Christmas Countdown - 1 day to go - Merry Christmas Eve!

Hello everyone,

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE! 

As is tradition, I thought I would share with you a verse from the poem by Clement Clarke Moore called A Visit from St Nicholas (also known as Twas the night before Christmas)

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of sugar plums danc'd in their heads......

- Clement Clarke Moore

Hope that you all have a wonderful Christmas. Does anyone have any family traditions for what they do on Christmas eve? In my household we gather everyone together and pick one gift from under the tree and the person has to try and guess what it is and hand it around to everyone else who has to try and guess too. They then get to open the gift. It is good fun and has resulted in many hilarious guesses over the years. What are your Christmas or Christmas eve traditions? Let me know in the comment section below.

Merry Christmas everyone. Have a wonderful day tomorrow.

The Dorothy Days Xx

Christmas Countdown - 2 days to go - Zee Avi No Christmas for me

Hello everyone,

Merry Christmas Eve Eve!! How are your Christmas preparations coming along? Are you all sorted for Christmas or are you manically dashing to the shops and trying to get the food shopping?!

Today I thought I would share with you all one of my favourite Christmas songs. The song is by Zee Avi and she has such a beautiful voice and I thought it might be calming for those who are rushing around getting things ready!

She says of the song....

"This song was inspired by everything i've experienced/read/watched/heard of from movies or stories, about one's lover being far away for Christmas, be it serving in the army, college, another country, peace corps etc... In a way, it's also about not losing hope."

The Dorothy Days Xx

Christmas Countdown - 3 days to go - Dean Martin, Let it snow

Hello everyone,

Christmas is really near now with just 3 days to go....who is excited?! I certainly am! Christmas is one of my favourite times of year and I get excited about it coming soon even when it is still summer time! Thank you to everyone who has been visiting my blog and following my countdown, hope that you have enjoyed it.

Here is Dean Martin with the Christmas classic Let is Snow, the perfect music to do your Christmas gift wrapping to! Apparently this song was written on one of the hottest days on record in California which makes me feel much better about getting excited about Christmas from mid summer!

Enjoy.....




The Dorothy Days Xx

Christmas Countdown - 4 days to go - Quick and Easy Christmas Recipes

Hello everyone,

Who is in the mood to do some Christmas baking?! Today I thought I would share with you all 3 Quick and Easy Christmas Recipes by the Vlogger Tanya Burr. All of these recipes look delicious and really simple. They would be great if you were hosting your own Christmas party.

As always, please let me know in the comment section below if you try any of these. It always makes me smile getting your comments and messages.




The Dorothy Days Xx

Christmas Countdown Begins!

A RhB Ge 4/4 II with push-pull train crosses the Wiesen Viaduct between Wiesen and Filisur in Switzerland 

Pinch, Punch first of the month and the countdown to Christmas begins! Who is excited?! I will be blogging regularly throughout December and running a Christmas countdown so please come and stop by and get excited that Christmas is approaching with me!! For those who do not celebrate Christmas I will also be posting winter themed posts, style guides etc. 

Hope that you will enjoy my blog posts this month

The Dorothy Days Xx

Christmas Countdown Continued....!

Hello everyone!!

What a great December it has been so far.  I have been spending lots of time with friends and family and getting very excited about having a few days off over Christmas to totally relax. The shop has also been really busy, thank you so much to everyone who has been browsing and purchasing their Christmas gifts from my shop too. This year has been a really good year for The Dorothy Days and so I am excited to see what next year will hold for the shop and am feeling really positive and excited about the future. Here's hoping that 2014 will be a really good one.

This weekend I am hopefully going to a Christmas carol service at the local church. It is at nighttime and the church has stunning architecture so I think it is going to really make it feel like Christmas is here! Not sure I will be able to take any photographs inside but I will take my camera just incase and try and get a few snaps for the blog.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend. Hope you are enjoying December so far.

The Dorothy Days Xx

December 3rd - Christmas countdown

Hello everyone,

Day three of my Christmas countdown and I am so excited to say we bought our Christmas tree today. It is a real one and is beautiful! Makes the house smell like Christmas. It is slightly wonky admittedly and slightly too big for the room but is lovely nevertheless!! 

Had such a Christmassy day today... We also decorated the house today so now have fairy lights and these beautiful baubles hanging around the house. I started making Christmas gifts for friends and family. (I really want to share the photos of what I have been making on here but I am worried that it will ruin the surprise if I do so i will have to post them after Christmas). I have also been listening to ridiculous amounts of Christmas songs!

Hope you all have been enjoying opening you advent calendars, never too old to have one! I got a milky bar one which is delicious :) 

Hope you are all having a wonderful December so far.

The Dorothy Days Xx

The Dorothy Days - Christmas Countdown

Hello everyone,

Yesterday on my blog I said that I was going to do a Christmas countdown this year on my blog to try and get us all in the Christmasy mood. I kicked this off with Kings College choir in Cambridge singing Silent Night. The setting is stunning and the choir sounded heavenly......Today I thought I would lower the tone a little, seems as Christmas is the time of year in which you can get away with being totally cheesy, and in complete contrast to yesterday's Christmas song, would give you some Wham!

This one is for my mum who adores this song and will often be found singing it around the house at all times of the year not even just for the run up to Christmas! So turn this one up loud and have a little dance around your house to it!

Over to Mr George Michael ......

Christmas countdown! -1st December

Hello everyone,

Can you believe that it is the 1st December today?! This year seems to have flown by so fast and Christmas is going to be here before we know it. This year I am feeling very Christmasy (I am one of those annoying people who start singing Christmas songs far too early in the year!) so I want to start a Christmas countdown on my blog so hopefully it will get you all in the Christmasy mood.

To start my countdown off I thought I would share with you the choir at Kings College in Cambridge, England singing Stephen Cloebury's arrangement of Silent Night.

I hope that you enjoy it.

Happy December everyone

The Dorothy Days Xx