Bean's mum's blog

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...