On the first day of Christmas, Domestic Sluttery gave to me... pretty decorations to make my home all Christmassy.
How exciting! Day one of our Christmas competitions and as we're feeling festive we're kicking off with some Christmas decorations. Our lovely sponsors Natural History have put a whole bunch of decorations together for you. You could win one of these.
Or some of these.
Or some of these!
Actually, you'll win a whole bunch of decorations in a surprise package worth £25. Making your Christmas very pretty indeed.
What do you have to do to win? Just leave a comment below telling us what it is that you're most looking forward to over Christmas. Get us in the festive mood, tell us about your love for boxing day or taking the kids to see Santa, or staying up on Christmas because you're too excited to sleep. We wanna hear it all. You've got until 8pm tonight to enter, and we'll draw a winner at random and announce tomorrow. Good luck everyone!
Oh yawn, small print (read it). The competition will close at 8pm on December 1st. You must be UK based AND leave a name with your comment so that we know who you are! If you're anon your entry won't count and if you enter more than once, we'll discount all of your entries and tell you off. We're not allowed to enter our own competitions, but Siany is very excited about mulled wine. And mulled cider. Mulled everything, basically. If it's not hot and full of cinnamon sticks, she really doesn't want to know.
Being able to mull cider and wine in front of a proper fire with my family. I have been mulling at my flat but it's just not the same without slippers and a fire. I love to mull and so should you. :)
ReplyDeleteI am most looking forward to not having to get up so early every day and spending more time with my children at a very exciting time of the year. ( I am not looking forward to the stress of cooking Christmas dinner for 11 though!)
ReplyDeleteWhat I love is not having to explain why I'm wearing a sparkly top... my boys' faces on Christmas morning... and being able to pour a cheeky Baileys at any time of the day!
ReplyDeleteChristmas Day with my parents, husband, sister & sister-in-law. Ordinary I know but when we arranged this we thought it may be the last Christmas with us all together as my Dad had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma for the second time BUT he got the all clear last month so this makes it a celebration now which we're all really excited about.
ReplyDeleteThis year will be the first my other half and I spend the big day on our own, rather than going our separate ways to the parents. So I'm very much looking forward to starting our own family traditions which will hopefully last a very long time (such as starting on the mulled wine and Bucks Fizz the second my eyes are open!).
ReplyDeletehaving my beautiful baby boy home over the festive period as he was 2 weeks old and in hospital last year :) very excited!
ReplyDeleteI love, love, love giving presents. I love working out what to give to who, making gifts, wrapping them and seeing folks faces when they open their presents.
ReplyDeleteI love putting up my Christmas tree and the excitement that I get home from work every evening and turn on the sparkling white lights. Simple but beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI'm most looking forward to the cheesy and wondrous Christmas music compilations my husband has made. I've no idea what's on them as he's hidden them and won't tell me anything about them. But judging by the chuckling that's gone on during compilation, I'm expecting great things. I plan to be decorating the tree, sipping homemade rosehip brandy and shouting along to, I don't know, a Bing Crosby/David Bowie mash-up of The Little Drummer Boy or a ska version of Jungle Bells(sorry neighbours...). Can't blimmin' wait, me!
ReplyDeleteI am most looking forward to the days off spent curled up on the sofa watching cheesey movies eating lots of yummy food and looking at the christmas tree sparkling and the lights dancing off the decorations
ReplyDeleteGoing home from University and getting to hug my family, my friends and my cat. You just can't hug people or cats properly on skype.
ReplyDeleteAnd obviously my mum's quality cooking.
I'm most looking forward to snuggling up on the cold winter nights - last year we were away in New Zealand over Christmas so it was sunny and we had a barbecue!
ReplyDeleteSpending time relaxing for once, going to see the Nutcracker and alone time with my family with no-one from the outside world trying to get in!
ReplyDeleteThe most exciting thing about Christmas this year for me will be eating lots of salmon and drinking champagne on Christmas morning while listening to 'Stay Another Day' by East 17 on repeat.
ReplyDeleteIt is the combination of all the Christmassy things: Christmas Markets, mulled wine, mince pies, cheesy songs, Christmas carols, my son's excitement when he opens each window of his Advent Calendar... but most of all, meeting friends for festive meals out!
ReplyDeletegetting lovely and plump full of roast potatoes!
ReplyDeleteGoing home to my family for the first time in three years, and bringing my boyfriend and the guinea pigs with me.
ReplyDeleteI'm most looking forward to a gentle Christmas, with more time spent on and with each other this year, making unexpected treats for friends and family, being a domestic goddess (in a slutty kind of way, of course) in the kitchen, and generally getting back to some basics of what Christmas is all about.
ReplyDeleteMost Christmases I look forward to that last minute dash around town on Christmas eve, picking up those last few finishing touches, then relaxing with a gingerbread latte. Snowballs before bed.. Christmas dinner.. ALWAYS tastes wayy better than any other roast dinner! Fire on full blast, watching Christmas films.. Christmas day naps always seem to be the best naps ever. Love those! ha
ReplyDeleteThis year tho, I'm mostly looking forward to seeing my baby as my second scan is on the 28th December! :)
Having a helping hand with all the cooking, unwrapping of presents and drinking all the festive fizz
ReplyDeleteAs much as I love my family, and my love of anything that tastes of cinnamon knows no bounds (i've been tempted to eat a scented candle) what I am most look forward to is dressing my sausage dog up as a reindeer...
ReplyDeleteFamily, friends, good cheer...
ReplyDeleteYeah, yeah, yeah...I'm looking forward to all of the chocolate! One per day in my advent calendar...at least!!
Oooh the thing I most look forward to is the Lincoln Christmas Market and I'm going tonight! There's mulled wine, beer, Baileys hot chocs, and SO many stalls selling everything Christmassy! Think Scandi-style tree decorations, hand-knitted scarves and mittens, cards and wrap and lots of gift ideas too.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things I'm most looking forward to is Christmas Eve at my folks house in France. Mum loves Christmas so the house will be all traditionally festive & the whole of our small family will laugh so much we cry. The wine will flow, and we'll tumble upstairs to bed with smiles ready for a lovely lazy Christmas day.
ReplyDeleteThe run-up: singing carols in the park with my housemates, the day before we all go our separate ways for Christmas. We've done it previously with Irish coffees and the mince pies they hand out (a lovely community feel in a city, which this country girl loves!) I think we'll have friends back again for mulled wine and hot sausage rolls. A proper celebration before family times. I'm very excited now!
ReplyDeletewrapping up warm for walk in the countryside followed by tasty eats by log fire
ReplyDeleteBaileys and a bar of Dairy Milk for breakfast on Christmas morning. IT IS ON.
ReplyDeleteWalking around with all the Christmas lights up in town- everything looks so much better with fairy lights!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to spending Christmas with the in-sins hopefully hangover-free. Two years ago when we were last there I was suffering the after-effects of a mixture of gin, champagne, white wine, red wine, and whiskey consumed later on Christmas Eve with friends. Hopefully this year I will be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and will go bellringing and sing hymns at church and help cook lunch etc. :)
ReplyDeleteGetting all christmassy in the kitchen making homemade gifts for the family whilst sipping on Mully and listening to some lovely old Christmas tunes....yay!
ReplyDeletei know its boring and predictable but i like having everyone round. I get to cook in my kitchen at my own pace and someone else can wash up!! When my dad was alive we had a german xmas at my parents on Christmas eve, which was always lovely. I've not felt able to do that again yet but am getting used to english christmas with stockings in the morning and opening presents throughout the day.
ReplyDeleteAll in all though its the someone else doing the washing up bit that probably makes me smile ;)
nicky
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waking up on christmas day with my lovely boyfriend in our own home, together, for the first time :)
ReplyDeleteHaving anything I like for Christmas morning breakfast :D When I was a kid it was chocolate but now I'm 23 I'm much older and wiser and grown up....so my stepdad makes me a deep fried Mars Bar :D :D
ReplyDeleteAlso sitting on the stairs with my mum and the dog while my stepdad goes into the living room to check 'Santa's been'...heaven forbid they ever live in a bungalow, so intently is this tradition part of Christmas for me!
Homemade warm mince pies with cream, boxing day games with the best and her family, and the fact that it's perfectly acceptable to drink mulled wine from the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep/pass out.
ReplyDeleteThe anticipation as I get to St Pancras with all my presents for people, knowing I have a whole 10 days to spend with my family, being myself and having fun.
ReplyDeleteAdvent! I do an advent swap each year with people I don't know, we send out 25 wrapped pressies to a complete stranger, and recieve the same in return from someone else. Today is Day 1 and I got a mars advent calendar - yum!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to seeing my kids open thier stockings on the big day! Its the first year the eldest has properly understood Christmas and it will be so exciting!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to put up the Christmas decorations and see my crazy cat climb the tree and attack the baubles! I just hope we don't have any more chewed fairy light wires this year...
ReplyDeleteI'm most looking forward to giving people presents! Best bit of Christmas. :)
ReplyDeletecatching up with family I haven't seen since last Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI'm most looking forward to the Christmas tradition I have with my daughter, we go & collect the tree & carry it home together (nice incentive to stay local!). We always have such a laugh & for us it marks the beginning of Christmas :)
ReplyDeleteI'm most looking forward spending my first Christmas with my fiancée in our new home. I can't wait to get the Christmas tree up and would love to have some shiny new decorations to start our own collection.
ReplyDeleteThis year is going to be extra special, as it will be my grandsons first christmas. Can't wait to see his reaction to the lights, decorations etc. I will be spending the big day with all of my children, my son-in-law and grandson - it's going to be noisy, hectic and exhausting - I can't wait!!
ReplyDeleteI am most looking forward to having Christmas twice!! We are celebrating Christmas on the 10th December as my fiance is working away over Christmas and into the new year (sob story). On the plus side it does mean double turkey and maybe even double presents too!
ReplyDeletePlaying with my kitten, puppy and pony. This year surely will be the year I get them all?
ReplyDeleteWhat I look forward to most, is being able to bake as many cupcakes as I want and having plenty of people to share with so no one notices just how many I eat myself (Its obvious if theres only two of your how many one person ate)
ReplyDeleteAs odd as it sounds, I'm looking forward to going to Pizza Hut. It's a Christmas Eve Eve tradition amongst the girls I was lucky enough to share my sixth-form days with, and it'll be great to see them all again, since we all live so far apart now!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to having some space to exhale! A few days to relax, clean the slate, calm my frantic heart and gather my legs back under me ready for the New Year :) And if those days involve a bottle of whisky and cosy pyjamas on the couch, I ain't complaining!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to being home from uni this Christmas and not working on Christmas day for the 1st year in forever!! Also I'm wishing for snow - snowball fights with the very much missed best friend would make it perfect. (ps. major cravings for home made Christmas pudding! Am I allowed so many Christmas excitments?)
ReplyDeleteI love the whole Christmas period, Christmas Eve the excitement in the house with Father Christmas on his way, homemade mince pies and a glass of mulled cider, Christmas Day playing games, eating and this year 2hrs of Downton Abbey!! This followed by a jim jam day where a lazy day is had, playing with toys and presents and snuggling up to watch a movie with hot chocolate! Cannot wait!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to having a non-christmas christmas day with my boyfriend. As he will be 300 miles away on christmas day, were having a pretend xmas with stockings, food, xmas films and wine a few days before. Two christmases in one!
ReplyDeleteI am most looking forward to getting out of the city to visit my parents, drinking a little bit too much wine with my mum and cuddling up with my boyfriend and puppy in front of the log burner. And sleep :)
ReplyDeleteBetty
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I am looking forward to seeing my family who all live at the opposite end of the country, Mum's proper gravy mmmmmmmm. I am looking forward to decorating the Christmas tree we read a story about Christmas memories and then decorate the tree, with something that reminds us of the current year.
ReplyDeleteI wish I was saying something original, or witty. But it's got to be seeing my lovely family, all joking and laughing in one room, that has to be what I'm looking forward to most. Eating until I feel ill and further perfecting my gravy recipe is a close second, but not close enough!
ReplyDeleteMy big brother coming home from America for good :D And seeing my sister and niece :D Just general family time is what Christmas is all about for me.
ReplyDeleteAnd watching the Muppets Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve - best tradition ever!!
I can't decide between christmas TV (The Red Shoes, in particular), or the disproportionate pride I'll take in decorating the foot-high real tree shortly to be installed in my teeny studio flat!
ReplyDeleteIce Skating at Somerset house! Watching my husband open a present everyday from the advent calendar. A weekend of making presents for our family. Oh and most of all making our Christmas card photo- us in front of our double decker bus home : ) for the last time - before we sell it next year : (.
ReplyDeleteOn Christmas i most look forward to stuffing myself so much that I celebrate the birth of elasticated wastebands over the birht of Jesus. - Malgosia Orlinska
I'm looking forward to going home to my mum and having her look afte me. I've lived the other side of the country for 3 years now, and this is the first time I'll have been home for christmas since I've moved.
ReplyDeleteOh, and seeing my gorgeous niece opening all her presents - she's just turned 3, so it'll be a proper Christmas for her!
I'm looking forward to finding out what the Xmas day surprise is in my hello kitty advent calendar. Yes, I'm 30 and still like an excuse to have chocolate for breakfast for a whole month. It's what makes winter days worthwhile.
ReplyDeleteTurkey.... free range bronze from our local turkey farmer. Nom Nom Nom!
ReplyDeleteThat and my 3year old son opening his amazing pirate ship Christmas present
This is the first christmas in a few years that the 'Big C' hasn't been hovering over the celebrations. So I shall celebrate my all clear at christmas by drinking way too many cocktails, eating cheesecake and making plans for the years to come. I also have a new kitten and I can't wait to see her face when the twinkly christmas tree goes up ...
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to seeing my 2 1/2 year old goddaughter's face when she opens her Christmas presents! I'm also looking forward to spending my first Christmas with friends (we are planning to spend the day in pyjamas eating chocolate!).
ReplyDeleteI am most excited about the pre-Christmas that I have with friends on the 23rd each year with thousands of pigs in blankets, wine and moustaches. The next morning we go bowling - we're all in our twenties and it's awesome.
ReplyDeleteI am most excited about being at home for the first time in a year and hoping hoping hoping that my young brother isn't too hungover to get out of bed for Christmas Day...like last year!
ReplyDeleteIm looking forward to filling my house with the smells of christmas, mince pices, mulled wine, spiced apple, ginger bread. Mmmmm
ReplyDeleteI'm most looking forward to sitting on the sofa in my new house, mince pie and mulled wine in hand, watching Elf on the TV.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to dressing my niece up as an elf and taking her to the beach on Christmas morning to watch me do the Santa swim..bbrrrrrr
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to going back to Brighton to visit my mum and my cats! And to eat lots and LOTS of homemade chutney and cheese and stuffing sandwiches and chocolates off the tree and sitting under a blanket watching Wallace and Gromit and arguing with my siblings like we're teenagers again. BLISS!
ReplyDeletePutting the tree up with all the presents under it and then curling up with some mulled wine and watching a christmas morning
ReplyDeleteA massive roast cause I'm a poor poor student!
ReplyDeleteI'm mainly looking forward to mid-week naps and watching Xmassy films. Also walking through town in a woolly hat under the twinkly lights!
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to everything about Christmas!
ReplyDeleteDrinking snowballs, without a look of disdain or pity from onlookers. Yes it was cool in the seventies, and yes I'm looking to bring back a revival! Who's with me?!
ReplyDeleteBeing with my lovely girlfriend for our first Christmas :)
ReplyDeleteMulled wine! And mulled cider! And mulled...champagne? X
ReplyDeleteam looking forward to trying the Christmas cake I have made for the first time ever. And watching the children's faces fill with joy and wonder when they come downstairs on Christmas morning.
ReplyDelete2 Christmas dinners- one from my parents and one from my partner!
ReplyDeleteSeeing my little nephew on his first Christmas day! He might not know what's going on, but he'll be spoilt rotten!
ReplyDeleteWrapping presents - I love it! So the bit I'm looking forward to most is when I have everything wrapped to perfection and stacked up under the tree, log fire lit, and glass of wine poured ready to settle down and wait for Santa! Molly x
ReplyDeleteThis Christmas is a bit of a special one as it is the last Christmas in the way it has always been. I'm getting married next year so my Matey and I are doing our own Christmas as usual before going off to parents. Next year it will all be different and new traditions will have to be made. This year it is all about making mince pies with my Mum, polishing the copper with my Dad and drinking Smoking Bishop (a mulled wine recipe found in 'A Christmas Carol') while cooking Christmas Lunch.
ReplyDeleteSeeing the look on my children's faces when they see what Santa has left.
ReplyDeleteHaving my husband at home this years as he have to work last Christmas as he is in the ambulance service, looking forwards to a complete family Christmas
ReplyDeleteI am most looking forward to impressing my in-laws (for the first time ever!) with my Christmas dinner skills. We have never had Christmas at our house before and it is scary, but exciting!
ReplyDeleteThe Christmas Day telephone call from my brother in Australia
ReplyDeleteI am most looking forward to the cooking part ( in the run up not on the day!) I just love the baking and decorating of cakes and cookies! x
ReplyDeleteI have a Christmas tree overloaded with decoration from over 20 years of collecting, from since I got married. There's no theme or colour scheme, but every year there's another handmade decoration from one or both of our boys which goes on. New lights go on every few years to replace those which have gone. It's overloaded with decorations. What makes it special is my husband loves it too, but the best thing is after locking up at night and putting off the house lights and all is quiet I stand and admire the twinkling lites on a tree overloaded with decoartions, every one has a story behind it and I get that same feeling of the anticipation of Christmas day like when I was a little girl. There are few things in life to take you back to when you were young, but my Christmas tree does that for me.
ReplyDeleteThis year will the first Christmas I spend with my kids in our new home.. I'm a single mother of three teenagers now.. But when I started this journey of buying a home they were much younger... It took me over 5 years of disappoints, tears, and faith to be here.. I always believed and taught my kids were there is hope and faith , and the power of loyalty.. That they could doing what ever their hearts desired.. We love our home and love to have beautiful decoration and a tree to sit around and smile. Thank you, Sherry,Dallas,Dalton,Haley!
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