Hello my lovelies!

I hope that you are all doing well. I can not believe that 2 months has passed since I sat and put finger to keyboard to chat to you all. This year is absolutely flying by, I can not believe that we are almost in  December... It doesn't seem like 5 minutes since we sat playing pie face on New Year's Eve and here we are, nearly time for the festivities to begin again.

To be honest I think the break away from blogging has done me good. Life has been hectic as ever and I think with everything that has happened over the last 12 months... Grandad being really ill, planning a wedding, getting married, planning a honeymoon, my brother getting married, going on honeymoon it's just been too much and something had to give. To be honest, I posted a while back to say I was at a point with my blog that I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do any more or where I wanted to take it. However, I think the break has done me good. I have actually found myself over the last few weeks thinking about blogging, content and the like. I've not dipped out of the world all together - I've been over on Instagram so if you follow me on there (@mybeautifulforever) you will have seen what I have been up to (and what I've been eating haha).

So.. The last couple of months..

Well I had my graduation for my post grad course I was completing for the last year. I now hold a post graduate certificate in health care leadership. The graduation was very different and low key to what I have been used to but it was good that Adam got to see me graduate - especially with all the hard work I had to put in doing it and planning a wedding too!


To be honest, that is about it... I wish I has lots of exciting news to share... I'm getting my butt organised and will be back - regularly! I am in the process of working out how often and when I am going to post but I will let you know as soon as I decide - I am thinking Monday, Wedneday, Friday with maybe a bonus weekend on either day...

Thanks for sticking around... I hope we can continue to grow this little community and gain some new friends along the way too! Take care xxx

Once again I feel like I am at crossroads with my blog... I've been doing some thinking about what I want my little corner of the Internet to be over the last few weeks while I have been on a break. 

Right ok.. how is it the 1st May already! This year is going wayyyy too fast. I can not believe it. Its weird, everyone said to me that once christmas was over it would go really fast on the countdown to the wedding but naive little me didn't believe that for a second! I thought it would drag but they were right! I can't even believe its 48 days until we get married! 48 days! Thats 6 weeks and 6 days! Aghhh!!!

I'm so excited. Everything is starting to come together now. I have a to do list the size of my arm but I am surprisingly chilled about the whole thing.

Since I finished my course I've been getting round to do a lot of things, including organising my blog. I especially want to start blogging the lead up to the wedding. I've finally (after years of laziness) started to get my skin care in check and have been organising make up. I've been trying new products, rediscovering old ones and I am finally at a point where I have wanted to sit down and actually write about things.

I have also started to discover more about the business. I have loved discovering all about what this business can offer and for someone who loves discovering new products it is perfect! I have been using some of the products on a regular basis now and can really see what an amazing difference they have made! More about that soon.

Its only 17 days until we go to Mexico (still not started packing), we still only know where we are staying and have no idea about flights etc but hopefully we should find that out this week! Not gonna lie its making me twitchy! :)

Anyway, you should start to see me a bit more now! I have things plotted so keep your eyes peeled. Hope you guys are all ok. Fill me in on your gossip.

Hello my lovelies!

How are we all??

So its official.. I did it.. I finished my course! Wooo! Yesterday I clicked submit on my final assignment and ah man did that baby feel good! I'm not gonna lie, the last 12 month has been hard. I don't honestly think when I decided to apply for this course just after christmas last year that I knew what I was letting myself in for. Well for a start I honestly never thought I would get on the course in the first place. The course itself is the Mary Seacole Programme which is run through the NHS leadership academy and is a Post Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Leadership. I wanted to do something since my degree is in ICT and I have no formal management qualifications at all (unless you count my teaching degree which they don't) so I looked to this. It was funded by the hospital I work for so I figured what harm was there in applying - they only offer 25 places across the west midlands so I wasn't hopeful. Then I got a place. There were times I wanted to give up. Times I had to sacrifice things I wanted to do but sitting here at the end of it feels great and I am so glad I stuck with it.

Its just under 10 weeks now till we get married (9 weeks and 6 days - not that I am at all counting) - I can not quite believe how quickly it is now coming around. I had my first hen party with the girls from work last week - what a fab night - those ladies certainly know how to spoil a girl - and I am all excited for my next one with Adam's family in Sheffield in 2 weeks (it was wayyyy easier to do his family in Sheffield then everyone here seperately as the numbers were getting mental) - plus i get to spread out the celebrating.

Now all that work is out of the way I am hoping that I will start to get a bit more me time! Like time I can sit and blog - man I have missed you guys! I have finally found myself perking back up my love for blogging again - not that it ever went away completely but I feel like my spark is back. I can't wait to finally have the time to sit and enjoy things like blogging. Ive just spent the last hour watching youtube videos while I had a lovely soak in the bath with a lush bath bomb and a face mask! It really is the little things!

Anyway my lovelies! Have a fantastic week :)

Hey! Remember me... Im the girl who once upon a time used to blog!

First of all how are we already in the middle of March?? Someone explain that chunk of crazy to me! Everyone kept saying to me once Christmas was out of the way that the wedding would be here before we know it! Well guess what! Its coming thick and fast! Its officially less than 100 days (95 to be exact) and my dress is now hanging up in the shop waiting for my fitting instead of just on order! Shit getting real!

Ive missed my little corner of the internet! I have in no way fallen out of love with blogging at all. I still read blogs every day however I think I just got to the point where I wondered did I have anything of value to say? And was anyone listening anyway? Blogging has become so popular over the last few years and I have been blogging 5 years this year.. I think sometimes you can become a little bit lost wondering where you fit in to the puzzle when actually there is no puzzle to fit into! Blogging is about you!

So I have decided. This blog is going to be what I want it to be. I am not going to ramble and follow what everyone thinks I should be doing or saying. If I want to blog about it I will. I never intended for this blog to be about falling into one category. I want it to be a bit of everything. After all life is made up of everything.

Right.. What have I been up to you ask.. Well in the last month.

Probably the most exciting thing to happen was Adam won a holiday to Mexico! Seriously! 5 Star all inclusive spa resort! I won't go into mega detail but the company he works for (signet) put on an incentive so in May we are jetting off for 7 nights in the sun! Perfect timing for a wedding tan!

To be honest, as excitement, thats about it. Adam and I have been making good use of our Cineworld Unlimited Cards which I am going to review separately. Obviously there have been lots of wedding bits going on too - suit fittings, dress fittings, shoes sorting, table plans, meetings with people.. its all coming together now :)

I hope you are all well. Catch me up with all your gossip!

Heyyyy everyone!

I can not even begin to tell you how many times I have gone to sit down and write this blog post. My last post had such hopes for ending 2015 and then I'm not going to lie... Everything fell apart. Just after writing that post my grandad was rushed into hospital.. He spent a week in and was discharged and then was readmitted not even a week later and has been in ever since. For just over 5 weeks now I've spent my nights backwards and forwards to the hospital - I'm not going to lie it's been a horrible time. I haven't even been able to think about putting pen to paper (or finger to screen), I didn't feel at all Christmassy and Christmas itself passed by without much joy. Hopefully now grandad seems to be on the up and is over the worst. He seems to have picked up everything while he has been in there but fingers crossed we have turned a corner now! 

How is it even November already? It only feels like 5 minutes ago since we were welcoming in the new year and here we are with just 60 days left in the year...

Recently the lovely Lindsey whose blog My Dolce Vita I have followed and loved for a long time, through weddings and both her beautiful babies being born and growing up. She recently started up a new blog over at A Lindsey Christmas Story - I am so glad she is back blogging again because I love reading about her precious life and watching her babies grow into beautiful young children.

Lindsey restarting her blog has inspired me. She said in her first post in her new blog something which I have brushed on several times. I just want to write. I want to document and be able to look back and smile. This next year is the start of a very fun a venture and I want to document the ride.

Adam and I have been making some exciting plans! We have plotted out what we are going to do for our honeymoon - were planning on going on a little european adventure - Starting in London then going to Paris, Venice, Florence and Rome! I am so excited.

Lots of little details are getting sorted for the wedding now. We think we have chosen hymns and picked the people we want to do readings. Its all coming together now.

I can't believe its counting down to christmas again! It really does not seem like 5 minutes ago since we were shopping for our first christmas tree last year. I love the lead up to Christmas - Christmas markets, Nights snuggled up in front of the fire under a blanket with a candle burning (who am I kidding - take away the blanket and thats me all year haha), we have been doing christmas music in choir practice for a few weeks now and I love the services at church around christmas! All very exciting!

So my plan is to be back. I still want to talk about make up and beauty.. about life.. health (I have been trying lots of new recipes recently) and everything else that tickles my pickle. I am going to really try to make the last 2 months of blogging better that the rest of the year, which lets face it I have been pants!

Thank you for sticking with me for the ride. I hope you will stay on the roller coaster  - I promise it will be more interesting!

Its weird.. for a couple of weeks now I have been feeling a little anxious about the neglect I have been giving my little blog. Yesterday while I was procrastinating I pulled up the main page of my blog and notices that in 2015 so far I had only written 26 blog posts and that pang of guilt came back again.

I dont know why I do this to myself. I have never been one of those people who felt like I was blogging to a massive audience but there is something even with a small audience like I have that just makes you feel guilty when you leave it so long.

Anyway today this post popped up on to my time hop - LINK - that I had written exactly 1 year to the date last year and it brought in some perspective for me. Dont get me wrong I absolutely LOVE my blog and there is no way I just want it to die away in a corner. I want to use it as a way of looking back and documenting things. On the flip side of that my life has suddenly in the last 18 months gone from me living at home with my mum and dad worrying about which nail polish I was going to buy next (ok so not really but you get the gist) to having a house, a husband to be, planning a wedding, starting a post graduate certificate with the open university, paying bills, cooking, cleaning, running our own business,  looking after 2 cats plus all my other commitments like Guides (soon to also be Rainbows and Brownies), Church, Choir.... my head spins just thinking about it all. So you know what I think I need to just take a second and think hang on! My life is pretty mental!

Like I say I do not want to forget about my blog because I love it. Its a way of me to talk about girly stuff Adam doesnt want to hear about, document all the plans for the wedding that we can look back on as well as being an awesome community that I want to be a part of!

Since we last caught up at the beginning on July when we had just got back from America. July and August have just seemed to go by in a flash! Heres a quick overview...

•  I have spent most of what little free time I have working on an assignment I never thought I was going to get done, 
• I have been offered a 3 month promotion at work which is awesome!  
• Adam and I launched our business and although I haven't had a lot of time to work on the business itself, I have been using the products which are AMAZING! So keep your eyes peeled for some reviews on those! 
• I booked a mini moon as a surprise for Adam - back to the holiday camp we met 16 years ago in Great Yarmouth - we are going there on the Monday after we get married
• We have planned (we think) our Honeymoon which we are going to go on in September next year (lots of weddings next year including my brother in August so spreading it out) and we think we are going to go backpacking round Europe 
• Its only 41 weeks and 4 days till we get married! 

I think that's about it! It doesnt sound a lot but add in a couple of weekends where we have been up to Sheffield visiting etc and its just been mental!

I am going to try and make a bit more time in my mental life for Blogging now! I have recently got an Ipad with 4G so hopefully I can do some on the move! I want to keep this updated with wedding plans and our lives - I have a week of in a few weeks and its all weddings including dress shopping and Mac Makeovers!!!

Hope you are all well!!!

Ok, lets just ignore what a bag blogger I have been over the past few weeks and have a catch up!

Since we got back from Florida, life has been SO hectic!

We decided once we got from holiday we would start up again with the planning for the Wedding since it was 12 months the day we got back until we got back.  We has previously arranged for the Theatre we are having our reception at to do our Save the Dates and we had already had a sample through of what they would be like which were fab so the day we got back I emailed Jackie who is sorting everything for us and she got them printed. When they arrived we were SO excited! We sat one Friday night for about 3 hours jazzing up the envelopes as when we looked online the coloured ones we wanted were ridiculously expensive. So we improvised. We decided to use our thumb prints in the colours just to make it different.


We had also decided once we came back from America that our not so little girls would go on their first adventure outside!!! We thought they were starting to look really big until they got outside where they looked TINY!!! They absolutely love it though and love being off exploring!


Last week, my mum turned 50, and unknown to her I had been planning a surprise party since about the middle of May. Im amazed we actually managed to keep it a secret! It was fab though! Especially since one of her friends from school who she hadn't seen in 30 years came up from London for the day!


Me and Adam also decided that we were going to join the gym when we got back and that we did. I picked up myself a pair of florescent pink trainers in America just for he occasion. I'll do a separate post about the gym and stuff probably in a couple of weeks so keep your peepers peeled for that!


Thats about it for my gossip caught up with! How are you all!?!?!

Oh hey!

Where on earth have April and now nearly May gone??? I can't believe that it is nearly June. But on a more positive note - 9 days until we go to Orlandoooooo!!!!

So what have the last 2 months been filled with??

We have been getting the house well and truly sorted. I can not believe that we have only been in this house for 2 months. I can't even begin to tell you how much happier we are! We have got the garden sorted and brought a BBQ (and it has practically rained every day since).

I've also officially started my uni course - if you havent seen on Twitter or Instagram - I'm studying a Post Graduate Certificate in Healthcare leadership through the NHS Leadership Acadamy. I have literally spent the whole of my bank holiday writing my first assignment which is due to the week I get back from Florida. I am glad it is finally out of the way! I did have visions of sitting doing it on the plane! Phewwww

We had a lovely weekend in Centre Parc's back at the end of April. It feels like a lifetime ago now but we had a fab few days and a very relaying spa day on the Monday which was just what I needed.


At the start of this month I finally booked an appointment to get my hair sorted!!! I have been thinking about it for agggges as my hair has been feeling tired and drab for a while and I had been looking for a new hairdresser because my other one is closing down. I plucked up the courage and booked an appointment and OMG i am Sooooooo happy with it! It has really perked my hair up for the summer and I am already booked in to go back and get it cut before I go away.


A few weeks ago I spent a very lovely but very wet weekend camping with my wonderful Guides. Despite the fact we got soaked and one of the other leaders wanted me to sleep in the bunks inside I did rough it in the mud with the girls in my very own little tent!

The next couple of weeks may get a bit sporadic. The good thing is that we are staying in a villa and we have free wifi so I should be able to keep you updated on my travels! However if anyone wants to do any guest posts while I am away let me know!
One thing I am sure you will be able to look forward to is American Beauty Haul when I get back! If you have anything to add to my wish list let me know! I defiantly want to get my hands on some Its a 10! again if I can as I LOVED that when I used it before!

See you soon lovelies.

Hello lovelies! How are we all??