We love love love reading in our house, and I have been loving collecting special Christmas books. I keep old ones tucked away till it's December. Here is a list of some of our favourite Christmas books for babies and toddlers.

12 Sleighs of Christmas: this one is new for us & it's a cute story about the elves coming up with new sleigh ideas for Santa. It's very creative & if you have a kid who loves cars, trucks, etc, they will love it!

Little Blue Truck's Christmas: We love the book, Little Blue Truck. Getting the Christmas version just made sense. It's a sweet little story about delivering Christmas trees, and it even has Christmas lights in it (which of course Emery & Alder  both love).

That's Not My Reindeer: Any of these books (That's Not My...) are awesome beginner books for babies. The pictures are bright & bold, and contain different textures for the babies to feel. 

Spot's Christmas: These books are simple and sweet, with bright colours for the babies. Em loves it too.

I've slowly been collecting vintage Christmas books from different thrift shops. You can also get reprints of these ones as well. If you are in the local area, the last time I was in Max and Maude they had some.

The Night Before Christmas

Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer

The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas

The Littlest Christmas Tree

Christmas Mice

The Christmas Story

What are your favourite Christmas books?

<3 Kastles 

It's that time of year again, where Fresh Beauty just kills it with their Holiday Gift Sets. They are one of my favourite gifts to give and receive. This Holiday Season the packaging is on point (as usual), and some of the boxes come with pencil crayons that you can use to color in the prints on the boxes (so fun!). 

The Best of Beauty Bundle is probably the best gift to give to someone who hasn't tried Fresh Beauty before. It includes their best & most popular products, including some of my favourites the Soy Face Cleanser and the Black Tea Age-Delay Eye Concentrate. 

Their smaller gift sets make the perfect stocking stuffers. The Facial On The Fly includes a cleanser, face mask and face cream. The Sugar Lip Beauty Box includes six of their delicious lip balms. You could also split up this tin between a few stockings. 

This BodyCare Besties gift set would be the perfect set to get for the Fresh Beauty Guru who only dabbles in their face products but hasn't ventured into the body care line yet. You can't go wrong with a refreshing grapefruit scent either. 

A set of Face Masks is always a winner. This Picture Perfect Mask Set includes three different masks., so depending on how your skin is acting any given day you can pick your face mask accordingly. I think my favourite might be the Black Tea Instant Perfecting Mask. It feels refreshing and tingly when you take it off. 

All of these amazing Gift Sets and more are available at Sephora. One week left to shop!

Do you have lots of shopping left to do? I have a tiny bit let, hoping to get it done today!

-Kassandra 

Annelise has a ton of variety of princesses and other character dresses to choose from. I have my eye on the "Elsa" dress since we have now moved into the Frozen stage, haha! The Cinderella Pink Dress is also pretty cute! If you order two dresses from her, you get a little bit of a deal. They would make the most amazing Christmas gift! 

Her "Say Cheese" face is just too much, haha! Also nothing like a transformer tattoo from her cousin's birthday party to add a little pizzaz to her look right? 

Seriously though, if you have a Princess dress up loving child in your household you must check out Annelise's shop. Such amazing quality and so darn cute! Make sure to review her sizing chart, and I would always size up. I almost always buy clothing for my kids in a size up or two (Emery is going on year 3 of some of her pjs) so they last longer. 

What's your favourite Princess?  I do like Belle but I also find Anna kinda funny & endearing. I mostly like how she's into eating chocolate, haha!

<3 Kastles