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Have you started thinking about Christmas yet? I hate to tell you, but it is getting closer, in fact October starts tomorrow. While Christmas is likely to be different this year that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate in some way and to kick it off I’ve teamed up with Sarah to offer one lucky person the chance to win this years advent calendar on us!
25 Days Of Beauty Advent Calendar
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If you want to buy yourself a 25 Days of Beauty advent calendar, it is worth making sure you are added to the list to get an email when they next come into stock over on the Holland and Barrett website.
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What is your favourite run-up to Christmas tradition? Do you always have an advent, do you have an elf on the shelf or something else?
Good Luck.
Decorating the tree and putting up the decorations on the closest Sunday to Dec 1st!
It’s not officially Christmas until we have watched “White Christmas”.
we always do elf on the shelf even tho the kids are all teens now!
I love decorating the tree around the beginning of December and watching It’s a Wonderful Life
Putting on Christmas tunes whilst decorating the tree
Making the Christmas cakes in October and then forgetting where I’ve stored them!
I love my young granddaughter setting up the Nativity scene so very carefully as my late Mother made all the figurines for the stable. It is a beautiful display and reminds us of the true meaning of Christmas.
No elf on the shelf here, but we do have advent stockings with a pocket for each day on the front that the kids get a little treat in. Then in Christmas Eve we leave the stockings out for Father Christmas to fill with goodies x
Putting up the decorations fab time
I do love an advent calender especially a glittery one though I doubt I will find one of those this year
Christmas Cake. Its one of the first things my mother taught me how to bake and it became a family tradition that I make the Christmas Cake in September every year and drizzle it with brandy on the run up to Christmas. So coupled with being a family tradition, making fruit cakes also invokes lovely childhood memories of times spent with my mum.
ignoring the whole thing is my favourite run-up tradition 🙂
Putting up the Christmas decorations and tree singing and dancing!
We love making an advent calendar for our daughter and filling each one with toys and treats
putting out mince pies and sherry for Santa!
I look forward to my first mince pie of the season – followed by another one!
My favourite tradition is decorating the tree with my husband whilst we drink homemade hot chocolate and listen to Christmas carols.
Eating mince pies, at least one a day throughout December!
I love to make Christmas Eve boxes for each of my children which really heightens the festive spirit!
The day we put up the decorations, (usually around the 1st December), we always buy a bottle of Baileys & have some in our coffees. The problem is, by the time Christmas comes we have bought (& drunk) like 5 bottles already!!
Walking around a Christmas Market with a hot drink, just as it’s getting dark with all the Christmas lights everywhere – amazing!
I always make a special Christmas Eve Supper. I tend to research recipes for Christmas from all around the world often making a theme and decorate the room and table with candle light and greenery from the hedgerows & garden.
Decorating the tree whilst singing Christmas songs.
I love putting up the Christmas decorations on the first weekend in December
Christmas movies, we have movies we watch every year and we plan a movie a night
Watching Christmas movies and sprinkling magic reindeer food outside
It’s not Christmas until I have watched Elf
decorating the tree while listening to christmas songs always signals the start of christmas in our house.
We start with Sinterklaas and the giving of chocolate letters at the beginning of December, followed by lots of baking of festive treats, including stained glass tree decorations whilst listening and dancing to plenty of Christmas tunes with the kids.
The Christmas tree and decorations go up on November 28th which was my late mums birthday.. Christmas was her favourite time of year, so we start celebrations early…
Putting the Christmas tree up and having the Christmas songs on
I love decorating the tree and wrapping presents to Xmas music.
I love decorating the house and garden. I also seem to spend a lot of time baking mince pies and cake as the fairies keep eating them.
We usually go to the theatre on Christmas Eve and we also have an Elf who appears on 1st December.
Advent calendar!
oooh so many, elf on the shelf, advent calendars, xmas movies and baking
We always have advent calendars and watch a Christmas movie every day in the run up to the big day x
I love mince pies with a glass of port around the fire with family and friends.
We have a naughty elf called Ralph that comes to stay. My daughters 9 now , so she wont believe for much longer. Which makes me a little sad.
I love visiting Birmingham Christmas markets. We usually go mid-December and stay overnight.
We do a film and book advent calendar – so my children have something to watch and read all the way up to Christmas 🙂
I always play Elf on the shelf with my family x
Elf on the shelf, we all take turns leaving him in the most creative of ways
My very favourite is bubbly for breakfast on Christmas Day!
We love having advent because adults can have fun ones too these days! Plus decorating the house and wrapping with Christmas music on
Everyone in our family has new pj’s to wear on Christmas eve x
We always have to eat mince pies as soon as they are out to buy
I love to go the christmas market, look around the stalls for gifts to buy and get a hot mulled wine! Hoping I can still do this this year!
we enjoy a chocolate advent calender and a christas themed book each day in december with my kids
My husband was a Forester so each year our pre Christmas family tradition is to gather chestnuts for chestnut stuffing – our boys now over 50 still remember as toddlers gathering chestnuts.
I do love having an Advent Calendar but my favourite tradition is probably our family walk on the beach at Christmas Eve followed by a snuggly film on the sofa.
Advent is so exciting. It’s going to be a really strange one this year with so much uncertainty
Choosing, buying & decorating the Christmas tree on the last weekend before Christmas Day
Watching Muppets Christmas carol on Christmas Eve something my wife has always done
I love it when I put the decorations up…always the last weekend in November
I love watching all the cheesy christmas films in the run up to christmas. They all seem to have the same storyline- pretty girl goes to work for widower with children, they fall in love and all live happily ever after.
Decorating the tree, making a gingerbread house and going to visit Father Christmas
watching Christmas movies of perfect families making up
Christmas songs on while decorating the tree
A tin of roses while we decorate the tree x
My favourite day is putting up the tree with a glass of Baileys whilst listening to Christmas music
I love decorating the Christmas tree with my daughters while listening to Christmas carols, it always fills us with Christmas spirit x
Decorating the tree and doing lots of baking
Christmas movie a day
I go with my dad to buy a Christmas tree then we decorate in on Christmas Eve
I always have an advent calendar even though I am in my 40s with no kids, it’s just something I like to do
AMazing prize, thank you for the chance to win
I always buy the kids an advent calendar, the Lego ones of Disney books are always a hit, I don’t usually have one myself as Christmas is such an expensive time, I prefer to spend the extra on the kids, but we love a Christmas Eve goodie bag with new pjs, socks & treats!
I always have an advent calendar, it reminds me of when I was a little girl and my dad let me have a glitter one. I was so excited and so that is a tradition I always keep 🙂
Drinking Baileys and singing parody xmas songs while doing my xmas baking
We always have a family trip to the panto to get in the mood!
We have so many traditions! Always elf on the shelf and he brings the advent calendars, we have move nights every weekend in December with pjs and hot chocolate and then the PJ fairy comes on Christmas eve with new Pjs. This year I’ve also bought Christmas bedding as I think we need a bit extra this year
i love all the adverts on tv and even though its quite stressfull ,i really enjoy getting last minute gifts for friends
Bringing the kids to see Santa
Nice Xmas gift idea
We always put our decorations up on the first Saturday of December, have our advent calendars and do elf on the shelf. Then our Christmas eve boxes and treats for Santa and reindeer 🙂
We always go shopping as a family for the perfect Christmas Jumpers for our annual Christmas Jumper Photo, its always so much fun! We have quite the collection of Festive photos and Jumpers now, its been a family tradition for years!
My little boy is two so we always have a chocolate advent and then a small gift or book each day
We have a advent calendar every year. We always put our tree and decorations up on the 12th Dec. It’s our tradition. Fantastic giveaway, thank you for the chance.
I myself love the fact that you get to spend time with family and freinds, sure, gifts are cool, but theres more to it im sure you have heard. Another thing I love about Christmas is that usualy there is great food and stuff.
And who doesnt love the feeling of seeing up your children open up that gift that they have been waiting for? Thats what makes Christmas so good to me.Amazing prize
Love the countdown, usually make our own adverts with treats in
Always buying advent calendars for the children, even though half are adults, they still look for them
We start with Christmas music and movies. Then we make the house smell of Christmas with candles and baking. Mince pies, cakes, breads and chutneys. Then it’s off to a garland making class with friends, mulled wine. Once this is done the decorations can go up including our 3 Tomtee/christmas gnome villages.
Then on Chrismas eve we will watch a Christmas movie at the cinema, this year this will be a Chrismas movie at home.
We wrap up christmas DVDs and open one most days and watch them as a family.
We had an Elf on the shelf for the first time last year. Brilliant fun! So it’s become my favourite.
The arrival of Lebkuchen in Aldi is always welcome.
My fave tradition is looking around the christmas markets!
The week before Christmas I have a baking day, mince pies, sausage rolls, sticky toffee puds (Boxing Day musts) and whilst the things are in the oven I watch Muppets Christmas Carol
The ‘arrival’ of our elf (Eddie) who brings the advent calendars always means Christmas is on the way
We always try and see as many Santa’s as we can before Christmas. I love the kids faces when they see Santa and seeing him every weekend never seems to get old for them!
Always watch Carols from Kings and Midnight Mass on Christmas eve and everyone gets new pajamas
I love making a Christmas cake every year and search for new sweet recipes to try out
We have an elf on the shelf and lots of family traditions. We always go out on Christmas Eve and see santa. In the evening we watch a muppets Christmas carol, drink hot chocolates, the kids open their Christmas Eve boxes and we usually have matching family pjs.
Selecting gifts for the family and wrapping them up – anticipating their excitement
Getting the tree out and decorating it with the kids. Love that special time.
Christmas Cards are always written by 1st December so I can concentrate on pressie buying and putting the Christmas Tree up. I LOVE Christmas. XXX
I try to get all of my Christmas shopping done by the end of November. I’m normally away at my parents’ for Christmas but will still decorate the living room with a tree and my collection of nutcracker figurines.
we love watching die hard on christmas eve and having a tea party for tea
We normally have a ordinary chocolate Advent that we open throughout December
Advent calendars have always been the BEST thing about Christmas. I have some picture ones that come out every year, one from when I was a child and some Nativity ones from church. I am eyeing up the Lindor ones for my daughter and I. And I have a ‘jigsaw’ one for my friend, you get a few pieces every day then by Christmas you have the full picture. Advent calendars are definitely our favourite Christmas tradition!
We always watch Scrooge – the Alistair Sim version and The Polar Express – they always get us feeling Christmassy.
Christmas eve boxes, I love new pyjamas 😀
We usually do elf on the shelf however I absolutely hate it! My daughter becomes obsessed with it and it actually terrifies her!
I always have an advent calendar and when wrapping christmas pressie we watch christmas movies
my run up to xmas is usually meeting up with friends a week before, for drinks and a meal, but sadly cant see it happening this year
For me it’s getting the tree out and decorate it ❤️
My stepson and I have this tradition of watching Meppet’s Christmas Carol every Saturday and Sunday in November and December. Its amazing.
We watch a different Christmas movie everyday, Starting with Elf on 1st December and always finish with The Muppet’s Christmas Carol on the 24th!
I love getting the Christmas music on, opening a bottle of wine and wrapping the presents
decorating the tree on the 1st while listening to christmas music
Putting the decorations and tree up first weekend in Dec. Advent calendars choc for my daughter and non choc for me (I’m diabetic so prefer a beauty/scent/different type of daily treat), visits to Santa and Xmas markets and then I give my daughter her pressies from Mummy on Xmas Eve…New PJs, book, a film and lots of treats before the big day and the visit from Mr Clause.
I love putting decorations up! Sitting by the Christmas tree while the lights are on at night! Piggjng out with my son on all the chocolate we can have!
Love decorating the tree and preparing the food. I have never had an advent calendar so I think it is about time to try this tradition 🙂
My favourite tradition is on December 1st, to get out all the decorations, put on some Christmas music and put the decs up. We then curl up on the sofa, with the mug of hot chocolate (with all the trimmings of course – mini marshmallows, lots of whipped cream and some more mini marshmallows and grated salted caramel chocolate), and pop on The Polar Express.
We’re debating on bringing it forward to the 1st of November this year, to boost our spirits a bit!
Tree Day! as early in December as I can! A whole day decorating the house and tree, Chrimbo movies on the Telly, Chrimbo music on the Hi Fi, Sweet treats and a naughty little sipper!
I like advent calendars and putting up the Christmas tree
i always have chocolate advent calendar in our house – a little treat each day.
Planning the menu and getting the food prepared x
Having a dance in our pajamas to some christmas music 🙂
I always wrap a mini Christmas Eve present that I hang on the tree. I allow the girls and my husband to open theirs before going to bed. It bumps up their excitement!
Christmas starts in October when I make Christmas cakes for the whole family.
We make putting the Christmas tree up a family event and invite grandparents round to help and enjoy Christmas music and mince pies.
We don’t do elf on the shelf but we always have several advent calendars as I love them 🙂
We have chocolate advent calendars, we put the decs up on the first Sunday of December and we have a Christmas movie list which we try and get through in December!
We collect trinkets from wherever we visit throughout the year for the Xmas tree and love to reminisce whilst decorating the tree about previous holidays etc
Xmas baking always gets me in the mood. Early on the Xmas cake followed by mince pies then sausage rolls!
Our kids decorate the tree together and they write a note for Father Christmas. They leave food and drink out for him, Mrs Christmas with carrots for the reindeers. Yes we have chocolate advent calendars & play a mix of games.
Me and my family like to do advent calenders, elf on the shelf and Christmas eve boxes. We write a Christmas wish list to father Christmas and leave a mince pie and milk out for him on Christmas eve.
We start watching a Christmas movie each day saving the best till last 🙂
We have an advent calendar, and on Christmas eve we have a Christmas eve box and watch Christmas films in our Christmas Pj’s xx
My family and I always set up and decorate the tree while we put the Christmas music channels on the TV, with a cinnamon scented candle on to make it extra festive!
We have lots of traditions, from baking cakes and making gingerbread houses to making our own Christmas tree decorations! Watching movies together and going for walks with my parents and sibling families. My boy is bit older now and understands more so we will be doing advent calendar this year and elf on the shelf too! Winter is my favourite season and also my son was born in December so it’s a very special month for our family!
We always put the tree up in the first week of December and have advent calendars
Decorations put up on the 1 December whilst watching Elf
My partners birthday is December 12th so we put our tree up on the 13th, every year we go Christmas shopping with his mum somewhere nice too. Last year we saw actual camels in Derby, lol
Last year I did christmas eve boxes which I’m going to do again this year. It wasn’t a thing when I was little but the kids loved it last year
Going into the woods and gathering twigs etc. to make a wreath
Having an advent calendar would have to be our favourite run up to Christmas tradition.
We usually put our Christmas pajamas on, all snuggle up on the sofa and watch Muppets Christmas Carol (whilst singing along) on Christmas Eve together!
it is perfect to visit all those family and friends that we don’t see as often as we would like, and we always take home made monkey bread and sherry and pepsi with us x
Putting up the Christmas tree and play Christmas songs
We have a chocolate advent calendar
Then we put up the tree
We have a Nativity calendar no chocolate or plastic toys ones. All the kids have a Nativity candle which I light each day, we bake and make gifts I read them the Christmas story. The kids make their Christmas decs and we always have a mini Christmas dinner on Christmas eve ( Before the big meal) We go to a children’s service at church on Christmas eve and we always leave Santa mice pies and a glass of milk and carrots for his helpers . However, it’s been a sad year for us this year so not sure how much we will do this year.
Getting the onions pickled with dad
My husband and I always give each other a Christmas jumper or Christmas pyjamas a the start of Advent.
Putting up Christmas lights early ever year makes me happy,
I love christmas baking with the kids and making little gifts with them
A Christmas tree
We love all the traditions, from putting up the decorations, to wrapping presents, putting out elf on a shelf. So many!
I love the secrecy of choosing and wrapping pressies and then making sure that Santa has filled the stockings properly.
We countdown to Xmas with advent calendars and do elf on the shelf so lots of mischief and mayhem
We decorate our tree and watch Christmas movies
I always have an advent calendar. We also decorate the tree near the beginning of December.
We have an advent calendar each. My boys don’t last long, then my girls have to hide theirs, lol.
We always get together to put the decorations up. We play games and have music on while we do it and it’s always so much fun
I love decorating the tree, then Christmas pyjamas and a Christmas film to get us in the mood.
My fave tradition is looking around the christmas markets! xx
I love the elf and I love all the trouble and the excitement the elf causes
Watching lots of Christmas films with hot chocolate
Endless christmas movie marathon! From the 1st of December all our boxsets get put on hold and we just watch festive films. I love it!
I always go to the Brum xmas market with the family …. sadly closed this year due to cv
I’ve always loved advent calendars, seeing the big day approach!
Always have an advent calendar, even I have one. My mum still bought me one up until about two years ago!
Seeing the children faces when your putting the tree up and putting the lights on when is dark.
We love to visit our local village and have a look at all of the Christmas lights and decorated trees in the church – it always puts us in a festive mood
I LOVE IT ALL! FOOD, SHOPPING, TRYING TO FIND PERFECT GIFTS, DECORATIONS!
We always have a selection of Advent Calenders – some are one offs and others every green.
We always have mince pies as soon as December arrives.
I build a crib moving figures forward daily
each year we buy something new for the tree, normally from our holiday,
the last event for us is putting the tree angel on christmas eve
Putting up the Christmas trees. I have one in the living room and one in the conservatory. Whenever we visit a new place I try to get a Christmas bauble so the Christmas trees are like memory trees. As I put on each bauble it reminds me of the lovely places that we’ve visited. I’ve got so many now that it takes ages to decorate them
Going to the panto – but not this year
Our Christmas tradition is at the beginning of December we go to see all the seal pups and their mums on a beach at Donna Nook in Lincolnshire. On the way back we collect our Christmas tree. It’s a lovely way to start Christmas
Love doing Christmas crafts n baking with my children
My favourite tradition that our family have in the run up to Christmas is our storybook advent, we get a book a day and the kids take it in turns to each open it, they really look forward to it and we read the story before bedtime in my bed together. It helps us all relax and it’s lovely having that quality time with them x
Baking Christmas cookies with my son
Baking the Christmas cake and Christmas mince pies is always the start to Christmas season for me
I love all the Christmas parties and the Christmas carols and music.
I always hang the outside lights on the house on Dec 1st
watching every different version of a christmas carol film on telly, i love the story x
Church with the family to sing carols and afterwards all at mine for mulled wine and mince pie. We do only go once a year but never miss this family tradition.
We put our tree up on the first, we all have Advent calenders too
First Xmas movie of the year on the 1st Dec whilst getting decs up
Watching Die Hard on Christmas Eve with a cocktail or two
Putting presents under the Christmas tree on Christmas eve
We have hand knitted advent bags which I fill with treats for the kids in the run up to Christmas.
putting new decorations and chocolates on the christmas tree
We always put up the tree together one weekend then snuggle up together with hot chocolate and watch muppets Christmas carol.
We always leave a carrot and bowl of water out for Rudolph and a mince pie and whisky for Santa
I love to buy my sons presents but as they get older its so much harder!
Watching white christmas
I love putting the Christmas decorations up about 2 weeks before Christmas and watching Christmas films with my grandson.
We start with our elves arriving and decorating the tree on December 1st, which is also my birthday ❤️
We normally go to a grotto but might not this year, we will make Christmas decorations and also have a Christmas eve mini party with the classic Santa Claus the movie.
Christmas Cards
Sending and receiving, always a festive joy to have something nice in the post xx
I have never treated myself to an advent but this year I want to treat myself
I always have lots of fun with elf on the shelf
I love our visit to the Christmas Tree Festival every year at our local church. It’s such a lovely way to think not only about Christmas but giving to others as well!
I always have an advent calendar for my cat and dog, by the end of the 24 days, they know exactly what time a treat appears from the magic box!
I love decorating the Christmas tree with the baubles I’ve collected over many years
Love our advent calendar and putting the tree up
We all get really excited once we open our advent calendar
I always cook roasted Gammon and all the trimmings on Christmas Eve and then have traditional Christmas dinner on the day itself.
We always have a family meal out somewhere on the run up to Christmas – will only be 6 of us going this year though!!
i always sit and wrap presents when kids have gone to bed whilst watching love actually or muppets christmas carol
love decorating the tree
I love our reusable advent calendar that we open throughout Dec and then at the end of advent will put everything back but in a different order for next year!
Buying and wrapping presents.
I always have a beauty advent, a candle advent and a chocolate advent!!
We always do traditional chocolate advent calendars as we’ve always done it with our kids who still have now lol and our grandchildren
We always watch muppets Christmas Carol on Christmas eve!
Elf on the shelf is a big hit in our house with my daughter, but I love our Christmas Eve box and traditions. Box of goodies, christmas movies and festive bakes. We then look for Santa in the sky and sprinkle reindeer food.
We have elf on the shelf with all his pranks until he delivers the Christmas Eve box. Which has a family game in which we all play followed by home alone
Decorating the tree x
I always watch It’s a Wonderful Life while wrapping presents.
I usually have a beauty advent calendar but haven’t got one this year as saving for a house. I usually love going to Christmas markets. Hopefully next year!
We usually have a putting up Christmas tree party on December 1st,not sure that will be going on
we usually do baking and crafts evry other day! 1 day baking and 1 day christmas craft! This year not too sure yet as my twins started school and i know they will be tired! i dont always get an advent calendar for myself but i always get for the kids x