Hello my loves! Can you believe today is the halfway point to our Early Christmas Shopping series. I still can’t believe myself that I’m blogging everyday. Fifteen more gift ideas to go my loves!
Today’s gift idea is a popular Christmas present. It’s something that you’ve already heard of. It’s one of the presents that almost every bloggers recommends you to put on your Christmas shopping list. I don’t mind talking about it though because this present can create memories while at the same time help you recall your old memories!
No! It’s not a time machine but it can do its job in bringing back your memories.
Then, what is it? Can you guess? The answer is, it’s perfume.
Giving Perfume as a gift, how to choose the right scent for the right person:
First off, it’s so hard to choose if you’re planning to get a perfume for someone who you just met. There are plenty of scents and I don’t even know how to describe them all here. So don’t give this as a present for someone who you just met.
Common scents of perfumes are floral, fresh, oriental, woody, green, spicy and oceanic. There are still more scents to put on the list but this should be good enough to not confuse you from which one to pick from. Perfume can tell you about personality and personality can tell you about the type of perfume you are willing to put on. When you’re picking the perfume for someone, just try to think about their personalities. If they are very romantic and feminine, you should go for the floral sense. If they are more sophisticated, you should go for a woody scent; these are just examples. There’re a lot more indept details that you can read online. If you’re considering this as a present, you have to do more research. There are plenty of experts out there who you can learn from.
Having a Perfume party is another good idea! You can go to Sephora or Ulta and get perfume sampler sets and take it to your friends, let them smell and talk about it. You have to do your job, memorizing and recording who loves what. So you won’t mix up their gifts.
Lastly, ask the person frankly! Why not? So you know for sure what do they like and which one you should get for them. Sound good?
I recommend you to get a small bottle. If the person who you’re giving the gift to likes it., he or she can buy a bigger bottle themselves. Just to save you some money!
I hope I’m giving you some useful shopping tips today. Like I said, perfume is like a time machine, the person who receives your gift will be likely to remember you forever!
Have a wonderful time my loves!
See you again tomorrow!
“Perfume is the key to our memories.” – Kate Lord Brown
I have always had love for home decoration and travel. Every time my husband and I go out for our home shopping, I feel like I am going to visit Disney Land, you can leave me there all day long. I love to see all the beautiful furniture pieces and I love to think about how I should arrange them when we buy them. Home décor makes me feel so happy. It helps bring out my Serotonin aka “happiness hormone”. I can do home shopping and decorating all day long, trust me. Some people might want to go out clubbing on Friday night; I’d rather stay home and relaxing by decorating my own space.
I’d mentioned that I love traveling, who doesn’t love traveling, right? I got my MBA in Hotel and Tourism Management; this should somehow prove a little bit that I have my heart for the tourism industry. Just to give you a little more detail though, I’m not an explorer kind of tourist; I am a stay at the hotel and getting spa and massage all day long kind of type. A little bit of sightseeing is fine but not the adventure kind that walks and explores all day long. I love to relax and see different cultures. Shopping is also good when going on a trip too.
These past few years my husband and I really didn’t have a chance to go traveling outside of the country at all. We used to travel abroad once every few months when we were still Fiancé. Due to work and starting our own family, we’ve been pushing our trips away from us. We would only think, plan, and then cancel. We really don’t like doing that, but that’s what was happening. We want to go back and gain more life experience through travelling again. To make our plans come true, I had to put something up in our house so we can see and remember that we need to get back on all those darling trips again. This decorating piece can make a perfect gift for Christmas this year too.
Before we get into what it is and where we can get it from, let’s talk about who should you give this gift to first.
This gift is perfect for someone who loves to travel.
Someone who needs to keep track of their travel journeys.
It can be for both ladies and gentlemen.
You can give it to someone who’s dreaming to travel but hasn’t had a chance to get out and explore the world yet.
You can give as a gift for someone who just bough a home.
You can give to someone who loves something special that you can customize especially for him or her.
Someone who loves artwork.
Someone who loves interior decoration.
Someone who loves good quality products.
Someone who’s reading my post right now, you! Get it and give it to yourself, you deserve a special personalized art piece to be inspired by getting out and enjoying the world.
So the present I’m going to talk about today is a Push Pin Travel Map from 76th and Newbury, a design store where you can order your custom artwork that can be customized with colors, fonts and custom drawn art. Every order is supper unique and has a personality of its own. You tell them what you want and they will work their hearts out to design the perfect art piece for you.
I love how this shop works. Everything is so organized. Right after you’ve picked and completed your order, you will receive an email with a link to access the art customization form, here you can customize your artwork with the color, font or even put your own wordings into the design.
You will get a chance to work one on one with their designers. Your designer will email you your design proof. If you don’t like it and want to change something, you can go ahead and let your designer know. If you like everything, they will make it for you and you should get your order within a week or two.
The design I’d chosen for my home is a Push Pin World Travels Map Canvas, size 30 x40. This art piece is the best tool to help us keep track our vacations. Not only that, it helps to motivate us to go explore the world and enjoy our lives more. After each trip, we can place a pin on the country we’ve just visited. My husband and I love it so much. It’s a high quality canvas print that has our family name on it. You don’t need to buy any extra frame, which is save time and money. It comes with picture hangers on the back. All you need to do is find the right spot in your home, add a couple nails into your wall, hang your artwork and ENJOY. They said they helped to make marking our travels easier and we totally agreed with that.
This year we are in our new home, so we decided to put up our Christmas tree early and yes we put it right next to our new family world travel map. We have only just begun decorating our Christmas tree, a lot more fun to come. Soon we will have family travel pictures to be put up around the map. Wouldn’t you love to have this beautiful special artwork hanging on your wall too? Learn more about 76th and Newbury store and discover your new favorite personalized artwork here.
I hope I’ve got you inspired today with a new Christmas gift idea, something that you can gift yourself and/or your loved ones. Don’t forget to start planing your trips today because Darling Adventure Awaits!
Let me know where would you like to go in the comments below my loves!
I’m thinking about Japan!
Thank you for stopping by! See you again tomorrow! Have a wonderful week!
“Traveling. It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
Everyone loves to surround themselves with positive energy. I am sure you’ve heard of this saying before “Your vibes attract your tribes”, which means if you have good energy you will attract the same type of people who also have good energy. One thing that has helped me to attract some good vibes into my life is trying to be positive with everything and every situation I’m in. When something bad happens, find at least one good thing about the situation. For example, your car stops working, your stuck on the highway on Monday morning and you have a meeting to attend. This looks like a really bad situation and you really can’t find any positivity in it. Just give yourself a minute to think, what positive thing can you find here?
So what will happen is that you will have to call someone to come help, lets see who you can call. You can call your friends, family members, or a mechanic near by to come see what’s wrong with your car. Lets say we pick to call the mechanic, I already found something positive here, first, you give someone a job. Second, you can take a break from that serious meeting. Third, you might make a new friend who is a mechanic. See how many positive things that you can think about. I hope this situation will never ever happened to you though.
One more way that you can create good energy around you is to have a notebook cover that has a good quote or some sort of uplifting words or saying on it. This way it will help remind you when you’re feeling down or need a little bit of inspiration. In your house, in your office, in your bedroom, you can hang all those good words of art to help gain more good energy too. I have some hanging in my home, every time I look at them; it really gets me going and stops me from having negative thoughts. In my opinion, this can make a perfect present for Christmas too.
I know a good print shop on Etsy where you can buy the digital files and print them out to the size you want by yourself. No shipping hassles and no waits! The shop name is The Crown Prints. Here, they have over 800 printable arts designs for you to choose from. Took me a little while to pick what I now have hanging on the wall in my house. I got 4 designs from them and I love every single one of them so much.
After you purchase the art from the shop, you will get the instant download links. You will get difference sizes of .jpeg files with the directions on how and where to print them.
I printed my artwork with vistaprint.com and got my picture frames from Target. You can put your art up without any frames if you want. The artwork itself is already beautiful. And if you’re on budget, I recommend you to give these arts as your Christmas present because you’re purchasing only one time ($5.90) and you can print it out as many times as you want and give it to as many people as you wish to. It’s a very good investment. You can print one and have it hanging on your own space too. Not only that, when you purchase any BLACK & WHITE printable art from The Crown Prints, you will get access to their exclusive online color-changing tool, where you can choose any two-color scheme and colorize your art. This way you can custom make your art to be more specific to the likes of the person you will give it to. Isn’t that nice?
I used this tool on one of my arts “Why Hello”. It comes in a white background with black letters and I used the tool to change it to be a black background with white letters, as you can see from the picture here.
I have some good news here; you can save 30% on 3 or more printable arts with this coupon code “30PERCENT”.
You can visit The Crown Prints to see more design and learn more about them.
Like I said in the beginning, no one likes bad energy. One last tip I want to share with you before I go today is having your favorite quote hanging in front of your bed, so you can see it the first thing in the morning is not a bad idea. Start the day with some motivational quotes to get some good vibes flowing and you know where you can get all those prints, right? Head over to The Crown Prints, to get the print you like today.
I hope I’m giving you some new ideas for your Christmas presents this year.
Thank you for stopping by! Have the best Sunday night and have an awesome week my loves!
“Stay positive and the ups will be more frequent than the downs.”– Unknown
It’s no doubt that every girl needs at least one plaid pattern clothes or accessories in her closet. Since we’re now in the Holiday season, lets put on a plaid dress to lift up our festive spirits a bit!
Plaid patterns have many feelings in it; this mostly depends on the colors and how you style it. You can look preppy or punk. You can make your style go for luxury or high street. Plaid can go to many directions and it won’t upset you with the way you choose.
I am sure you’re now starting to see a lot of people putting on their plaid dress, shirt, scarf, jacket or even shoes. I think it is that time of the year that we are getting closer and closer to the holidays and Plaid can bring out happiness and joy, don’t you agree?
If you followed my blog from the beginning, you will know I love shopping at forever 21.
I was there last week and walked by a rack of varieties of plaid dresses. I had to stop and pick one up. I couldn’t help myself. This dress is only $14.00. It’s just the right length with its soft fabric. I feel so cozy and comfy in it. This dress is my first plaid dress of the year!
Now lets get into our gift guide, whom should we give this gift to?
Plaid patterns can go for both guys and girls.
Someone who’s a Plaid lover.
Someone who has never tried plaid before. This can spice up their holiday season a little bit.
Someone who loves statement patterns because it really catches everyone’s eyes.
Everyone who forgets to put his or her holiday spirits on. You have to tell them to stop worrying, throw all their negativities away and enjoy the best time of the year!
Nothing is better than a mini facial treatment at home on a Friday night, to celebrate your FRI-YAY! Believe it or not, today is the 11th day on our Early Christmas Shopping | 30 days 30 presents series. I’ve been working on this series everyday and I love it so much. It’s because I can share with you what I am really using in real life and the benefits of the products from my own experience.
Today’s gift is one of my beauty routine products. My favorite product I’ve discovered from the company’s called Black Paint.
They have contacted me months and months ago and I totally forgot to do a review for them. I am being very honest with you here; all words in the review are from my opinion. They gave me a very tiny piece of the product to try. Man, that tiny soap lasted for 21 days. I love the results I got from it so I’ve been purchasing and using it since then.
I’m using it daily and it last for about 3 months. This Black Paint product is made with natural and organic materials which are blended from more than 100 types of plant oils and more than 50 types of essential oils, Kishu Bichotan. The company is originally from Japan but now the products are available in the US.
Here’s the link so you can learn more about the company.
So the black paint soap is a gentle pore cleansing, hand-made facial soap with White charcoal. It’s a combination of 23 types plant oils, silk, honey, and super-absorbent charcoal allowing the complete removal of both water-soluble and lipid-soluble materials, including cosmetics, excess skin oil and air pollution.
My thoughts on the cost of this soap are that it’s a very good soap but a little bit pricy. It’s $29 per bar but it’s last for a few months, which is not bad. When you calculate it, it’s about $10-$15 a month which is very reasonable for a face wash.
Who should we give this gift to?
Someone who has acne problems
Someone who loves organic and natural products
Someone who loves to treat themselves every day with a facial at home
Someone with a problem of not being able to finding the right face wash product
Someone that likes to try new products
Someone who only uses a normal bar of soap to wash their face
Mini Review:
First time I tried it, I had a burning feeling on my face. I almost stopped and just said forget about this product but the thing that kept me using it for 21 days was that I didn’t break out at all. I can feel my skin is getting softer and brighter. The good thing about this product is that not only is it all natural and organic but it also helps to clean off your makeup in one wash.
I tried washing my makeup off and it worked perfectly fine with a little bit longer of a massage and a longer scrub. Overall I love this soap, I have been using black paint everyday for about 6 months and now it is my new face-washing product.
This soap is really something you should try by yourself.
I’m loving it and I know you will love it too!It will last for a couple of months and it really helps detoxing all the toxins that you’ve been collecting underneath your skin tissue.
I can’t say enough how much I love it, I just love it a lot!.
Thank you for stopping by today! See you again tomorrow my loves.
Have a wonderful weekend!
“What is done in love is done well.” – Vincent Van Gogh
Mollie Larsen is the creator of All About Good Vibes—a feel-good destination that inspires women to love, care and be themselves. Growing up she loved dressing up, taking care of her skin and helped supporting others. She believes in positivity and seeing good in all situations. Her biggest achievement of the day is putting her babies to sleep early, relaxing and watching her favorite shows with her husband.
