9th Day of Blogmas

It's the 9th day of Blogmas!! It's freezing cold this morning... (wah!)
So last night I was out in Revolutions and had a lovely meal with my family! Sadly my sister couldnt join us as she works in retail too and was working till 11pm!! That should be outlawed in my eyes.
I had a flipping lovely pulled pork burrito and chips and a yummy Aspalls cider. No dessert as it was waaaay to filling. :)

Today i'm just busy working and I plan to write out the rest of my Christmas cards and wrap more presents (Eeeee! thats probably a fav of christmas is too see what ive got for people and to think how happy they will be opening my gifts).

I think whilst I wrap my exciting gifts i'll be enjoying a Mulled cider, I had a cheeky one on Saturday night but forgot to blog about it and take photo's so i'll try to take some tonight and then post about it in the next couple of days!

I STILL have no idea what im going to do at Newyears... I hate having to decide this kind of thing, which is why when I was younger I used to throw huge house parties and have everyone over. Althought i'll never miss the Newyears day clean up... *shudders* I really hope I can pull up some photo's to show you what messy friends I have! ;)
Got to be honest, I'm glad I don't do those any more!!

Hope your all up to something fun!

8th Day of Blogmas

Hey guys! We started Christmas in our house yesterday so I thought I would share where we got to so far!

(plus add in a couple of selfies for good measure!)

So in picture number 1 & 2 im in a *ahem* vintage New Look dress from a few years back and a Tatty Devine necklace <3 :) :) And in the background you can see our mantle piece where we have a tiny sparkly light up Christmas tree and a few Christmas cards...

In the 3rd and final picture I thought id show the display without my good self in the picture, its still a little sad and empty but that's ok as in a few days it will (hopefully!) be full to the brim of cards and decorations and will be festive :) I'm pretty tempted to buy some fake candles to put on there as they would look so cute!!

I'm going out for a meal tonight with my family so am looking forward to not cooking and having a good catch up with them all. It's just too busy this time of year!

Have a good night guys!

7th day of blogmas

Hello!! it's the 7th day of Blogmas and i'm sat  Blogging and listening to the ultimate Christmas album... The Destinys Child 8 Days of Christmas album <3 so obviously unlike how grinch like I have been im definately getting into the Christmas spirit!!

I have had an incredibly lazy weekend and apart from work and good food shopping at Waitrose I've not even left the house!
We now have a new housemate which is actually my second landlady as the two sisters own half the house each, I've met her before as she's been to visit a few times and is lovely. Do a welcome addition to the house! :)

Im in a quandary (good word) about Newyears eve as I can either go out with my housemates to a very, very local bar or I can go to a house get together on the otherside of town... Waahhh what do I do??

As I've been going on  about Black forest hot chocs to everyone I thought it would be amazing to attempt my own to save a few £'s....

Fail! Abort! No... 

just no...

it was by far one of the most disgusting ideas I've ever had... don't do it guys! I was not just looking for red berry flavor... It needed to be cherry I think to actually be nice...



lesson learnt! :)

6th day of Blogmas

Hello! So its day 6 of Blogmas, and im proud of myself for keeping up posting eveyday so far! -I am probably going to stop self congratulating myself for doing this, before you all get sick of it.

Any way Ive gone for another fashion gift idea post today in the form of STICKERS!! I mean who doesnt love stickers?? It's the school kid in me who loved getting them as a well done from the teacher for reading well and spelling... In fact im obsessed with all stationary and love having an excuse to buy more.

As Boots is really close to work ill often pop in on my lunch break which is why it features so heavily in my blogs. So in a I cant believe youve goneto Boots again way, I went there and spotted these...

The first product ive gone for is SCENTED melon nail stickers, which are not only super cute - easy to use and practical. But they smell like water melon which is a really nice scent! YUM!

I am wondering how long the scent lasts for and how useful it is, but either way im loving these cuties <3

They are a great price at £4 a pack, and from experiance using other nail stickers in the range they last a decent amount of time too! (Even though im terrible for getting bored and picking at my nail polish and wraps!).

The next sticker set is shoe stickers!! Why not jazz up a boring cheapy pair of trainers (Primarni) and mix and match with your outfit?!

You get 3 different designs to use and from the packet they look really nice, I would love to use them on a basic pair of trainers ive had for a few years from New Look, as I never wear them as I own much more exciting patterned shoes... So these will breath life into them nicely!

*Disclaimer* I am actually buying alot of these gift ideas for other people and not just getting loads for me!! Haha!

5th Day of Blogmas

Hello guys! Yesterday I felt very productive and I decided to go out shopping to get wrapping paper and the last few little gifts I need to get for my family and friends...

I didn't quite finish as I need to receive some online gifts and buy some alcohol for my family, BUT I did really well and even managed to stagger home carrying it all!!

I then treated myself to a warming bath (and used a bonfire bath bomb) which was lovely and relaxing. And then out I went again to get a really important item... My FIRST black forest hot chocolate!!!  OMG its gorgous <3 <3 I only wish I'd gone for a massive cup
and not a tiny one :(

After relaxing for a bit I grabbed a couple of C.Ds (yes I'm old skool) and started to wrap all my gifts for my family! It took ages!...And I still have a huge pile of gifts to wrap. Although I did write up my Christmas cards

4th Day of Blogmas

Hello guys!  It's the 4th day of Blogmas today, are you feeling festive yet? When do you get to put up the tree? We wont be putting ours up until maybe a week or so before Christmas day so i'll have to wait a lot longer for that fun!!

Although actually putting up the tree isnt all that great, it's all about the decorating!! :)

So for all those lucky, lucky people who are about to embrace the magic of Christmas im going to put together a couple of  tree themes...

(Just a disclaimer i'm going to say fairy lights are essential so I wont picture those...)

1. Rainbow fun. Amazing colours and its all about kitsch and fun, so make like a Chameleon and go wild with colour! Paperchase had the BEST selection and alot of its on a 3 for 2, so excellent value for your money and it looks so good too!

2. A more classic look with a Winter wonderland theme. This look is best with gold, silver and a pop of black and white (basically any excuse to have penguins on your tree!).

Paperchase and Debenhams had the best selection for this look with the star filled baubles and polar bear decorations.

3rd Day of Blogmas

Hey guys!

WOW! I've made it to the 3rd day in a row, I am so proud of myself (!!!) how are you finding these?

Well any way back to Blogmas, I thought today I would share a selection of my favorite Christmas songs. It's probably going to be a fairly short list as ive mentioned before im a retail worker so I get very sick and tired of Christmas songs as they tend to be on repeat every hour whilst im working and work never seems to get a different C.D ever!!

1. Fairy tale of Newyork -By the Pogues, who are easily one of my favorite bands ever any way and its a great grumpy sing-a-long song that I always get a small kick out of when it sneaks past the work censors...

2. Driving home for Christmas by Chris Rea. -This never fails to get me in a Christmassy mood, it makes me really excited when its on Christmas eve!

3. Jingle bell rock -Because of mean girls :)

4. Christmas lights- By Coldplay as its a really good different tone and again I haven't heard it a million times over and over.

5. Destiny's Child 8 days of Christmas album -I'm just sticking the whole album here as its a modern classic.  I remember when it came out at college and we had it on in class and we were all singing along as obviously Destinys child can do no wrong!


And errr I cant really think of any others I would choose to put on at home, although im sure there are plenty more classics id pick...


Lets call this an unfinished list then! :)