Christmas Dinner : Cooking, Baking, and Unboxing

Merry Christmas Everyone! Ho ho ho...

Do you celebrate Christmas too? How do you celebrate? We (I and my husband) celebrate at home, just two of us. Our big family never held a Christmas party. 

We decorate the Christmas Tree and have dinner in the living room. This year, we made homecooked burger and mix grilled veggies and also chocolate drink for refreshment. We did not plan the dinner menu, so the ingredients are basically anything left in the fridge. And that what makes it even more meaningful.

I have baked Pandan Ogura Cake. It is so fluffy, soft and low in calories. I took the risk since this is my first Ogura and I am amateur. Baking a new type of cake is not easy when we are not so expert. Each and every oven is different. When the recipe says 170degrees 50minutes, it becomes 170degrees 70minutes and the surface not turning brown, I need to adjust the temperature to 220degrees for another 10minutes. Luckily it is au bain marie so the result is still so moist and yummy eventhough it is not perfect. Next time I need to do experiment with the temp.

No party without a gift, LOL. Actually I have some stuffs from my husband and I haul some too, but the goodies are not arrived on time. Well, let's spare for another post. Now, let me share the gift from my lovely fellow beauty blogger Winda (www.dajourneys.com). 

This is my second time changing Christmas gift with her. The first time was last year, you can read about it here. Let's peek what Santa Winda sent to me:

1. It's My Cushion. I always want this DIY Cushion. I think it will be really useful to mix and match my holygrail inside this cushion to save time in applying make up. Winda knows it and she bought one for me.

2. Skinfood My Short Cake Eyeshadow Trio

3. Etude House 3 Step Volumecara

4. Beauty People Gel Eyeliner Pencil

5. Hope Girl Wonder Magic Mascara

6. Lioele Dollish Eyeshadow Triple

7. Majolica Majorca Honey Pump Lipgloss

8. Etude House Color Pop Shine Tint

9. Canmake Candy Wrap Lip

10. Holika Holika Heartful Moisture Lipstick

All these Korean and Japanese Beauty Products are so beautiful and I'm so thankful for these presents. Thank you so much Winda for thoughtfully picking them for me.

In the last part, I want to say happy birthday to sweet Jesus. I'm so thankful that You're born and die for us. I will always be grateful.

Now, cheers to everybody! Have a Holy Jolly Christmas!

Beauty Swap with Winda

My first beauty swap and I'm so excited writting about this..! I never know that Beauty Swap could be this fun. Now let's start with a story of knowing my partner. 

Winda is a fellow Indonesian beauty blogger who active blogging longer than me.. She first started her blog on wind-atree.blogspot.com which now become www.dajourneys.com.. Congratulations for your new web domain, bae! (Follow her Instagram on : @wind1403). 

We first met on ClozetteID. Yes, we are both Star Clozetters. We know each other from Star Clozetter's Whatsapp, following each other's IG account, then coincidentally featured together in Gogirl! Magazine December 2015 issue together with Jean Milka and Dea Hamdan.

While she lives in Bandung, I lives in smaller city, Kediri, and facing difficulties getting this magazine. Then Winda offered to get this for me and asked whether there is anything else I want. (Isn't she so kind?). Then I said, "let's do a swap". She then replied "Yes, let's do it".

Winda already has few Beauty Swap experience with both international and Indonesian bloggers, so she helped me A LOT in doing this. She explained what is beauty swap and how to do it. She asked me to create the rules (such as the budget, the preference, etc) and make sure that this experience will be memorable to me. She's like my big sister, the one who will take care of you, if you get what I mean. She makes me comfortable all the way.

She's also fast. I mean, with all her busy things around, I couldn't believe she managed to do this thousand times better than me. She wrapped the box nicely with green gift wrap. This supposed to be a Christmas swap and I certainly feels like Christmas.

My first impression when open the box is "What??? She wrapped the things one by one with a green wrap!! I'm so ashamed, I only wrapped few things together with thick bubble wrap. I only think about safety, not the aesthetic of gift wrapping. Stupid me!". 

Second thing, "OMG! How could she do this to me?". While I was amazed of how Winda wrapped each of them nicely and unwrapping them with a happy heart (and regret why I didn't do something better for her), I was counting them. The total is 24 items including the magz. I only put half of the number inside my package for her.

Even my Lizzy could not stop looking at them 😁

The third thing is Winda's thoughful picks. My gift for her is just a bunch of random thing. Got package from her is like winning complete year supply of make up. From the bb cream, cc cream, powder, concealer, eyeshadow, eyeliner, eyelashes, lipbalm, lipgloss, lipstick, blusher, nailpolish. You name it, Winda put all of them inside the package. Even I got some mask and eyecream too. I will write the list of the products in the bottom part of this post.

What I want to say to Winda is thank you for being such a good friend to me. I'm so happy to know you. Without you realize, you teach me so many things. Friendship, hardwork, being on time, being a good mother, and of course how to do beauty swap. Next time I will do much better than this if you still want to have swap with me.. Lol..

Products:

1. GOGIRL! Magz December 2015 Issue

2. Beauty Story Magical CC Cream

3. Emina Beauty Bliss BB Cream

4. Silkygirl Skin Perfect CC Color Control 2-Way Foundation #03Natural

5. Emina Bare With Me Mineral Compact Powder #04Ebony

6. Sheercover Duo Concealer Light/Medium Sample

7. Benefit It's Potent Eye Cream Mini

8. Benefit Some Kind-a Gorgeous Mini

9. Etude House Mag Play Nails #ExtremePurple

10. Angel Lashes Arden

11. Etude House Oh m'Eye Line

12. Make Over Shiny Glam Eye Shadow Refill #Sunset

13. Make Over Shiny Glam Eye Shadow Refill #Turquoise

14. Emina Cheeklit #Sugarcane

15. The Face Shop Lovely Me: Ex You & Face Blusher #07PinkPeach

16. Emina Oh So Kissable #05CherryPie

17. Make Over Lip Balm #OrangeCrush

18. Make Over Ultra Shine Lipstick #01

19. Hope Girl Milky Balm Lipstick #RD101ChicagoRed

20. Etude House Juicy Pop Tube #3

21. Emina Lip Shine Liquid #CeriseRed

22. Etude House I Need You, Pomegranate! Mask Sheet

23. Etude House Vitamin E Essence Mask Sheet

24. Etude House I Need You, Immortelle! Mask Sheet

If you want to know about my picks for her, kindly check her post here

Thank you for reading..