One thing I knew that I wanted to buy this year when we started looking at buying christmas items was an advent calendar. Now i am not talking a cheap chocolate one I mean a proper one. When we spent date night a couple of weeks ago at Trentham we went to the garden centre and they had the advent calendars half price.

My mum has always said that she wishes she had brought one of these when me and my brother were small so I said to Adam we could get one now and then we have it when we have babies in the future.


I loved the mix of the colours and the nativity on this one. When we went shopping Adam and I picked which sweets we wanted to add and I also went through and added some special treats for us along the way including things such as make gingerbread together, get a drive through Starbucks, watching our favourite christmas movies (Muppets, Elf)...

I am really loving this and love the idea of adding our own bits into it!

Do you have an advent calendar. How do you put in?

So as promised I thought I would share with you what make up I wore for the Christmas party on Saturday night.


Excuse the very blurry photo - and this was before I'd had a drink!!!

So what did I use?

Last night I got myself dolled up and headed out for my works Christmas party! Up until yesterday afternoon I had NO idea what to wear. I went to town with mum yesterday and after going round a couple of shops which I was disappointed with (whats with the lack of sparkle this year), I headed into New Look.


So this is totally not the normal thing I would go for but I am totally in love with this Jump Suit! The Belt is one I added from Primark and I added a cardi mainly because it was bloody cold yesterday! Since it was all black I decided to add a statement necklace again from Primark. Teamed with my trusty red heels this was the perfect party outfit!

Stay tuned for a break down of what I wore make up wise too :)

Christmas is a time for giving and enjoying the time spent with family and friends. When me and Adam first started talking about Christmas (way back in October) and we decided with this being our first one, we wanted to make it really special.

When we looking into decorations we found some lovely ones about but when we thought about it, we didn't want to spend a stupid amount of money on decorations and bits!

Step in Wilkos! - First of all excuse the crappy iPhone photos!




The aisles of my local wilkos is brimming with gorgeous christmas goodies! Their bauble packs are AMAZING! I picked up a couple of the packs of 50 baubles for £5 which have a variety of sizes and colours. The baubles in the top picture are £1.50 and they have some lovely decorations for £1.

Also as well as decorations they have some fantastic table decorations.


I picked up these purple table runners currently £4 and the silver charger plates for £1. I really love this! In fact I really want to leave it there all year!!!

If your in the market for some new plates and dish ware they have some great deals. I brought a 12 pack in purple for £12 which are beautiful!

Have you shopped in Wilko's this year?? Are you impressed by their offerings?

I feel like this week has been mental, works been really life in general has been busy... In fact when I look forward to the next few weeks I have lots of busy things planned!!!

Tomorrow is the christmas party at work (and I still haven't got an outfit sorted yet!!) but Im looking forward to a pampering and getting my hair and nails done. Also this week Adams mum and dad are coming to visit before they yet off to Tenefire for a week.

I also need to get my butt in gear and get some christmas shopping done. The only thing I have got sorted so far is my brother and his fiancé and a couple of things for Adam! I don't know why but I feel really unorganised this year!

What are your plans in the lead up to christmas? Are you sorted for your christmas shopping???

Is it me or has christmas seemed to have exploded this year? I feel like far more people have started putting their decorations up early and in general the christmas buzz just seems to be on all around. 

For the last few years while I have been blogging I have shared with you a breakdown of my favourite gifts out there. Today I wanted to share with you my favourite pick of the gifts for beauty lovers!

1. Benefit Cheeky Sweet Spot - £29.50 - Benefit 
2. Real Techniques Nic's Picks - £29 - Feel Unique
3. No7 The best of Beauty Collection - £40 - Boots
4. Nars Digital World Lip Pencils - £32 - Space NK 
5. Elizabeth Arden Block Buster - £60 - Very.co.uk
6. Origins Mini's Gift Set - £35 - Debenhams 
7. Molton Brown Stocking Filling - £39 - John Lewis 
8. Beautiful Inside and Out Beauty Case - £9.95 - Not on the high street
9. Babyliss Curl Secret - £99.99 - Argos
10. Smashbox on the rocks palette - £29 - Smashbox

Once again there are some fab beauty picks out there! I love this set from Benefit and the Nars Lip Pencils are a real bargain! I can defiantly recommend the Babyliss curl secret too! It is fab!

So I have seen a couple of people around the blogasphere who have decided to participate in Blogmas  and I figured I needed a bit of something to shake myself up so I thought I would join in too!

Basically for those of you who don't know, Blogmas is where you blog every day in December!

So here goes - Look out for lots of Christmas countdown posts, getting ready for the festive period, parties and gift guides!!!

If your taking part in Blogmas leave me a link in the comments :)

First of all HAPPY 1st DECEMBER!!! Eeeeek

On Saturday me and mum went on one of our adventures and got on to a coach to the Good Food Show.
The food show is one of those places we have said we have wanted to go but never have - they do a trip every year at work but it always sells out really quickly. When mum spotted it this year and found out Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry were going to be there she waisted no time in booking the tickets!

I did lots of research into what and who was going to be there - clearly too did Adam who let me have 2 of my Christmas presents early - Paul Hollywood and Mary Berrys books which he told me to take with me to get signed! Such a sweetie!

When we got to the NEC we hot footed off to the WHSmith stand where they were doing the book signings and caught the tale end of Paul's interview.


We then got ourselves into the queue. As you can imagine there was quite a queue for the lovely Paul but actually we didn't wait too long.

 Then this happened :O Eeeeek!


Got my book signed :)

We then had tickets for the Super Theatre to see Paul and Mary - we had bloody fab seats - 7 rows back - where we could see everything that was going on perfectly!

There has been a lot of posts going around on Facebook recently about posting the top 5 photos which make you happy! I couldn't narrow mine down to just 5 ... it was just too hard! I thought I would share them with you too!

Hello my lovelies! Grab yourselves a brew!!!


Today I have decided to go for a nice hot chocolate 'cause you know you can't beat a hot chocolate on these cold nights!

How on earth are we nearly in December? Where on earth has November gone??

This month has been a right busy one! Lets catch up with what I've been up to since I last posted!

Me and Adam has been collecting lots of Christmas bits! It started at the end of December when we went shopping at our local garden centre in Trentham Gardens! Then to make it worse we nipped to Sainsburys home base for something and they had a 7ft Christmas tree on offer which obviously came home with us! Since then we have had a couple of trips to various stores which resulted in lots of Christmas decorations sitting in our spare room! Anyway yesterday this happened!



We had our Christmas Fayre at church on Saturday and planned to spend the afternoon watching Christmas films and we just decided that was it - we couldn't wait any more! We had planned to do it on 1st December which coincided with our Monday night date night but oh well! I love it!! Its getting me so excited now! :)

Last weekend me and mum went off to Leeds on our annual christmas shopping trip which is organised through work - normally its Manchester but it was a nice change to go to Leeds as Ive never been to Leeds before.



Leeds is a really lovely city and we didn't really see that much of it! We didn't even come across the Christmas Market! I loved all the little arcades and picked up some really cool christmas presents!

We have had a couple of lovely nights with friends! My best friend who this year moved over to one of the nearby towns finally got to meet Adam on Saturday when we went round to her new home! It was so lovely as me and her got the chance to catch up but also Mark (her partner) and Adam had a lovely little bonding session chatting about football, Sheffield, gaming... It was lovely to see.

In terms of blogging I feel really behind! The last couple of years I have normally done some of my gift guides by now, to be honest in terms of Christmas I am pretty far behind! I have only brought a couple of presents! I need to get my act together!!! Gift guide posts will defiantly be coming up over the next couple of weeks! I also have some new products to share with you!

Hope your all well! Catch me up with all your gossip!

I was SO excited when a couple of weekends ago me and mum jumped on the train to Manchester where we met up with my future mother in law and headed off to Manchester Central for the National  Wedding Show.

I brought the tickets wayyyy back in August just after we got engaged after seeing it advertised online and I planned the day like a military operation so that our train from Stoke got into Manchester the same time as Wendy (the future MIL) from Sheffield! Unfortunately Wendy missed her train (long story) and we had to wait but it was all good!

The day itself was fantastic. I had never been to Manchester Central before but it was a gorgeous venue. We wandered around all the stalls where there was a variety of different people including invitations, photographers, cake makers, dresses. I tried a couple of dresses on from a shop which was actually local to me who I knew were going and who had the Alfred Angelo Disney dresses available to try on - if you have not seen these click here and fall in love.

It may only be October but the truth is, it is actually only 9 weeks until christmas!

I love christmas, I am like a child in a sweet shop and this year I am especially excited since it is mine and Adams first christmas together.

We made a detour to Trentham Garden centre on the way home when Adam picked me up from work yesterday. We knew they had started having their christmas stuff in because when we went a few weeks ago on our week off they were just starting to put the stuff out. When we went last night it was like full blown christmas!!! We had to hold ourselves not to grab a trolley and fill it with stuff! It wasn't just all the trees and decorations that got me excited, all the table decorations too! We have a 6 seater table which I love and we have decided we are going to have my mum, dad and brother around for Christmas lunch. I am looking forward to getting all the bits.

Thinking about Christmas also got me thinking about Christmas Traditions. When I lived at home we had several traditions; Its not Christmas until you have seen - Miracle on 34th Street, Elf, Muppets Christmas Carol and we always had bagels for breakfast on christmas morning. Me and mum always had a little tipple of baileys when we were making christmas lunch. Now I can't help thinking about other traditions and what traditions I would like me and Adam to start!

What Christmas traditions do you have as a family???

Also feel free to follow my Christmas board on pinterest (unloved button) - as well as my others of course!

You may remember back in August (here) I posted an updated so say we had 2 new members join our family.


I can't believe that we have had them for 3 months now!!!

I just thought today that I would share a little update with you as to how our little girls are getting on!


As you can see they are getting much bigger now! I can not even tell you how much we are in love with them!! They are getting such little personalities now! Adam is still struggling to tell them apart (they are identical apart from Luna has about 5 or 6 hairs on her right ear)

Bella is a total mummies girl! She was the smaller one of the 2 when we had them. She has caught up with Luna now but when you look at them she still has a slightly more baby face. She loves to come and snuggle on you - she particularly likes to snuggle on your shoulder. If you pick her up she loves to have a little nibble on your fingers but will let you hold her for ages before she jumps down.

Hello lovelies.

First of all I want to throw this out there and say this isn't a sponsored post. Any opinions here on this app have been formulated myself and I have built from using and loving the app myself.

What I want to talk to you about an app called My Supermarket.

You know when you go to the Supermarket and with some you get a voucher or you have to put your receipt number in to say if they have been cheaper. With the my supermarket app you cut that step out altogether. Rather than you finding out your cheapest supermarket after you have been and done your shopping, with the my supermarket app you find out which is the cheapest supermarket before you go.

When you open up the app it gives you the option of creating a new list. You then get the option of choosing a supermarket - I usually chose Asda as that is one of the ones we go to regularly apart from Aldi - which you can also choose.


Once you have selected your list, you then build your shopping list. You can either do this by typing the its you are looking for in the search box or it also breaks items down for you into categories such as fruit and veg, diary.