It’s about halfway through the month of December so I decided to write an update about how the holiday season is going this year.
So far, nothing exciting has happened. Well, there were exciting things that happened, but it was more related to everyday life and problems with it than the holiday season. As for the holiday side of thing, nothing has happened.
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In order to prepare posts for Blogmas 2025, I’ve been watching a lot of romantic Christmas movies. The Hallmark Channel has many Christmas movies to watch, but this year I wanted to try something different: I wanted to watch the romantic Christmas movies that are not from Hallmark.
The first movies I decided to watch is My Christmas Inn. It is from Lifetime and premiere in 2018. This one caught my eye because it stars Tina Mowry-Hardict. I remember watching it a long time ago, but I felt like I forgot about most of it. I found it available other than watch for free on Lifetime’s official YouTube channel in order to review it for this post.
Ever since I was a girl, I loved advent calendars. I usually had the calendars with chocolate in them. Every day in December, I would open a new window, find the chocolate, and eat it. When I had a major health crisis as a teenager, I decided to make myself a bucket list of things I wanted to do before I became to sickly to do them. One of the simplest ones was to buy a chocolate advent calendar for children and eat all the chocolate in one sitting. I ended up doing this years after the health crisis. I did this for only one time, but have no regrets about doing it!
Today, I see many types of advent calendars for sale. Among them are Legos, Disney toy collectables, and other toy brands. I’ve seen advent calendars for adults featuring beauty products, books, and socks. I’ve seen food based advent calendars and ones I just don’t understand who the target audience is, but there it is. There are also advent calendars that are for fans of certain movies and TV shows. These include Harry Potter, Gilmore Girls, and Wicked: For Good. (If you haven’t heard, Wicked: For Good has so many brand deals that it makes sense they would have a tie in advent calendar)
Yet, after browsing all these calendars I realized something: I didn’t see any chocolate advent calendars for children.
I’m currently publishing many post about Christmas for Blogmas, but I felt the need to publish at least one post that isn’t Christmas related this year. Recently, I was reminded that Marc Jacobs released a fragrance series in collaboration with Murakami. Since I want to write about something unrelated to Christmas, I thought this would be a nice crossover post. Even though this collection has nothing to do with Christmas, the fragrances in the collection can be gifts for Christmas. This way I will know if anyone likes to see something unrelated to Christmas pop up every now and then in my Blogmas post series.
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Last year, I decided to purchase myself new ornaments from Lenox. Lenox’s ornament can be quite expensive, but my favorites are their more affordable line of ornaments. Last year, they would cost around $20 USD with tax per ornament, but they would often times be reduced for sale below that.
Even though I was very happy to buy and collect these ornaments, I didn’t have the time to write posts about them. This year, I decided to try to talk more about my current collection of Christmas ornaments instead of what I want to buy. Since I didn’t write any posts about my 2024 Lenox ornaments, I decided to write some this year starting with the my 2024 Snow Fantasies Snowflake ornament.
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Earlier this year, I was cleaning out and organizing my holiday decor. In one of the boxes, I found something completely unexpected: A bottle of perfume. Not just any perfume, a limited holiday release perfume.
The perfume is Victoria’s Secret Bombshell Gold. It was released in honor of the 2020 holiday season. I purchased it because I thought I would like, but it clearly got lost while taking down my Christmas decorations. Because of this, I wasn’t able to try it like I planned.
Since I rediscovered this fragrance, I decided to write a review about it. Even though it’s been five years since it’s release, I keep my decorations in the basement of my house. This is why the perfume didn’t go bad like it would’ve if I kept it in a places that is not temperature controlled.
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Every Christmas season, Hallmark releases many Christmas themed romance movies. In most recent years, I felt overwhelmed by the amount of movies Hallmark releases ever holiday season. For the most part, I like them, but I don’t really love them.
In 2023, Hallmark released A Merry Scottish Christmas. When I watched it for the first time, I was really impressed by it. Since then, I’ve dwelled on the movie and how different it is from other royal Christmas romance movies I’ve watched over the past few years. This brought me to decided to write a review about it for Blogmas.
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The early to mid 2010’s was the time when I would watch the Hallmark Channel movies the most. I looked forward to every holiday season when new movies would be released. In 2013, one of the movies I was excited to see was Hats Off To Christmas!.
Hats Off To Christmas! seemed like a cheesy name for a movie, but it wasn’t the reason why I wanted to watch it. It was because Hailey Duff, Hilary Duff’s sister, would star in the movie. Earlier this year, I was reminded of the movie online. I didn’t have this blog back when the movie premiered, so I thought it is about time I write a review about it before I forget about it again!
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Last fall, I began to binge watch Hallmark movies that were available to watch for free with ads. I had multiple movies to pick from including some of Hallmark’s famous Christmas romances. For the most part I remember watching most of them, but the one I remember liking was Let It Snow. It has been a while since I watched it, so I decided to watch it again.
Now that it’s Christmas time again, I wanted to include a review for the movie for this year’s Blogmas posts.
Moving to a new house, apartment, or on your own for the first time is both a stressful and exciting time. Especially during the holiday season. Thinking about moving during this time of the year inspired me to create a list of five gift ideas for new house owners or if someone you know moved out on their own earlier this year. The gifts in this post are meant as Christmas gifts, but they could be used for house warming gifts if you know someone moved during the holiday season.
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