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???