If you live in a climate like ours, winter brings short days and an abundance of snow and cold weather. Along with this comes an opportunity to slow down a little and embrace the warmth of home.
Light some candles or build a fire, grab a cosy blanket and read on. Here are some suggestions to warm up a chilly night!
A Cup of Comfort
Ahhh, Hot Chocolate! Whether you have a favourite mix you buy or you make your own with cocoa powder, there are many different ways to enjoy this comforting drink.
Peppermint, vanilla or cinnamon are delicious in hot chocolate, marshmallows or whipped cream add some luxury and chocolate shavings, sprinkles or crushed candy canes are a beautiful final touch.
Here are 30 Cosy Hot Chocolate Recipes from delish.com you can browse for ideas. Just looking at the pictures might warm you up!
Cosy Creativity
Winter is a perfect time to engage in some creative crafts. Do you enjoy knitting, crocheting or needlework? Have you never done it but would like to learn? There are many great online resources that can get you started.
Embroidery is a beautiful form of needlework that will brighten your winter evenings. Celeste Johnston of lemonmadeshop.com has created some lovely patterns, tutorials and books that will give you all you need to get started.
Cozy Quilt Stitch Along, shown above, uses a different stitch for every quilt square and each stitch has its own easy to follow tutorial on her Instagram @lemon_made_shop.
Just browsing through Celeste’s photos of her beautiful designs with the rich colours of embroidery floss will warm your heart.
Baked Bliss
For some of us, there is nothing as enjoyable as baking in the winter. If that’s not true for you, hopefully it is for someone you are close to! Perhaps if you supply the ingredients, they’ll come over and bake!
Nothing hits the spot on a cold night like a warm bowl of sweet apple goodness and Diddle Diddle Dumplings, pictured above, is just that. This delicious dessert, from the Best of Bridge, is full of apples, cinnamon and brown sugar rolled in biscuit dough and baked to perfection.
This just might be a new favourite!
Soft & Snuggly
Of course you need something soft to snuggle up in on cold nights and our Hoodies and PJ pants are perfect.
We use 100% Cotton Fleece and Flannel in our Hoodie and PJ kits to ensure optimum cosiness and there are lots of colours to choose from.
Many of you use our Hoodie and PJ kits in your classrooms making these some of our most popular machine sewing kits!
And to Cap it Off . . .
At the end of August we announced the arrival of our new Classy Threads hats and our plan to give away 100 of them to show our appreciation to you, our clients.
We still have some hats to give away so if you haven’t got yours yet, include the coupon code #GETCREATIVE when you place your next order and we’ll throw in a hat for you.
Thank you for your continued support of Classy Threads. We hope we brought a little warmth to your day!
