/ I tried some of these! So much fun when you&