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
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
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
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:
xx k80
As you may have noticed, I haven't posted in over a month. But because I'm still in school, I had to study for my exams like crazy. But now the school stress calmed down a bit again and instead of 5 exams a week I only have like one presentation. In this time, I of course, couldn't help it and still think about my blog and made some changes. The most obvious one is probably that I changes the layout and style.
I decided to change my layout because into ore of a photo-blog. Kinda like a magazine, because I love photos sooo much and took a whole bunch on my "study break".
I also had the idea to make "12 days of Christmas" which is basically an Advent calendar where I'll make a blog post every day from December 13th to 24th. I'm really exited for this because winter/ Christmas time turned out to be my time of the year.
In that time I won't do my usual schedule with weekly favorites and journal entries. xx
I hope you"ll like it xx k80
