For anyone else who is in our last minute shopping category, today's blogmas post is a list of my top tips for surviving those last minute shopping expeditions. If you've any to add, please do include them down below in the comment section!

Does it scare you that we’re currently 7 sleeps away from Christmas Day? I’m so excited and yet scared at the same time! What am I meant to do with myself when Christmas is over? I never think about that until it’s too late. Almost makes me lose my Christmas spirit before we’ve even reached the top of it.

Let me start by saying that this post was in fact inspired by the fact it’s my mum’s birthday today so a big happy birthday to her even though she’ll not see this!  

Wow okay today marks me being almost half way through my 33 posting days in a row, and I’m not going to pretend that it’s been easy. And that was before I realised that I still have to write 16 of those 33!

Oh wow we're fairly getting through Blogmas! How're you all enjoying the posts?

And we're officially over halfway to Christmas now! How've you been enjoying blogmas so far? Did you start and not manage to keep up? Or have you been pushing through and keeping up with it all?

A quick, easy, and cheap homemade Christmas present!

How many of us get that motivation at Christmas to give something back to the community, or to support the smaller businesses? Well today's post is all about how you can do this!