Showing posts with label advent calendar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advent calendar. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Advent Calendars


When I was a child we had a great advent calendar. Mum hung up little bags/sachets in the kitchen. They had three different colours. One for my brother, one for me and one for the two of us together. It was always very exciting getting up in the morning and opening them. We got little presents like sweets or something small we really wanted. Of course we always had an advent calendar at school and I do it with my class as well. 

The one with my class at school, is the only one I had for years. From time to time I bought a chocolate one for home, but that's it. Getting into blogging also meant getting to know all these fabulous (beauty) advent calendars. 

I treated myself to the Rituals one this year and I couldn't be happier about it (details further down). I have bought a Kinder chocolate one for the kids at school and also received one with tea inside. There are so many out there, it's hard to choose one and I think a lot of them are just too expensive. On top of that we cannot get all of them in Switzerland, but that's ok. Most bloggers open them up beforehand to write a proper review. I didn't do that here, because I really want to be able to open a new door every day. Hence, why I cannot talk about the full calendars yet. A friend in the UK also has a book advent calendar, which is awesome. I looked into it, but unfortunately they don't ship to Switzerland. That would be a dream. 

I still wanted to include it in this post, so here we go: 

Book Advent Calendar - https://www.thebookadventcalendar.com


Doesn't it look and sound fabulous?! You can pick between 24 books or 12 books and they also have a kids version. I asked, whether they will start shipping them to other countries and the answer was yes. I kept on checking, but it was only UK and then it was suddenly out of stock. That was a bit disappointing to me. Nevertheless, I think it's a great present for a bookworm. 





Rituals is one of my fave brands, so I really wanted to get this one. It's totally worth the money, there are so many great things inside. Some full sized and some travel sized, but I think it's worth way more than what I paid. The quality is great, it's pretty and every door has a little saying inside and the description of the product. I absolutely adore it. 




















A great mixture of teas, perfect for a tea lover. 





These are so great for school and the kids love it! 


Sunday, 1 December 2013

Music

Image and video hosting by TinyPic Happy 1st Advent everyone !!! 
First of all: Here is my little Advent special for this year. I created a small Advent Calendar for you guys with quotes, book recommendations, music tips, Xmas chick-lit, short stories ...
Hope you enjoy, there will be a much bigger one for next year, but I just didn't have the time this year. The calendar will appear on top of all the post, so you'll see it immediately. Here is a link though: Sky's Advent Calendar

One more thing. ThisChickReads is hosting a fabulous giveaway, have a look here: http://thischickreads.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/all-i-want-for-christmas-international-giveaway/


Now, here we go on with today's post:


Five songs, who touched my heart.



1. Almost Lover - A Fine Frenzy


















I can really connect to this song, sad memories. Well, I'm not crying now, just that you know, but ... This song fits perfectly to something that happened about two years ago.
I still love this song, it's really emotional and beautiful, love the piano. I downloaded the score as soon as I heard the song and love to play it on the piano and sing =).

2. Fine by Me - Andy Grammer

















Somehow I couldn't find the official video, that's weird, but here is the song anyway.
Great song, great singer!!! Wish a guy would sing something like this for me once...

3. Head Over Heels - Alain Clark


Wow, so romantic ♥. Amazing singer and artists. I already saw him live three times and every single concert was so special. The first time I heard him was at a Bryan Adams concert and you could say I fell head over heels for him and his music.
















4. Already Gone - Kelly Clarkson
















Beautiful song, great music, amazing singer! Love Kelly Clarkson and her voice, it's so special and her songs are wonderful. I could name you so many great ones of her ...

5. Falling For You - Nick Howard
















I heard Nick for the first time at a Boyce Avenue concert. Then I kind of lost touch of his music. Last year I watched The Voice of Germany as usual and then he was there. What a nice surprise!! =) And he won the thing!!! His songs are emotional and come from the heart. What an awesome musician. I went to his concert last June and it was amazing, there were not that many people (only because of the space) and it was real intimate. 




















Hope you all enjoyed the five songs, there would be many more, but I had to chose...
The artists on Twitter:
- A Fine Frenzy: @AFineFrenzy
- Andy Grammer: @andygrammer
- Alain Clark: @AlainClark
- Kelly Clarkson: @kelly_clarkson
- Nick Howard: @nickhowardmusic