One of the best things about winter...

Is hot chocolate! Given the funds I could easily drink a small country out of it's entire supply during the course of one winter. To me, the best hot chocolate tastes of milk chocolate and is topped with loads of whipped cream in a glass mug.

I once had a traumatic incident where I was drinking a cup of hot chocolate with marshmellows when I suddenly felt something strange in my mouth. I spit it out to discover that it was in fact a horrible little moth larvae that had somehow made it's way into my delicious drink. Needless to say, I had a little puke in the sink afterwards. However, that was still not enough to sour my love for my favourite drink.

So, to celebrate this delectable mug of warm chocolatey liquid goodness I've done a little Flickr search for some lovely photos featuring the drink of the season. Enjoy :)

(source: a little tune)

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I feel so on the ball

Because I've already done my Xmas shopping! This will be the first year where I won't be running around last minute through crowds of other procratinators trying to find a decent present.

Oddly enough I tried to go back and get photos of the some of things I bought my family, but they've already been taken off the websites I bought them from. I managed to find a few photos though which I will post here for anyone who might be interested :)

I got my both my mother and sister scarves, gloves, and purses, but then I saw this really nice locket on Etsy so I decided to get it for my sister:

I haven't actually bought my mother's present yet, but I pretty much know what I'm getting her. She's really into her Harley Davidson stuff, so I was planning on getting her a long sleeve Harley Davidson shirt from a shop in London. I spoke to her recently though and she said she wanted a sweater. I didn't see any nice ones on the online shop so I'm going to go to the shop tomorrow and see what they have. If I don't see a nice sweater I'll just get her the long sleeve shirt instead I think.

For my Dad, I originally didn't know what to get him so I bought him this nice looking watch off Amazon:

Then I actually asked him what he wanted and he said one of those hats with the furry flaps on the side. So, I had a look around and I found a really nice one on ASOS which is now actually sold out. So I guess my promptness payed off.

I'm actually really excited to give everyone their presents this year. Last Christmas we didn't really exchange anything and tensions were a bit high between us all. If all goes as planned this will turn out to be a very nice Christmas for my family.

Cape?

Yesterday I came across this post over at Bargain Fashionista where she talks about wanting a checkered cape from Zara. I've never put too much thought into actually getting a cape, but after seeing it I'm really tempted to get one.

While browsing all the capes on Zara and I came across this poncho with a fur hood that I think is really nice as well. 

I feel a bit shallow for saying this, but I hate not being rich sometimes... It'd be great to be able to just buy whatever I wanted, when I wanted and not have to deal with the purchase guilt. I got a sewing machine a few years ago so I could make my own clothes, get creative and save some money. Unfortunately, I'm spectacularly lazy and have yet to make anything wearable. I did make a nice little laptop case though. It's somewhat mangled in the flap area. Looks really nice if you just don't look under the flap.

What I really need is someone to teach me to use my sewing machine properly. The last few times I tried to use it the thread just ended up all mangled. I swear I used to be able to sew. Not sure if I managed to break the machine or have just forgotten how to use one. Anyway, I may take a dressmaking class. They're all so expensive though. I need to find one I can afford.