lotte marleen

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2 Days ’till Christmas: GIVEAWAY!

Hi there!

For this second-to-last post of this Christmas series we thought we’d spread some Christmas spirit.

We want to say thank you for this past year, we haven’t been blogging for very long but we definitely appreciate you reading our ramblings and commenting!

So in order to say thanks we are gonna be picking 2 random readers and send them a book!

Does that sound good to you? Then please read the rules down below.

RULES

  1. As this is a giveaway for our readers, you have to be subscribed to our email list (you can do this either on our homepage or at the bottom of any other page)
  2. You have to be at least 16 years old or have your parents/legal guardians permission to send us your address (so we can actually send you the book)
  3. We will be using BookDepository to send the books, so make sure they send to your country before entering.
  4. Each winner is allowed to pick a book up to €10 (we are students, after all haha)
  5. You can enter this giveaway until December 26th 2017 23:59 p.m. GMT
  6. We will contact the winners through the email used to sign up to our newsletter, so keep an eye out 😉

Lots of Love,

Lotte & Doreth

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baking, christmas, Doreth, dorkyanddutch, Lotte, miscellaneous

9 days ’till Christmas: Christmas Baking

Only 9 more days to go until Christmas!

For this 5th day of our Christmas series we decided to ‘show off’ our baking skills, and by show off we mean, make you feel better about your baking abilities because we suck at it. We bought some boxes of cake pop mix and a shit ton of decorations and got to work. The first step was to have ingredients at room temperature which we already failed so we had to quickly microwave some butter before we could get started. Once all the preparations were done we finally got to mixing the batter and pouring them into the cupcake cases that were in the cake pop box. Why on earth would you make cake pops in cupcake cases, I hear you ask? We honestly have no idea, but since we’re no kitchen princesses (Doreth will hate me for saying that cause she does fancy herself a bit of a chef/baker) we decided to not question the authority and just go with whatever Dr. Oetker told us to do. And Doreth wasn’t too mad about anything cause she got to lick the bowl.

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Doreth, dorkyanddutch, feminism, heartbreak, Lotte, poetry, Romance, sexuality

Review: milk and honey by Rupi Kaur

Title: milk and honey

Author: Rupi Kaur

Release date: July 8th, 2016

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Rating: 4/5 stars

Trigger warning for rape. If the subject of rape makes you uncomfortable, we would highly suggest you skip this particular poetry collection. Or find out which poems contain mentions of rape so you can skip those.

We’ve been on a huge poetry kick lately and because we’ve seen this book everywhere online for the last year, we decided to give it a go. See what all the hype is about, and if lives up to our expectations.

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Doreth, dorkyanddutch, Lotte, NaNoWriMo, Preptober, Writing

#Preptober: Prepare To Write A Novel In 30 Days

November is on its way and that means NaNoWriMo is nearing. For those of you who don’t know what this means, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50.000-word novel in 30 days! We have both participated and failed epically last year. Therefore we are in no way entitled to give anyone writing advice. But we like to live on the edge (sarcasm intended) and will give you our tips for preparing for NaNoWriMo.

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Doreth, dorkyanddutch, Lotte, Tag

Book tag: Back to school

We found this back to school book tag through the app Amino, it was made by the user @PercabethSwiftie

We are very sorry that this blog post is one day late, it is due to there being a lot of long answers to the tag questions (especially on Doreth’s part, since she couldn’y choose most of the time).

  1. English/ Language Arts                                                               name your favourite author’s (or books) writing style.
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