Citrine Essential

Winter Solstice Festival, also known as Dongzhi Festival falls between Dec 21 - 23 every year. This year it is celebrated on Dec 21.

On this day, the Northern hemisphere have the shortest day and the longest night. This day also informally known as "everyone's birthday", as it is the first day of a new solar term and everyone becomes a year older.

While traditions and customs vary in different areas, in Malaysia it is celebrated with family coming together as a family and enjoying a winter Solstice delicacy - tang yuan. It is a glutinous rice ball with a variety of sweet fillings such as black sesame, peanuts or red bean. These glutinous rice balls are boiled and then served with a sweet ginger syrup.

Some prefer to make tang yuan from scratch but you can also find ready-made tang yuan in the frozen section of the supermarket. It will save you tons of time!

Do you have your tang yuan ready?

It is a season of gifting this month. When it comes to finding something as an exchanged gift, sometimes I find it is hard to find the suitable one. I don't know about you, but personally I love practical gift irregardless of the price. After all, it is from the heart.

So this one here is so close to me because I started my holistic journey with a kit containing a diffuser and 10 oils. It has been 10 years now.

I couldn't think of a better gift than gifting this Cactus diffuser. It is so sleek and stylish. Its small size makes it portable and if you are like me, this is perfect for travel as well because it is light weight. This is USB-C power which makes it easy to use on desks or nightstands too

I have yet to own this diffuser yet. Ahh.. Tempting to own one.. But then again.. I sti have others that are still in the box 😂.

So I am gifting this as an exchanged gift together with 2 of 5ml oils which are from the starter kit.

Would you be happy if you receive this for the Christmas exchanged gift?