Festive Shoes | DIY

Hello lovely friends!

It is December (obviously) and we have been invited to a couple of Christmas parties this year. There is nothing we love more than getting super festive, so when we saw these shoes, we freaked out.

But then we couldn't find them anywhere, and thought they'd be pretty easy to make, and my golly, the so are.

So, if you've been watching our Vlogmas, then you'll know we recently went to Spotlight to get some things to try this out.

All you will need are a pair of shoes of your choice: We went with these gold ballet flats from Big W

A hot glue gun + glue, and some festive pompoms (or any decoration of your choice)

Method: Heat up your hot glue gun, decide on how you want to arrange your decoration, dab some glue onto the decoration and secure into place on your shoe.

Let them dry and HOORAY. You have festive shoes. 

Super cute, super easy and super cheap. 

Claire is going to wear her's to work the week leading up to Christmas.

Let us know if you give this a go, and send us pictures! We'll love to see them.

Stay gold xx

Our Inaugural Annual Christmas Party

Hello all!

For our 19th birthday the other week, we threw a Christmas Party (of course). We are planning on making our Christmas party an annual event. Considering that this is our final year of being official teenagers, this will be a great tradition to go in to our twenties with. Christmas parties are not just work events, they are a great way of getting together with friends and celebrating the holiday.  

So, with the help of Pintrest, a couple of our parent's wedding presents and $2 shops, here are a few photos of our celebration.

Our Pimm's Punch was a great hit with everyone! 

Homemade Peanut Butter, and Hazelnut chocolate truffles

Shout-out to Alice for making peppermint chocolate bark. It was delicious!

Of course, we needed something savoury, and this mix of popcorn, pretzels and Christmas M&M's was popular. Especially when the night ended in a viewing of Love, Actually.

You cannot celebrate Christmas without some festive bon bons! Also, we had our Spotify playlist filled with hours upon hours of Christmas music in the background to set the mood. 

Gotta love this chalkboard from Typo which you can purchase here.

The night was wonderful spent with our lovely friends. It also ended with us watching Love Actually and playing a Love Actually drinking game. #wildnight

Merry Christmas! 

Apartment Christmas Decor

Hello all!

As you can tell from our Christmas tree post, we are obsessed with Christmas, and we couldn't wait to decorate the apartment all jolly and get into the Christmas spirit! So here are some ideas you can use to decorate your own place or room.

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Christmas Bunting: kikki.K $9.95 | Yellow Candlesticks: Bought by Grace's roommate, Teagan, most likely from Ikea. | Orange Vase: Op Shop | Flowers: $1 each at a cheap store

We watch The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon each night at 7:40pm on ABC2

Table Runner: Purchased a few years ago from Spotlight | Christmas Mugs: Spotlight last year, $5 | Tealight, Holders and Red Glitter: Ikea | Notebooks: Typo $16.95 (the gold one can be purchased here) | Santa Tealight Holder: Op Shop $2 | Paper Santa Hat: Purchased last year from either Big W or a cheap store?

Christmas Cat Cushion: Grace got this from an Op Shop from our hometown last year. we love how the tree is made up of cats! It is becoming a new Christmas tradition. "The Christmas Pillow". 

3m Holly Garland: Big W $5 | Christmas Aprons: Big W | Mason Jar Mugs: K-Mart $2 | Paper Santa Hat: Unknown

Advent Calendars are essential. These Cadbury Wishes calendars we got on special at Coles for $3.50 and proceeds go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. We hanged them on top of the calendar's next to the Christmas tree.

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We had so much fun decorating! A lot of this stuff we grabbed from home, such as the table runner, paper santa hats and our Christmas mugs. As you could see from our post about our christmas tree, we are going for a silver, red, white and gold theme with bits of green here and there. Our Tree at home was aways so random and busy and eclectic and we loved it s much, so this colour co-ordinaion/colour scheme is new to us. But we have found that by having a colour scheme, it makes decorating a whole lot easier and can tie the whole thing together.

We did all of our decorating on December the 1st (aka Christmas 1st!) and that night we had a group skype call with our parents and older brother at home, who were decorating their tree, and then added our Mum's side of the family who were all together and we revealed our trees and "christmas" around our homes to each other. It was all so crazy because we love Christmas so much and everyone was excited and it was just wonderful. We can't wait to travel and spend Christmas Eve/Day with them! Skype is truly an amazing thing.

Leading up to Christmas, we will be doing a range of Christmas-themed posts, as well as a few "regular" posts here and there. Kind of like a "Blogmas". So get excited for that!

I hope you enjoyed this post. Let us know your favourite part or if you have any questions in the comment section below! Also, if you have anything you'd like to see us post about, let us know and we'll try and organise something for you :)

Until next time.

Stay Fabulous!

-C