Good day everyone!
So in my last post I said I'd post about my weekend going to Durham for their Christmas market.
Even though it was horrendously windy last weekend, the market was still on, thankfully! Although, the noises the marquee was making were quite terrifying!
The market was lovely. We go every year and we absolutely love it! There's always loads of nice food stalls: cheese, puddings, breads, and beverage stalls: vodka, wine, gin, mulled wine.
We wander round and have a few samples, as you do, grabbed a glass of mulled wine and mooched around a bit more!
There were really nice jewellery stalls, I could have spent an absolute fortune on all the stuff they had there!
At the Durham Christmas Market, they always have a food market in the Cloisters surrounding the cathedral. Although it was freezing and windy outside, the Cloisters was full! Full of people and full of stall holders selling their amazing goodies!
Sausages, pies, breads, cakes, brownies, meats, the list could go on forever! The Cloisters smelled amazing!
The market always has a lovely atmosphere. So many people come from all over the country just to visit this market, and having gone for the last few years, it's easy to see why.
We'll no doubt be going again next year!
Next weekend, we're going up to Edinburgh as a family, which is something else we do every year! We love Edinburgh in this family! They always have a typical German market on and it's so fantastic! More mulled wine, more food samples, more amazing gifts for people (or myself) for Christmas!
There'll be a blog about that too!
If you've been to any Christmas markets that you'd recommend I visit, please leave a comment below!
Until the next time :) xx
Friday, 11 December 2015
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
The spirit of Christmas!
Hello everyone!
So I know my last post was about Christmas, but my love for Christmas is stretching to another post!
More and more houses around me are popping up with their decorations, and it actually makes me smile when I'm walking past them! All the trees in the windows, lights around the windows, it all just looks so cute!
The one thing that's still driving me crazy is the Christmas music we're having on at work...it's changed from 50% Christmas music and 50% 'pop. to 75% Christmas and the rest 'pop'! Which is fine, the customers seem to enjoy it! Someone should!
I'm just looking out my sitting room window and my neighbour's house has a wreath hanging on the front door. Green wreath with red berries and acorns. And it looks adorable. I love wreaths, we keep saying we'll have one and we never do!
Our house is still bare, but I think our decorations will be going up next weekend...hopefully! We often sit in the sitting room with just the lights from the Christmas tree on, it brings a lovely glow to the house and I love the few weeks the decorations are up. The house always looks naked when they've been taken down!
I'm seeing loads of Christmas crafty things on Pintrest and Facebook...and I wish we had more BB time to do them all! We're doing about 4 or 5 before we have our Christmas party in a couple of weeks and I can't wait for the kids to show their parents what we've been doing! They'll get a selection box alongside their crafts, of course, what is Christmas in a youth group without a selection box!?
I have a slight obsession with Christmas decorations. Since Daniel and I are engaged and looking/saving for a house, I keep buying the odd thing for a box that we have in a spare cupboard at his flat...most of this box if decorations for our tree/house when we finally have one! They're all cute and Christmassy...and Daniel'll just have to deal with how much I love Christmas as he can be a bit of a scrooge about the whole season!
My sister also enjoys Christmas...she loves the food, we all do! My favourite Christmas food has to be pigs in blankets. There's something deliciously amazing about a sausage wrapped in bacon. I'd happily have a plate of them and Yorkshire puddings with lashings of gravy for my lunch and be happy! Well, with a glass of something fizzy to wash it down with of course!
The countdown is nearly over and I think it's making people go crazy. I'm not finished yet, and I won't be for a couple of weeks yet, but I'm not worried. Daniel's taken me shopping on Christmas eve before to finish his shopping, so anything is possible if we don't panic too much about it!
This Saturday I'm off to Durham Christmas Market with my Mam and I can't wait! We love Durham and we love this market. We always go for a glass of mulled wine, of course, and we do a bit of window shopping there, before buying presents for people/for our Christmas trees/house boxes! Then go for a bit of shopping around Durham itself before coming home and warming up!
I'll be sure to take plenty of photos as that might be what my next post is about!
If you guys have any craft ideas you've done yourselves at school etc. please leave a comment below.
Until the next time :) xx
So I know my last post was about Christmas, but my love for Christmas is stretching to another post!
More and more houses around me are popping up with their decorations, and it actually makes me smile when I'm walking past them! All the trees in the windows, lights around the windows, it all just looks so cute!
The one thing that's still driving me crazy is the Christmas music we're having on at work...it's changed from 50% Christmas music and 50% 'pop. to 75% Christmas and the rest 'pop'! Which is fine, the customers seem to enjoy it! Someone should!
I'm just looking out my sitting room window and my neighbour's house has a wreath hanging on the front door. Green wreath with red berries and acorns. And it looks adorable. I love wreaths, we keep saying we'll have one and we never do!
Our house is still bare, but I think our decorations will be going up next weekend...hopefully! We often sit in the sitting room with just the lights from the Christmas tree on, it brings a lovely glow to the house and I love the few weeks the decorations are up. The house always looks naked when they've been taken down!
I'm seeing loads of Christmas crafty things on Pintrest and Facebook...and I wish we had more BB time to do them all! We're doing about 4 or 5 before we have our Christmas party in a couple of weeks and I can't wait for the kids to show their parents what we've been doing! They'll get a selection box alongside their crafts, of course, what is Christmas in a youth group without a selection box!?
I have a slight obsession with Christmas decorations. Since Daniel and I are engaged and looking/saving for a house, I keep buying the odd thing for a box that we have in a spare cupboard at his flat...most of this box if decorations for our tree/house when we finally have one! They're all cute and Christmassy...and Daniel'll just have to deal with how much I love Christmas as he can be a bit of a scrooge about the whole season!
My sister also enjoys Christmas...she loves the food, we all do! My favourite Christmas food has to be pigs in blankets. There's something deliciously amazing about a sausage wrapped in bacon. I'd happily have a plate of them and Yorkshire puddings with lashings of gravy for my lunch and be happy! Well, with a glass of something fizzy to wash it down with of course!
The countdown is nearly over and I think it's making people go crazy. I'm not finished yet, and I won't be for a couple of weeks yet, but I'm not worried. Daniel's taken me shopping on Christmas eve before to finish his shopping, so anything is possible if we don't panic too much about it!
This Saturday I'm off to Durham Christmas Market with my Mam and I can't wait! We love Durham and we love this market. We always go for a glass of mulled wine, of course, and we do a bit of window shopping there, before buying presents for people/for our Christmas trees/house boxes! Then go for a bit of shopping around Durham itself before coming home and warming up!
I'll be sure to take plenty of photos as that might be what my next post is about!
If you guys have any craft ideas you've done yourselves at school etc. please leave a comment below.
Until the next time :) xx
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