Feeling Festive yet?
Here’s something new and fun from the team that brings you What’s On Your Bookshelf each month. Jo, Donna, Sue and I are hosting a special one-off seasonal link-up called Festive Bonbons.
What does your festive Season look like?
Although 2020 and 2021 haven’t been the easiest years, there is still so much to feel grateful for and to celebrate, and we want you to join us.
However you celebrate the holiday season, whatever your traditions and customs, we’d love to hear about them, if you’d like to share with us.
To start you off we’ve come up with a list of 10 questions – you can choose to answer all, some, or go completely rogue and answer none. It’s your call.
- Christmas Tree – do you have one, when does it go up, who decorates it, is there a theme or is it miss-matched?
- Christmas carols – yes or no, faves? Traditional or modern.
- Christmas books – any faves you want to tell us about?
- Christmas movies – any you watch year after year?
- Christmas cake – yes or no?
- Chocolate nuts or fruit?
- Christmas traditions?
- What’s on the table?
- Christmas memories?
- All I want for Christmas is…
Why bonbons?
We feel that the word ‘bonbons’ creates a festive feel. Bonbons are small bits of Christmas cheer like our questions 🙂
A bonbon is a sweet or small confection, especially a small ball coated in chocolate.
When will we be posting our bonbons?
Our posts will go live at 9am (AEDST) on Friday December 10 and if you’d like to link up with us, you can add a pingback to our post or simply join the link party by clicking on the blue link below (note it won’t open until Friday 10th). Or, you might want to get involved via Instagram or your social media of choice. We even have a hashtag you can use #festivebonbons.
Donna, Jo, Sue and I are looking forward to you joining us – and to brightening the world this holiday season one bonbon at a time. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.
It’s time to get festive!
I’ll leave you with this Awkward Photo from a few years ago – it always makes me smile 🙂
Note your diaries and take a look at the questions to see how you’d answer them.
See you soon.
Deb 🙂
Sharing for Natalie’s #weekendcoffeeshare – you can read her post about her first snowfall here
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OMG – I LOVE that photo, Debbie. Thank you for bringing an additional smile to my face. I am sooooo looking forward to this linkup. Bring it on! 😀
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Haha it’s a fabulous photo and really does make me smile each time, despite it being years old now! The linkup will be great fun.
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I have a real Xmas tree in the front garden. We bought it for Xmas 2017 when my ‘baby’ cousin came over from Australia and we met her family for the first time. It’s only small and lives in a pot, but because it has never been brought inside it is healthy. After Christmas 2020 I tied a ribbon on for each day of lockdown until Easter this year, it had become an Eastermas tree. It still has the ribbons as we still have a pandemic, the Xmas lights are back on. But my favourite Xmas trees are The Australian Christmas trees with their deep yellow blossoms at Christmas, they remind me of our first Christmas as migrants, when there were plenty on the empty bush land around the new suburban houses.
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I love the sound of your tree and the ribbons were a great idea! Thanks for joining in 🙂
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Great photo Deb! – I’m part way through my Christmas post and it’s not going to fit with the questions, but I’ll be back to check on everyone else’s links. x
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That’s fine to share on our link up Leanne, we’d love to have your Christmas post 🙂
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Love that photo Deb and excited about our link up.! x
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Yes Sue, it’s a fabulous happy photo of all of us! Our linkup will be fun I’m sure 🙂
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Definitely will do a link up – hopefully it works as me and links 🤦♀️! Probably won’t answer that many questions but will pull something together.
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That’s great to hear Bernie, looking forward to it.
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What a fun family photo, Debbie. I’ll have a post to link up with Festive Bonbon although I tend to go rogue 🙂 Thank you for linking up with #weekendcoffeeshare.
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Hi Natalie, thanks for popping over for a visit and I look forward to reading your festive bonbons next week 🙂
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‘brighten the world one bon bon at a time’ – Iove it! I’ll be there for the link up Deb. I have been planning a Xmas memories post so will combine it with your ideas. Your family photo is amazing and fabulous!
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Thanks Jen, I’m so glad you will join us and use your own prompts you don’t have to use all of ours if it doesn’t fit your post :). That photo is one of my all time faves!
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That sounds like a very pleasant link-up, Debbie! I’ll try to participate. That photo is lovely, you all look so happy.
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I do hope you can join in Susanne. That photo never fails to make me smile, such great memories 🙂
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This looks like fun, Debbie! I can easily connect it with a Sunday Stills post!
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That would be great Terri!
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Hi Deb.
I thought the image of bon-bons was perfect and obvious in meaning. I’m chipping away at a mental rock, which if I’m clever enough, will soon yield a new short story of fiction. This time I’m taking a swing at historical fiction, except that the real history of the place is not so spectacular as to be much of a draw unless you grew up near it. The characters will be this story.
I may take a run at producing some bon-bons to share. It sounds fun.
Blessings.
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Thanks for stopping by Gary, I always appreciate hearing from you. I love the image of you chipping away, mining a new story! All the best 🙂
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I saw that photo on the fridge the other day and had a chuckle. Love it!!
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It never fails to lift my spirits!
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