nuLOOM Noel Cozy Christmas & Holiday Shag Area Rug, 6' Round, Pearl White

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You were both virgins and felt so ­comfortable in each other’s company that you were able to share one of the most special moments of your lives together. Forget about wandering down store aisles this year. Your home is about to become the envy of every elf in town with decorations that are as unique as they are festive. Grab your glue gun, put on your favorite holiday tunes, and let’s get crafting! And don’t forget to hit me up in the comments with your favorite project – I’m all ears for your holiday crafting tales. It had been a long six months, and after several failed attempts at pulling, I was optimistic about a trip to Barcelona. A friend and I jetted off for a long weekend of sunbathing, drinking, and trying to get laid. We’d gone on a bar crawl, and found ourselves chatting to a group of Australians. We all had a lot to drink, and about 4am, my friend and these two Australian guys decided to go skinny dipping – except my friend ending up arguing with the guy she was getting with, leaving me and the other guy alone. It was the perfect opportunity – and what’s more pleasingly cliche than shagging in the sea on holiday? It started to heat up – we were naked in the sea on a deserted beach after all – and then he chose that moment to tell me he’d just proposed to his girlfriend of four years, who’d said no, and he didn’t know if he could go through with this. Cheers mate. Sophie Ready to turn your home into a winter wonderland that would make the North Pole look like amateur hour? Let’s transform your space into a festive paradise that even Rudolph would be proud of.

I’ve compiled a list of 50 DIY projects that are so fun, you might just forget to open your presents.

As a teenager I always used to spend about ten days each year with Cousin Clare and her parents. Clare wasn’t actually my cousin, but her mother and my mother were at school together, and it was a convenient way to refer to her. Clare was an only child. He’s very handsome and as I fancied him I deliberately made him sexually excited by asking him to rub sun oil over my body while we were sunbathing in the garden. This exciting adventure was repeated every bedtime. Aunt Frances had a large washing machine and I don’t think she examined my pants before putting them in the wash, which was just as well! All went well for a few days. Then the sky darkened and the rain poured down! Uncle Mike was at his office, of course. Aunt Frances was visiting some friends for the day, and Clare said she would be at the farm attending to her pony until lunchtime. I couldn’t go fishing in that weather, so I said I would stay at home and read the set book from school, which I’d been told to read in the holidays. (It was The War of the Worlds!) The next day when we were left alone again by his parents, we couldn’t resist doing it again when we were at the beach.

We were swimming in the pool, and saw loads of couples pulled really close to each other. Jokingly, he quipped: “You probably wouldn’t even be able to tell if they were having sex right now.” So without saying a word, we decided to try it out. In the middle of the day, in our hotel’s pool. No one noticed a thing. We did the same in the sea later. LucyI went down to my parents’ place in Cornwall for a romantic weekend with the guy I was seeing. I was under the impression they wouldn’t be there that weekend. We had music on and this guy was lying down on a fur rug in the middle of the living room floor – me on top – when my mum and dad walked in. They hadn’t realised I was going to be there and definitely hadn’t expected to walk in on their daughter completely naked, straddling someone they’d never met, in their house. After telling him I was on the Pill, he realised what I had in mind and minutes later we lost our virginity, which felt wonderful. My cousin and I are both 17 and were virgins until our holiday with his parents at a villa in Barbados. Scroll down to explore a treasure trove of ideas where every project is a chance to make your holiday sparkle in a way that only DIY can. If the shoe were on the other foot, I don’t know if I would have had the strength of character to allow Andy to sleep with another woman. But then, that’s just one of the million, tiny little things I love about him.