Weekly Gratitude

11th - 17th April
- thank you to the Easter holidays for allowing me to get so much done this week
- thank you to JS Photography for giving me and Chris a free photoshoot so he could update his portfolio, he took some lovely pictures!
- thank you to my Grandad, he is always there for me
- thank you to ASDA for thei £1 easter eggs, I have an addiction :/
- thank you to the doctors who, for once, didn't make me feel like I was wasting their time
- thank you to my savings, I will actually have some spending money for this holiday!
- thank you for bigwardrobe and ebay, I have soo much stuff I need to get rid of!
- thank you to the people on ePhotozine for being so nice about my photos
- thank you to my followers for not giving up on me even though I've hardly posted anything recently

Thanks for reading! xxx

Weekly Gratitue (Late!)

This weeks gratitude is a couple of days late as my laptop hasn't been connecting to the internet, so irritating! So i'm sorry about that, hopefully back on track now :)

4th-10th April 2011
- thank you to the easter holidays for finally arriving, a much needed break!
- thank you to the sun for shining for nearly a week now!
- thank you to motivation, for making me get up at 7am on Sunday morning to go for a 4 mile walk and start the day off properly!
- thank you to the man in the watch repair shop for not charging a ridiculous amount to get a new battery and for being so friendly!
- thank you to my mum, for giving me so many lifts this week since my fuel tank is empty :(
- thank you to ebay for finally fixing the problem I had with people buying my ipod and not paying, 3 times in a row!!

Thanks for reading! xxx

March Haul

I've been trying not to spend too much this month, so apart from essentials all I really got was a bag, a photo frame and a new nail polish. Quite boring I'm sorry guys! Anyway, there's still quite a lot of it so instead of doing one very long, tedious post I'll spin it out and do a few products a day, that's a bit easier to handle I think :)

Products:
Boots expert cuticle and nail moisturiser: £4.09
Boots expert nail strength solution: £4.09
Garnier comforting cleansing milk (make up remover): £2
L'Oreal infallible foundation: £9.99
Maybelline dream LUMItouch highlighting concealer: £6.99
Neutrogena oil-free moisturiser: £4.07
Revlon Sunshine Sparkle nail polish: £6.49

Hessian bag £28 GLAM Originals
LOVE frame £8 GLAM Originals

My mum does a Jamie at Home party plan business and has a friend who does a similar thing but with GLAM Originals, basically, they host parties at peoples houses and show them their products, usually with a few discounts or freebies thrown in, they're fab! The two of them hold parties for each other and my mum recently had one, I love their stuff, their stock has expanded so much since the last time they had one, it used to be just jewellery and shoes but now they've got clothes, accessories, home stuff and all sorts. I am an absolute freak when it comes to photo frames and got ridiculously excited when I saw she had some I couldn't choose! My mum split her commission with me and these are the two products I bought:

The picture frame is so cute, it's on my windowsill now and I love the way our heads in the picture each go into the bumps of the heart, well planned ;). The bag is lovely, I'm not entirely sure what it's made of, I think it's hessian but it smells like horse hair! Yeugh. It looks good though, and is pretty big so it's practical, whoop! It does up with a toggle which I think is cute aswell.
I'd definitey urge you to check out the GLAM website, as far as I know I think they only ship to the UK but I could be mistaken, they've got all sorts of lovely products!

Thanks for reading! xxx

OPI San-Tan-Tonio

I know, I know, not exactly a brand new shade but believe it or not, I am not a huge OPI fan. They're great but just far too pricey in my opinion :/. Anyway, I recieved this yesterday when I got home and was very excited to put it on! It's from their Texas collection and is actually only my second ever OPI, and since my other one is very glittery (Shimmer and Simmer), this is the first actual colour I own by them!

I love this colour! I suppose it's a tan colour, hence the name, but really it makes me think of like coffee or mocha or something. The pictures aren't really that accurate :( they sort of make it look a bit yellowy.

I really like the OPI brushes, they're sort of flat which I find easier to work with and the lids make them easy to hold. This was two coats but could probably do with three if you're fussy. It's started to chip, but that doesn't really bother me as I like to change my nail colour quite often.

I think this has converted me, I'd definitely consider getting more OPIs, only off ebay though! 

Thanks for reading! xxx

Sticky Toffee Cake

Last weekend I made a sticky toffee cake from the recipe here. It was a bit difficult converting the measurements into british ones, as we don't tend to use 'cups', but luckily it all turned out okay! Here's some pictures:

The cake itself was so fluffy and light, the perfect texture and tasted delicious, I don't like dates so instead of putting them in I used small chunks of fudge. As lovely as the cake was, my favourite part was the caramel sauce, I really didn't think it was going to turn out since I wasn't completely sure if I'd converted the measurements right, but I tasted it whilst it was in the saucepan and was literally lost for words, all I could manage was 'mmmm!' haha. It was so yummy, I would recommend serving the sauce separately in a jug so people can pour their own amount on, as the cake soaks it up quite quickly.

So thankyou very much Em Wampach for this delicious recipe, I'll definitely be making it again, in fact, we're celebrating Mothers Day this sunday as we were too busy at the weekend and I'm going to be cooking a three course meal for my Mum and Grandma, this will be the dessert!

If any of you guys try this recipe out she would love you to send her some pictures :) thanks for reading! xxx

Sympathy?

If I was an organised person I would have a few posts on reserve for days like today so that I had something to blog. Unfortunately, I am in no way an organised person and so since I am not feeling up to doing a proper blog post, I thought I would have a little moan instead :)

Today was really poo, I started to get some really severe stomach pains in my English lesson that kept coming and going and eventually got so bad I had to be excused. Luckily, I texted Chris and he left his lesson so he could take me home as I really wasn't feeling up to driving. By the time I got home I was in so much pain I couldn't stop crying, then to top it off I started to get some sickness as well, poor me!! :(
This is so random and I've never had it before, I had no idea what it is, a lot of people have been suggesting food poisoning but I can't think of anything I've eaten that could have caused it :/. I rang the doctors but they are so unhelpful, they make you feel like you're wasting their time and unless you're on your deathbed, they really couldn't care less.

Luckily it's eased off enough for me to write this blog post (aren't you lucky?!) and i've managed to catch up on all the blogs I follow from over the weekend which cheered me up a bit :)

But I do still need sympathy because my Mumma is out, Chris had to go home and i'm all aloney on my owny and to top it off my cat has just brought a baby rabbit in. Yes, that's right, a RABBIT. How on earth he managed to catch it I have no idea, I can deal with mice but not rabbits. I had to watch him kill it too because he wouldn't let it go. It's so cute, it really upsets me when he brings things in but I suppose cats will be cats :(.

Ill people shouldn't have to deal with these things! Sympathy please!! xxx

Weekly Gratitude

28th April - 3rd March

-thank you to my employers for finally paying me, shopping time!

-thank you to my teachers for giving me a good report, especially my music tech teacher who gave me a C when I was expecting an E! 

-thank you to Liquid for their £1 entry and £1 cocktails last night, had a great night out and only spent £7!

-thank you to my friends and boyfriend for buying me drinks, very cheap night out!

-thank you to my school for being so organised and helpful in exam time (not sarcasm btw!) and printing off a revision timetable for us all to fill in and a sheet of advice and tips. I need these things to be organised!!

-thank you to all the people I follow, I love reading your blogs they are such a great way to kill time!/not do revision and homework.

-thank you to all the shops in Cirencester, I managed to find my best friend some last minute birthday presents the day before her birthday which I forgot about :( and she loved them all :D

-thank you to Chris for making me a fry up this morning, such a good hangover cure and of course is not unhealthy in the slightest...

-thank you to orange juice for being so yummy and amazing!

Thanks for reading! xxx

Nina Ultra Pro - Purple-Xing

Purple-Xing is literally AMAZING. I love this polish, it's definitely my favourite. I cannot get over how much of a stunner it is! I've posted so many pics because there's just so much to it that it can't be captured very easily, the very last close up picture is a good one but there's just so many sparkles in it all different colours, it's gorgeous! I'm babbling though, sorry.
On my index and middle finger I put on some top coat, just to see the difference it would make since it seems quite matte, although i'm not sure if that's just because there's so much glitter, I think I prefer it with the SV.
The polish is quite thick but still needs a couple of coats just to even out the coverage, it's really not difficult to apply though, I literally cannot think of a bad word to say about this polish, it's fab!!

 

So did you guys get anyone with an April Fools? A few of my friends told their parents they were pregnant as a joke! I have to say I did consider doing the same but I didn't want to be the cause of my mothers death, or mine depending on how she took it... Haha :)

Thanks for reading! xxx