Time is running so here’s the new mini guide: “5 Christmas gifts for romantics”. These little presents will be the joy of your female friends, especially those who have delicate tastes in everything. I’ve chosen them with a typology in mind: a solar soul with great enthusiasm for life, a girl who wears comfortably but always with a light, elegant touch. If you know someone who fits this description, no panic: all these ideas can be found in regular boutiques. I think Christmas gifts should be cute but useful, in this way they have a sense and low chances to be forgotten in drawers! A piece of clothing is always…
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Easy Peasy Christmas-Themed Nail Art Ideas
It’s also Christmas time for your hands! These are my four favourite manicures found on Pinterest, they are relatively easy to do. I’ll just add a few notes and their sources to help you recreating them. 1) A non conventional Christmas tree: it’s a black french manicure and an accent nail with a black, sinuous tree drawn with a permanent ink marker, as the blogger has done. If you have a black french pen, that would be the perfection! The look is refined with a white speckled effect top coat and a silver star on the top of the tree. Any white glitter top coat will be fine and the…
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Biscuits for Nostalgics – recipe
What’s better than going home and be surrounded by the scent of freshly baked warm cookies, or relaxing and releasing stress by kneading? Here’s my solution: spicy gingerbread biscuits. Out of season? No, when I keep them simple and rustic without coloured icing and traditional Christmas shapes. It’s a recipe I truly love and I keep “reworking” to suit my tastes and the difficulty of finding the molasses which makes the dough more malleable. The ingredients for about 40 biscuits are:420 gr. 0 flour100 gr. sugar120 gr. soft butter160 ml. local honey1 large egg or 3 medium eggs3/4 teaspoon of baking soda1/4 teaspoon salt2 teaspoons ground ginger *1 teaspoon ground cinnamon *1/4…
