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?
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?
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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?
Excuse the very blurry photo - and this was before I'd had a drink!!!
So what did I use?
Primer: Seven Heaven by Me Me Me and Baby Skin by Maybeline
Foundation: Estee Lauder Double Wear
Concealer: Bobbi Brown Corrector and Concealer
Powder: Rimmel Stay Matte
Bronzer: Benefit Hoola Bronzer
Blush: Benefit Rockateur
Eye Primer: Urban Decay Primer Potion
Eye Shadow: Urban Decay - I actually used the Naked 2 instead
Liner: Benefit they are real liner
Mascara: Benefit They are Real
Brows: Ruby Brow Powder
I also added a some Bourjois Rouge Edition in the Fushcia Graff
Loved this make up look.
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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 :)
Jumpsuit - £27.99 - 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 :)
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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?
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?
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Can you believe the first week of December is nearly over? I thought I would take the opportunity at the end of what I feel like has been a mental week with a nice mug of orange hot chocolate!
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???
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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.
I am looking forward to many christmas where we can continue to build traditions and collect decorations.
Obviously this year is mine and Adams first christmas together so we have literally had to start from scratch. I have been excited for getting Christmas stuff since we went to Trentham in October and they were just starting to put all the Christmas stuff out.
We decided we were going to put our tree up on the 1st December but we got to the 23rd November and we couldn't wait any longer so we whacked on a Christmas movie (miracle on 34th street - of course!) and up the tree went!!
One thing I insisted on when we were looking for a tree was that I wanted a huge tree and we ended up with a 7ft tree which we brought from Sainsburys Homebase.
With it being our first christmas I wanted to get a really special decoration however when I looked into it the only ones I could find were either too expensive or I didn't like. When I was shopping for decorations in Wilkos (who have some absolutely fantastic decorations) I spotted this star so I decided to pick it up and do one ourselves! This was just £1 and I think is so much more personal.
Are you excited for Christmas this year?? Have you got your tree up yet??
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!
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!
- Benefit Cheeky Sweet Spot - £29.50 - Benefit
- Real Techniques Nic's Picks - £29 - Feel Unique
- No7 The best of Beauty Collection - £40 - Boots
- Nars Digital World Lip Pencils - £32 - Space NK
- Elizabeth Arden Block Buster - £60 - Very.co.uk
- Origins Mini's Gift Set - £35 - Debenhams
- Molton Brown Stocking Filling - £39 - John Lewis
- Beautiful Inside and Out Beauty Case - £9.95 - Not on the high street
- Babyliss Curl Secret - £99.99 - Argos
- 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!
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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 :)
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 :)
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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!
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.
We took the opportunity on the front row to get a cheeky selfie with Paul!
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!
The show was absolutely hilarious! Paul and Mary really are funny - as was the camera man!
We then had a mooch around the stalls and brought some bits - I brought a present for my brother and his fiancé for Christmas and also a couple of presents for me and Adam! I also picked up a new hoover which I can't even tell you how much I am in love with!!! Its not the normal thing I would review but I will defiantly be doing a review on this!
We then mooched back to the WHSmith stand for Mary Berry! We were right in going early - we saw the tail end of Antonio Carluccio which was pretty cool! After we got in the queue it suddenly got huge! Understandably.
Again you can't beat a Berry Selfie!
Eeeeeek so amazing!!! can not believe I actually got to meet her!
We then spotted Jordan from this years bake off wondering around and couldn't resist a photo with him!!!
Overall such a fab day! There were lots of other photos but I won't spam you!!!
Have you ever been to the food show???
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