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Saturday 21 September 2013

What to do with my wedding dress???

It's been 6 months scince I got married and my wedding dress has just been hanging on the back of my bedroom door and I don't no what to do with it.  You buy a dress and have numerous fittings and feel amazing on your day wearing your princess dress you have stresses and worries about fitting but, what do you do with your dress after the main day? Do u save it just incase your daughter is the same size and have the same taste in wedding dresses? Do you sell it on EBay? Or do you donate it to a charity shop? 

After thinking about it I don't think I want to save it for my daughter (I might have all sons anyway) and I don't want to sell it on EBay as it's a bit too special for that. I want to donate it to a charity so I looked into different charity's and found the wedding wishing well foundation who specialise in organising weddings for terminally ill people. This charity was founded by Naomi Thomas who from reading the charity's website (www.weddingwishingwell.org.uk) is an amazing selfless person whose story and reasons behind setting up this charity is so awe inspiring. 

So that's what I'm going to do I am going to donate it and I hope whoever wears my dress in the future will feel like a princess like I did on my wedding day. 


Thursday 12 September 2013

Quick boots haul

Treated myself to some goodies in boots today and thought I would share. 

First I went to the No7 counter as I needed more foundation and thought it was about time to be rechecked as I have caught a little bit of sun on my face. No7 have this machine that tests the colour of your skin and matches it to a foundation colour. My colour now is warm beige. I got the instant radiance as I loved the coverage and the staying power and I hope this colour isn't too dark. 


While at the No7 counter I also brought some match made concealer in the same colour as my foundation because I have been getting some breakouts recently and the only concealer I have is highlighting under eye. 


I also needed a new liquid eyeliner and after trying about 10 on my hand (you no its the only way to test any makeup) I decided on carbon black extreme eyeliner pen from soap and glory. 


I also got distracted by the other soap and glory make up and picked up the love at first blush in the colour turn your rose up. It's pretty and shimmery and I am a magpie hehe. 


That was it for shopping. I am looking forward to using them all and I no this blog is not too good but I'm tired. Byeee!! 

Monday 9 September 2013

August favourites and dislikes

Hello, I haven't posted in a long time as me and my husband Richard have been enjoying the end of summer and Richard has also been hogging the computer playing his new obsession Blood Ball. So I am using the blogger app on my phone to write this today. 

As I am on holiday from work at the moment I thought I would catch up on some posts. So today I am doing my August favourites and dislikes (I no a week later than everyone else). 

I am going to start with lip products I have two I have been mainly using this month and both I have recently found whole cleaning out my makeup drawer. 

Firstly is a lipgloss from missguided I think I got this from from Cosmo or glamour last summer. I got the colour love and it's a beautiful pearly pink with white silver micro glitter throughout. The lipgloss is a little sticky but it looks so nice on my lips that I forget about it. 


I also found my maybelline baby lips balm that I brought in Walmart when I was on honeymoon. I got the colour pink pinch and I love it, it smells so sweet and the colour is so pretty and as a balm it does the trick. I do wish I brought the balm with an SPF in but overall a good product.


Next for eyes last month I favoured a mascara and that it was starting to smell so I invested in a new mascara and thought I would try the Rimmel scandal eyes retro glam mascara in black. The brush is a little scary as I was used to the dainty brush on the dolled up mascara but after the initial poking myself in the eye a few times I realised how good it separated and curled my lashes without looking to clumpy and spidery and I even had a few people commenting on how long my lashes were. I would recommend this mascara as its brilliant.


My next two products are face masks firstly is the Origins drink up intensive over night mask and this is amazing. It smells so fresh and makes my skin look so soft and clear. The fact you only need a tiny bit for your whole face is a bit bonus because it lasts for ages, I have had the same sample bottle for months and I use it at least once a week. This has cleared up my bit of patchy dry skin I was having at the beginning of summer without making my skin too oily. 

The other face mask I also have in a sample is the eve lom rescue mask. This smells a bit funky but is not too overpowering when on the skin and it deep cleans the skin making it feel deep cleaned and glorious. 


And now to the products I haven't liked in August. 

Firstly is a makeup shadow brush from Vintage cosmetics. I don't like this brush mainly because the bristles fall out really easily (I don't no if this is just a one off with my brush) and also the bristles are very tough and scratchy on my eyes and make grooves in my eyeshadow, also when applying the product just clings to the brush and doesn't transfer onto the eye very well. This is disappointing as I use the vintage cosmetics tweezers and they are very good.



The last two are mascaras and I might surprise you with the 1st but I did not like the benefit there real mascara. It just made all my top eyelashes stick together and the formula is just to thin and although the bristles on the end are a really good idea and did work well on my bottom lashes, however when putting on my top lash it was scratchy on my eyes. The other mascara is the no clumps definition mascara from collection this just didn't seen to do anything to my lashes the brush didn't seem to hold any of the product though one positive it didn't make my eyelashes clump. 



That's all for my August likes and dislikes and all the opinions in this blog are my own and if you use them you might have different views.

I have written this whole blog using the app on my phone and its very easy to use and I will be using this again to write future blogs so they now might be more frequent. 

Monday 19 August 2013

quick leftover rice dish

Whenever I have cooked a meal with rice I have always have at least one portion leftover and I don’t like wasting food so the next day I nearly always cook this leftover rice dish.

Ingredients

1 portion of cold cooked rice

Leftover meat (this could be leftover roast chicken)

1 finely chopped onion

Fresh Ginger (I use 1tsp of easy ginger)

1 clove of garlic finely chopped ( or 1 tsp of easy garlic)

1/2 tsp of dried crushed chillies

1 egg

Soy sauce (to taste)

Sweet chilli sauce (to taste)

Handful of frozen peas and/or sweet corn

2 tsp vegetable oil (I like sunflower)

Method

1) In a hot wok (or frying pan) add 1 tsp of oil. Add the chopped onion, ginger, garlic and chilli into the wok and stir-fry until onions are softened and then put onto a small plate and put to the side.

2) Add another tsp of oil to the wok and then cook the egg making sure to constantly move around the pan so it looks like scrambled egg.

3) When the egg is just cooked add the cold rice, cooked onions, leftover meat and the peas and sweet corn. Stirfry until peas and sweet corn are warm through.

4) Add the Soy sauce and sweet chilli sauce to taste and stirfry for a further 5mins and then serve in a bowl.

This recipe is really easy and the beauty of it you can add any different vegtables and meats. If you like your food with more of a spicy kick why not add fresh chillies.

I sometimes cook this dish the night before put it in a plastic container and take to work as it microwaves well. This is also good if your craving Chinese food.

  

Saturday 17 August 2013

Spring/Summer empties

During the end of spring and most of the summer I have been collecting up empties and thought I would show and review these.

Firstly is the end of my Mac mineralize skin finish natural powder and I am so sad that this is gone because it lasted forever and I can't afford to repurchase it at the moment. I used the colour Medium and it set my foundation perfectly and did what it's supposed to and didn't clog up on my face. The texture is light and still covers nicely.


Staying with face products I also used up No7 Beautifully Matte foundation in the colour cool vanilla. I loved this it was thick to cover well and made my usally oily skin nice and matte. I have not brought this particular foundation again as it’s a bit thick for summer also, this foundation only has a SPF 15 and as the UK had a heat wave in July I wanted something with a higher SPF, however will definitely get it again in the winter.



Way back in May I stopped using my Super Extend Extreme mascara by Avon. I didn’t run out but it got that horrible old mascara smell (I don’t think anyone ever runs out of mascara before it smells). While I was using this mascara I liked it however when I started using my new mascara I realised the formula was pretty wet and it smudged a lot when I rubbed my eyes. I really liked the brush half the bristles were long and the others were short this helped a lot when curling my lashes and the brush really separated my lashes without making them look too clumpy and spidery.


Moving on to skin care the beginning of this month I ran out of my simply sensitive toner this is a Simple dupe from Boots. This toner is really refreshing and contains Aloe Vera which is soothing. I have already repurchased this and really like this product.


Also I ran out of my Balance Me Wonder Eye Cream this eye cream is really nice and is really good for brightening dark circles, however I do not like the smell and that goes with most of the Balance Me products I have tried whether this is because it’s a natural product I don’t no. The formula is nice and thick and melts in the skin nicely.


Going onto hair I have gone through a few bottles of everyday shampoo but havent saved them all but I use Alberto Balsam sun kissed raspberry and its very sweet and makes my hair feel nice and clean.

I also ran out of my Big shampoo from Lush I use this once a week to clarify my hair and I love it it takes out all the build up on my hair and makes it feel like it has more volume for the rest of the week. I have already brought this again and will keep buying until I find something I like equally as much.

For conditioner I have ran out of Aussies Mega Instant conditioner I love love love this conditioner it lightly conditions my hair and makes it smell awesome. I havent repurchased this yet as I am using Lush Veganese conditioner but after that has ran out I will be buying again.




I can now finally throw away this stuff and start collecting more yay!!!
 






Sunday 11 August 2013

Inspirations

I have done alot of reflecting this month as it was a year ago we had to move from our flat and become homeless for 3 and a half months.  Richard and I were going through a tough time to begin with waiting for test results ect.  However, through the bad times there were a few people some close to me and some who wouldn't know I even exsisted that inspired me to look on the bright side an see that it wasn't all bad. Here are 3 that come to mind.

My Grandma Anne is my main inspiration she pretty much made me who I am as stubborn and as fustrating she can be she is amazing.  I have lived with her twice in my life and last year was one of those times and in her way she brought me up and became one of the people who supported me through the difficult time. 


My Husband Richard is my rock without him life wouldn't be worth living he is the most loving, dopey, funny, affectionate and intellegent person I no. The way he copes with his socail problems is so awe inspiring and he never fails to make me smile and inspires me everyday to carry on with a smile.



 Lastly is someone I have never met or spoke to but I watch her youTube videos and have done for about a year her name is Jen and she has 3 youtube channels (myhousewifelife, busybeebuzz and organised Jen). The videos that inspire me is her daily Vlogs watching her day to day life last year was a very much needed breath of fresh air although we live in different country's and have completely different lives the way she interacts with her family and husband inspires me to be a better person and teaches me to appriciate my family more. And watching her Vlogs inspired me to start this blog. (I'm hoping i am not coming across as a weird stalker)

I hope one day I inspire someone as much as these people inspire me.

Tuesday 6 August 2013

July favorites

These favorites are going to be a bit short today as I have not brought anything new and I have been using the same products, however i do have a couple.
 
First up is somthing that loads of people have raved about but it is good. Its the stay matte powder from Rimmel.  This stuff is amazing it keeps my foundation on and stops my oily skin from being an issue. I got this in the colour natual though I will probably get the transparent one next time as I don't use it for coverage just for setting my foundation.


Next is doll'd up mascara from Seventeen in the colour black this is just about finished with as its starting to get that old mascara smell and going a bit dry, however it's still good. I like the formula its not too thick and the plastic curved wand separates my lashes without making them spidery. I also like it's staying power although its not waterproof it does last the whole day and I rub my eyes constantly and it dosn't smudge.


Lastly (told you this was going to be short) is a lipstick and lipgloss combination.  The lipstick is a Glossy box lipstick called Glossy Pink. This is a very creamy and does have a bit of natural shine but i add a FCUK lipgloss over the top it has slight shimmer in it and makes the colour a little less dull.



Saturday 27 July 2013

Quick life update

Not much blogging this week as life, decorating and health have got in the way.

Firstly Richard and a little help from his dad decorated the living room. Its gone from a dull, dark and depressing grey with a muddy brown feauture wall to having a nice coat of magnolia and a feature wall with floral wall paper with red flowers and brown and gold vines. The only before picture i have is when we 1st moved in last December.



We have wanted to decorate this room from the moment we saw it, however wedding and honeymoon came 1st so decoarating was paused and not many people invited round as the room was not very inviting.  Now the room is brighter and prettier and it just needs a few accents some cushions and flowers just to finish it off.



While my husband has been busy decorating I have been feeling rubbish my M.E has been playing up and going to work has been a struggle so spent the time off work in bed trying to feel better.

This weekend my dad has gone on holiday so we have two very specail dogs keeping us company we have Vodi a chocolate labradoodle and Lenin a beautiful red staffy both have so far been well behaved and have enjoyed running around in our long garden.

I have a couple of things to post in the next week I have been collecting empties and I got some samples in magazines that I want to review so hopfully some more posts this week health permitting.


Friday 19 July 2013

Mornings!!!

 
After being rudely awakened by some idiot cutting the grass at 7am this morning (who in there right mind wants to get out of bed at 7am let alone cut the grass!!!) I thought of a topic for my blog Mornings.
 
I am not a morning person, my husband is not a morning person I have to admit I am probably worse in the morning Rich can form sentences I cannot. It can take up to an hour for my body to feel human after a nights sleep. I blame my bed it’s the most comfy warm comforting object in our flat lying in it is like being hugged by baloo from the jungle book (wouldn’t that be awesome).
 
After years of having to get up early for shifts at the hospital you would have thought I had got used to it but no. Although I have changed roles completely and have more reasonable hours to work this does not make it any easier to get up I just don’t like getting out of bed.
 
An average work morning consists of the alarm going off at 0730 and Rich starting the waking me up process. He presses the snooze button every 7 minuets for the next hour then the fight commences. I walk to the bathroom at around 0830 with my eyes still shut banging into everything and splash cold water on my face (if this isn’t working I splash water on my face till it does). While I am doing the bathroom things of brushing my teeth and washing my face Rich is making breakfast and my lunch for work (he’s such a good husband) he usually gets back into bed at this point while I get on with putting my face on and he then turns into a hyena laughing at my screams because I have poked myself in the eye with my mascara or eyeliner (it happens every morning you would have thought I’d learnt). While this is happening breakfast is consumed and I go from looking night of the living death to a watery eyed more professional looking person. Clothes also happen at some point. I then every morning go through a panic and look for the 3 things I always loose phone, bus pass and wallet. Then run out of the door normally forgetting my lunch.
 
I wasn’t always this bad honest before I became a teenager I could get up early with a smile and love morning TV however post teenager I am still pretty grumpy.
 
So I leave you with this thought if humans were meant to get up early why did evolution make the ability leave us at puberty???

Thursday 18 July 2013

Our relationship story



I wanted to do a different type of Blog today I love reading and watching people talk about how they met and there relationship story so I wanted to write one.  This a longer post so if you don't like long posts there will be shorter ones soon.  
Richard and I (at the time of writing this) have been together for 4 and a half years. We met on the 18th of May 2008 I no the exact date as it was my 22nd birthday and was out with my family celebrating. Richard was out with a friend drowning his sorrows and apparently saw me in my far too short skirt bouncing around like an idiot. Me very very very drunk noticed him from the corner of my eye. He was tall with long dark hair wearing a long dark leather jacket phhoowwaahh I thought, so being drunk I went to talk to him. This I where my memory fades and when I woke up the next morning I has 2 photos on my phone. 1) of a long haired man and 2) of my cleavage (oopps).
 
excuse the bad quality it was 2008 after all
 
 I didnt take his number and I couldn't remember the name but remembered he was cute. Richard tells me he kept going back to the pub just in case I turned up but, i didnt't.

In the November of the same year Rich found me on facebook (he inists on it was me finding him) and we became really good friends though he had someone so becoming anything else wasnt going to happen.  In the march of the following year Rich split with his GF and on April the 7th we got together.

I think I fell in love with Rich in the August 2009 it was around the time Swine flu was flying around and everyone was suspected to have it no matter how many symptoms they had and this was us.  I came down with it first and Rich was close to follow. Two weeks of being quarenteened in Richs house I realised that we were perfect for each other anyone who could see me projectile vomit across a room and didnt run screaming is a keeper (i no to much info). During this time I needed to move out of my shared house and find somewhere to live. Not wanting to share with a bunch of people again i started looking for a 1 bed flat and after a couple of day of looking we agreed it would be a good idea for Rich to move with me. So September the 21st 2009 we moved into a attic flat.

 
 

This flat was perfect for all of a couple of months we soon found out that we hated immershan heated water, damp grew on walls at the speed of light and that I have a phobia of mice.  I worked as a health care assistant at the local hospital so when christmas came around i was working it all so while i worked rich went to his mums and we celebrated with curry and a luke warm bath in the evening.
 
We did eventually move out of the damp flat and straight into a equally damp flat but with less mice and at least a shower with hot water.  We only stayed here for the fixed tennacy 6 months and moved into our favorite flat.
 
 
 
 
Richard was turning 30 this year and we were looking at ways to celebrate it. Rich had never been out of the country so going on holiday was planned. Sitting one evening we decided visiting London and going to Euro Disney would be perfect so it was planned traveling up to London on the train explore London on the tube and travel to Euro Disney for 4 days and 3 nights then returning home. We found train fares cheaper for 1st class than normal class so whipped them up.  Disney was so fun it brought the child out in us both and gave Rich the perfect oppitunuity to propose. Though from what he said it wasnt easy proposing as I kept getting distracted by Disney things he eventrully got down on one knee on a mississippi river boat using my gran and grandads eternity ring it was magical.
 




We got back and started planning our perfect wedding and more importantly started saving.  This is when our year of bad luck started Christmas 2011 was going to be our first full Chrstmas together I had Christmas off work and we had saved to make it just right however, on the 18th of december Rich started to become ill and after 4 days of suffering he got addmitted to hospital with a burst appendix he almost died. It was the worst 2 weeks of our lives and we still think about it now. When he came home we celebrated christmas and got on with our lives . However only 2 short months later i came down with Labryinthitus (no idea if thats spelt right) and never really recovered and in the April i collasped and got sent into hospital after numerus tests I got sent home. Months and months of MRI scans and blood tests I got diagnosed with ME. Also during this time our flat got put up for sale and we were told to move so sofa surfed for a few months until out current flat came about.
 
Life calmed down and I got a new job with alot less hours and restarted planning our wedding which took place on the 15th March 2013.
 
 
 


We went on honeymoon in May and went to Walt disney world for 2 amazing weeks.
 



 
 I have no idea what life will throw at us next we want to have a family and see what happens!!
 

 


Sunday 14 July 2013

BBQ Saturday


Had an awesome day in the sun yesterday with my family. Started off with me and my sister Gemma playing cards in the sun then my husband joined us for more merriment and sun loving.  My dad and step mum came home and did a wonderful BBQ and we spent the rest of the evening talking and listening to reggae music a perfect Saturday evening!! Here are some pics of our day. 

Friday 12 July 2013

Asos experiance

Hello!
 
I just wanted to write a quick note about how impressed I am with my Asos order I haven't even recieved it yet and I am singing there praises. I ordered from them yesterday at 1.40pm and they keep sending me updates on where my parcel is in the delivery process. At the moment its currently in Exeter and I have had a text saying it will be here between 1.45pm and 2.45pm just a mere 24hrs after I ordered and because of the current sales I got the next day delivery for free.  We will see if the amazement continues when it gets delievered but I am pretty impressed so far.
 
BTW im not being paid to say this its all my own opinions.
 
Thats all folks!!


Thursday 11 July 2013

Mini Primark Haul

 
 
Hello!!
I can't go into Primark without picking up more than what I intend to buy. This time I needed some new shoes for work and came out with a few extra bits so thought I would do a short haul.
Firstly they have changed the layout of our Primark so this gave me a good excuse to look around the shop and not head straight down to the shoes (well that’s what I told my husband hehe). We went to the accessories first and after 20 minutes of looking at all the neon necklaces I found the earring section and couldn’t leave without a few pairs.  After picking up about 5 packets I settled on the cream collection (the only thing cream was the pretty rose studs). After looking at the different packets of earring for ages I had to pick something up else I would have just looked suspicious.
 
My favorite's are the bows and roses.
 
While also in the accessories section I picked up a makeup bag, just a small one to fit in my handbag and it was so cute I couldn’t leave it there.
 
sorry for being blurry I can't get used to my camera

 
After doing my usual looking through the pyjamas and finding nothing in my size (have Primark stopped doing bigger sizes altogether?) we headed down to the shoes. It was the usual mayhem, shoes chucked everywhere, no place to sit to try on and hundreds of school kids. I must have tried on about 20 pairs of shoes before I settled on these and they were only £5.00, bargain!
 


And just when my husband thought it was all over and I couldn’t possibly take him anywhere else in the store he got dragged to the home ware department where I found 2 cute looking and sweet smelling candles which look perfect on my new dressing table.
 
 
 
And that's my mini Primark haul. I am getting an Asos delivery tomorrow, I took advantage of their 70% sale so if it all fits there might be another haul blog coming soon!
 
Thats all folks!!

Monday 8 July 2013

New dressing table!!!

I have a new dressing table and I have no idea how to organise it!!!  After all these years of using shoe boxes and makeup bags I now have a space just for my girly makeup bits.  What I have done so far? Well I have put my hair dryer, straightners and curling wand in a drawer and scattered all my stuff on top and started writting this.

Is there a specail way to organise your makeup?  Or should I just dump it all in a drawer like all the rest of my stuff? My house is hardly minimalist I like clutter and knick knacks but do I want all my stuff on the top in neat lines. This is hardly a major life decision its just exciting having new things to play with.

Tuesday 2 July 2013

June Anti-favorites

After writing about what I favoured yesterday I thought I would write about what I didnt like this month. These are my own opinions not influenced by anyone.
 
Firstly soap and glory glad hair day conditioner. This conditions well but my god it smells funky. I am not good at describing smells but its a kinda fruity soap smell (thats the worst smell description ever oopps) and my husband thinks it smells like old ladies bathroom (not that good at describing smells either hehe). I have used it a couple of times and like how it conditions without weighing my hair down, I just cant get over the smell. 
 
 
 
In yesterdays blog I said how I loved the Chocomania collection from bodyshop, however there is a product in the collection I didnt like and that is the Sugar body scrub. Firstly it smells too sickly sweet and then when you use it on your skin it feels like you have melted a chocolate Hobnob on yourself and if you get it on anything it stains. As a scrub I feel it's not abrasive enough and has a weird oily texture.
 
 
 
As I also said in the blog yesterday I'm starting to line the top of my eyes and at the beginning of the month brought a couple of eyeliners. I brought this one from seventeen, its called 3-way liquid eyeliner. It has a weird tip with 3 prongs and the idea of it (or what the lady in boots told me) is to dot the lid using the prongs and then join the dots. I can see the logic just I find that putting it into practice is almost impossible, trying to get the dots in a line is hard enough then using it to join them isn't easy either. Maybe its just my shakey eyelids or my own cack-handedness but I couldn't use it.
 
 
 
The next product I really tried to like. Its the simply sensitive eye makeup remover from Boots. It removes your makeup pretty well but it's just so oily it's like cleaning your eyes with olive oil (not that I've tried) and even my toner has troubles getting the oilyness off your eyes. It is a real shame because I really like the collection from Boots.
 
 
 
This spring/summer I have been trying to find a foundation that's light with good coverage so while out in America I bought Rimmel perfect match in the shade classic ivory. I dont like this product for 2 reasons 1) it's a bottle that you pour the foundation out and you can't judge properly how much you need so I waste it everywhere and 2) within about an hour of wearing it's either clung to every bit of dry skin or disappeared showing the redness and split veins I have. This is a shame because I really wanted to like it and tried lots of different ways of applying it.
 
 
 
And lastly a nail varnish. It's a Missguided nail varnish in the shade Missmatched. It's a beautiful bright orange colour and looked really good with my skin tone. The problem I had with it is that it took forever to dry and then only lasted a day without chipping and I wasnt even doing much with my hands for it to chip. 
 
 
 
So this is my first attempt at a "Products I didn't like" blog. Of course everyone is different and someone else may have different opinions about these products, but for me I was left disappointed by them and probably won't purchase them again unless they are part of a pack that has products in that I do like (like the Chocomania scrub was).
 
Thanks for reading!