Hyacinths are stunning, bold coloured spring flowers with a strong scent that will lift your spirits and bring a feeling of spring into your space! Turn someone’s junk into your own treasure by repurposing some thrifted dishes to use as planters for these beautiful plants.

Hanging kokedamas (Japanese for “moss ball”) can be a beautiful way to display your house plants. This beautiful hanging orchid kokedama is made by encasing an orchid in orchid potting mix, wrapping it with sphagnum moss and tightly securing it with twine. Get creative and transform your favourite plants with this beautiful Japanese gardening art!

These waffle pops are an adorable treat to make with your loved ones on Valentine’s Day and a lovely idea for parties, brunch or dessert. It’s an easy recipe, made with a mini waffle maker and great one to make with kids. Dip them in melted chocolate and decorate them with colourful sprinkles, coconut flakes, slivered almonds, crushed nuts or pistachios.

A lovely heart wreath made from a wire wreath and painted grape vines, decorated with small leafed eucalyptus, purple statice flowers and pink carnations in hanging mini vases. This wreath is reusable for years to come and can be filled with new flowers over and over again. It looks beautiful and makes an adorable gift for Valentine’s or Mother’s day.

Make this beauty of a Linzer cookie to show someone how big your love is for them this Valentine’s Day and enjoy it together on this special day! The perfect melt in your mouth cookie filled with bright and fruity raspberry jam that has just the right amount of crunch from the seeds and a heavy dusting of icing sugar to top it all off.

This easy recipe makes a delicious smelling lotion bar that will leave your skin super soft and silky. It is quickly made by melting beeswax, cocoa butter and coconut oil, adding in Vitamin E-oil and sweet orange essential oil and pouring it into silicon molds. I love the magical scent of these chocolaty and uplifting sweet orange lotion bars especially for the cold winter season and the deep hydration they provide for my skin.

Use the cold weather to make some stunning ice lanterns that will beautify your front door, porch, backyard or balcony. All you really need is water, balloons, lights and time- and freezing temperatures of course! It’s an easy and fun DIY project and a great one to make with kids to add some magical glow to the cold and dark winter nights.

My favourite hot drink after Christmas! This recipe uses roasted dandelion roots in combination with chai spices to make a delicious warming and detoxing chai tea. Drinking dandelion root tea is a great way to detox and support your liver after the holidays and a very tasty one too!

This easy pine needle foot soak with fresh pine needles, star anise, cloves and juniper berries will relax your muscles and sooth your tired feet. Its magical forest scent will transport you to a peaceful forest and give you an amazing relaxing experience, leaving your feet feeling lightened and amazing.

This easy, super buttery and rich bundt cake is perfect for the holidays and your next Christmas party! The eggnog makes this cake moist and tender and adds some extra festive flavour. Serve this pretty cake dusted with icing sugar and a dollop of homemade whipped cream or add some chocolate glaze on top to make it extra chocolatey.

“Butterplätzchen” translate to little butter Christmas cookies, a German classic made with only 5 ingredients. They are less sweet than sugar cookies and the high butter content gives them their typical irresistible melt in your mouth consistency. Enjoy them lightly golden brown and plain or decorated with a simple lemon glaze and colourful sprinkles!

“Vanillekipferl” are delicate and buttery German Christmas Cookies made with ground almonds, dusted in vanilla- scented icing sugar and shaped into little “Kipferl” which translates to “crescent” or “croissant” in English. They are easy to make and a must have cookie for your selection of homemade Christmas cookies!

“Lebkuchen” are like the German version of gingerbread and a very popular treat during Christmas time. “Elisenlebkuchen” are soft and chewy, filled with all the goodness of nuts, candied citrus and warm spices. They are baked on thin, flavourless, edible wafer paper called “Oblaten”, covered in dark chocolate and decorated with almonds.

Did you know a repurposed brick makes a great candle holder? Make this adorable advent arrangement with a brick, some evergreens, and cute mushroom ornaments with me, and light a new candle every Sunday until Christmas Eve!

“Bratäpfel” are tart baked apples, filled with a sweet marzipan apricot filling, topped with lightly roasted almonds and a sprinkle of cinnamon. This is one of my favourite warm and comforting desserts to make for the cold and dark season of the year.

Turn your drift wood treasures into a reusable advent calendar! Make a hanging advent calendar in shape of a Christmas tree with driftwood, twine, small pouches, ornaments and string lights you already own or decorate it in the theme you are going with this year. Just roll it up after the holidays and reuse it with different decorations for years to come!

Marzipan is a soft paste made from finely ground almonds, icing sugar, rosewater, and sometimes almond extract. It is a very popular treat in Germany, an ingredient for baking, easy to make from scratch, and absolutely delicious!

Easily make your own Vanilla sugar at home by adding vanilla beans and their seeds to a container of granulated sugar. The sugar will get saturated by the vanilla bean flavour over time. It has a fine warm vanilla flavour and is great to use for all kinds of Christmas baking, cakes, sprinkled on treats, in whipped cream or in your favourite hot drink.

This natural cacao butter lip balm will keep your lips super soft and moisturized and has a pleasant slightly chocolatey smell from the use of natural cacao butter. It is easy and quickly made by melting only five ingredients and adds just the right amount of shine to your lips!

These brownies are super fudgy and loaded with all the goodness of root vegetables. The earthiness of the beets enhances the flavour of chocolate and makes them a delicious and vegetable- packed treat without the crazy sugar overload of most regular brownies.