Our Final Pick! Christmas 2016 Advent Calendars for Smix, Me, & for Mrs Meow!

We are so excited for Christmas! These two rascals are sorted for advent calendars, and my choice has just arrived too. So let's have a look at 2016's picks for the World of Kitsch household. 

Duvet from Asda online

Duvet from Asda online

Smix picked the Tesco Hot Wheels calendar. I bought it for £15 last week in store, but it appears to be £12 this week on the website.

Behind the doors are 8 cars and the rest of the days are fun Christmas accessories to pair with the vehicles. 

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The second calendar is one for us to share, which I won via a competition on the fabulous, local, culinary website Eating Ideas (check them out if you don't know them already).

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It's the Hotel Chocolat Truffels for Two calendar, which costs £26 & which has two mini chocolates for each day.

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Mrs Meow's calendar is next, and a rarer find than a doggy advent, it's a cat treat calendar from Lidl which cost £4.99 Its pretty hefty though.  The contents look kibbly, and I'm hoping she will eat them, you never know with her.

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Last is my own choice, and rather than go for a makeup advent calendar this year I splashed out on the  Sanctuary Let Go Days of Christmas advent. It costs £25 and it's packed with travel size minis of their top products, and home fragrance items too. I buy from the range throughout the year, so I'm looking forward to finding some new favourites.

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It's another hefty calendar, but the £25 price tag is softened by the fact it's included in the yearly Boots 3 for 2 Christmas gift offer. So I bought two similarly priced presents for other people and then got the calendar 'free' as it were. Merry Christmas to myself!

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So which calendar are you after? The only other one that's tempting me is the £250-worth M&S Beauty calendar, which you can get for £35 when you spend £35 in store on home or clothing. If any of you get that, I will be so envious! 

Completely Free Hot Wheels Zoom & Boom Roadshow hits the UK, including Belfast.

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Keep the kids entertained this summer and visit your free ZOOM N BOOM event!  See them become the ultimate TRACK MASTERS with an adrenaline-fuelled HOT WHEELS experience at five leading shopping centres.

Kids can get in the driver’s seat and RACE cars on awesome Hot Wheels TRACK BUILDER SYSTEMS with daring stunts to challenge friends with and become the masters of track design! 

Other fun-filled activities include a PHOTO GREEN SCREEN where kids can try on fun props and have their photo taken with family and friends against themed backdrops! 

Kids can also HAVE A BLAST with BOOMco and test out their BLASTING skills with the cool new AIR-POWERED BOOMco blasters!  With colourful Smart Stick darts and targets, kids can see exactly where they nailed it as the tip of every plastic dart sticks like crazy to the targets! 

See you at the Belfast event!

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The Hot Wheels Triple Track Twister is This Year's Top Car Track Set for Christmas

The new Hot Wheels Triple Track Twister is a triple loop set which has already picked up awards from panels of product testing parents., including the Dad's Choice Awards. We were sent one to play with, it arrived just after tea time bath, much to my son (& husband's) excitement.  

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The track is available at good toy shops, costs around £45 & has a unique augmented reality feature.  Place an ipad in the designated holder, open the free downloadable app, and watch the track come to life through the screen. The cars battle robots  and dinosaurs in the central crash zone.

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The ipad isn't necessary to play however, my five year old is just as happy firing his shoebox full of  Hot Wheels & Matchbox cars through the loops and double power boosters. 

What do you reckon? Worth asking Santa for? We would be adding it to the list for sure. Michael even took it round to let grandad have a play, the whole family is getting a try! 

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