My Flourishing Retrospect Overview 2018

I can’t believe how fast time has gone.  One day I was creating my first blog, the next its 4 years later I’ve change the name and focused more on what I wanted to blog about and I've created a blog that I'm so proud of.  This New Years I want to kind of use this post as a reflection on what my blog has been to me and what I’ve done to help improve it over the last 6 months.

Merry Christmas 2018

Its officially Christmas and that means this is the last of the Blogmas posts.  I want to thank everyone for joining me this month and helping me celebrate Christmas all month long.  You have no idea how much fun I’ve had writing these post, chatting with you all on Twitter, and reading what you all have written for Blogmas.

30 Blogmas Post Ideas

Its never to early to plan for Blogmas next year, and in my second to last post of the season.  While I was planning all of these post I began writing them back in October just so that I was able to post as many days as I could. 

The possibilities for Blogmas are endless, and this holiday season I though my no share a few of my Blogmas ideas.  If you're planing on participating in Blogmas next year, I would highly recommend that you plan 2 month in advance.  You never know what can come up during the holidays.  Instead of preparing post one day ahead try to plan them about a month or two in advance.  Thats what I did for Blogmas this year and I’ so happy I did.  Now let's get started to see what you could write for Blogmas next year.

Christmas Stocking Stuffer Ideas 2018

When it comes to Christmas stockings stuffers, I’m always trying to come up with cute and small items that I can put in my stockings.  Each and every year it's a struggle to think of new things that I can get.  So this year I though why not share with you a list of items that you can put in everyones stockings this year.

The 12 Games of Christmas Wishlist 2018

Since Christmas is getting closer I thought I would do a 12 games of Christmas post!  This is a list of all the games that I have been really interested in playing and I can’t wait to play.  Some of these game are not release yet so I still have to wait if I want to play them.  So let's get see what games do I want to play.

Christmas Breakfast Ideas

Every Christmas I try and make something new for breakfast each year.  Well, for todays Blogmas post number 20, I’m going to be sharing a few Christmas breakfast ideas that you can make.  You don’t have to make anything super fancy unless you want too.  There are so many creative ideas on Pinterest that have sparked my interest on what I want to make this year.  So let's get to all they yummy ideas!

Homemade Hot Cocoa Recipe

If you’ve been following my Twitter then you’ve probably see me talk about my homemade hot cocoa.  Well, Christmas has come early today as I decided to dedicate this 19th Blogmas post to the recipe that I use to make my homemade cocoa.  The great thing about this recipe is how malleable it be.  For those of you that are vegan or can’t eat any dairy products this recipe could be changed to fit your wants.

Fluffy and Soft Donuts Recipe

For todays Blogmas post.  I have decided to share my new favorite recipe for soft, melt in your mouth doughnuts.  But don’t tell anyone ok, this will be our little secret.  Now before I continue, this is not my recipe.  I found this recipe over at The 350 Degree Oven and now I’m sharing my find with you.

These have to be the best doughnuts that I have ever mad at home.  The last time I made doughnuts at home, I basically wanted to throw them out the window because of how frustrating they were, nothing was turning out right  But now, I no longer have those issues with this new recipe!

My Favorite Things About Christmas 2018

There are so many things to love about Christmas, its impossible to just a few things since there so much to love about this holiday.  So for todays 8th Blogmas post.  I will list off a few things that I love about the holiday season.  I will try to keep my list to a minimum since I could probably go on for ever about the things I love about Christmas.  So lets get into this!

Nancy Drew Games to Play This Christmas Season

It's that time of year again to pull out all of my favorite games to play this winter. Since I don’t get snow where I live, I can’t very well look outside and have a white snowy day. So I can only do the next best thing. So this Christmas season I will be playing all my favorite Nancy Drew games to get into the wintery spirit!  So let's get started!

Simple Ways to Decorate a Christmas Cake

As Christmas is coming closer my baking itch is starting up again to the point of where all I want to do is bake a cake.  Well, this year I’m going to share a few design idea that anyone can make!  Any of these designs will fit any recipes you want to create for your very own Christmas cake.  So let's get started!

What to Bake This Christmas 2018

When it comes to the holidays there are so things to make that you normally wouldn’t make in the off season of the holidays.  Well, this year I plan on baking anything and everything I can this year, I want to make as many desserts as I can before the end of the holiday season.  Now all I have to do is figure out what to bake this year.

Christmas Gift Ideas for a Gamer

When it comes to gamers, I would like to think that we are very simple.  Especially when it comes to buying gifts for Christmas.  Well, if you don’t play video games then knowing what to buy for a gamer is probably one of the hardest things to figure out.  Well, this year all your prayers can be answered on my quick list of items you can buy for the gamer in your life.

Video Games

This one is probably a no brainer when it comes to buying gift.  However there are so many games to choose from that you could probably get lost on what to buy.  The simple solution to this problem is this.  Look at the games they own and look for recommendations online based on what they play.  Just make sure that the game will work on their device before you buy it.

Headsets

Headsets are a gamers lifeline to having great sound to listen to storyline or to just keep their game from distracting others around them.  There are so many headsets your can get such as ear buds and the nice and expensive headset.  Now what ever headset you decided to get them remember that we as gamers want to experience really good sound quality that will make the gaming experience amazing.

Giftcards

Now sometimes it's hard to pick what kind of video games you would think a gamer would like.  Well, if your unsure about what game to buy then you can easily buy them a gift card so they can pick and choose the games themselves.  Before you buy just any gaming gift card make sure that it a place that they play games from.  For example Steam, Playstation, or Xbox/Microsoft just to name a few.

Snacks

While playing games, it always fun to have snacks on hand and buying a gamers favorite treat is one of the best things to give them.  It can be candy, pop corn, beef jerky, or whatever they love to snack on.  I would also recommend that you probably get them one of the other gifts above since they will probably look at you confused if you just give them a random food item.

I hope this helps everyone with a gamer in their life.  This is just a few of the simple things I though would make giving a video gamer for Christmas easier.  I kind of based this off of what I would want for as a gamer, but if you have any other suggestions then please commenting them below, I would love to read you suggestions and ideas.

Until next time,

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Favorite Christmas Movies 2018

Its Blogmas day 5 and I’m getting super excited for Christmas!  Now the only thing that will help put me in the holiday mood is Christmas movies!  There are so many good Christmas movies out that its almost impossible to list them all in one post.  So for today I decided to list my top 5 Christmas movies.  So let's get started!

Christmas iPhone Wallpaper

Were on day 9 of Blogmas and todays post is going to be a little shorter than my other post.  Today I’m sharing 5 cute Christmas wallpaper themes!  I have been scavenging Pinterest for some super cute wallpapers and today I thought I would share with everyone my finds.  To keep this post short, I will only be sharing about 6 since that will take up quite a bit of the page.

Cookies to Bake This Holiday

 

As I’ve said in previous post, I just love to bake and I have so many ideas of what I want to bake this year.  Well, this year is the year where I’m really in the mood to bake a bunch of cookies of all different kinds.  From the usual cookies that I love to bake with a bunch of new ones that I’ve just been recently introduced too.

12 Kind Things To Do This Christmas

I hope everyone is have fun this Blogmas.  Were on to Blogmas post number 4.  I’ve been having so much fun writing all of these and I though, since this is the season for giving why don’t I share with everyone a few acts of kindness you can do this season.  There are so many kind and selfless things you can do this holiday season and this year I want to share just a few things that everyone can do this year!

Custom Christmas Ornament ~ Review

As my Blogmas post continue, I’ve been looking up a bunch of different things I could do and this year I found the cutest thing I could possible ever find and that is a custom Christmas ornament.  I fell in love with the idea the second I laid eyes on it.  After adding my two kitties into my family I needed to get something to remember my family members and kitties and puppies.  So for this post I’m going to be reviewing my cute new ornament today.

Rolled Out Sugar Cookie Recipe

Since it is getting closer to Christmas I wanted to share with everyone my favorite sugar cookie recipe.  I just love using this roll out sugar cookie recipe.  It helps make the cutest sugar cookies cut outs and I use this recipe every year since I found it 4 years ago.  This recipes not only look cute when you use your cookie cutters but they also hold their shape while they bake!  These are easy to make and I can't wait to make another batch.

Best Way to Buy Christmas Gifts

When it comes to holiday shopping, I think this is one of the hardest things to do during the holiday season.  I know I struggle when it comes to thinking up of gift ideas.  It almost to the point to where I just ask people to give me a list of items they would want or like as a gift.  Well, for this post I’m going to give everyone suggestions on how they can shop for gifts this holiday season.  There are so many ways you can sneakily ask people if they like this or that or just want to figure out what they want.

My Favorite Christmas Music 2018

Ah Christmas music, one of the best ways to get into the holiday season.  For some, I’m one of the few people that begin listening to it in November instead of the beginning of December.  Well, now is the time to share what I’m going to be listening to this Christmas!

When It Feels Like Christmas 2018

When it comes to Christmas time, theres just a special feeling in the air that make me just happy and joyful.  I don’t really know what exactly causes this feeling but its just something that I look for every Christmas.  Sometimes is super easy to find while other times its just a tad more difficult.  So I thought I would share with you when it feels like Christmas to me.

12 Days of Blogmas Tag

As of today, December 1st, I’m officially doing Blogmas!  Or should I say the 25 days of Blogmas!  This is the second time I'm attempting all 25 days, the first time didn't go so well but this year will be different.  Today starts the first day of posts and I can’t wait to share with you all my new post for this holiday season.  So today’s post is a Christmas tag, I compiled all the questions I could think of and I hope you all enjoy!