Sorry For Not Writing!

Ok. So lately, as you can tell by my disastrous attempt at doing Blogmas, I have sort of been ignoring you guys... Trust me, I really don't want to and I love writing my blog, it's just time has not been on my side! I want to say that I can write for everyone everyday but I know I can't :'(. For a while, as I thinking this through, I felt quite upset as it might have to be that I stop writing, but of course I would never do that! Finally I came to realise that as it was soon a new year, that meant that things could start over (you know, new year, new things!) and to be honest with you, this has been my attitude to life in general recently! So please be patient, the new year is fast approaching and so I will write for you again then!

Love From Gee x

| Christmas Countdown | #Day 4 Favourite Xmas Song

So this one was suggested by one of my readers and I have to say, this is going to be challenge! I love most Christmas songs and as soon as the calendar hits the 1st December, the charts are turned off and the Christmas CD's come out (yes, I have not ventured onto a portable MP3 Christmas yet!) and I get playin'! At the moment, my favourite CD is the 'Christmas with the Stars'. I like it because it has your classic greats like 'Feed the World', but it also has some lesser known tracks such as 'a spaceman came travelling', which is one of my favourites on the CD. I suppose, though, that my favourite track would have to be... hmmm... 'Last Christmas' by Wham. Probably because it reminds me of when I was little and my family and friends would all meet up at our local leisure centre and go tobogganing on this giant ski slope on Christmas Eve, and after we would all have a party and sit around the fire playing games! I just always remember that song being our pass the parcel song and when I was little, that was my all time favourite game. Hey, just a thought, what's your favourite party game?

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| Christmas Countdown | #Day 3 Christmas Cookie DIY!

My attempt at these delicious beauties!

Bonjour, ma petite treasures! So, feeling the Christmas spirit, I decided to do some festive baking! Todays recipe was cinnamon Christmas biscuits and let me tell you- they are truly yummy:

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp golden syrup
• 60g/2¼oz caster sugar
• 50g/1¾oz butter
• 3 tbsp double cream
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• 175g/6oz plain flour, plus extra for dusting
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

Recipe:

Heat the golden syrup, sugar and butter into a medium saucepan over a medium heat. Stir until the mixture is heated and the sugar completely dissolved. Remove from the heat and add the cream and spices.

Add the flour and bicarbonate of soda, stirring as you add it until you have a loose mixture. Place a sheet of parchment paper on a baking tray and tip the mixture on top. 

Cover with another piece of parchment and flatten the dough slightly. Leave to cool in the fridge for 2-3 hours. After this you should have a thick dough.

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.Remove the dough from the fridge and roll between the sheets of paper with a rolling pin until 1cm/½in thick.

Dust a work surface with flour and roll the dough out with a floured rolling pin until 5mm/¼in thick (as you want the biscuits to only rise slightly when cooking and be nice and crisp when P.S Do not forget to add me to your reading list or even add me on bloglovin- just search for blog and I should pop up! Also if you have any other good ideas or requests email me @: thencame.eve.email@gmail.com! Au revoir!cooked).

Using a floured cutter of your choice cut out the biscuits and place onto a lined baking tray. You may need to cook these in batches or use two trays if they don’t all fit on one tray. Any scraps of dough can be pressed together, rerolled and cut out. 

Place the biscuits in the preheated oven and bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the biscuits are a rich brown colour at the sides and slightly paler in the centre.Remove from the oven. 

If you intend to hang the biscuits up (say from a Christmas tree) pierce a small hole in the top of the biscuit immediately after they come out of the oven and place on a wire rack to cool. Once cool, you can thread ribbon or string through the hole at the top of the biscuit to hang from the tree. Store in an airtight container so that the biscuits remain crisp.

| Christmas Countdown | #Day 2 Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree...

Bonjour, ma petite treasures! Oh, the joys of Christmas, truly its only two days into advent and already I am re-writing lists and jumping for joy with tinsel; but the most exciting thing for me is getting ready to put up the tree. In my house, we don't usually put up the living room tree until the end of the first week of December but of course I have a tree in my bedroom, and it's already up and fully decorated.... but one problem, I dont like it anymore.

Hence my problem, I need a new one and just to sound that extra bit fussy, the decorations need changing too. See, its not that the decorations on the tree aren't nice (ish...) it's the fact that they really don't match... I think you know what I mean! My room is all pink and girly, whereas the decs are bright and shiny. the truth is- it means a trip to the shop before next Christmas but I cant help but love them anyway, so for now its a bright white tree with bright blue baubles... happy Christmas all!

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| Christmas Countdown | #day1 It begins!

Bonjour, ma petite treasures! Christmas is officially underway and I, for one, am most excited! I can't wait to get out the tree and hang all the decorations from donkeys years ago up, along with the tinsel and the angel at the top of the tree... It's just a real magical time of year! So, that's why I have decided to do a blogilicious Christmas countdown for all you lovely people; so look forward to crimbo (cringe!) craft and cooking as well as some well rounded advice on making sure your Christmas goes as smooth as freshly fallen snow on the ground. (Like what I did there?)

Well then, I thought that today, being the 1st December and all, I would talk to you about the wonderful invention of the advent calendar. Now I don't exactly know how the advent calendar came to existence, but what I do know, is that there are one of the best inventions around this time of year! Most advent calendars have chocolate in them (proving that evidently, they are already a great thing!) but some don't... Some contain amazing things like Lego (Grace turns into a giant child at this point) and beauty products, like the Selfridges calendar for this year (ahhh, Selfridges). My advent calendar is one that I have had since I was a little girl, and it's a tree and everyday you hang at different decoration on it. I love it the much, I even have a special order for all the decorations (sad, I know!).

What I would really like to know, though, is why we don't have advent calendars all year round, I mean imagine getting a little gift everyday! Mind you, I suppose that defeats the whole object of Christmas and we definitely do not want that!

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Getting Stressed

Bonjour ma petit treasures! This week, for me, has been rather stressful! The main reason being the sheer weight of workload that has been put onto me. 

Now I know that there are plenty of you in the same boat, so I am sure that you get it too when I say that it really affects you and how you feel. What I mean by this is that you start to doubt yourself; can I really do this? Am I capable? You are, but because of how much work you have, you don't really feel like it. Also, I find that I have to put off the things that I want to do for example blogging: I really hate it when I can't tell you guys about my adventures (not that my life is that interesting!) and it isn't just that, I really love writing my posts! 

Have a fab Friday everyone, I hate writing negative posts but I don't think the work fairy will get angry!