Ways To Make Your Room Festive

It's the festive season, everyone has their Christmas decorations up, from Christmas trees to all the lights outside. And what better way to celebrate than to make your room festive. I personally love making my room all festive and ready for Christmas, seeing as Christmas is the most wonderful time of year after all.

The first way of making your room festive, is for fairy lights. I actually keep fairy lights up all year as I love them, but around this time of year they make me feel very festive and cosy. Plus they light up my room so well as I have mine all around my room!

Another way I decorate my room to make my room festive, is by putting my Christmas duvet on. I bought this last year, and I love it. It was from Asda, and it's so comfy and cosy plus it's christmassy so its a win all round! As you can see the duvet has cars driving around with trees on the top, I'm not sure why I love it so much but its just so cute!

The third thing I do to make my room festive and ready for Christmas is to have blankets. I love a good blanket to put on my bed to add to my room, and for this time of year I use this one because it is so soft and fluffy, plus it makes my room so cosy and being cosy makes me think of Christmas.

When I make my room festive, one thing that really helps is candles. I love burning a good candle, and Christmas are always the best! This one is ......... and it smells amazing! Christmas candles are by far the best candles around. This has to be my favourite Christmas candle scent! Whats your favourite Christmas candle scent?

I absolutely love this time of year, and I love making my room all cosy and festive. These are my top ways of making my room festive, what is a way you make your room festive and ready for Christmas?

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Lydia 

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Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas Everyone!!

We would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas, we hope that you are having a great day and that you are enjoying the day and have received lots of lovely gifts.

We would both like to say a big thank you for this year, over this last year our blog has got much bigger and much better and it's all thanks to everybody that reads our blog. We are so thankful to all of you! We hope that you are having a fantastic day!

How are you spending your Christmas? We are spending it with our families. However you're spending Christmas we hope that you have a good day. Don't forget that Christmas isn't just about getting gifts, its about spending it with the people you love and cherish. Also remember to say thank you for everything you get.

Wherever or however you are spending today we hope that you are having a fabulous day and are cherishing every moment. We will leave you to spend the rest of your day doing whatever you do, for Lydia it will be watching films, the queens speech and spending time with family. For Jade it will be spending time with family and loving every moment, especially the board games in the evening!! Game on!!

Thank you for taking the time to read this blog post, we hope you have enjoyed it and are also having a great day! We hope that you have enjoyed the past couple days of our blogmas and thank you for reading!

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Top 5 Christmas Songs

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Hello again everyone! How are you today? Are you ready for Christmas? Only 3 more sleeps to go. Today's blog post will be by Lydia. As I'm sure you all know by now we are doing a little count down to Christmas, so, I thought for today's blog post I would do my top 5 favorite Christmas songs! Now, I've been listening to Christmas music for quite a long time, as me and Jade both love Christmas we have been listening to Christmas music since July/August time... whoops! Anyway, as we both love our Christmas music, it is only right for me to share my favorites with all of you. So, lets get on with the blog post. All rights for the pictures go to the owners.

My first favorite Christmas song is a classic, Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You. This song is such a classic, it came out 22 years ago so isn't that old but its one of the most well know Christmas songs, especially in my family when I play it on repeat so everyone knows the words. As the song has quite a lot of high notes, I try to reach them, I nearly break my voice as I can't sing, let alone any high notes but hey, I sound great in the shower! I really love this song and it always gets played every year, without a doubt.

My next favorite Christmas song is Step Into Christmas by Elton John. I have put this as one of my favorites because not only do I like the song but me and Jade have a bit of a joke that we don't know the lyrics and we just guess the lyrics instead of learning them. In the chorus we sing, "Step into Christmas, stepy stepy step step" We know that they aren't the lyrics but we can't now learn the lyrics after thinking that for years! Plus it is a really good song.

My third favorite song is The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl's Fairytale Of New York. This song is another song that I will listen to every year without a doubt as I love it so much! I also have a story of this song with some family friends which is another reason why I love it and it makes me laugh during the song, plus its just a brilliant song.

My 4th favorite song is Michael Buble's version of Santa Baby. I love all the versions of Santa Baby but my favorite has to be Michael Buble's. I love all of the songs on his Christmas album but if I had to pick one then it would be Santa Baby, I'm not sure why but I just love his version. I listen to his whole album every Christmas as I love him, his voice and his versions of the most famous Christmas songs.

My last favorite Christmas song in this top 5 blog post has to be Santa Tell Me by Ariana Grande. I'm not the biggest fan of Ariana Grande and if I'm listening to an album or playlist and one of her songs start playing then I will listen to it but I won't normally search up her music unless I feel like I really want to listen to her music. Jade loves Ariana Grande and is always listening to her music. However this song is different, I think its because it's a Christmas song and I love Christmas songs!

Anyway guys, that's the end of this blog post. I love a lot of Christmas songs so it was really hard to pick just 5, but these songs are the ones I listen to the most and have memories and jokes with them which make them my favorites. I hope that you all enjoyed this blog post and are all getting ready for Christmas, not long now! What are your favorite Christmas songs? Thank you again for reading and I hope that you enjoyed this blog post. We will have another post up tomorrow! Hope you are enjoying our little countdown to Christmas.

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Festive Gingerbread Cupcakes

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to our blog. How are you today? I hope you're having a good day! As it's the run up to Christmas we are doing a little 5 day blogmas from today until Christmas Day! So, our first blogmass blog post this year had to be our festive baking post. We did one of these last year making Gingerbread men, they were so good. So this year we thought we would try and top that and make gingerbread cupcakes! They turned out good although we did have a couple of mini disasters! So without further ado let's get on with the recipe!

This recipe makes 12 cupcakes.

Ingredients:

75g unsalted butter

100g caster sugar

125ml black treacle

1 large egg

1 large egg yolk

175g plain flower

1tbsp cocoa powder

1 1/4tsp ground ginger

1tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground allspice

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

125ml cup of hot milk

You will also need cupcake cases

For the buttercream:

240g softened butter

400g sifted icing sugar

2 tsp vanilla extract

4 tbsp milk

Step 1: Preheat your oven to 175 degrees C/Gas mark 4. Put your chosen cupcake cases into your tray ready for when the cake mix is made.

Step 2: In a large bowl, mix together the butter and sugar until creamed.

Step 3: Once the butter and sugar are creamed together, add the treacle and the egg and egg yolk, and mix together.

Step 4: In a different large bowl, sift the flour, cocoa powder, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and salt.

Step 5: Heat the milk carefully making sure that it doesn't boil. When the milk is heated add the baking soda and let it dissolve in the milk.

Step 6: Add the flour mixture into the bowl with the butter and sugar mixture and mix them together.

Step 7: Stir in the hot milk mixture into the other mixture and keep mixing, until all together.

Step 8: Spoon the mixture evenly into the cupcake cases in the tray. Bake the cupcakes for 15-20 minutes or until they are slightly springy to touch.

Step 9: After the cakes are cooked and are ready to come out of the oven, put them on a wire rack and leave them to cool.

As the cupcakes are cooling you can start to make the buttercream icing.

Step 1: Cream the butter in a large bowl until it is smooth then gradually add the icing sugar in with the butter, keep whisking until it is light and fluffy.

Step 2: Add the vanilla and milk and keep mixing until it is completely combined.

Step 3: Once the cupcakes are fully cooled, you can start to put the icing on them. We originally tried to use a piping bag to put the icing on, however, we picked a nozzle that was too small so the icing didn't come out right, so we just used a knife to spread the icing around the cakes.

Step 4: Add decorations of your choice. We added gingerbread men sprinkles as we thought they looked super cute and thought they went well with whole gingerbread theme!

After you've finished decorating them, you can enjoy eating them! We loved these cupcakes, as we love gingerbread men. These cupcakes were lovely, they tasted like Christmas, it made us feel even more festive, if that's possible!

Anyway, we hope that you enjoyed this blog post and thank you for reading! We hope that you make some of these as they were very nice! If you do make some, tweet us a picture on Twitter, we would love to see them! Thank you again for reading and we hope you enjoyed this.

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Festive Weekend With Jade

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Hello everyone! How is your day going? Today's blog post is by Lydia, and this will be about Jade and I's festive weekend. Every year we have a sleepover and spend a weekend before Christmas together, we also go shopping together to get Christmas presents and also get matching pyjamas which we wear when we have the sleepover. We also do festive baking at our sleepovers listening to Christmas music full blast!

We normally do our Christmas shopping on a Saturday and then I stay round Jades till Sunday but this year we went shopping on a Thursday as we both had days off of college and we didn't want all the rush on a Saturday. So, as we did our shopping before we had all Saturday to do some festive baking. We made gingerbread cupcakes, there will be a blog post on them coming very soon! They were lovely and made the kitchen smell like gingerbread!

We also made a cake and gingerbread men for Sunday. (Picture above)

After we spent most of the day baking we had to do some work for an assignment Jades working on in college, which took us ages as I couldn't get it right! Then we got changed into our matching Christmas pyjamas, we had a small dilemma with them but we're getting it sorted! We then had our annual picture taken in front of the Christmas tree in our pyjamas.

For the rest of the evening we watched The XFactor as Louis Tomlinson was on, we also cried when he came on and after his performance. We had a really nice evening just watching TV and chatting. On Sunday we didn't do too much, we finished off the baking and ate cake with Jades family and friends.

We had a really nice weekend, and did a lot of baking! Thank you all for reading this blog post! I hope you enjoyed it. Did you all have a good weekend? We are working on a project that will be coming in the new year! We are both really excited for it and we hope you will all love it! So keep your eye out for it! We are also doing a blog post each day from the 20th-25th December, which will all be extra festive! So be prepared for this blog to get festive for the countdown to Christmas. Thank you again for reading and I hope you enjoyed it!

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