[39.] ❄ Merry Christmas ❄

❄ Merry Christmas ❄

I hope you were able to spend it with your loved ones!

I celebrated Christmas with my boyfriend and his family on the 24th.

We had a traditional Polish Christmas with 12 dishes of food on the table!

Needless to say, we were all pretty stuffed by the end of it :3

Before the meal started, we all had a piece of opłatek.

It's a Christmas wafer baked from pure wheat flour and water.

The opłatki wafers are embossed with Christmas related religious images, varying from the nativity scene, Virgin Mary with baby Jesus, to the Star of Bethlehem.

The eldest member holds a large wafer and breaks off a piece to begin the ritual.

The remaining wafer is passed on to another member while a prayer for loved ones is said. 

This continues until everyone at the table has a piece of the wafer. 

Finally, everyone eats their share.

This was the first time I did this and I thought it was a really nice idea.

Made Christmas a little bit different.

The Christmas meal consisted of the following 12 foods:

1. Herring & onion in sauce

2. Grilled Salmon with Herbs

3. Grilled Salmon with Lemon

4. Smoked Salmon

5. Greek Style fish

6. Pierogi with cheese filling

7. Pierogi with sauerkraut filling

8. Filled egg halves

9. Salad

10. Barszcz

11. Croquettes

12. Bread

As you can see, there is no meat involved.

Polish people will still be fasting from meat until Christmas Day.

~•* Outfit Rundown *•~

Christmas Headband - Claire's Accessories

Shoes - Vivienne Westwood x Melissa

Cardigan - New Look

Dress - Primark

Tights - M&S

I didn't feel like dressing up in lolita for Christmas this year.

I feel like every year, I'm using the same dress for it so it gets a bit boring...

This dress does the job alright, I think. It's very simple, yet cute and I like that.

Thanks for reading!

❄ Season's Greetings ❄

x Chrissii x

[30.] A belated Merry Christmas & a happy 2013!

Hello everyone (^___^)!

I'm wishing you all a belated "Merry Christmas!"
And a happy last day of 2012!
Ok, you can have an amazing 2013 too ;) 

I hope you had a nice time with your family and loved ones :)

A few days before Christmas, my mum and my brother flew over to visit me.

It was lovely to have them over, especially as I hadn't 

seen my mum for about 6 months!

Christmas itself, I celebrated with my boyfriend on the 24th.

It's German and Polish tradition to celebrate and do the presents on Christmas Eve.

For this day, we wore matching Christmas jumpers, haha XD

Christmas Dinner was delicious!
My boyfriend should really enter Masterchef, haha!

Barszcz

(beetroot soup)

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4-Bird Roast with potatoes, carrots, broccoli,

parsnips & sprouts

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Apple Crumble

After dinner, we've opened our presents!

I got super spoiled this year!

My boyfriend bought me a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2,

from which I'm writing this entry :D

Christmas Day was spent at a friends house

And I dressed up for the ooccasion ;)

Merry Christmas & a happy new year

from your Crimbo Bimbo

x Chrissii x

[10.] "Foreign" Lolitas, part 7...

Good evening/night, readers ^-^!

Super late entry, sorry! I've been really busy & had a frustrating day today!

Anyway, I won't bore you with the details, lol!

"Foreign" Lolitas, part 7...

~* Czech Republic *~

I went to the Czech Republic in December 2009, specifically Prague.

December 2009 seems so long ago now, wow!

Once there I met up with a lovely lolita called Vita.

I met Vita through one of my online friends called Lucie.

She's another lolita from Czech Republic, but wasn't living in Prague at the time.

Sadly I have lost touch with Vita now (;____;).

Vita showed me around the whole of Prague, 

I remember my feet were hurting from walking so much XD

It was totally worth it though, prague is such a beautiful city!

Here are some photos ^-^!

A little bit of the Christmas Market.

Eating a crêpe <3 Delicious!

The view from Karlův Most.

City view from on top of a tower!

While I was in Prague, I also went to visit the Alphonse Mucha Exhibition.

He's my favourite artist, so it was a must for me!

Vita & I at Prague Castle.

Close-up of my outfit. Very bad lighting! My jumper is brown, lol :3

•What I'm wearing•

Headbow - Baby, the Stars Shine Bright

Jumper - C&A

Blouse - H&M

JSK - Baby, the Stars Shine Bright

Tights - Accessorize

Legwarmers - H&M

Boots - New Look

It was SO cold; a couple of degrees below 0!

I feel a little bit sad that I've lost touch with Vita,

but I'm very happy that I eventually got to meet my 

long-term online friend Lucie, too <3

Lucie was studying in the UK for a year or so and

it was actually really close to where I lived at the time!

We would meet up lots and go on silly adventures ^-^!

Pro Tip: There is no Nando's in Newport.

Lucie is currently on holiday in Sri Lanka and lives in Prague,

where she works for Czech Television!

We try to meet up as often as we can and she recently came

to London and stayed with me for a whole week!

We had so much fun!

Pro Tip: Stay away from Czech alcohol.

While she was in London, we went to a Mori Girl meet-up.

Neither of us had tried the style before, but we I think we did OK!

Here's some silly pictures of us... ^-^!

(we actually don't have any normal ones)

Natural History Museum - April 2012, Mori Girl meet-up.

Lucie, Mary-Ann & I <3 Purikura after the Mori Girl meet, April 2012.

My outfit for the Mori Girl meet-up, April 2012.

My outfit actually won a prize for "Best Dark Mori Girl"!

It really made my day and I got a really cute cat necklace <3

•What I'm wearing•

Pompom headband - Claire's Accessories
Rose hairclips - H&M
Faux fur shawl - H&M
Wooden necklace - Accessorize
Wooden bracelet - SIX
Long sleeved hooded jumper - ZARA
Khaki T-shirt - H&M
Black knitted top - H&M
Maxi skirt - All Saints
Overknee socks - Vivienne Westwood
Shoes - Vivienne Westwood x Melissa

This post was slightly different, I hope you enjoyed it anyway :3

The next entry will be the last "Foreign" Lolitas part (;_____;)!

You'll have to wait until Friday night for it, as

I'm going to a concert tomorrow, so excited!

More about that later!

Have a great night,

x Chrissii x