Only 5 days to go, we’re getting very excited at Momiji HQ, looking forward to spending the festive season with our friends and family.

If your home still needs a bit of a festive spruce-up, we’ve got even more Momiji paper-chains for you to make.

These ones are designed by Camilla de Gregorio and Kipi Ka Popo.

If you haven’t seen the first ones designed by Joanna Zhou, Fiona Lee and Francisca ruff, scroll down to find their designs on an earlier post..

When you’ve downloaded your favourites, print them off, cut them out and stick them together in loops. Create links by threading the next strip through the loops and stick it together.

These are Camila de Gregorio’s designs. Download them here.

These are Kipi Ka Popo’s designs. Download them here.

It sure is chilly today. But as the temperature goes down, the relative beauty of our surroundings here at Momiji HQ goes up.

Cameron braved the cold and took a couple of photographs to share with you.

I think you’ll agree, it was worth the frostbite.

It’s all gone a bit ‘Blue Peter’ at Momiji HQ as everyone is trying their hand at our fun Christmas crafts.

Today we’re going to show you how to make this cute Santa hat.

All you need is a piece of 4 1/2 “ square origami paper.

We used a sheet that was red on one side and white on the other, but if you’re feeling creative go ahead and choose some other colours.

Firstly, lay your sheet colour-side down. Fold it into a triangle.

Unfold the paper again to leave a crease in the centre of the square. Fold the bottom corner up to meet the crease in the centre.

Fold the top corner down to meet the crease in the centre and flip the paper over to the coloured side.

Fold the bottom flap up to make a triangle. Make sure the point is in line with the centre crease.

Unfold to leave a crease then fold the point up to meet the crease.

Fold the flap up again.

Fold the flap again and flip the paper over again.

Fold the bottom half up to meet the crease in the centre. There will be a pointed section hanging over the triangle’s base. Fold the top half down to meet the bottom edge.

Flip it over, the Santa hat should be taking shape. All you need to do now is fold the tip over. You can add a little pompom if you like or just leave it as it is.

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From Claire’s glamorous Grandma to Rich’s turkey and chips on boxing day, we all have little rituals or traditions that Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without.

We’ve been discussing our Christmassy traditions in the office and it’s great to see how we all share the holiday with our family and friends.

Gemma’s Christmas

“Ok mine is a little embarrassing but every Christmas day, regardless of how old we get, me and my 2 big bros go and get into mummy Smith's bed and we all open our pressies together. Yes I am 28 and my mum still pretends that father Christmas has been & leaves a stocking by our beds.”

Rich’s Christmas

“Nothing too extraordinary from me I’m afraid.

I always head out with friends on Christmas Eve. Christmas day is at home with the family and then boxing day I go to the football and have turkey + chips for dinner before I go/when I get back!”

Claire’s Christmas

“My glamorous Grandma always comes to visit at Christmas. She’ll be 96 in January but that doesn’t stop her adorning herself in sequined outfits. Once she’s arrived and knocked back a sherry she insists on ballroom dancing in the lounge. Her memory’s not quite what it used to be, but she can certainly remember how to foxtrot...slow, slow, quick, quick, slow...”

Kat’s Christmas

“Christmas eve, my mum makes a ham – which is AMAZING. Then it’s off to visit all my friends and exchange gifts.
Christmas day, my mum attempts to follow the Delia’s Christmas timetable but always manages to make it take a lot longer than it should. As a kid, my dad would insist that we wouldn’t open presents in one go so as to make the day last. As a kid, this was torture! We’d have our stockings when we woke up though and a drip-feed of gifts throughout the day. First thing, we’d go collect my uncle from his place after his annual xmas morning breakfast party and take him to our place. After Christmas dinner the present giving begins.”

Deb’s Christmas

“My mum and dad always buy me a Beano annual every year which they find very amusing, and me and my sister always have the ‘don’t let mum and dad see how tired you are after a night of partying’ ritual “

What Christmas traditions do you have? Post them on our Facebook page.

This tasty chocolate fudge is a great treat for Christmas time.

It’s really easy to make and our Momiji intern, Charlotte came in to help make it.

Here’s what you’ll need;

1lb icing sugar (or powdered sugar)
½ cup of cocoa powder
¼ cup of milk
¼ cup of butter
1 tsp vanilla essence
I bag chocolate chips

(don’t worry if you’re not sure how to use ‘cups’ measurements, it’s actually really easy – just get yourself a mug and measure out the ingredients in that. We used a Momiji mug naturally.)

Put the sugar and cocoa powder into a large microwave-proof bowl and mix until it’s pretty even.

Add the butter and milk but DON’T MIX them in.

Stick it in the microwave on ‘high’ for about 2 minutes or until the butter is completely melted. Blend the mixture together until smooth. If you’ve got some sugar-lumps, microwave it again for a little longer until the mixture is nice and smooth.

Add the vanilla and chocolate chips, stir them in.

Pour the mixture into a greased tin/box and put in the fridge to cool for at least an hour.

Turn the fudge out and cut into cubes, or if you’re feeling adventurous you could cut it into shapes. .

Enjoy!

As always, we’d like to see your culinary masterpieces, so post your pics to the Facebook Page.

We love to get creative at Christmas time. This candy wreath is a great little craft to get stuck into, it makes a great, colourful decoration that guests will love as they get to eat a piece when they come to visit (that is if you haven’t managed to scoff the lot first!)

It’s really easy to make. As always our faithful Momiji interns were here to lend a hand.

What you’ll need

- Lots of sweets, anything with bright colourful wrappers
- Lots of ribbon
- A hole punch
- Wooden ring, or strong wire that you can bend into a circle
- Scissors

If you’ve gone for strong wire, start by bending it into a circle and twist it at the top to keep it together.

Use the hole punch to make a hole in the wrapper of each sweet.

Tie the sweets onto the ring individually. If you’ve got long lengths of ribbon showing, curl them with a pair of scissors.

That’s really all there is to it. You can hang your wreath anywhere and some people even hang a pair of children’s scissors from the wreath so guests can easily snip their candies off.

As always, we want to see your pics, so don’t forget to post them to the Facebook Page.

Today's festive treat is a downloadable gift for everyone. Our friend, Kipi Ka Popo, has designed this lovely Momiji Christmas scene just for you.

You can deck out your computer desktop, iphone or even your iPad with festive Momiji goodness. Simply click on the screen resolution below and save the picture as your desktop wallpaper.

Computer desktop - 1280 x 1024
Computer desktop - 1024 x 768
Computer desktop - 800 x 600
Iphone/Iphone 3G
Iphone4
iPad

It’s time to deck those halls, and when our lovely Momiji interns came to visit, we made these great Origami stars. They’re really easy to make.

You just need 5 sheets of origami paper (4 and a half inch squares) You can use any colour you like, our paper had a white side and a coloured side so it makes it a little easier to see where to fold.

Fold one sheet in half, then fold it in half again. Unfold it and it should have creases in a cross formation.

Fold 3 of the corners into the centre and unfold again. Fold opposite corners into the centre to make the shape above. When you’ve done that, fold the whole thing in half along the centre crease to make the shape above.

Repeat these steps with all the other sheets so you’ll have 5 identically folded pieces.

Tuck the coloured side into the gap created by the folded paper, make sure it’s tucked in at the back too. When you’ve done that, fold along the join. Repeat that until all 5 pieces are tucked in like a circle.
Fold along all of the creases again and gently pull the star out until it looks just right.

Now it’s ready to hang on your tree.

We’d love to see pics of your stars, so post them on the Facebook page.

Where would we be at Christmas time without a couple of jingly tunes to get us in the festive spirit?

For today’s Advent Calendar treat, we’ve put together this fab video playlist of our favourite Christmas songs of all time. Our favourite Christmassy activity is to settle down with a glass of mulled wine and wrap all our gifts accompanied by these songs.

These are just a couple of our favourites. What songs get you in the festive mood? Let us know on our Facebook page or in the comments below.

We’re spreading Christmassy messages today so while it’s chilly outside we can all feel a little warmer inside.

Our good friends and Momiji interns, Charley and Charlotte have made us this amazing Christmas tree. We want to decorate it with Sparkle Tags featuring Christmas wishes and messages from all our Momiji friends.

If you have a Christmas wish, message or dream, email it to us and we’ll put it on our tree. It could be something simple like hoping you get lots of goodies in your stocking or it could be a message for someone very special. Tell us about it and we’ll put it on the tree.

We’ll be announcing some of our favourite Christmas wishes over on our Twitter feed and Facebook page throughout December, so keep an eye out for yours.