Starbucks bring out their range of super disgusting latte flavours.
The praline mocha was sickly to the point of diabetic-coma inducing, and the gingerbread latte tasted of one of my burnt baking endeavours. But despite knowing better, you can be sure I'll be trying the toffee nut and eggnog flavours this week.
You also know it's that time of year when Michael Buble emerges from his cryogenic chamber to unleash his velvety eggnog smooth voice on us all for a few weeks. Then he retreats, having earned enough royalties to fund his cryo egg's electricity bill for another year, not to be seen or heard from again until the next jolly season. Maybe Michael Buble is really Santa?
I have made a sort-of start at making Xmas decorations, mostly out of leftover wedding arts and crafts materials!
This one was just shredded raffia jammed in the top of an empty glass bauble I bought in a pack off Amazon. I'm going for the clunky white and wood look this year.
This was a wedding gift for friends who got married recently - they've been together for 7 years but this Xmas will be their first as a married couple. My aunt bought us a special wedding Xmas bauble for me and Chris and I really love it, so I wanted our friends to have a wedding gift that isn't just relevant on the wedding day alone.
I just printed out onto nice hammered white paper some lines of text - their names, seasonal phrases, the names of their pets etc and sliced them up into strips. I curled each strip around a pencil first to give it a natural curve, then fed them one by one into the top of the bauble. It took a few goes to get the paper to line up nicely against the glass, and if you overstuff the bauble it just becomes a messy tangle of illegible words.
I'm going to have a go at making a rustic Xmas wreath at some point, I have a leftover polystyrene ring from Hobbycraft that didn't make it in the centrepiece design preliminaries...
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