Beep boop beep! The traditional Christmas tree gets an technological upgrade with this light-up desktop motherboard version. Simply insert a 9V battery (included) & watch the tree flash red light. Item measures approximately 7” hig. Buy at Fred Flare.
The tea bags you can find at Donkey Products are always fun, but now they put them in a great advent calendar for Christmas!
Merry Christmas all!
Wonderful jewelry at Mariastudio on Etsy! For Christmas, the winter or other occasions.
If you are looking for a last minute Christmas present, you should visit the website Cadeau.nl They sell some great gifts. Some are funny and others are functional. And not only for Christmas, but also for birthday present. So if you are looking for something different, have a look at Cadeau.nl
If you are looking for a nice present for under the Christmas tree, you should have a look at Obaby. They sell some nice Christmas hats, with the name of your child printed on it. How fun is that?
If you are looking for some nice Christmas decorations, you should have al look at the web shop Vorm en Kleur. They sell some beautiful items.
If you are looking for some nice underwear for your kids, you have to take a look at Ondergoed voor Kinderen. They sell some nice items, very colourful. You can also make a nice present with the underwear. Just buy a boxer short and a jar, put the boxer short in the jar and there you have a great present.
I like to cook. I got subscribtions to magazines like Delicious, Elle eten, etc. A long time ago I even got a subscribtion to Sla (a vegetarian magazine), Wining & Dining and Tip Culinair. And I love the Allerhande. Nowadays there even is a magazine called JAMIE (Jamie Oliver), and I am going to try that out soon too. I tear out the delicious recepies and save them. If they are approved by the commission (my husband and kids) I put them in my cooking dossier. In meantime my dossier is full. That’s why I love the idea from Cook Your Book. You can make your own cookbook of all your succesful recepies. They will make a beautiful book of the recepies. It will cost you some time, but it’s better than the dossier that’s bulging. Or loose sheets of paper. If you don’t feel like putting your own recepies in there, you can also add the recepies from the enormous database of Cook Your Book. You only add what you like most, so it’s a cookbook you will always love to use. Because, let’s be honest about that, from every cookbook we only really use 4 to 5 recepies. And they do take up a lot of space. Cook Your Book also is great to give as a gift. You can put all the favorite recepies of all guests at a wedding and personalise a cookbook to give as a present on the big day. Or someones birthday, christmas and so on.
Cook Your Book offers all our Hip & Hot readers to win a gift certifcate for a personalised cookbook with 30 recepies, including transport! What you have to do to win is just answer the following question: From how many cakes can you choose to put in your cookbook? Answers can be filled out on this form. This competition lasts until August 26th of 2011.
In Australia, my favorite country, I found a website with extremely cute paper musthaves for Christmas. And on the 2nd day of Christmas, while everyone is sleeping in and visiting family, I want to share my latest discovery with you. To get in (or stay in) the Christmas mood and to be full of new ideas for Christmas next year. Because they will probably have other extremely cute christmas decoration again at Paper Scissors rock stationery. Maybe not the same but different hip stuff. And for all the clever ones amongst you, you can already order for next year! Everything is on sale. The cute advent calendars, wall sticker cards, garlands, you’re better safe than sorry!
Of course, you can get your christmas decoration at Bijenkorf or V&D, but I really like getting my hands on something special. So I start my search on the best websites to find exclusive stuff, like Etsy and Dawanda. Sometimes you have to look good, but you will find your treasures! And so I found Etsyshop Aterlier Pompadour with these cool christmas decorations. Also to make it yourself, but I like these ones a lot so I don’t want to make others. You can also find a lot of other christmas decoration at Aterlier Pompadour. Good idea?
Normally I don’t mention actions on other webpages. But every now and than I make an exeption. First of all because I want to take it easy in December (whenever there is something to win, I receive a lot of emails) and second of all because I think the action by Ecomama is a nice idea. Especially in December I always get a sense of melancholy. Looking back on the passed year I can finally say that after two heavy years this was a good one. Giving birth to a beautiful baby boy, something we where looking forward to for so long, was pure joy. And the monts after that with our new family too. I realized that I want my babies to grow up in a healthy environment. I try to live a little more ‘green’. This year we don’t have a real christmas tree, but a special one, a metal spiral that we can hang up every year, so there’s no need to cut down a tree for our christmas tree. You can buy a beautiful wooden nativity scene from Ecomama at de Toverboom. This nativity scene is from Ostheimer is made in an environment friendly way with natural materials.
You can find everything about the action on the webpages of Ecomama and de Toverboom! Attention! It’s only for today!
We like wines. We don’t drink it a lot, but in the weekends we like our glass of wine with our dinner. We are looking for nice wine adresses with wines for a good value for money on the internet. And when you got your hands on a nice wine, it’s fun drinking it the best way possible. That means: let it reach the required temperature and decanting! The temperature is not a problem, we have a wine cooler, that stores our wines at the right temperature. Decanting is done with the beautiful carafe from MENU. Its’s great, stylish and easy to use and fabulous to look good with during christmas. Put a bottle of red wine on it, turn it around and you can see the wine rolling down. You can leave the wine in the carafe, or even decant it back in the bottle, just bij turning it around again. Because the wine had the time to breathe the taste will be fuller. We tested the decantation carafe and are really satisfied. Besides being fun to use, it ‘s a perfect gift for wine lovers to put under the christmas tree. The MENU decantation carafe is available at the better Cooking shops like Bijenkorf and also online at Fonq.
Fonq.nl offers all Hip & Hot readers a 15% discount on this beautiful and functional decantation carafe. This offer is valid until December 24, 2010, you can use code MDKARAF.
Funny for the computer nerds among us. Felt christmas hanger to put in the tree, inspired by the pixel from a computer screen. A raindeer and a christmas tree. Available at Grappig DaWanda s’ shop for €13,90 and deliverd in 3-5 days.
I’m going to help you find the best christmas presents. I have a great tip for you. Something that your friend, wife, husband, mother, granddad or grandma will like, a collage of your favorite pictures always works. At Easy Collage you don’t just make a ordinary collage, you will make a piece of artwork to put on the wall. A collage made at Easy Collage is special. And not complicated at all. You don’t have to download anything, just pick out your pictures, put them in a folder on your desktop and upload them. Ready in 5 minutes. The designs made by Pimpelmees are really cool, they designed 7 collages to help you give that extra touch to your christmas present. 
On behalf of Easy Collage I can offer all Hip & Hot readers a discount on a collage. Until January 8th, 2011 you can use code KERSTHNH, and get a € 5,00 discount when you order over € 25,00 (ex shipping).
The countdown has begun. Counting down to christmas and then countdown to the start of a new year. Counting down, happens of course with a Advent calendar. I saw some good ideas passing by on different blogs last week. DIY’s and ready made. We gave in as well and wanted a nice one from BL-ij. I unfortunately can’t find it in the shop anymore, so I suppose it’s already sold out. Fortunately we also have Homemadehappiness. Of course they have fun stuff as well, you can download at a low price in their webshop. They have a lot of cute envelopes you can print out, cut and fold. You can fill them with small presents or candy and hang them in the christmas tree or a tree branch. A guaranteed hit! Your kids will be downstairs before you know it to see what’s in the envelopes..
If you have a great idea for Homemadehappiness ’ Easter collection you can fill out this form. You can win an Advent calendar for 2011 already! This contest lasts until Januari 7, 2010.
