This will keep you warm for Christmas

I had so much fun today collecting sweet things for my last Christmas present. Just like most of the (Belgian) girls, one of my best friends Gwen is completely in love with chocolate. She would marry the milky sweetness if she could. Also, she is studying hard for her exams at the moment, so to give her a little boost I thought it would be nice to give a hot chocolate gift basket. I found the lovely idea here: http://www.designsponge.com/2010/12/small-measures-hot-chocolate-gift-basket.html. Hot chocolate, marshmallows, chocolate cookies and a shiny new cup, sometimes that's all a girl needs in cold winter times.

I made my own version of the box of goodness. Bigger, more glittery and with kitschy Christmas decoration. I'm a bit of a chaotic person. And I do love all things kitschy. That's why the outside of the box ended up looking like this:

Don't ask me why, but I always end up buying old photos of random people on fleemarkets. Yes, our apartment has more pictures of unknown people decorating the walls than images of friends and family :) Thank god being a bit crazy doesn't hurt.

Analogue girl in a digital world

Isn't it lovely to write and receive a letter or a postcard? A piece of paper that has flown miles through the air, coming from exotic destinations like Sri Lanka or Lithuania :) Or even from around the corner, just to say hi. To know someone picked a card because they thought it would make you smile. Some sweet words, written in nearly unreadable handwriting, that you can read over and over again in sad times. You can't always keep on eating chocolate and spending money on crap to feel better! So let your mood, words, dreams flow through that pen, put it in an envelope and send your love! There's even a project going on to make people send postcards again, like back in the old days, even to strangers! Go on, have a look at www.postcrossing.com and write about your day! Make someone happy and receive kitschy postcards in return!

For the ones who believe keyboardtyping isn't the new handwriting.