CIJ day 25
Christmas in July 2024 – woot-woot!!
Time to put up your feet and relax, enjoy some Christmas music and a Christmas mocktail or put on a good old Christmas movie.
Take out your Christmas notebook and start planning your Christmas 2025.
Hope you enjoyed your time here for CIJ2024.
MERRY CHRISTMAS IN JULY!!!
CIJ day 24
Gingerbread ornament station. I would suggest buying 'naked' gingerbread ornaments and then have lots of felt, googly eyes, fabric paint, scissors and glue ready so everyone can decorate like they want.
Here are some templates in case you want to make them so they are ready to decorate Gingerbread Man Templates (Printable Outlines and Patterns) – DIY Projects, Patterns, Monograms, Designs, Templates (suncatcherstudio.com)
CIJ day 23
Painting an ornament station. Have all the mini canvases and the ribbon ready to use with paint and watercolor pencils, sharpie colored pens and let everyone's imagination work. Here are a few examples :
CIJ day 22
Craft idea... gingerbread houses... using the small wooden houses at the dollarstore. Buy a few houses and then buy miniature candy (I bought them on Ali-Express or can be TEMU), really inexpensive, with some good glue and everyone gets to make one as he likes. You can also use felt pieces and don't forget the paint!
CIJ day 21 – week 4
Craft ideas to do with friends / family.
First, you want to set up a craft station (use the rolling carts! ) which you prepare in advance.
How about Christmas sweaters? Ask your guests to buy plain t-shirts or sweatshirts, red white or green (or you can probably find some inexpensive ones at walmart or on Amazon)
I've got my stuff ready for the day we make the ugly Christmas sweaters... pompoms, garlands, fairy lights (with battery pack), … the dollarstore is a great place to find items for these. Don't forget the glue gun and glue sticks!
Of course, you can buy them but it is a fun activity to personnalize it. Here are a few examples
CIJ day 20
Healthy drinks and mocktails
First some wellness shots, haven't tried these yet but Costco has a set of 48
You can get the product detail here Pulp & Press Organic Cold-Pressed Elixir Shot Pack 70 mL (2.4 fl oz) x 48 pack | Costco from what I read it is like a shot of vitamin.
They also have the small smoothies... I have tried them they are delicious but sugar is high because of the fruits used to make it .
You can also have V-8, water bottles, perrier.
For the mocktails, I found this blog Everything You Need For The Perfect At-Home Mocktail Bar Cart - The Birds Papaya where they enumerate all you need for a mocktail bar and have a few recipes on there, like Diet coke and cream, Virgin Caesar, Margarita Mocktail, Mojito Mocktail and non-alcoholic Mimosa.
You can do a search for Christmas mocktails... they look sooo good
CIJ day 19
Friday night at the movies
A very charming Christmas town – all about Scandinavian traditions.
Trailer : A Very Charming Christmas Town | Trailer | Nicely Entertainment (youtube.com)
From IMDB : When lifestyle blogger Aubrey Lang visits the Danish-settled Californian village of Solvang for her big holiday piece, she at first believes the town is simply a tourist trap. But when Aubrey meets handsome community coordinator and chocolate shop owner Sawyer, to show her around town, Aubrey soon starts to fall for him and realizes the magic of Solvang's Christmas spirit shines year round
I watched it last year and found it interesting with all the traditions.
