When winter suddenly arrived

It was around 9 o'clock in the morning. I was woken up by noises coming from outside. I was familiar with the noise, but I could't figure out what exactly it was. I hadn't heard it for more than two years. It took me a moment to figure out what it was. My thought on what it could be was just so surreal. I glanced out of the window and my eyes needed a second to adjust to the light coming from outside. What beauty. All year I've been waiting for this! The neighbours houses were buried underneath a rather thick layer of snow. I got really excited and looked ran to the other side of the house to see whether it would be the same in my garden. And it was. The pines were covered in white and so was the rest of the garden.

I sprinted downstairs and outside, into the garden and I just didn't care anymore. I didn't care about wearing a cozy animal onesie. I didn't care about what others would think if they saw me. I didn't care about the freezing cold. I felt like a child again. I grabbed a pile of snow and threw it. Then I smiled and went back inside with the greatest amount of satisfaction one can possibly achieve on a weekday morning.

What I got for Christmas

So first of all: I am not showing this to brag, but simply to show you what I got for Christmas. Maybe this will help you to find a gift for a loved one next year or inspire you to find something to wish for for an upcoming occasion. So I hope you'll enjoy this:

 I was given a adidas tracksuit for track and field. I've been wearing the bottoms the whole day, just because they're sooo nice and cozy.

 This is what I was given to by my lovely friends. Just some really nice and thoughtful gifts. If I am honest I really liked these because I didn't know what I was going to get and I just love surprises. Especially if a person really knows me. Thank you <3.
Happy Holidays to all of you.

Holiday spirit

The Christmas spirit is present everywhere. In the city. At school. At work. At university. But especially at home. I distributed festive items all around the house. Here are a couple of them:

 My selection of wintery yankee candle scents. I like the votive-ones most for seasonal scents, as a) they last quite a long time and b) I can take a variety of scents, so I can have a new one every two weeks of December, to get into a Christmas mood.
I started off with angels wings (or something...) and am currently at Christmas wreath. The next one will be the cranberry pear votive. I tried using them by how festive they smell.

 Another thing I did was to get my most festive bedding out which, as you can probably see, isn't festive at all. But I like to imagine that those dots are baubles and the white little dots are sparkles...
We definitely need some imagination here....

 The next compulsory Christmas item is are Christmas PJ-Bottoms with a matching,baggy, long-sleeved top.

 And you'll need some FAKE reindeer antlers. I've heard that you'll get in trouble if get the real thing....with Father Christmas....(yup, that was a bad Christmas joke.. sorry)

 Nobody can say something against this mini desk Christmas tree. It's pre-decorated, it doesn't loose all it's needles after a week, it is environmentally friendly (because you're not chopping down thousands of trees) and it's lightweight. Also there's a golden, glittery pug with wings underneath.

 Don't exactly know what this is, but apparently you can put tea lights inside and it looks good..

 Awww.. Look at this pretty fawn/deer....Doesn't it look pretty???

 This year's official Christmas tree.................Happy Holidays

Christmas nails

In a couple of days Christmas is finally here...Excitement...I wonder what Father Christmas is gonna bring ;)
I am already well prepared for this special season. At least my nails are.
End of October I bought some christmassy nails.

I chose red ones with a fair-isle print and penguin ones which both looked very cute. Each pack came with 24 nails and glue to make sure that they fit on every nail size, even though I think that you need a certain length and shape of fingernail for them to fit properly.

 The penguin nails lasted for about 3-4 days, which was probably due to me not putting enough glue on my nails. They also kind of cracked and the black colour went off at the top of the nail. The fair-isle ones lasted for 11 days, or so, but 3 fell off (because of basketball...) which I simply stuck back on with the glue. They didn't crack and the colour didn't go off.

A lot of people asked me whether I did them myself because they looked very natural (..even though they were quite cheap..), but what I liked most about them was the fact that they looked great even though I didn't put a lot of effort nor time (I was doing them while watching YT vids) into them.

I prefer these glue-on nails a whole lot more than regular nail polish, just because they're easy and quick to apply and can't smudge, which gives you an extra 25 minutes to procrastinate.

Another plus is that my nails grew lot, without breaking, except for one, which was damaged in an horrible basketball incident...
I had to cut them anyways because of me wanting to play my guitar and piano properly.... so that's that... but if you want to have long healthy fingernails you should try this out.
Happy Holidays