Author: Sparkle Girl

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24 Days of Sparkle Girl – How to Make Marshmallow Snowmen in 3 Steps!

These are cute little Christmas snacks which, can get a bit messy!

Ingredients:

  • Big white marshmallows
  • Black or chocolate icing

Extra:

  • Some cocktail sticks

Method:

  • Put 3 marshmallows on one cocktail stick
  • Using the icing draw a face and buttons onto the marshmallows
  • Poke another cocktail stick horizontally across the middle marshmallow

I hope you enjoy making these tasty treats!

Sparkle Girl,

Back tomorrow!

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24 Days of Sparkle Girl – Fun Santa Picture!

This is a fun creative thing to do with younger children!

You will need:

  • Gold or silver glitter paint (or both!)
  • A coloured in picture/drawing of Santa and his reindeer
  • A small paintbrush
  • Plain black (a4) piece of paper
  • A glue stick

Steps:

  • Print out (or draw your own) picture of Santa and reindeer.
  • Cut it out and colour it in.
  • Squeeze a little bit of paint onto a plate and fill up a glass of water.
  • Dot all of the paper with little bits of paint to look like stars, I have made a trail of stars to follow the sleigh
  • Using a glue stick, stick the Santa cut-out onto the black starry paper.

Now you have finished, maybe you could stick it on your wall or something!

Back for another post tomorrow,

Sparkle Girl x

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24 Days of Sparkle Girl – DIY Holly and Leaves

I will show you how to make this fabulous Christmas vase using only a few things! This looks great on a mantelpiece, bookshelf or many more places…

You will need:

  • A pre-lit holly garland (from wilkinsons for £8)
  • A medium-sized vase
  • A golden leaf/stick (also from wilkinsons)
  • A sharp pair pf scissors

Steps:

  • First place your holly garland in the vase, making sure the wire and switch is behind the vase.
  • Cut around 2-4cm off the bottom of the golden sticks, be careful as the golden sticks may scratch you.
  • Put the golden sticks to the back of your vase, making sure you don’t poke through one of the lights!

Now you have done, switch on the lights and enjoy!

Sparkle Girl x

 

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24 Days of Sparkle Girl – Best Yankee Candle Scents for Christmas!

Everyone… Well almost everyone LOVES Yankee Candles, so I thought I would help everyone out by listing the best ones to buy this month!

  SPARKLING SNOW:

This candle smells like when you wake up on a cold winter morning, you walk outside and hear the snow crunching under your feet; that is what it smells like!

SNOWFLAKE COOKIE:

If you love the smell of the oven baking tasty treats then this is the candle for you.

ALL IS BRIGHT:

This simply just smells nice!

FESTIVE COCKTAIL:

This is the ultimate Christmas party scent, it would be a great kitchen smell!

If you have a fake Christmas tree, try this candle to make your house smell of luscious green trees!

 

Back tomorrow,

Sparkle Girl x

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24 Days of Sparkle Girl – Gingerbread Men

Preparations: 45 mins

Cooking Time: 10 – 30 mins

Ingredients:

  • 350g plain flour, plus a sprinkle of flour for rolling
  • 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda
  • 2 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 125g/4½oz butter
  • 175g/6oz light soft brown sugar
  • 1 free-range egg
  • 6 tbsp golden syrup
  • Any icing or decorations for the finish

Method:

  • Mix together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger and cinnamon and then pour the mixture into a mixer! Add the butter and blend it until the mixture looks more like breadcrumbs, after that stir in the sugar.

  • Lightly beat the egg and golden syrup together, add them to the mixture and pulse until the mixture forms a clump. Tip the dough out onto clingfilm and carefully kneed it, wrap the clingfilm over the dough and leave to chill in the fridge for 15 to 20 minutes.

  • Preheat the oven to 180C and line two baking trays with greaseproof paper.

  • Roll out the dough (sprinkle flour onto the surface you are rolling on first) and carefully cut the dough into gingerbread men shapes using a gingerbread-man-shaped cutter.

  • Put them in the oven and bake them until lightly golden-brown. Leave them to cool for 10 minutes, then move to a wire rack or a plate to decorate. When cooled decorate with the writing icing and cake decorations.

Back tomorrow,

Sparkle Girl!

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24 Days of Sparkle Girl – Rice Krispie Trees

How to make these easy cute Christmas trees!

Ingredients;

  • 6 cups of rice krispies
  • 2 big bags of marshmallows
  • A few packets of smarties
  • Green food dye

Equipment:

  • A big pan
  • A wooden spoon
  • 2 metal forks
  • Baking paper

Method:

  • Heat a little bit of butter on low heat.
  • Stir in the marshmallows until they look like this:
  • Turn the heat off and stir gently
  • Add in the rice krispies and mix them together until well coated
  • Pour the green dye into the rice krispies and marshmallows (depending on how green you want them you might need to use more green dye.)
  • Using baking paper make small cones and sellotape the cones shut
  • Spoon in the mixture and add some smarties (for baubles.)
  • Leave them to cool in the fridge overnight
  • Carefully peel the paper away to reveal your trees!

Sparkle Girl xx

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24 Days of Sparkle Girl – Reindeer Present

Materials:

  • Plain Brown Wrapping Paper
  • Red Pom Pom

Equipment:

  • Scissors
  • Sellotape
  • Black Pen or Pencil

Method:

  • Wrap your present up in the brown wrapping paper
  • Make a loop of sellotape
  • Using the loop of sellotape, stick the red pom pom in the middle of the present
  • Draw on eyes and even eyebrows
  • Draw a oval near the bottom of the present and copy the design above

Another post tomorrow!

Sparkle Girl xxx

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Personality Quiz

The way you cross words out… can determine your personality!

Neatly Crossed Out:

You are very detail-orientated and neat. You are a HUGE perfectionist and can sometimes be to bossy.

Neatly Scribbled Out:

You are very creative and love to draw. You are quite fashionable and very talkative. However you sometimes get annoyed easily.

Messily Scribbled Out:

You love sports and don’t enjoy writing. You aren’t the tidiest of people but very kind.

Thank you for reading,

Sparkle Girl x

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Checked in Autumn

1 & 2

3 & 4

5 & 6

1. Tommy Hilfiger Denim Field Utility Coat from ASOS

http://www.asos.com/tommy-hilfiger-denim/tommy-hilfiger-denim-field-utility-coat/prd/8599763/?clr=grapeleaf&SearchQuery=denim+field+utility+coat&SearchRedirect=true#

2.  Elasticated Clean Tapered Trousers from ASOS

http://www.asos.com/asos/asos-elasticated-clean-tapered-trouser/prd/7679674/?clr=black&SearchQuery=elasticated+clean+trouses+tapered&SearchRedirect=true

3. Petite Red Check Cross-Back T-Shirt from River Island

https://www.riverisland.com/p/petite-red-check-cross-back-shirt-706971

4. Reaction Hiker Ankle Boots from ASOS

http://www.asos.com/asos/asos-reaction-hiker-ankle-boots/prd/8012185

5. Orange Pom-Pom  Bobble Hat from New Look

http://www.newlook.com/uk/womens/accessories/hats/orange-faux-fur-pom-pom-bobble-hat/p/537230681?extcam=UK_PPC_PLA_5372351_CR_184474931755_DV_c&tmcampid=155&tmad=c&tmplaceref=UK_PPC_PLA_5372351_CR_184474931755_DV_c&CAWELAID=120310300000466547&CAGPSPN=pla&CAAGID=46107772972&CATCI=pla-265005829163&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrYzQ4MCk1wIV6BbTCh3ZRAxkEAYYASABEgIO1PD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

6. Orange Check Tassel Scarf from New Look

http://www.newlook.com/uk/womens/accessories/hats/orange-faux-fur-pom-pom-bobble-hat/p/537230681?extcam=UK_PPC_PLA_5372351_CR_184474931755_DV_c&tmcampid=155&tmad=c&tmplaceref=UK_PPC_PLA_5372351_CR_184474931755_DV_c&CAWELAID=120310300000466547&CAGPSPN=pla&CAAGID=46107772972&CATCI=pla-265005829163&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrYzQ4MCk1wIV6BbTCh3ZRAxkEAYYASABEgIO1PD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Thanks,

Alice

 

 

 

 

 

None of the items of this list were sponsored.