Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Sunday, 25 January 2015

Winter Pamper evening

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With how cold it's getting it's easy to feel a bit meh. So I feel like having regular pamper evening is necessary to keep myself content, the harsh weather also doesn't do well for the skin.
So here's a little show of what I do on those cold nights to chill out and relax.

First thing is first, Make up removal. I use wipes first ( I know I know, so sue me) Then comes out the Garnier Micellar Water to get off the rest of the make-up and grime off my face. After if I have an early morning I'll pop into the shower, I wish I felt more comfortable in the flat to use the bath but I feel like I'd be taking up too much time in the bathroom, so showers it is.


I tend to use the John Frieda frizz ease oil in my hair after moisturizing my skin and such ( I'm sure I've said before but I use the Soap and glory The righteous butter at the moment) I'll then put my clearasil vitamins and extracts wash and mask, followed by the soap and glory peaches and clean cleanser. the facey stuff is finished off by the newly added Bodyshop Moisture Surging Vitamin E cream. I got it at the recent event I attended at TheBodyShop. ( My first ever! read about it here)



All that business over with it's time to chill. hot chocolate seems like the go to drink for winter months, but I recently have been having a coffee and hot chocolate mix in my new giant Christmas mug I picked up from Poundworld. It's quite like a mocha and tastes lovely. It's also my way to get more into coffee for when I'm super tired and don't want to constantly drink energy drinks.

The rest of the evening is me grabbing my throw from primark, Getting cosy on my bed with my little fairy lights on and catching up on youtube. I'm really lovely a load of People's Vlogs at the moment. I've said before but vlogs are my favourite kind of youtube videos! Maybe just because i'm lazy.

How do you wind down in the cold winter evenings?
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Friday, 16 January 2015

Habits I Want To Make.

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I don't think I've mentioned it too much over here on my blog but if you follow me on twitter you would have probably seen my praises of how much better I've been feeling over the last 2 months or so. University has really done me a world of good, the responsibility and the whole level of control you get from being in a different city and living independently is just something that really sat well with me and due to that I've felt more and more content with myself as a person and have got a real sense for what I want out of life and where I want to go with uni and just life in general and it's super nice. In relation to that I've developed a few things that I really want to make into habits that will become apart of my everyday routine.

Morning walks. - I'm not the worse morning person but at the same time I'm not really the best. I want to get into the habit of waking up early and going for a casual little walk to wake myself up

Reading the news in the morning. - I always feel really out of the loop with news, I just don't watch the news in the mornings or really watch it in the evenings either and we don't have newspaper in the house, So I'm always unaware of whats really going on, and I just want to change that and know whats happening in the world around me.

Read a book chapter a night. - Trying to renew the little reading challenge thing that I did a few months ago but in a different way, to properly wind down before bed I want to read and just relax away from the laptop and my phone.

Learn a new skill every few months. - This is slightly random but there are so many things that I want to do and know and I think it would be amazing to spend a few months at a time dedicated to different skills I want to learn and then gradually practicing them.

Relearn to read sheet music. - I suppose this could be linked to the skills point but I used to read sheet music when I had piano and violin lessons, but over the last 3-4 years I have almost completely forgotten which I feel is a shame as I loved being able to play off of sheet music.

Read more journals for uni. - This one is not only to make sure that I feel that I've done my best in my uni work but because the course I'm doing ( Psychology and Criminology ) is something that I picked because I do find it interesting, so I want to engross myself into it as a subject  and topic more than I am at the moment.

Listen to the radio in the morning. - Another random odd one, but I've been putting the radio on while i'm reading the news on my apps in the mornings to help slowly wake my self and it's just nice as casual background noise, It's especially nice recently with all the festive music, helps put me in a great mood in the mornings.

Make proper use of my time, Organize. - Quite a really general one here but I really need to make better use of my time and be a lot more productive and organised, I always think how there's not enough time in the day but really it's just that I don't make good use of the time.

Do you want to change any lifestyle changes, since It's new year, are you going along with the usual, new year new me shibang?


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Saturday, 10 January 2015

The Christmas Haul: what I got.

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First things first, like what most bloggers say, this is not meant to be a boast, just a little post showing generally what I was lucky enough to receive from family and friends this Christmas.








I always feel like i get way too spoilt on Christmas, but I have a very traditional family, in that we all like to spend a lot of presents on each other. And our parents still treat us like we are children on cChristmas which I can't really complain about. My main present this Christmas was a new laptop from my dad, as well as money and other bits from the rest of my family. It was a really good Christmas. I'm absolutely over the moon with my laptop. I can now even play pc games properly on steam and everything, super happy.

How was everyone else's Christmas this year? did you get spoilt or spoil someone yourself?

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Saturday, 13 December 2014

The Little Christmas Touches.

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This won't be too long of a post, I just wanted to show the little bits I put up to make my room feel a little Christmasy, due to money I couldn't really go full out but I did buy a little tinsel tree and Christmas mug from Pound world. I also have a cute me to you bear that I got from Ross last Christmas that sits in my mug while I'm not using it. It looks like they were bought together and it's very cute. As a little finishing touch I bought some little fairy/ Christmas lights. These have the evening feel so much cosier than having the main light on and were only £2 from a little market store.





And that's that, as I said it's really not all that much, I wish we all had the money to decorate the whole flat but alas, poor students. These little decorations are good enough for me though. I also can't wait to go home and put up all the Christmas decorations at home, just so I can go all out with the festiveness.

Do you love to decorate your house? And what time do you find it acceptable to put up decorations?

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Sunday, 30 November 2014

The #Bhmbloggermeet

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Last Friday was Black Friday, now it's not supposed to be much of a thing in England but it's apparently exploded in the last few years with a load of brands offering discounts and deals to us UK customers, As well as this madness I attended my first ever event which was exciting. It was the Birmingham Blogger meet Organised by Abbigayle over at stealstylist.com and was hosted by The Body Shop. I was so honored to be invited as such a diddy little space on the internet and it was such an amazing evening focused more on the interactions between bloggers rather than brands brands brands.
We started the evening off with a little challenge called ' What does your cupcake say?' We all had to think of a cute little phrase to write on a little note and was put into our cupcakes. I chose to write 'Life is sweeter with cake!'
I foolishly forgot my camera in the rush to get the train in time so You'll have to manage ith the slightly more awkward phone photos.





After we had a little brief of what the event was about from Abbigayle  and then a little brief from the body shop staff about the body shop, we also got told about the 3 Christmas collections released for the Christmas period. The 3 collection are Glazed apple, which was a gorgeous fruity scent that just screams christmas. Vanilla Brulee which was so sweet in the pots but were much softer in scent once put on the skin and my personal favourite, Cranberry, this scent smells similar to their strawberry scents but not as sweet and well more Cranberry like, Another very Christmas feeling scent.





Briefing over with we had a little question ice breaker in which we all answered a question based on the sweet we had chosen earlier on.
After we were split into groups to experience little stations, the stations were Hand massages, Facial Skincare, Makeup and then hands and nails. I really enjoyed all the stations and got to know a lot more about what the body shop ranges offer as well as some make-up techniques which I could always use!






We then got to shop, with an amazingly good deal of 50% off everything at it's original price. I picked up a little Skincare goodie which I'll be showing either as it's own review or in a haul post!
Along with this deal, You guys also get to experience the goodness with a screen shot of this photo!
it's running until December 3rd So be quick!

It was an amazing night and we quickly ran out of time which was sad as Abbigayle told us she had a few more games planned for us, But we all said we could do them next time!










A cute group photo was taken and we then received a goodie bag, Which contained a cup from starbucks, allowing us 20p off drinks with the cup as well as a cute chocolate reindeer lolly. A bag of popcorn supplied by Propercorn and some sample pots of 3 body butters in the seasonal scents by The body shop.

Pictures

I was amazingly grateful to be invited and even more grateful to receive a little goodie bag as well, It was a lovely night and I got to talk to a few fellow bloggers like Tash from As told by Tash Pantz, Rebecca from The Glossary , Amy from Haus of Amy and Emily from Good girl gone Brum

Brilliant evening with Brilliant people, Perfect.

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Sunday, 23 November 2014

The Christmas Jumper.

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So did anyone else see how quick the stores changed after halloween? I went to my local asda the morning after halloween night and it was already in full Christmas swing with the decs and theme. I have to admit it was impressive but I'm not sure I like it. I love Christmas but it seems to get 'longer' and longer each year. Though saying that this week after seeing the german market and Christmas Songs I'm rather festive...  ANYWAY, I feel like a cringy christmas themed jumper is rather must have each year, but in am attempt to lessen the cringe I've picked my favourite Christmas-y jumpers. My top top favourite out of these i think is the green one with the reindeer, he's so cute looking though!

The Christmas Jumper.


Boohoo blue sweater
boohoo.com


Black top
etsy.com


Boohoo flat top
boohoo.com


Long sleeve shirt
$40 - newlook.com


Lipsy white jumper
$32 - lipsy.co.uk


Lipsy pink shirt
$32 - lipsy.co.uk


Holiday sweater
$24 - newlook.com


White jumper
$21 - selectfashion.co.uk



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