Fifteen Festive Questions Tag | Blogmas Day 4

Hey,

So I’ve been feeling really festive at the moment (well, it is December now) and I decided that I would answer the questions to the ‘fifteen festive questions’ tag, started by Tom Fletcher on Youtube. I think this tag is really cute and a bit of Christmas is always what I want to feel.

 What is your favourite...?

1. Festive food

I would say that my favourite festive treat is a warm mince pie. I think they are really yummy and every year me and dad make our own and they’re always really special.

2. Reindeer

So I thought this question was so cute, but I can’t come up with which would be my favourite. I think Prancer sounds cute, but Rudolf is a classic so I will just have to say that I love them all equally.

3. Day of Christmas

Ever since I was in reception, and I had the grand job of holding up a sign with it on, it’s been ‘5 golden rings’. It’s defiantly the best lyric, which is why everyone normally sings it with so much.

4. Christmas Song

Such a difficult question! Michael Buble’s Christmas album plays on repeat in my life at Christmas, I’ve already listened to it over 20 times and there’s still a while to go before the exciting day!

5. Christmas Present

I don’t know if this means the type of present or the best present I think I’ve ever had. I love getting Christmas presents that aren’t generic and show some thought, but I also love receiving bath stuff/ chocolate. My favourite Christmas present from last year was my camera (nikon coolpix camera l310) which I use all the time for photography and taking my blog photos.

6. Christmas Film

This question is such a personal one because there are so many great Christmas films but everyone prefers different ones. I would say my top three are Elf, Scrooged and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. They are my family’s favourites and are the three that are always on the top of our lists.

7. Christmas Cracker toy

Now I have interpreted this in my own way because I think it’s the paper hat. I love that a simple tradition can persuade a whole family to wear a bright paper hat and the special feeling it holds. No matter what age you are, or who you are, everyone in joined in wearing this crown.  

8. Christmas Cracker joke

Why did Santa's helper see the doctor?

Because he had a low "elf" esteem!

9. Decoration

I love decorating the house, and my room especially, at Christmas time. The tree is the best thing, but I don’t really class the tree as a decoration, more of an essential! My favourite things to put in my bedroom are my cuddly Santa claws toy I won in year 6 and my twinkly fairy lights. Hopefully I will also be doing a Christmas room decorations video this month!

10. Candle scent

My favourite Christmas candle has always been my ‘traditional Christmas’ scented candle from Homesense I bought last year. Sadly it’s just run out now, so I’m going to have to find a new Christmas scent. If any of you have any recommendations, please let me know in the comments!

11. Christmas advert

My favourite Christmas advert of all time was the John Lewis advert a few years ago with the two snowman. Not lying, I cried at it on more than one occasion. I love the way it promoted the message of going out of your way to make someone happy, so festive!

12. Festive Tradition

Recently a big family tradition around Christmas has been a big family board game competition. I love it because we arnt all gathered around the telly, and it’s great because we make our own fun. I feel so happy at those times and it’s always a huge laugh!

13. Place to spend Christmas

Weirdly I would say not at home. I love Christmas with the family, but it’s definatly better at one of my grandparents houses because it feels a lot more special having to travel for Christmas! I don’t think I’ve ever had a Christmas away from family though, I really couldn’t imagine what it’s like!

14. Festive Fact

I found this one online and I thought it was funny- most of Santa’s reindeer have male-sounding names, such as Blitzen, Comet, and Cupid. However, male reindeers shed their antlers around Christmas, so the reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh are likely not male, but female.

15. Snowman accessory

Isn’t it obvious? It has to be the carrot nose! Every snowman has a different fashion sense; some wear hats, some wear hats, some wear not much at all. The carrot is what makes every snowman joined, and I like the idea that when the snow melts an animal/ creature gets a winter treat of a carrot for tea. Plus, Olaf was always overjoyed with his nose when he got it!

And that’s all of the questions. I want to tag everyone who wants to do the tag, comment your links down below and I’ll read and comment on them. I think it’s such a fun tag and the questions are really fun, I hope your day is full of festive joy,

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Christmas nail art

So yesterday was Christmas day, i hope it was a good and happy for everyone, those who celebrate it and those who don't. I'm sorry because I was meant to get this post up earlier but ive been really busy and stuff. Although the objective of the post is gone, I thought you'd be interested and inspired by the work of layering and chose of tool and so on.


I did two types of nail art over the festive period, as well as just plain colour or sparkle polish, and these were a Christmas pudding nail and reindeer nails. Please read and look below for how I completed these.

The first I'll show you is the Christmas pudding. For this you will need brown, white, clear/ nail hardener, green and red nail polish as well as a paintbrush. I use a small pain brush to get the detail I want, but be warned because this does ruin your brush for actual art and painting but it can be reused every time you need it for painting nails. 

Firstly, paint an even coat of brown nail polish onto your nail. It is your choice if you want to put of clear/ nail harder on before this- which is what I do. I also put a coat on top of the brown.

The next step is to use your brush and the white nail polish to create the iconic drips down the pudding. This is quite difficult to design, especially on the opposite hand, but you'll get there.

Next take your brush and dip it into the green. You are trying to create holly so you could either spend time trying to make the points or just green blobs. Taking time will make it look more accurate.

Now you can add the berries, i did not have any red nail polish, so used berry/ pink instead. Simply make three small dots or one big dot to create your holly berries.

To finish let the paint dry and then put a layer of clear/ nail hardener over it. This will hopefully prevent chipping.

The next designs I created where reindeer. I will explain how to make Rudolph as you can create the other reindeer by just swapping the red nose for a gold or darker brown. You will again need a paintbrush, red, brown, black, white, clear/ nail hardener and a background colour of your choice- i chose glitter.

Begin by painting your background. I choose glitter nail polish but you could choose any colour that doesn't distract form the reindeer.

Next paint a small oval to triangle type of shape, look in photo below. This will be the head of the reindeer.

Next add two small lines coming off the head, these will be its ears.

After this, use the paintbrush and black to create the antlers. Be very careful as this requires a lot of detail and patience. I found this step went wrong but you can fix it a little.

Then, add two white dots as eyes.
When this dries do two smaller black eyes, these will make the reindeer look a lot more real.

To finish the reindeer add a blob onto the end of the nail. This will be the nose so use either red or gold, depending on the reindeer you want to.

Lastly, when the reindeer are dry add a thin layer of clear/ nail hardener to prevent chipping.

I hope you liked this, sorry its late. I am also hopping to do some more updates on my christmas/ party wear soon. Love life, live on and be happy.