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* This post might contain affiliated links. To know more visit my Disclaimer page. Happy 2018!! This is the first post of the year and is about…. drum roll, please…. books! This was supposed to be up in 2017, but I was in need of a little break after all the festivities and I got ill. It’s not the best way to start a brand new year and I’m still not feeling 100% however, I’m good enough to have my energy back to blog again. At first, I thought this post was going to be pointless since all the books I read in December had posts dedicated to them. So I was just going to repeat myself until I went to my Goodreads page and saw all the bookish news (and books) that I was collecting over the month. I’ll be keeping the 2018 releases that I found for another …

* This post might contain affiliated links. To know more visit my Disclaimer page.   Author: David Levithan and Rachel Cohn Publisher: Mira Ink Year: 2014 Pages: 309 I feel the time between Christmas and New Year’s to be the weirdest. You are just hungover from all the food you eat on the past two days and when you finally think you already took everything out of your system is New Year’s Eve. Although I found Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares to be the perfect book for this time.

Reading Challenge: Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu Total pages read: 152/152 ­✔ 1st December Well, today was the busiest day of the year. I left home to go shopping at 9 a.m. Came back to edit, end any detail I had to do to be able to publish the first post of December and to “decorate” the blog. Oh… and decorate my own house. My plans to read the entire book on the first-day went flushing down the toilet. I spend about 1 hour and 30 minutes all thanks to the evenings. If I haven’t started in the first hours of the day, I would be much more worried to complete this challenge. Pages Read: 61 2nd December Just my luck! Every time I try to set a goal the universe is like “Nope!”. Today was hard. For moments, I really thought I was going to fail in my first …

Today is officially the first day of Winter. Even though, we start to celebrate it sooner thanks to Christmas. And since we are 3 days away from Christmas Eve, I think is starting to becoming a bit later for making DIYs especially for this joyful season. So I came up with a winter DIY. It still great to use to decorate the table, but the idea is to use it long before Christmas. It’s a wintery decoration, you don’t have to put down after the 25th. The last time I did coasters was autumn themed and this time I decided to make the same but with winter. Slowly this is becoming seasonal coasters series and if so I already have an idea for spring. Without further ado let’s get’s started! Supplies: Cork sheet 3 mm thick Acrylic Paint (Dark and Light Blue) Hobby Knife Brush (size 4 or less and …

I don’t even know where I should start. Maybe with putting up the decoration. I hate to miss the 1st of December since it’s a holiday in Portugal no matter if it lands on a weekday or weekend, people are home and free to put up the decorations. I’ve always had a fake tree my entire life, which is the most common. I never knew of a farm selling real Christmas trees and since shop, them is illegal you kind of only have one option. Although until I was about 10 years old my grandmother would chop a wild pine tree that was growing on her own farm. I would get so excited mostly because she would put up little chocolates as ornaments and I was dying to get my hands on them. It does give another feeling to have a real tree instead of a fake. Not only the …

I was planning on doing a few giant paper stars to put up on my grey wall to give some fun to the room. I didn’t want to write a post about it since it’s just folding a piece of paper and attach it to the wall. But then I didn’t get around to doing it. It wasn’t a priority and it got pushed away to the back. Although I didn’t want to spend this year without doing a few of these stars. Then I remembered I had to do some napkin rings since my parents are hosting Christmas at our house. What if I merged both ideas? And so it was born star napkin rings. Two years ago when my parents hosted Christmas at our house, I decorated the napkins with some cinnamon sticks. If you never did it, you have to try. It leaves an amazing and wintery …

I’ve always liked miniatures, but there is something in tiny paper Christmas villages that make them so sweet and adorable. For the past two years, I’ve been dribbling over Pinterest to thousands of pictures of them and wishing to make some. Today is the day! Some people go full on dedicated to making them beautiful and incredibly detailed which is so worth the effort, although I just wanted to save time and make them as simple as I could without losing the cuteness. I got mostly inspired by Delia Creates advent houses since they are so adorable and the proportions seem exactly how I want. When it comes create these type of things, the proportions and the placement of the windows and doors are what creates the harmony and makes us sight on how adorable they are. After 4 years studying architecture, I’ve learned that everything as it’s own place …

I’ve been so excited to share this DIY with you. This was one of my first Christmas ideas for this year and I’ve been testing different options. Firstly this craft joins two types of garlands one horizontal and one vertical. Next, is a mixture of texture, colour and size turning something mundane into something vibrant. And lastly, is so easy to make! I think it looks so nice that I’m for sure going to do a couple more in different shades to switch off after Christmas. I’ve tried sewing the stars for a more lasting finish, and even though, it’s easy since the stars have different colours you can’t use one string colour that can pass by undetected from all the stars. I tested with red string and although it was perfect on the red stars it didn’t work for the rest, causing the loss of the effect of a …

When it comes to patterns and colours I’m really fussy and when I’m making stuff I’m even fussier. I like everything to be perfect or, at least, as neat as possible. Clean cuts and perfect fits are my heavens and so when I was wrapping my fake Christmas gifts I also wanted to add some boxes with lids to the mixture. But since I just ended up switching the colour of the box, it wasn’t any “magical” transformation from what appears to be a closed box into one that you could reuse. The box was made to be reused from the start. So I wasn’t creating something new, I was just giving it a new clean face. Instead, this is a DIY in how to gift wrapping boxes with lids when you don’t find the right pattern/colour or you don’t want to spend a crazy amount of money in just …

Last year, I manage to make a snowman between all the university madness by the end of the semester. It actually was in the Christmas tree but it was everything so rushed and stressful I didn’t even bother to do a proper blog post about it. Although this year is different and today is time for me to give to you my Snowman DIY. I experimented with different cover material that could give a similar texture to snow. Unfortunately, since it’s on a small scale it always ended up weird looking and nothing like I wanted. I try to cover it with fake snow (shredded styrofoam), cotton, and even the leftovers of a pom pom. But nothing worked. Until I remembered I had a little box of sand and I thought “could it be that simple?”. I give it a try, let it dry, and paint it over. Although it …

I love to see a Christmas tree fully decorated, but the best part is the presents underneath. If a tree doesn’t have presents it feels naked to me. So I thought about wrapping a few empty boxes. Although, it will take so much space in the attic afterwards – which I can’t complain about but still. As a lightning streak, I thought what if the boxes weren’t closed? What if I wrap them and somehow leave one side open to be able to use the box later for storage? This idea was inspired by Studio DIY and the post in 2015 of the Emoji Gift Wrap. There are so many ideas on how you can make beautiful boxes to gift to someone but no ones say you are obligated to actually give them. So instead of just spending your time wrapping presents beautifully for then later be ripped off, why …