#Christmas

Nov 29, 2018
3 min

Holiday Gift Guide for Everyone on Your List

The holidays are upon us! Christmas is around the corner – don’t remind me – and it’s time to get shopping done. But there’s a lot of different people to buy for, and it’s hard when there’s only one of you. Luckily I have compiled a list of no-fail gifts so that you’re the shining star of the holiday season. 2018 Holiday Gift Guide MOM | If your mom is as wonderful and picky as mine, you have a hard time shopping for her. Luckily this cute Everlane leather pouch {which comes

Dec 28, 2017
3 min

Favourites Friday No. 102

With the end of 2017 only days away, I thought I would dedicate my last Favourites Friday of the year to take a moment and talk about how much I’ve appreciated the last 365 days. To be able to share all of my favourite things and talk about mental health and general lifestyle topics, it is a joy I can never begin to share. I love being able to sit down and talk about the best parts of my week – and sometimes the worst – and wrap up on Fridays with the Favourites that kept it

Dec 17, 2017
2 min

The Art of Giving

With only a week to go until Christmas, I have been thinking a lot about the season of giving. What it means to give, to receive, and the healthy balance between the two. “Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.” – Thomas S. Monson I love to give. I find joy in gifting, in helping, and in liste

Dec 7, 2017
2 min

Favourites Friday No. 100

Well hello there! After a little time away, I am back for the 100th Favourites Friday. The past few weeks have been incredibly stressful. Between a big proposal at work, interpersonal relationships, and trying to get my health on track, both my therapist and I are amazed I haven’t exploded. There have been a few standing-in-shower-loudly-sobbing breakdowns, but I’m coming back to blogging feeling joyous for Christmas and the 2018 year. This week I let myself indulge in the go

Dec 5, 2017
1 min

A Gift Guide For The Person Who Loves… {+ All Under $50!}

It’s time to buy a gift for _____ and you know they like _____ but what do you buy them? Luckily, there’s a gift guide for that. We all know enthusiasts in our lives, whether they be enthusiastic about animals, beer, or staying in on Saturdays. I took the time – so you don’t have to – to find the perfect gift for the enthusiast in your life this holiday season! FOR THE PERSON WHO LOVES… TRAVEL travel wallet | $45 MOVIES trivia kit | $12 FASHION fringe earrings | $48 DECORATE

Dec 3, 2017
1 min

A Gift Guide For Everyone On Your List

What gift should I buy for them? Put away your list, all your gifts this year are covered. Forget getting stressed about gifts. I scoured the interweb and found something special {and affordable!} for that special person in your life. Now it’s time to worry about wrapping it all. FOR EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST MOM Give the gift of relaxation with this L’Occitane pamper bath set DAD Keep his golf game sharp and his knowledge sharper with a book full of golf stories SIBLING Be the c

Dec 25, 2016
1 min

#EnthusiastChristmas In Review

How was everyone’s Christmas? Was it as full of joy as Ol’ Saint Nick himself? Over in my end it was lovely. Time with family is always great, even when timing gets a little changed due to cancelled flights. But after years of little airline drama, I knew it had to come to an end sometime. As we round out this Christmas year with throwing away wrappings and kissing relative’s cheeks, let’s look back at the Instagram challenge I did this month to relive all the cheer! A Look B

Dec 21, 2016
2 min

How to Get Into the Christmas Spirit

Having trouble getting into the Christmas spirit this year? I have the trick to getting you from bah humbug to jingle bells! The Enthusiast’s Guide to Getting Into the Christmas Spirit 1. Play Christmas music You cannot get into the Christmas spirit without the correct tunes flowing throughout your home. 2. Wear a holiday sweater If you’re wearing what you wear all year round then you’re never going to feel the festive feeling. So pull on a holiday sweater (preferably somethi

Dec 9, 2016
2 min

Favourites Friday #55

Well, I asked for it, and I got it – a white Christmas. There is an inch on the ground – which might as well be a foot in Portland – and I have decided to spend my weekend snuggled in fleece blankets and eating Trader Joe’s shortbread cookies. Sounds pretty good to me. This week was long and I am glad to be done with it so I can look forward to a weekend of relaxation and finally getting my eyebrows waxed. Seriously, moving to a new city means spending forever finding an aest

Dec 7, 2016
2 min

The Christmas Tag 2016

It’s time again for…The Christmas Tag! I created The Christmas Tag a few years ago and I love redoing it every year and seeing how Christmas changes for me. And the onslaught of people who have tried the tag makes me smile, because everyone is in the Christmas spirit! Let’s see what this year’s answers bring: What is your favourite Christmas film? It’s so hard to choose, but this year the one I love the most is The Santa Clause. https://www.phactual.com/wp-content/uploads/201

Dec 4, 2016
2 min

My Favourite Holiday Films

One of the best parts of the holiday season is the movies. There’s something about the wholesome jolly that are Christmas films. And when it gets to December they are all I watch! Since it is Monday and I will likely spend after work watching movies and drinking hot chocolate, I thought I would share my favourite films for the holiday season! The Enthusiast’s Favourite Holiday Films The Holiday One of my ultimate favourites, I love this classic switching lives story involving

Nov 30, 2016
2 min

Welcome to 25 Days of Christmas Enthusiasm!

I love Christmas. I love Christmas so much that I’m basically bursting with sugar cookie sugarplums and Christmas carols all month long! For the last few years I have done an Instagram challenge for 25 days of December with a holiday/Chrsitmas theme because what better way to celebrate the best time of the year! This year’s challenge begins tomorrow, December 1st. It will continue until the 25th. The objective? To complete as many of the days as you can. And it’s pretty easy

Dec 27, 2015
4 min

A Christmas Post

A week off of blogging meant I spent the week with family and friends celebrating the jolliest time of the year and reconnecting with my favourite people. Christmas is seriously the best time of the year, which is why celebrating it makes me so happy! It’s more than just cranberry treats and opening gifts, it’s joy to all and kindness in our souls. The holiday season means opening your heart to everyone and focusing on what is really important. View this post on Instagram Hav

Dec 13, 2015
2 min

5 Perfect Dishes for That Office Christmas Party

There’s nothing more stressful about the holiday season than deciding what to bring to an office Christmas party, or family dinner, or even just something to stick on the table during Christmas dinner. But it doesn’t need to be if you have a repertoire of delicious dishes perfect for the holiday season just sitting in your refrigerator! I have compiled five of the best dishes to bring to any sort of gathering that embody the Christmas spirit without causing you extra stress o

Dec 8, 2015
5 min

2015 Christmas Tag

As is the case every year, my Month of Christmas: Christmas Tag is back! This is the third year I’m doing it and I’m really excited because it means that The Enthusiast’s Month of Christmas is finally here! Getting into the holiday spirit just isn’t the same without a Christmas tag, and I’m much too happy answering festive, happy, Christmas-filled questions in blog post form! December really is a time to get into the holiday spirit and I like to take every opportunity I can t

Dec 26, 2014
1 min

#TEmonthofchristmas

Hi guys! Well, Christmas has come and go (cue the tears) and before I let it go until next year I thought I would look back over the last month. Let’s see the pictures from my #TEmonthofchristmas Instagram challenge! Click on the image to view the caption/see it larger! You can also individually comment on photos! Thanks for reading! I’ll be back on Monday to review 2014 with you guys, just in time for New Years! Stay classy, Internet, FIND MORGAN ON THE WEB TE TWITTER: http:

Dec 22, 2014
3 min

Christmas Tag '14

Last year I made my own ‘Christmas Tag‘ and it’s just making it’s comeback as we all get into the holiday spirit. And because sometimes jumping on the band wagon is a good idea (especially since I started this particular tag) I thought it would be a good idea to redo my Christmas tag again, and see if I have anything new. So let’s start! The Christmas Tag, Part Deux 1. What is your favourite Christmas film? Just like it has been for the last five or six years, it is still “Lo

Dec 26, 2013
3 min

Boxing Day Wisdom Nuggets

Congratulations to the winners of the Teenage Enthusiasm’s Best Holiday Season Ever Giveaway Alex and Amy! Happy Boxing Day! If you are in a country that celebrates Boxing Day, have a good one, and if you aren’t, still have a good one. I find the day after Christmas to be one of reflection and thought, as we go over what has happened this year, what happened the day before, and how we want to spend the rest of the year. My Christmas was particularly fantastic this year. I was

Dec 16, 2012
4 min

The Christmas Tag

It’s almost Christmas! As you know from a few posts ago, I am currently doing my Month of Christmas Cheer Instagram Challenge (@PotatoesHegarty) Today I wanted to share this little Christmas Tag I created to get us into the spirit of holly jolly and merry! 1. What is your favorite Christmas film? Probably Love Actually, because it’s just so bloody good. 2. Have you ever had a White Christmas? Growing up I never had a white Christmas as I lived in Southern California where I t

Dec 1, 2012
2 min

A Month of Christmas Cheer Instagram Challenge

I am a huge fan of Christmas. There, I’ve said it. I think Christmas is a great time of the year, and December is all about Christmas and cheer and holidays and just being a kind person. All of these are things that are important to me. Now, I’ve seen a lot of Instagram challenges over the last few days. If you don’t know what an Instagram challenge is, it’s where for a certain amount of days (usually for a whole month) you follow a list of pictures that you post to Instagram