I cannot believe Christmas is only 5 days away! I couldn't be more excited, but then I remembered I hadn't shared my holiday looks blog yet! Oops. It's been a crazy month to say the least. I hope these looks will give you some inspo to feel your best for all of your remaining holiday events! You can click the links or photos under the image to shop.
If you are like me and still finding those last minute gifts, check out each of my gift guides below:
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Baking cookies around the holidays is one of my favorite things to do with Daphnie. We could spend all day just baking cookies - and eating them of course! Baked goods make great gifts. This year we decided to make a bunch of my favorite classic Chocolate Chip Cookies (I included the recipe below!) and give them to the special everyday people in our lives that you typically wouldn't think to give a gift to such as our mailman, UPS and Fedex drivers, barista and neighbors.
I was so happy to find these holiday TakeAlongs® containers at Walmart - they have the perfect Christmas colors: red, green and new this year - gold! I grabbed the red and green TakeAlongs® in the smaller sizes for the cookie gifts but also got the larger gold TakeAlongs® for taking holiday dishes to family gatherings.
This year has been a busy one for us in terms of delivered packages with the blog, so I really felt like giving to our package deliverers was important. Our mailman is so nice and always strikes up a conversation when he's dropping off packages. UPS is extremely efficient and always on time. Our Fedex lady always leaves dog treats for Cupcake and Thor. These people all work so hard to keep our world moving and we appreciate them so much, so we put together up a little TakeAlongs® container full of cookies for each of them and handed them out while they were delivering our packages. They were all so excited and to see the joy on Daphnie's face was priceless!
Daphnie and I both love giving gifts, so we really enjoy doing things like this for other people. I love to see how excited she gets when she lights up someone's day and with something as simple as a little container of home baked goods to show our appreciation and acknowledgement of their hard work.
Scroll down for the recipe to my favorite Chocolate Chip cookies- they are soft and melt in your mouth. I've never seen anyone just eat one.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
makes approx 3 dozen
1/2 Cup Shortening
1/2 Cup Butter (room temp)
3/4 Cup Sugar
3/4 Cup Light Brown Sugar
2 Large Eggs
1.5 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Baking Soda
2 3/4 Cups Flour
12 oz SemiSweet Chocolate Chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In mixer cream shortening, butter and both sugars on medium until smooth. Add eggs and mix well. Then add Vanilla, salt and Baking Soda. Slowly add flour. Remove from mixer and fold in chocolate chips.
Bake at 350 degrees for 6 minutes (for softer, chewy cookies)
There is no better feeling on Christmas morning than seeing all of the joy on your kiddos face as they open all of the gifts that you (and santa) carefully and thoughtfully selected for them! I love giving gifts and always look forward to Christmas morning with my family!
Below are a few of the many many many items on Daphnie's list this year. So many of them are hot toys/gifts this year so if you can get your hands on them, I suggest buying immediately. I added a few different places to buy most of the items if they can be purchased from different stores.
I also found all of these ideas, and more and gathered them for you on my Amazon page:
Purple is Daphnie's favorite color and she is all about fur this winter! This adorable fur pom beanie is perfect and so soft, it also comes in a cream color!
These little furry kitties are so cute! Daphnie got one earlier this year but put another one on her Christmas list. They come in a variety of colors, and there is even have a unicorn and a dragon style. This little thing is adorable and surprisingly inexpensive, under $15! I found a few colors here that are around $12! Hover over/click each of the colors/styles below to see the price.
This fluffy cotton candy animal has caught Daphnie's eye every time we stroll through Target, she of course added it to the top of her Christmas list. They may be hard to find, I suggest ordering online and picking up in store if you can - they will sell out fast.
6. Moj Moj Claw Machine
Now this toy is at the tippity top of Daphnie's Christmas List this year. They are selling out fast and are hard to find! I suggest snagging one asap!
If you've followed along for a bit now, you know that we are super techy in our house. I love that our Amazon Echo can act as an assistant and help control things in the house. The new Kids Echo Dot is kid-friendly and ready to act as a DJ, storyteller or just answer all of those random questions that kiddos can come up with. Click the image above to shop!
8. Kano Harry Potter Coding Wand
We showed this on our Instagram HERE last month. Since then we have had so much fun with it! I love that it teaches Daphnie coding while she's playing games and making her way through the Wizarding World of Harry Potter!
9. Pooey Puitton
Check out Daphnie's YouTube review on this toy HERE! She loves playing with all of the fun sparkly slime. The names are pretty clever too!
If you had a little girl last year, you most likely know all about the LOL Surprise! ball that everyone went crazy for last year. There were a limited amount available, so if you got your hands on one, you were lucky - I have an amazing husband that went and stood in line for one. This year it seems like they made more of them in anticipation of the demand, so I haven't seen them out of stock yet, but who knows when that could change?
12. Ugg Cozy Slipper
I included these on my gift guide last year in pink, they are so cute and fluffy! There is nothing better than slipping your feet into these slippers when you get home - or to run to cheer practice! The bottom is sturdy so they can be worn outdoors!
I don't know about you, but I cannot wait for Christmas morning! I hope that this guide helps you and gives you some great ideas of what to buy the special little girl (s) in your life!
I hope you all have a great holiday!
I am so far behind on all of my Christmas shopping, we are under a month away and I have hardly started! All of the shopping I have done has been online - it's the easiest way, and to be honest the only way I've been able to shop so far this season. With all of the shipping/pickup/delivery options, it's been easier than ever. While shopping I've been compiling my own wishlist - along with a few of my most favorite purchases lately! I hope this list gives you some really great ideas.
