Birthday and Christmas in this wonderful place.

Hi,
I woke up on my birthday with my sister who made me breakfast!!
Then we dressed up warm and got ready to do what we came here for. Storm watching!!
First we went to a small beach across the cottages, we couldn't get on the beach cause of the high tide. Then we walked to the lighthouse a bit further ahead. The trail was closed because of damage from the storm, so we followed the road. There it also said to watch out. Also that this was an area with bears, wolves and cougars :) But the waves were so huge, it was really nice and stormy ocean. The water was far away so we went to sit on the rocks to take some pictures, there were a lot of people doing the same thing. You could just sit there and watch, it was so beautiful. We found a nice little bench and just sat there for a while. Then we walked a bit by the trail and took pictures.
We were there for a good part of the day, so beautiful.
Then we went back to the cottage for a late lunch. To then head back out to see the sunset on big beach a little further away. I found a really nice sea shell, but did not take it with me... The sunset was so nice, so beautiful.
After that we went back to the cottage and had a pizza with a movie.
So we had a nice evening in :)
Oooh yeah I bought myself a lemon meringue pie, but my sister is allergic so I ate it by myself during the whole stay in the cottage :)
The next day on christmas eve, we went to Tofino, known for it's surf vibes.
We stopped at one of the beaches and yes found some surfers!
The village was really nice and really had the beach village vibes. We walked around for a bit and did some last grocery shopping. Then we went back to the cottage and called home to see how there celebration was going. To then start our own cooking and celebrating. We had some food and watched Harry Potter, cause we didn't found any christmas movies on tv.
On our last day, so Christmas day, we had a late start and then went for a walk to the beach and lighthouse. We were so lucky to see a bald eagle or 3 :) We really didn't want to leave this place. Then we cooked our simple Christmas diner and watch Home alone on tv :)
We enjoyed our time in this place so much!!! We plan to come back one day, cause it was really perfect!! Best place in Canada so far :)
Love,
Sarah

Christmas tree

It's that time of the year again!
Time to put the christmas tree up!
We have bought a fake christmas tree a few years ago, because my sister is allergic to the real thing.
But it's a good quality tree, at the time it was around the 100 euros we paid for it and we have it more than 6 years for sure. It's about 1m80 of length.
In the package there's a foot to stand the tree up on, and then there's 3 pieces to put on top of each other and then you have our tree. It's up in about 5 minutes or less, but after you have to open up the branches a little and that takes a good 10 minutes if you wanna do it nicely.
Tadaaa now you have a tree :)




Now it's time to put some lights in it.
I've bought new ones this year and I went for warm ones, but I didn't looked at the length of it so I had to go back and buy a second pair of lights :)
I've started from the bottom up and put them more on the outside of the tree, so you see them really good instead of hiding them. Halfway up the tree I had to start with my second pair of lights that I bought. And this is the result!
I think it came out really nice.





Lets put in some ornaments in it!
This year we went for the colors red and gold, so it's a warm tree this year. We change it up each year.
First I've put in the red ornaments in, a bit all over the tree. The smaller ones I've put on top and the bigger ones in the bottom. We have shiny ones, matt ones and glitter ones. After that I've put in the golden ones, those are the same ones as the red ones. We bought those for about 15 euros the box, there are 24 ornaments per box. We finished it of with some bowes, also in red and gold. This time it didn't want to work for me, so my mom was so nice to help with the bowes.
This is the end result!
Hope you like my christmas tree, by now there are also some presents under it, you can see it on my instagram @theadventure_oflife . I'm interested to see your christmas tree, so you can share it with me if you want.

Love,
Sarah

Christmas Cupcakes

This week we will make some delicious cupcakes, specially decorated for Christmas.
It's a pretty easy recipe and they're really good.
It takes about an hour to make them.

These are the ingredients: 150gr of butter, 500gr all purpose flowers, 280gr caster sugar, 15ml baking powder, pinch of salt, 3 eggs, 150ml milk, 50ml water, 5ml vanilla essence.


Start baking!
Put the butter and the dry ingredients together.
But the milk, the water, the eggs and the vanilla essence in and mix, about 3 minutes by hand, if you do it with a mixer it's good after 1,5 minutes.
This should be good for around 20 cupcakes, you can put the mix in cupcake forms now.
Pre heat the oven at 180 degrees, then put the cupcakes in for 10 - 15 minutes.
If you wanna know if they're ready put a tooth pick in it and if there is no dough sticking on it they are ready.
This is how they should look, I also had a little more cupcakes :)

Now let's start the decorations :)
First I made the buttercream, for this you need butter, sugar and vanilla essence.
I used 250gr butter and with that 370gr sugar and about a teaspoon of vanilla essence. Then I separated the buttercream in 3 bowls and in 2 of then I put food coloring, in one green and the other red.
Then first I cut a whole in each cupcake, in one half I put some dark chocolate cream and in the other strawberry jam.
After that you can put the buttercream on top of it.
I also bought some other little decorations to put on it. I cut a christmas tree out of sugar paste and on top of it I put some sugar balls. I also used some candy cane decoration and mistletoe.

Hope you guys like my designs? Don't hesitate to share yours :)
Love,
Sarah

DIY Advent Wreath

It's almost Christmas! The most magical time of the year!
I love this time of the year so I thought to do a little countdown for it.
I'll do blogs about all that has to be ready for that time :)

Today's blog will be a DIY about how to make a Advent Wrath. My sister helped me make it, we did a little crafting this afternoon.
So first we went to buy some stuff, we needed some decoration and of course the circle it's one made of strong hay. I think everything cost about 10€, I found everything at a cheap price.
Of course I also needed the leaves of a pine tree to decorate all of it.
You also need some glue, eventually a glue gun and some glitters.
Of course you also need 4 candles, all from different seizes, we chose for white ones.

Let the crafting begin. First we glued the candles on the circle of hay, for that we used the glue gun. It's kind of tricky but at the end they stayed on very nice.
The we used the pine tree leaves to hide the hay of the circle. For this we also used the glue gun cause the glue is transparent.
For decoration I bought some white and red berries, fake ones of course :) I also bought some wooden reindeers and some wooden hearts. The hearts I also decorated with some glitter, some red ones and some silver ones, I also left some in the wood.
So now you can start to decorate it all, you can do this like you desire.
This is how I did it. At the end I also put some fake snow on the bottom.

I hope you like the results, enjoy making your own and don't hesitate to share yours.

Love,
Sarah

Birthday in Paris

Hello,

I love celebrating my birthday on special ways. For my 22th birthday we went with the whole family to Paris, for one day. The day before one of my brothers said he couldn't come anyway because of work. But the rest of us still went.

We had so much fun from the start, laughed so much on the train over there.
Then we ate croissant, what I only eat in France because they have the best. And of course I had to eat some macarons, that is so good :)
We went to visit the Notre Dame, it's so beautiful, you really have to see this.
The champs elysees is also very nice to see, so different than any other shopping streets I saw.
We also did a little shopping and went to a Starbucks.
Of course we had to go and see the Eiffel tower, there was also a christmas market around it and SNOW! I almost never have snow for my birthday the last few years so I was very excited. ( My birth day is in december, almost at christmas time ).
On the way back we got stuck with the train in the snow, so we had to wait for a 2 hours in the train, but we had fun waiting so it was ok :)

This was such a nice gift for my birthday, I couldn't asked for more. Or maybe that my other brother also could've come with us. Maybe next time.

Love,
Sarah