Oh hey! Hope y’all have had the loveliest Christmas and Boxing Day! I spent both in bed with a terrible flu, but was spoilt to the very best presents and some heartwarming love, so I won’t complain! A couple of days before Christmas we took some time to test our Holiday’s table setting with the…

I really don’t know where the time is going this year, but by the time you’ll read this little note it will be Christmas already! If only Christmas could last longer… I don’t know about you but there’s something so heartwarming to me in seeing all the people, no exceptions, all devoted to the same…

Can you all really believe Christmas is THIS week?! Or is it just me? I really don’t know where December is going, it still feels like it has just started. This is my very favourite period of the year and I always want enjoy it all at its fullest as much as I can: I…

To me tea is art. It’s slowing down, warming up. It’s taking the time I need to stretch out and recharge. Anyone who knows me will confirm I don’t go one single day without at least one cup of tea! It’s a habit I’ve learnt to grow years ago, but it’s not actually been always…

Comes tomorrow and we’ll be officially counting down the days until Christmas – perfect time to start shopping! Anyone else’s excited? So yes, that’s it for my gift guides this year, I really hope you enjoyed the items involved as much as I do and liked the articles as much as I loved putting them…

01. Touchscreen Gloves (similar) ; 02. Biscuiteers Nutcraker Biscuit Card ; 03. Clipper Organic Snoore & Peace Infusion ; 04. Pure Silver Dipped Gold Bar Necklace ℅ Zu Jewellery ; 05. MOA Daily Cleansing Ritual ; 06. Monki Mint Lace Triangle Bra Let’s talk stocking fillers, shall we? If there’s one thing I love about buying Christmas gifts, it’s certainly…

01. Amber Fox Print ℅ Sarah Taylor ; 02. Filo Bluetooth Tracker ; 03. Miel Café Design x Casetify Phone Case ; 04. Wild & Wolf Hook, Line & Sinker Lunch Bag (similar) ; 05. Brekka Milano Chunky Beanie ; 06. Modern Man Toiletry Bag + Mr Bear Family Beard Balm + Lush Lord Of Misrule Shower Cream ; 07. Five Elephant Coffee I…

01. Wool & The Gang Knitting Kit ; 02. Christian Lacroix Journal + Desk Box ℅ Garden Collage ; 03. Petite Mila Rosy Trousse + Pentel Aquash Watercolor Pens ; 04. Miel Café Design x Casetify Lemonade Phone Case ; 05. Deer Zoofold Animal Hat ℅ Zoofold ; 06. Watercolor Wishes Card Kit ℅ Stampin’ Up! Being such a lover of crafts and homemade myself, buying gifts for any…

01. Nike Juvenate Sneakers ; 02. H&M Soft Bra (Similar) ; 03. Jawbone Up Move Fitness Tracker ; 04. Teatox Set ℅ Teagime ; 05. Adidas Performer ClimaLite Leggings Ah, christmas gift guides! In the past I’ve tried a whole lot of different formats, but this year I wanted to create something a bit more ‘me’ and personal, sharing a selection of unconventional…

No more sleeps to go! Today is the day. Hopefully you won’t be reading this post today, and instead will be thinking of getting all things nice and ready to celebrate Christmas day, enjoying all the food and the company, unwrapping your well-deserved Christmas presents, spending your time with your loved ones, and then eating…

I like handmade things. Handmade gifts especially. Every Christmas I feel like between the many gifts I buy for others, the ones I create with my own hands are the most special and most appreciated. I’ve been putting together a cookies mix in a jar to give as gift to my favourite people the last few…

Not sure how, but this time every year things start to become stressful and frantic, between the whole organizing Christmas day and buying the last few presents and then wrapping them up. So seeing your Christmas tree all surrounded with beautifully wrapped gifts, perhaps that’s the view I most enjoy about the Holiday season. Or…

Is brittle even a Christmas tradition anywhere? Not sure why but I keep associating brittle or, how we call it here in Italy, ‘croccante’ with the festive season, yet I’m sure it’s not purely restricted to Christmas. It must be that handmade brittle starts appearing every so often in Christmas markets especially, or that we…

Even though I’ve never been a massive movies lover, over the past year or so I’ve come to love occasional movie nights, especially impromptu ones that include homemade popcorns or, around this time of the year, an indulgent whipped cream topped hot chocolate. I’ve never been one that loves to sit in front of the…

Here in Italy bringing a real pine at home to be used as Christmas tree is not really a thing (which I’m totally OK with), yet I love how pines smell and I’d like to associate that scent with Christmas as most of the people do! We’re not starting to bring home a real tree, but…

Today’s post is all about gift ideas for all the men in your life! I know for a fact that buying gifts for men is one of the most dubious yet fun thing to do, but finding something they would really appreciate is a whole other thing, isn’t it? That’s why I asked for the help…

With Christmas less than one month away (anyone else excited?!), and the sales just around the corner, it’s definitely time for me to share some gift ideas, if any of you need some inspiration! I know for a fact that a gift guide is just the best thing ever existed when you need some Christmas…

First of all, as with the recent email I sent to all Miel Café’s newsletter subscribers, I hope these lines meet you in a safe and happy time. Hope you all are well! *** This is my favourite time of the year: with Christmas around the corner (can you even believe it?!), it’s already time to get our minds…

I know I’m a tiny bit late with these monthly favourites, but the Holidays have kept us all super busy as you might have guess by the lack of presence over here! Christmas and the festive period are my favourite time of the year, so this time I thought I’d honor the Holidays spirit a…

Hey there! Hope y’all have had a very lovely time these past few days! In my last catch up post I told you I was going to come back pretty soon with a new update about my Christmas: deciding where to stay on Christmas day was not so easy, but in the end I spent Christmas eve…

Somewhere in the world it’s almost Christmas at this time (exciting!), so I thought I’d put together a very festive post to wish you all the best for Christmas day! Christmas eve calls for festive baking, let me tell you this: it’s kind of a tradition now over here, the very last pair of days…

Even though Holidays are meant to be spent with the closest ones and celebrating the fact of being together as a family (or at least that’s how I see it), one of the things I’d love to do and have never done is to go for a Holidays getaway, maybe right after Christmas to celebrate…

{ 1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 4 } It’s been a long while since we had our last catch up so it’s about time to share what’s going on in our lifes now that Christmas is behind the corner. I’ll go first! This year, Christmas got me hooked: I started being excited about it around…

Now, we sadly don’t have Starbucks here in Italy so we can actually save most of our money that would otherwise be gone in years of coffee, but at the same time I’ve tasted Starbucks lattes only in a few rare occasions during the past years, and there’s been no chance to try any of…

Last Thursday we had a busy but lovely day in Milan to attend the grand opening of the H&M’s Italian flagship store in the Duomo area, which meant we have waited a good hour standing in the cold and watching a big red countdown screen. Luckily the weather was pretty nice, but even though the…

Not sure the most will agree, but I love handmade gifts, especially when those were made from the one person who gifted it. I completely appreciate when someone spend time over something and I think it totally gives the gift another bigger and deeper value. Simple cheap objects can transform into something beautiful that might…

I was thinking “Maybe I should break the Christmas related posts off a bit and do something different for once” but then I thought there’ll be plenty of time to talk about non-festive stuff in 2015 and now I’m way too excited for Christmas time to stop talking about it! So yep, I’m bringing you…

Today’s Christmas Jumper Day and of course we are wearing our festive woolly very proudly as real Christmas sweater lovers as we obviously are! Hopefully you’ll have worn yours too at work or school, but if not it’s never too late, and don’t forget to check out Save The Children and donate today, and remember even the…

Looking for winter inspired cookies recipes? I’ve got you covered. And if there was one thing missing in my Christmas posts, it was a recipe (believe it or not!). I’ve discovered this recipe last year around Christmas time and tried it out multiple times with the help of friends and family (I even brought a…

Christmas Decorations ℅ The Christmas Boutique The past few days have been spent putting together a Christmas tree, hanging festive decorations, buying Christmas presents and wrapping them up. So don’t ask me why I’m feeling super festive! This year I thought I’d mix things up a bit and instead of going for the usual wrapping…

a christmas gift for you! ; Everytime I think of this little blog of mine I feel so lucky to be able to do something so different, creative and special on a daily basis, but something even more special is being aware that there’s people out there that share my same passions, that like to…

The previous pictures are from yesterday’s afternoon when we decided to head over to town to embrace the Christmas spirit by browsing through the cutest Christmas markets. I’m such a fan of the festive period and any festive printed/themed thing that if there’s one thing that can make me willing to face the cold and…

You might have read last week’s Christmas Gift Guide :: For Her where I started this year’s Christmas blog series; this time I’ve teamed up with my boyfriend to bring you the ultimate gift guide for him! All these gifts are boyfriend approved and something he would love to receive for Christmas but also things that can…

I’ve been seeing Christmas decorations around, have already taken my first (and other twenty) visits to Christmas themed shops (including a browse through the Christmas Ikea stuff), have applied holiday themed desktop & iPhone wallpapers, have read way too many festive themed blog posts and recipes, compiled Christmas related mental wishlists and believe it or…