Friday, 30 November 2012

Join in the Virtual Version of #letsmakechristmas




Home made chocolate cookies make a superb christmas treat with a pinch of cinnamon added. 

I had an idea.  I have just a few minutes to get it up on here, so I’ll be brief because I’m heading out of the door to the lets Make Christmas gift swap at the Rococo Chocolate factory .. but you know what always happens before an event ..  cancellations.  Life is never straight forward, and I’ve had so many emails this morning from people who wanted to take part,  and just can’t so I thought we could do a virtual Lets Make Christmas that everyone can take part in. 

I suppose I organise this because I think how ironic that Christmas has become so commercial. It’s odd how much pressure we all put ourselves under to tell someone we think that they are special by buying unwanted, needless and Christmas gifts for the sake of it and more often than not spending money we can’t really afford in the first place!

So I say not this year. Lets make it something really special and Lets Make Christmas instead.  here are some idea's from the 2011 Lets Make Christmas event. 

Bloggers are naturally creative people who more often than not do things their way, so if you have a Christmas gift idea you’d love to share please join and I’ll do round up in 2 weeks .. or so.. so please email your entries in to me and pop the 2012 badge up on your site, and the top three favourite entires made of Chocolate will win a prize from Rococo Chocolates. 

Vanessa@GoddessOnaBudget.co.uk

Must dash or I will miss my train!


The Rules
You must share your recipe and blog about your gift using the Let's make Christmas Logo in the blog post. 
You may enter up to 3 recipes
Prizes will be sent directly to the winners.  If you win you will need to your your address  to
All decisions by the judge are final  and there are no cash or product alternatives. 
All gifts must be hand made, and credit the recipe to the author if appropriate and ask permission to recreate a recipe if it by another author. 
Please tweet back to the round up so everyone can share their recipes. 



Added on 1st December the video I took .....








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10 comments:

  1. Choclette30 November 2012 at 11:09

    Gutted I couldn't make this afternoon's event. As well as the chance to meet up with everyone, it would have been such a great opportunity to see where all that fabulous chocolate gets made, to meet Chantal and to get my hands on a copy of her book. So, thank you for doing a virtual version and I will see what chocolatey creations I can come up with anyway.

    Hope you all have a wonderful time of it today.

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  2. Choclette30 November 2012 at 11:10

    Gutted I couldn't make this afternoon's event. As well as the chance to meet up with everyone, it would have been such a great opportunity to see where all that fabulous chocolate gets made, to meet Chantal and to get my hands on a copy of her book. So, thank you for doing a virtual version and I will see what chocolatey creations I can come up with anyway.

    Hope you all have a wonderful time of it today.

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  3. Jennifer30 November 2012 at 13:38

    I'm so pleased you've done this. I so wanted to come today but couldn't re-arrange a school pick up for this afternoon. I'll definitely be entering something - chocolate is my favourite! I've just ordered the new Rococo book and can't wait for it to arrive!

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  4. scrumptious days1 December 2012 at 04:29

    Vanessa
    Once again you have come up with a fabulous idea. How marvellous to share the spirit of Let's Make Christmas with everyone.
    It was such a wonderful afternoon. I'll look forward to this round up in a couple of weeks.
    Thanks for all your marvellous work
    Jude x

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  5. Magnolia Verandah1 December 2012 at 10:35

    What a sensational idea - now what can I make...... !

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  6. Karen S Booth1 December 2012 at 14:50

    YAY! I can now enter my recipes, as I was not able to attend! Great idea! Karen

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  7. Utterly Scrummy2 December 2012 at 15:48

    I'm so sorry I was unable to make it to the event, I had made my gifts but 12yo ended up in A&E after skidding on black ice and falling off her bike on her way to school. She is fine but we were very worried about her for a few hours. I shall blog the recipes I had made for the gift swap and join in the linky. Thank you so much for organising both the inperson and virtual events x

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  8. Sue2 December 2012 at 18:31

    I was so disappointed not to be able to come on Friday but work got in the way. An excellent idea to have a Virtual Version. Thank you Vanessa.

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  9. Jayne4 December 2012 at 12:35

    I was so sad not to be able to come to your lovely day! This virtual event is a great idea Vanessa!

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  10. Choclette16 December 2012 at 18:00

    Finally managed it - phew!. Was hoping to do more than one entry, but at least I've got this one in now! Have made other chocolates but post won't be appearing for a few days.
    http://choclogblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/rosemary-chocolate-truffles-random.html#

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