Christmas Day Photo Diary | Blogmas #25

Merry Christmas Guys! I hope you've all had fabulous days, filled with delicious food and lovely presents, and spending lots of time with your favourite people :) It's been so nice to see what you're all up to on social media today! Christmas is truly such a wonderful tradition! So, I've reached Blogmas Day 25 and I honestly can't believe that I've gotten this far. I've been so close to giving up on it quite a few times this month, but I'm glad that I didn't... I feel a little proud of myself :') I'm not sure if you're supposed to keep going until the end of the December, so I'm just gonna! I've had such a busy day and I'm exhausted now. Christmas is always super taxing when it comes to my fibromyalgia and also my mental health, so all I want to do now is sleep! I thought I'd just share a photo post with you all showing you some snippets of my Christmas Day. I hope that you all enjoy reading! 

The good thing about being an adult and having no children living at my family home is that I don't have to get up to check if Santa Clause has come at ridiculous o'clock in the morning, hahaha! It was of course marvelous when I was little, but when you have insomnia and eventually got to sleep at a little past 4am, you do not want to be getting up at 6! I went downstairs to open my Christmas presents at half 9, wearing my extremely cosy new unicorn onesie from Yours Clothing. It's pink and fuzzy and soft and so so warm! I love it and I felt very snug opening all of my presents in it :) I was certainly spoilt and got such lovely gifts, including the ones I'd asked for: Gemma Correll's feminist activity book (which is fabulous by the way!), a 3D printed bulbasaur planter and a haul from UK based kawaii website, Cutesy Kink. I love all of my prezzies, but my absolute favourites were the feminist activity book, a Neko Atsume bag, a super cute Spirited Away No Face pen and some of my other stationery bits! 

After opening up my presents, I spent a few hours listening to Christmas music and having a good old sing along, so that was really fun! I feel sorry for my neighbours, oops :D I also did some singing along to Rammstein, because German metal is good for all occasions! Oooh and I also taught myself how to say Merry Christmas in German... Frohe Weihnachten!

Later my house got pretty hectic with three of my older brothers there, my niece, my mom and dad, plus my sister & I, so I spent the day in and out of the festivities because it gets a little overwhelming for my anxiety. I did have a great day though! The food was scrumptious, and it was awesome spending time with my niece :) Anyhow, here are some photographs from my Christmas Day! 

I got my rabbits so many Christmassy themed toys and chews from Pets at Home, and they got an abundance of parsnip and carrot peelings as well as brussel sprouts, which they adore so much, especially my oldest furbaby Malakai! I bought a lot of treats, but I just decided to give them two kinds today... some little dried banana nibbles and some heart shaped ones too! The lucky bunnies were munching all day, and also refusing to stay still for a decent photograph as always XD Managed to take a quick photo of Jacob though as he investigated some brussel sprout pieces!

Aurora had a great day too! She got to rip up a lot of wrapping paper and help people open their presents. My sister also got her a lot of Christmas goodies! I bought her some presents too but I seem to have lost them somewhere in my bedroom in the process of decorating, so she's going to get another little Christmas from me when I eventually find them :) I got my niece a few things, including one of my Christmas gift baubles that I blogged all about on Saturday. Today she got from me her first ever Funko Pop vinyl; I got her one that she'd said she wanted a while ago... Disney's Cinderella with glasses aka hipster Cinderella! She's also a big fan of the Japanese song Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen (PPAP), so when I spotted this pencil case on Grindstore I couldn't not get it for her. She thought it was hilarious! I too love this cheesy, catchy as heck song, and I am not ashamed of that one bit XD

I was very happy that my mom decided to get some parsnips basically just for me for Christmas dinner this year. I've loved them ever since me & my flatmates in my second year of university made our own Christmas dinner, and I ate them for the first time :) My Christmas dinner was so filling, that I could barely eat some of the dessert, which was trifle. I have no idea how I am managing to now be devouring some chocolates from my quintessential tub of Quality Street. Which chocolate is your favourite everyone? I love the orange creams and the coconut ones! Or do you have another favourite chocolate brand that you always get at Christmas? Among me and my siblings, we all either prefer Quality Street, Celebrations or Heroes, and I don't know how my mom manages to remember who wants which! 

So, I've spent Christmas Day 2017 listening to festive songs (and Rammstein and PPAP and my favourite foreign songs, like Numa Numa by O-Zone!), being constantly pestered by Aurora to play catch with her new toys, eating so much food that I thought I was gonna burst, hiding from social interaction, stroking/petting bunnies who are super fluffy right now in their winter fur... and so much more, and I've very much enjoyed it! I'm looking forward to tomorrow, since we always have a buffet on Boxing Day *nom nom*. Also let me know in the comments guys if you want me to share a post about what I got for Christmas. 

I hope everyone had a fantastic day, and that you have another one tomorrow whatever you do! How do you all spend Boxing Day? 

Thankyou for reading!

♥

 What did Santa Clause bring you all this year?

What to you is the best food on your Christmas dinner plate?

I'd love to hear all about your day! What did you do? 
Do you have any special festive traditions?

Blogmas Day 25 | My Christmas Day

Heya Everyone! I hope you had a fantastic day and that Santa brought you all some awesome presents! I love reading about what others do on Christmas Day so I thought I'd do a quick post about what I did before I head off to bed. I'm exhausted! Had a fun day, ate lots of yummy food and received lovely presents ♥

I was woken up at 7am just like every year, which I'm not very happy about at the time haha I don't sleep very well so I've usually only had a few hours sleep by that time. Even though we've all grown up, we have to get up early because for years now my sister has popped around to one of our neighbour's houses to celebrate Christmas morning with the little boy she used to babysit. We get up early so we can open all our presents together before she leaves. 

I was delighted with all of the gifts I was given this year. They are so great! I was really happy as soon as I spotted that my mum had bought the Disney Tsum Tsum gift bag that I'd wanted so much!. Tomorrow, I'll be writing a post showing you some of my presents so for now, I'll just tell you a few of my favourites :) I got lots of Tsum Tsum stationary, all of which is absolutely adorable. My mum also bought me a massive jar and filled with loads of pick 'n' mix sweets! I got the Disney Alice in Wonderland vans that I'd asked for and I can't wait to wear them. What was your favourite Christmas present? 

After opening my presents, having some breakfast and listening to Christmas songs on TV, I went for a nice relaxin' bath. If you follow me on instagram, I'll have seen that I used my Lush butter bear bathbomb. It was interesting that it was filled with little bits that floated around the bath and it smelt nice. I also decided to use some of my Peeping Santa bubble bar (also from Lush). How cute is it!? I almost decided not to use it because I didn't want to break him up. This was the first bubble bar that I've used and next time, I think I'll chop them up before going for my bath because I had a little dilemma when trying to break off a bit of the Santa. I managed to make it sort of explode everywhere! Bits of red sent flying all over the bathroom :D But after that, I really enjoyed having a red bath that smelt like strawberries. 

I spent the rest of the afternoon munching on some of the chocolate I'd received from my family and watching movies on Film 4. I'm a massive fan of Studio Ghibli movies and at this time of year, Film 4 shows lots of their movies which is fantastic! I love that they sometimes air the Japanese version of the movie with subtitles because I prefer watching them in Japanese :) Do you like Ghibli movies? Today, they showed Howl's Moving Castle. I also watched School of Rock later in the day. Before writing this post, I watched the last ever episode of Downton Abbey!! I can't believe it's over and I was a emotional wreck throughout the entire show. I won't say anymore as some of you may have been too busy to watch it tonight and I don't want to spoil it for ya. I wish it could have gone on forever, or at least a little while longer!

It's not very often that I actually like many of the selfies I take so I was really happy when I took these photos and felt confident about the way I looked. I'm wearing Rimmel's Starry Eyed 128 lipstick, which matched the Burgundy dress I was wearing. I wore my lovely christmas jumper too for most of the day. 

My bunnies enjoyed gnawing and attempting to destroy their Christmas presents! I decided not to give my rabbits the chocolates from their advent calendars for the last couple of days so I'd have enough to give them all a few each. I wish I had some photos of my bunnies with their presents but it started raining not long after I'd gone outside :( It's such a shame because I also wanted to take my annual Christmas themed rabbit photos. My rabbits are in for a treat tomorrow when they get all the carrots and brussel sprout bits from Christmas dinner.

Here's my Christmas dinner. It was so delicious! I also had some trifle for dessert :) I can't wait for tomorrow's food. I know a lot of people traditionally have a Christmas Eve buffet but we've always had ours on Boxing Day and I'm really looking forward to it. Do you have a buffet around Christmas time? Do you have yours on Christmas Eve or Boxing Day? 

Before I end this post, I wanted to show off the gingerbread house that I made yesterday. I didn't bake the gingerbread from scratch... I purchased one of those 'build your own' sets, and I'm really quite proud of my finished house. It's so colourful! 

Thankyou for reading! 

♥

Please let me know if you've blogged about your Christmas Day, I'd love to have a read. 

 

Blogmas Day 25 | The Christmas Tag

I had the Christmas tag written on my little list of festive blog post ideas and really wanted to do it, so finally here it is! Merry Christmas Everyone.... I hope you are all have a wonderful day! Only one more sleep now! Instead of tagging people to answer, I'm just going to invite anyone of my lovely readers to answer the tag if you want to. Please let me know if you do... I love reading these kinds of posts. 

(1) What is your favourite Christmas Movie(s)?  

My absolute favourite Christmas movie is The Grinch. Read about my top 5 Christmas movies here :) 

(2) Do you open your presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? 

We open our presents on Christmas morning. My mum Father Christmas always puts mine & my siblings presents in the same place in neat piles every year so we know where to find them. I love Christmas morning! I love the moment of walking into the living room and seeing all the presents with the light of the Christmas tree making the shiny wrapping paper twinkle and being able to smell the turkey cooking in the oven.

(3) Do you have a favourite Christmas memory? 

The majority of my favourite memories from childhood involve when I received awesome presents. I remember how happy I was when I got my Playstation 1 for Christmas when I was 8 years old and some of the good old classic games like Rayman, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro. I'll never get bored of playing those games, they are still amazing! 

(4)  Favourite festive food?

I love all festive food! Sunday roast is one of my favourite meals and Christmas dinner is like a bigger, more awesome version of that so I always clean my plate. If I had to choose a favourite though, it would definitely be pigs-in-blankets. They are so yummy! 

(5) Favourite Christmas gift? 

I kind of answered this for Q3 but I have lots of favourite Christmas gift memories from when I was little. Another that I'll never forget is a cassette tape (haha how times have changed!) I got that was personalised. It had a song on it called 'Coco's Christmas Cracker' that was all about an Elf and then when you turned the tape around, there was another song on there that sang 'Merry Christmas Sarah'. I was so fastinated that it knew my name! I loved it! I was 5 years old when I got it and I still remember all the words to both songs ♥

(6) Favourite Christmas Scent?  

The smell of  the food cooking in the oven, especially the turkey. As for candles, this year I LOVE the 'Berry Trifle' and 'Snowflake Cookie' Yankee Candles. 

(7) Do you have any Christmas Eve traditions? 

We don't have any Christmas Eve traditions. My family & I just usually spend the evening watching Christmas movies on TV or listening to Christmas songs whilst wrapping some last minute Christmas presents and munching chocolates. 

(8) What tops your tree?  

 For the last few years we had a pretty little Christmas fairy to match our then white tree, but this year since we have red & gold decorations we've used an older tree topper. It's an angel dressed in red with gold wings and covered in gold stars. 

(9) As a kid what was the one (crazy, wild, extravagant) gift you always asked for but never received? 

 I don't remember if I ever asked for something extravagant for Christmas, but I aways remember asking for a pet, especially a dog. I really wanted a dog growing up! I can't wait until I have my own home so I can get a dog (or five) :) 

(10) What's the best part of Christmas for you?

I love watching my loved ones opening the presents that I've bought for them. In fact I just love watching them open any presents, the look of joy on their faces and seeing them smile. 

I'll just leave this adorable dinosaur here! 

Merry Christmas!