Visiting my Family!

DAY 1

Over Christmas I went to visit my family who live near Münster.
My family and I stayed in an awesome farmhouse for three days.
The family lived in the actual house which was over 300! years old, and we stayed in the little lodge next to it.
I don't think words can actual describe how awesome it was and the old vibe you got with it. 
I took over 200 pictures and it was the worst to only pick a couple to post.
There were only two houses around and they had a horse stable next to their house.
It's actually called a horse station for when you are horseback riding and wanna stay somewhere. You and your horse can both stay there!!

On the 25th we went to visit my mom's side of the family. It was great to see my cousins, aunts,grandparents... again.
We all met at my grandparents' and had a huuge meal. Everyone brought a course so we created a menu and we all were full!

Landhaus am Dahlberg

This was the room upstairs, where my sister and I stayed in. It was really simple but had amazing Christmas decoration!

Hello!

Get ready for day 2 tomorrow!

xxk80

Day 12

CHRISTMAS

The weekend before Christmas I finished up wrapping all my presents! 
I turned up my Christmas music, sat at my desk, and laid out all my decorations, presents and wrapping paper and put on some candles.
I pretty much built up a Christmas workshop.

I bought some candy canes to put them under the bows and shopped of some fir branches from my garden. This year I chose pretty plain wrapping paper because I wanted to go all out on the decorations. 
At NANU NANA I picked up different sizes and variations of bows and ribbons, which makes all the difference and is probably the easiest way to decorate. 
I also bought some chalk board stickers, which are amazing. They came with some chalk and you can reuse them or you can erase and write again and don't ruin the wrapping paper.
I figured that a hot glue gun comes very very handy when decoration, cause then you can literally stick everything that comes to your mind on there!

xx Merry Christmas
See ya'll next year <3
k80

Day 11 Special

EASY COOKIES

So I already have all my blog posts done for blogmas and it's Tuesday evening at the moment. But I made some amazing cookies this afternoon and wanted to share the recipe with you, and it also matches the other Day 11 post so here you go!!

What you need:

200g butter (at room temperature)
300g caster sugar
1 large egg
325g self raising flour
a dash of milk
200g of any chocolate you like (you can choose however much and what you like)


Let's go:

-Preheat you oven to 200C (390F)
-whisk butter and sugar together until it's creamy
-crack in the egg and mix it through
-add the flour a bit at a time
-break up the chocolate (I chose Milka luflee) and add it to the mixture
-grab the dough from underneath and spread the chunks 
-shape the mixture into 10 balls (amount depends on how big you want your cookies)
-put on baking tray covered in baking paper
-bake for 10-12 minutes (mine took about 9!)
-let them cool

(I took half the ingredients and made 4!)

xxk80

Day 10

Oh Christmas tree!

This weekend I went shopping for a Christmas tree!! Ever since we were younger me and my family would always meet up with friends of my parents and their daughter. I guess it became kind of a tradition, so we drove a little out of town until there were no houses near us. 
So on the last Advent Sunday we put on our big boots, and wrapped up in only one layer because it was pretty damn warm!!

They decorated a place in the woods where you could drink mulled wine next to a little fire and could chop down your tree. 
It was quite funny seeing all those people with their saws running around looking for the perfect Christmas tree.
If you have the time and know a place like that I would really really recommend you to go there because it's so much nicer and you'll definitely go home in a much more festive mood.
After we picked our tree we put it in our car, and because our dogs came with us, we went on a nice long walk through the woods.

xx k80

And tell me in the comments what kind of style and topics you'd like to see in 2016!!! 

Day 9

TEA. ❄

So I've only got the whole tea-vibe quite recently. Before I always stuck to my good old hot chocolate- which I still love, don't get me wrong. But when I'm sitting in my room with my fairy lights on and some candles burning on my window sill, it's quite nice to have a cup of tea. I'm not really into earl grey or other really ,,grown-up-tea-flavors'' if you know what I mean. I tried out many different ones and came to the conclusion that I have four favorites. 

Creating the perfect vibe for a festive day is fairly easy, and one of my favorite things to do as well. 

What you'll need: 

• An overly festive mug (I got it as a present) similar
• Some chocolate (Mine is a bar of dark chocolate and a little Santa)
• Your favorite type of tea
• A tangerine (it's going to smell like Christmas on a plate)
• Your favorite Christmas cookies (preferably home-made) Linzer Schnitten
• Some fairy lights to set the festive mood (I got mine for like 3€)

My four favorites:

1.Rooibos Meßmer 

2.  Rooibos-Vanilla Südafrikanischer Ovambo 

3.  Rooibos w/ wild berry-vanilla aroma King's Crown 

4.Strawberry-Raspberry Prinzessin Lillifee - Teekanne

xx k80

Day 8

MY YEAR IN MUSIC

In October 2014 I decided to go premium on Spotify and it was the best idea ever. I know not everyone wants to pay 10 bucks every month for music but otherwise every song would be like one euro or something.

Anyways, I absolutely love it comes in very handy cause you have almost every song on there and can create playlists blah blah. I'm sure you know how to listen to music. 

Spotify does this thing, at the end of every year, where you can find out who your top artist is or how much you were listing to music that year. 

It's called "YEAR IN MUSIC"

So today I'm going to share with you what I've been listening to this year!

And let me know if there are any artists I'm totally missing out on!!

 I was listening to music for 50,000 minutes - 834 hours or 35 days!!!

That's 241% more than last year.

I listened to 2,077 different songs this year, which is 964 songs more than last year.

My Top 5 albums 

     The 1975 (Deluxe Edition) 

      Sadnecessary  Milky Chance

      Future Hearts All Time Low 

     LIVESOS 5 Seconds of Summer

      Blurryface twenty one pilots 

 Top 5 Songs

Paint Me Black  Ben Hazlewood

Room 93  Halsey 
The Japanese House 

Top 5 Artists

HALSEY

The 1975

All Time Low

5 Seconds of Summer

twenty one pilots

xx k80

Day 7

Christmas Shopping Purchases  🎅

I went shopping quite a lot the last weeks and wanted to show you!
I mainly went to H&M for clothes because it's the only shop near me wear everything fits and I like their winter collection a lot. And also it's not really expensive!!
I also bought some presents and other stuff but you'll see below!

Shop now:

Grey Sweater 34,99€

Patterned Sweater  (Similar) 14,99€
Brown Sweater 19,99€
Orange Sweater (Similar) 19,99€

Those are some gift ideas for you. I feel like some of them are for younger people like "wreck this journal" but those are some inspirations. 
I think you can never go wrong with DIY books. I really love my wreck this journal book and think it would make a great Christmas gift. 
The other things basically complete a cozy winter evening. 
I got some extremely comfy socks a little *zebra-cow* pillow with different spices in it, and you put it in the microwave for two minutes and put it in your neck. And the plus is that it smells amazing as well!
The next thing is a book as well. It's by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Miracle and there are three short stories in it. It's called "Let it snow" and what better time to read it now. And maybe it's gonna start snowing when I'm reading it!!
I also got some tea. I don't think you can ever go wrong with tea and I bought the more expensive version of my mums favorite tea so I know it's gonna go down well.
As gift idea you can buy a little tea-time set, with a mug, some tea, and put some home-made cookies next to it.
For baking enthusiasts: I'm gonna buy some baking stuff like baking books, bowls, brushes, baking forms, and as you can see a spatula.
Last but not least I bought the first season of friends. I am absolutely in love with it and am currently in season 7. I'm so sad that there are only 10 seasons and I'm sure I'm gonna re-watch it! I think it's a great gift and anyone would enjoy it!

Shop now:

Let it snow ~7$
Spatula ~7$
Heat pillow ~22$
Q&A book ~10$
Wreck this Journal ~9$ 
F.R.I.E.N.D.S  ~4$

Day 6

Snippets of my week ❄

I want today's post to be a little different and a bit more chilled, because the past days have been filled with Christmas stress and exams. I've been planning so many things this December, and have been typing so many recipes and instructions for my "12 days of Christmas" that I think I've gotten a little caught up in. Today I just wanted to post something that is from my own creativity. Sooo basically I want to share some snippets of my week with you.