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Thursday 14 December 2017

Blogmas Day Fourteen - Christmas wrapping tips and tricks




Hello,
for todays blogmas post we are going to give you some of our tips and tricks on how to make your Christmas wrapping look unique, festive and perfect. We decided to write a blogmas post on this as we think that it will help some of you who need some tips on how to make your Christmas wrapping look and be even better.

The first thing that we recommend is getting some really good quality Christmas wrapping paper, you can buy this from any card shop or retail shop that has Christmas decorations. this will be better than buying really cheap paper as it can rip when you are wrapping your presents so having a little bit more expensive wrapping paper with reduce the chance of it ripping and it normally looks better as the detailing is nicer. You can get so many colours of wrapping paper from a variety of places but we have really liked the look of the paper chase and John Lewis wrapping paper as they are not over the top and they look really classy.

We also think that if you do not want to get wrapping paper with a pattern on it or wrapping paper in a certain colour, that brown paper looks really nice and it looks thought out and planned. It also gives it a classy look.

The second thing to make your presents look like you have put a lot of effort in is tying string or ribbon around your presents. This makes it look even better and sometimes this can hide the wrapping if it doesn't look as well as you wished. This also adds to the tension and excitement of what you have brought the person as it will take longer to unwrap. You can get ribbon or string from a huge variety of places and it is usually really reasonably priced.

The third thing that you are going to need are name tags. You can get many types of name tags like ones that stick on to the wrapping paper of the present or ones that are card and have a piece of string tied to them. We like both types of tags as you can make them really personal to the person you are giving the presents too. There are so many places were you can get present tags from like online or in card shops.

A tip we have for you when you are wrapping your Christmas presents to give friends or family is to get all the sellotape cut and ready for you to use quickly as when you have wrapped the paper around the present, the last thing that you want is to try and cut sellotape as this could make the paper unwrap and you would have to start again.

Another tip is to make sure you label the present that you have wrapped first before you move on to the next present as you might forget which present is for who, especially if you are using the same wrapping paper for everyone.


That is all of the tips and tricks that we have for you for todays blogmas post. Please leave a comment below if you have any tips and tricks so that we can try them when we wrap our presents. Don't forget to follow all of our social medias to keep up to date on what we are up too. Thank you for reading and we will see you tomorrow for blogmas day fifteen,

ThePolkaDotDaffodil X




Wednesday 13 December 2017

Blogmas Day Thirteen - Christmas Decoration Ideas

Hello,

So this is day thirteen of blogmas and we hope you are enjoying all of our blogmas posts. Today we want to share with you some ideas for Christmas decorations.

We love Christmas decorations and we love homemade gifts as you can see from our first blogmas. However, sometime it is much easier to just buy the decorations.

Some of the decorations we love are Disney themed. These are often such beautiful decorations an there is a vast majority of decorations that you can get. It has no become a tradition that every time we go to Disneyland we buy a Christmas decoration even if it is the middle of summer. They are just so lovely and they often create a very mis-match effect on the tree and so makes it seem like a very family orientated tree.


We also love ornaments from universal and have a Grinch and a Cat in the Hat ornament. Another great idea is Harry Potter decorations. From our trip to Harry Potter studios you can probably tell that we love Harry Potter so of course we are going to have a few Harry Potter decorations as part of our Christmas décor.

We went to Primark and found that they do some great Harry Potter and Disney decorations that were affordable as well as cute.

We also quite like the traditional Christmas colours so try to stick to this as much as we can as it is nice to just be traditional and you feel like you are in a Christmas film when everything is so traditionally Christmas like.

Thanks for reading Blogmas day thirteen. Don't forget to go back and read all of our other blogmas posts and come back tomorrow for the next edition of blogmas. Please leave a comment and don't forget to follow our social media pages linked at the bottom to see when we post.

ThePolkaDotDaffodil x

Blogmas Day Twelve -Cosy Christmas Ideas


Hello,
For todays blogmas post we are going to share with you our necessities for a cosy Christmas. As Christmas is in winter and winter is always freezing cold we have some ideas on how to get cosy and where you can buy these things.

The first thing that we are going to be talking about is blankets. You are going to need blankets for your cosy nights in front of the T.V watching a Christmas films. We think the best place to buy blankets are from Primark as they are always super cosy and warm and they are cheap.

The second thing that you are going to need are really fluffy and comfy pyjamas. There are so many shops that do really nice and good quality pyjamas and as its Christmas most shops do Christmas themed PJ's. The shops that we mostly buy our PJ's from are Primark, New look, H&M and peacocks.  These shops always have a really nice Christmas range of PJ's so if you need some new ones, we recommend these places.

The third thing that you have to have when its cold is fluffy socks. We absolutely love fluffy socks and they are one thing that we always ask for in our stockings or as Christmas presents as you can never have enough fluffy socks. We won't list where the best places for fluffy socks as you can get them from any clothing store and they will be warm and cosy.

In this cold weather you are also going to need hats, scarves and gloves and there are so many amazing places to buy these from especially if you want them in a set so they are all matching. We always think that in the winter a pair of gloves, a hat and a scarf always finish your outfit when you are going out and not to mention they will keep you warm in this freezing temperature.

Thanks for reading blogmas and we apologize that it is a day late but that means that there is another blogmas to go and read now. Please comment and go over to our social media pages to find out more about when we post and to tell us your thoughts on our blogmas and other posts

ThePolkaDotDaffodil x

Monday 11 December 2017

Blogmas Day Eleven- Festive Family Fun


Hello,

Today's blogmas post is about all the festive family fun that we have had with our families when we were younger and what we think you can try this Christmas.

Firstly, when we were younger we would always get board games for Christmas and so all the best times as a family were playing board games on Christmas and Boxing day. Some of the best are monopoly and Clue.

We also love to have family movie nights leading up to Christmas where we would watch a different Christmas film every night until Christmas day. All the films that we said in our blogmas post on the best Christmas films were definitely a part of this as well as many other Christmas films.

We also grew up watching the soap Christmas specials. Any and all soaps that we could find we would watch the Christmas special but our favourite for this year has got to be Emmerdale and we can't wait to watch it.

Another thing that we love to do with our family at Christmas is to visit winter wonderland and to go ice skating. This always puts us in the festive mood and is always really funny as we can not ice skate so its just us trying not to fall.

We also love watching the Christmas specials on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and we can not wait this year for the Victoria Christmas special as we love Victoria. We also love watching the Doctor Who Christmas special.

As part of our family Christmas tradition that we have to do every year is to go and see a pantomime in the New Theatre in Cardiff. We do this every year as they are always really funny and enjoyable. They always get us in the festive mood. We also do this as it is a time for the whole family to go out without anything disturbing us and for us to spend time together.

A part of Christmas has to be the Christmas decorations as its not Christmas without decorations. Every year ,we as a family get together and put up the Christmas decorations around the house together, as it is always a enjoyable time as we laugh and sing Christmas songs very loud and as not everyone in our families can sing it is very funny trying to watch our family members hit any high notes.

Thank you for reading day eleven of our blogmas post. We hope you are enjoying reading them as much as we are enjoying writing them. Don't forget to follow our social medias's at the bottom of our blog to keep up to date on everything that we are doing. Thank you and see you tomorrow for blogmas day twelve,

ThePolkaDotDaffodil X

Sunday 10 December 2017

Blogmas Day Ten- Christmas Party Ideas

Hello,
Welcome back to our blog. This is blogmas day ten and we are going to tell you our Christmas party ideas as we love to throw a party or a gathering to get all our friends together.

 As its Christmas we thought that it would be nice to invite our friends over to one of our houses and have a Christmas themed gathering and to have a sleepover after. This is a great idea if you and your friends don't want to go out for a meal or to buy presents as you don't have enough money as it means that you and your friends are still together and it is cheap as each friend could bring something, like one friend brings the main food, another brings desert, one friends brings the snacks and movies and another brings the games. We are actually having a Christmas sleepover this Friday with our friends and we have planned to watch Christmas films whilst stuffing our face with sweets and chocolate. We have also planned to play board games as we are all quite competitive so it will be interesting to see who wins. We are going to watch our favourite Christmas films whilst having a laugh with our hot chocolate's so make sure you are following our social media's to see picture's.

Another idea is to invite all your friends around your house and all of you put money and buy a takeaway. This is also a nice idea as not everyone likes the same takeaway so you could have a few different ones. This is also great way to give out your secret Santa presents if you have done that with your friends as you are all together. If you are old enough you could have alcoholic drinks and you could make and give them festive names, but if you are not old enough to drink you could have hot chocolate or anything else that you and your friends like. You could also gather around a table and play board games as this is a nice opportunity to interact with each other without being in school or on your phones. This idea is also cheap as everyone could bring something each.

You could also have a Christmas afternoon party where you have different competitions like best Christmas jumper or best Christmas cake or treat as this involves everyone and is fun and also cheap. You could make different cakes and biscuits and decorate them with christmasy things like make gingerbread Christmas trees or different Christmas ornaments. You could also make DIY Christmas decorations for your own houses as this is always a nice way of getting creative.

For our Christmas party on Friday we are doing small stockings for our friends with little bits and bobs that they like and we are planning to get them a new pair of Christmas PJ's. We are also going to get the living room where we are all staying really warm, cosy and festive as it's a Christmas sleepover. We are going to have lot's of fluffy blankets to keep us warm and fluffy socks to keep our feet warm.

These are some of our ideas for anyone who is thinking of having a Christmas party and if you have anymore ideas please leave a comment below. This is a really nice way of getting your friends together with you not having to spend money as Christmas can be an expensive time of year.

Thank you for reading today's blogmas post and don't forget to come back tomorrow for day elevens post. Please don't forget to comment and follow our social medias as we would love to hear from you and would love to know what you are planning to do for Christmas. If you follow our social media's you will be up to date on what we are doing and if we are doing anything exciting. Thank you and see you tomorrow,

ThePolkaDotDaffodil X