Last year I posted some hopes and resolutions that I was hoping to achieve during 2014 and with today being the last day of the year what more than a perfect time to reflect back and see what I've done and what my new ones will be for 2015!

It seems like ages ago that it was Christmas day but it was only a few days ago really! Time always just gets extremely warped while on Holiday. 

Wow. I can't believe this week has already come and gone let alone the year! It just doesn't seem really that 2015 is literally in like 4 and a half days! This week has been pretty amazing though from a friends party to Christmas! 

 Just a quick post wishing everybody a Merry Christmas. I hope everybody has had or having a good day doing whatever you are doing, whether that's festive or not. Our presents have been open, Christmas dinner has been and gone and we're all currently relaxing with our feet up in front of the tele!

A massive thank you to those who have all supported my blog this year. Every comment, every follower and every piece of support, it really means the world to me! Can't wait to see what 2015 will bring!

I actually wasn't planning on this being today's blog post but I think after my little afternoon of decorating biscuits and a bit of an incident I kind of had to... I'd seen loads of these Snowmen Biscuits over Pinterest and really fancied making my own ones of them to try. With it being Christmas tomorrow it definitely seemed like the perfect time! 

I'm so excited!!! It's only one and a half days really till Christmas now! But not everybody is so organised since loads of people are meant to be going out today and tomorrow to get those last minute presents. And with presents, you need to wrap!

After last years All Wrapped Up post I wanted to do another one for this year as I loved doing that one. A lot of the wrapping is very much the same but there are lots of ideas in both to do last minute wrapping. 

I think my favourites above are the ones with different notes (top left), wrapped with candy canes (top right) and the two using cut out dolly shapes (the middle bottom two). This year however I have decorated mine much more like the inked illustrations (bottom right). 

How have you been wrapping your presents this year? Any great tips to share with us?!

All images from Pinterest. 

 This week has been such a busy and crazy one and this week for sure my instagram doesn't do it justice! I've basically been busy doing something every day apart from really Monday. 

At the start of the year I shared a post about books that needed to be read as they had just been sitting around for ages. I also set myself a GoodReads challenge to read 20 books in one year. I had originally thought of only doing 15 but felt I could do muuuch better than that. 

Ah another really late blogmas post! I've been busy spending the day illustrating little doodle type things on gift tags, getting a few last minute presents from Matalan and finally decorating and wrapping presents! I also spent about an hour this morning taking a load of different photos to have 'just in case'! 

I've said before but this year marks the fourth year since I got into 'blogging'. Although the first 3 years of that my blogging knowledge was extremely limited and stretched to whatever sort of blogging tumblr covered. But since then and since starting this blog I feel I have learned a lot from design to social media to content. 

Yesterday I spent a little part of my morning over at Make again making some Christmas designs that I'm going to be giving to a bunch of friends and family. It's been something I've wanted to work on for ages. And was even something I had hoped to do early enough to actually see before Christmas. But as usual, I didn't have the time to do it any earlier than this week, which is unfortunately a bit late to make and send out for Christmas!

My favourite thing about Christmas is definitely all the Christmas music that is out there! Over the past few years there's not been a huge amount of new songs but there have been some. I shared a collection of Christmas Songs last year but this years list has had a few changes! 

Songs like Wonderful Christmas Time just make me think of Christmas mornings and sitting around opening presents with my family. But my obscure choices, like All Time Low's Merry Christmas Kiss My Ass is just a fun Christmassy themed song that I love!

What's your favourite Christmas Songs?

Not a massive change but I've changed up the name of this feature because it makes a bit more sense! I'm also going to add a little wishlist each week, if I've seen really awesome things I would like over the week!

Other favourites from this week..

> The new Disney film Inside Out looks amazing!

> Lara posted that she's expecting a baby girl, so excited for her!

> These Winter drinks look amazing! Too bad I don't like coffee...

> Charlotte's Christmas night in looked like it was amazing fun

> Love the confessions Leona made! 

Weekly Wishlist

> I need this Zodiac Clutch in my life!

>This would definitely help to beat the writers/creative block I get a lot!

> Truly love this scarf, it's beautiful! 

> This phone case is so cute! 

This week has been pretty relaxed since I only had to go into Uni one day this week and that meant not having to get up early! I literally slept into between 10am and 12pm like all week last week. It was bliss. 

I can't believe it is 12 days till Christmas now! I've still got quite a bit of shopping to do but will hopefully finish it of soon. During the week I seen this Festive Tag over on Lazy Thoughts so definitely had to do it myself! 

So about a month ago I came out all singing and dancing saying I was going to be starting this new series called 5 Tips Friday. Since then I've been, well simply, not happy with it at all. At first it was having it as 5 Tips and now it's more I'm just not so sure on the idea and whether to continue or not.

At the weekend, my parents took down the boxes of Christmas decorations! Since we had an add on at the start of last year, we now have two Christmas trees in the house. One big main one for the presents to go under and a second smaller, pop up one for the dinning room/conservatory. This year, I decided to decorate the smaller of the two!

Over the past few weeks I've really been becoming more and more obsessed with typography and after spotting this gem over on Oh! Leona and I have to say I definitely have a new found type crush! In her post Leona shared the work from Joshua Phillips, a graphic designer from Northeast Arkansas.

This months favourites are a bit later than usual but I had some other awesome stuff to share with you last week!

Robyn's illustrations that she has done so far for #illo_advent are incredible! I really wish I did this challenge again.

 This past week has been so stressful but so great. I've finished Uni classes and things have started getting all things Christmassy at home! 

Oh wow it's been such a long time since I've done one of these posts. It's literally been a year! I have to say during this year I haven't been crazy downloading fonts like I used to as I'm pretty happy with my collection atm. I will try and do more updates like this if I do start downloading more. But there is always loads of great sources to find your own from. 

This week I'm back! I was really busy with course week last week and didn't have time to upload a new Friday Tips* but I'm back today. Today's topic is Inspiration and what to do with it when you have/find it. This has been a topic I've wrote briefly about before here but today's post will be kind of different to that so I would recommend reading it.

This past month my music choices have been pretty much the same kind of thing as usual. The most thing is that they are mostly new releases! The best thing that has comes this month -music wise- is that The Veronicas hve released a new album *squreals*! They were definitely one of my early teen year favourites! I would recommend listening to all of the ones above though, Tycho has been my favourite this month for soothing/relaxing music. 

What awesome songs have you been listening to this month? 

Back in January of this year I shared this Desktop Downloadable Calendar. I had hoped to continue to upload downloads throughout the year and well, we're in December now and that hasn't exactly happened... oops. But today and yesterday I've been messing around in my sketchbooks with paint and fancied actually doing something with it, so here it is! 

All you have to do is either open the image below and right-click and save. Or you can click this link and download it from google documents.

I've not used the google documents function much so if you do have any problems, then let me know!

I hope you enjoy using this download and let me know if you'd like to see more things like these as I enjoy giving you something back!

Last week and the week before, I shared photos from my recent trip to Edinburgh. Obviously while I was there I bought/got a few things- unfortunately no Christmas presents though! I hadn't actually realised how many things I got till I was sorting through it yesterday. Most of the things I got were either from the National Gallery, St James Shopping Center or Markets. 

Dear December, 

Ok so where has this week, actually no, this year gone?! How can it be December tomorrow? This week has literally passed in a blur with loads going on. I don't even know what I've really done all this week, it's just a blank spot in my mind!

There won't be a post for today's 5 Tips Friday. Been really busy with uni course work this week -just have a look at my uni blogs, they've been updated loads this week.