Everyone of us has a dream.....

Dreams Come True is an amazing Charity whose head office has moved to the village I live in, they are a national charity and there mission is to bring joy to terminally ill and seriously ill children and young people around the country by making there Dream Come True.

I'm writing this blog for awareness of the Charity, and asking for you to take a few minutes to read through there website and see how far you get without a tear or two rolling down your face. It wasn't long before I had to take the tissues out.  

 Please help us raise some Christmas Cheer and click on the link below, for every click we get donated £1 and its perfectly safe, no personal information is captured from it and for every click we get £1 donated by softcat so it won’t cost you anything. It takes 3 seconds and will make a child’s dream come true this Christmas..

 if you are able please also send the link onto your friends, family & colleagues.

1 Click for Christmas Cheer

PS Click on this link and we'll receive £1 courtesy of Softcat*   

* - Softcat donate £1 for every individual that follows the link

- No personal information is captured

- Please share with your friends, family and colleagues to raise as much as possible to Dreams Come True

Please Please Please click the link above, as I've said before it takes 3 seconds and this will help towards a child or young persons Dream, so it can come true. 

http://www.dreamscometrue.uk.com/index.php

Partylite is here......yipee!!!

As some of you know I love Partylite!!!

A few weeks ago I got a catalogue delivered and some order forms from a friend up north from me, and I went on the rampage looking for orders, its not a great time to be honest as Christmas is only around the corner but I managed to round up enough to process a decent size order.

The offers and benefits with Partylite are always amazing for guests and for the hostess.

This is one of the offers for the Guests For November, he is adorable and if I could I would buy him again for a gift, you take his head off  and place a Partylite tealight ( It came with a box of  tealights) on the base and light it, Partylite tealights burn for an average of 4 -6 hours, this is more than the standard tealights you can buy in the supermarket, and the smell of them are amazing, so strong, and you know you are using Partylite Candles!! 

This cost £ 9.95

I was very lucky that I was able to claim 25% commission on Sales if I sold over £165!! It sounds a lot but when my friends and family see the offers they always buy something.  The commission changes every month but always worth having whatever you get.

The hardest part is deciding what I was going to buy myself, I have loads of stuff like I said before I love the stuff so if you have never tried before you should its well worth it.

After a long time I did decide what I was going to get and below is what I had for myself.

1. Black Cherry Escential Jar
2. Symmetry Trio
3. Tamboti Safari Fragrance Oil
4. Sweets and Treats Gift Set (£9.95)
5. Illuminescents TM Nativity 

I paid £15 of real money for all of that, as I had so much commission. Its a great feeling to be able to have things and not have to pay for them, or just a little bit of money towards it all. I'm a happy girl.

This is a Symmetry Trio, and the great thing about these are that you are able to change with the season or with your décor, I have just added a couple of beans and some angel hair, this was just done quick but it looks fine, I will be changing them but for my blog I thought it would be fine.

Anyway if anyone would like to make an order please click the following link Http://karenholmes.partylite.co.uk

I may even add a giveaway to this very soon......

Advent Calendar

I have been looking around for ideas for Advent Calendars, I slightly bored with traditional Chocolate Calendars, the chocolate is always crap, sometimes its hard to get the chocolates out so the calendar gets damaged or all the chocolate fall to the bottom. So this year I want to try something else.

I have looked around, and first I was gonna do 24 little bags on the tree, but it was gonna work out very expensive just for the bags as I would need to do 24 x 2. I did order a pack of 20 bags but they worked out at £7.95 and really I needed 3 packets, plus filling them!!

So the next idea is Christmas Cups on a ribbon!! I've bought everything I needed.

2 x 20 Christmas Cups from the Poundshop £2.00

1 x Ribbon from Sainsburys £1.39

1 x 20 Bags from Ebay £7.95

Sweets to Fill £5.50

It was all very easy to put together

•  I just hole punched all the cups 
• Added numbers to the bottom of the cups
• Threaded the ribbon threw the holes of the cups and added a couple of bags to make up to 24
• Filled the bags will sweets
• Then hung on the curtain rails.

I believe these will be a brilliant every year, as the children get older the items in the cups will just be different.

They will also be easy to take down and store away in your Christmas box ready for next year.

Please enjoy trying these out, my Kids love them, so will yours!!

There you have it done!!