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It is the second of December and after some lovely goodies yesterday I am looking forward to getting more goodies today. The first advent calendar that I will reveal today is by busy bee candles. Today is a melt in the scent 'Christmas Cookie'. It is a sweet scent that is rather like the cookie scents from the larger companies and these scents are a mainstay of the christmas lines for many customers and for me this will be a great year round melt scent. The next advent calendar today is by Youbeauty and this has a small aperture today. Inside the number two door is this Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm in the shade Rose.  It has a lovely red tint and looking at the ingredients I am quite happy as the four largest ingredients in this lip balm are coconut oil, vegetable oil, beeswax and olive oil.  On trying it I found that it was very soft on the lips and was very moisturising but looking at the ingredients it's not really surprising.  ...

I'm back (although that is hardly a surprise if you are reading this) and it is to this blog that I have returned to restart my yearly ritual of showing you advent calendars. It has been almost a year since I posted with regularity and hopefully these posts will be better timed than last year. But, enough of that. Here are my first items from this years advent calendars.  Welcome to December 2016 and my day one items. The first advent calendar today is tinc and the item was a luggage tag. It is really cute (as I expect from tinc) and I will probably use it on bean's luggage when we go on holiday this year. Although this is a useful item it is not something that I was desperate for. The next advent calendar item tonight is from busy bee candles and is a melt in the scent 'elf crazy'. To me this has a scent of mint and it is reminiscient to candy cane lane and candy cane forest from Yankee Candle to me. This is very sweet and would be a great s...

Here are the pictures of my advent calendars in the order of my preference of the contents for this year and here is the order. 1. Youbeauty has been the advent calendar that I recommended to everyone the last two years and this year didn't disappoint. I got this for just under £50 as I had a £10 off code and it was well worth the price and I will use it all apart from the tweezers. 2. Marks and spencer was fabulous for 2015 and I will definitely repurchase this year. It was £25 with a £25 purchase and it was fabulous value and I loved opening the little boxes every day. A really great value and with more 'classic' products it will be great for all. 3. In third place was lookfantastic and this one is here as it was £70.70 which makes it £20 more than youbeauty and £45 more than M and S and I can't see the value. I do prefer it to the others as I prefer the beauty calendars but not sure I will get it next year unless I get it on an...

It is the final day for two of the three advent calendars. Look fantastic does have a day 25 so I will be on the box saying that in the contents post for all the advent calendars as well as the Smiggle advent calendar which also has a day 25. But back to day 24 of my multibrand advent calendar.

Here are my non beauty advent calendars for day 24.

This is the last day for both of these advent calendars.

Sorry that it has been another day but here are some more reviews for last year's advent calendars.

Here  are my non beauty advent calendars for the 23rd December and to be honest it was one of my best days as I fell in love with a Smiggle item.

Here are my single brand advent calendars for the 23rd December 2015. These are Ciate and Clarins.

Here are my non beauty advent calendars for the 22nd December.

As well as the multibrand I also have the single brand advent calendars and these are my Clarins and Ciate advent calendar items for the 22nd December.

These have been delayed and I am sorry it is 2016 but here are the remaining advent calendar days.