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

Saturday, 3 January 2015

December Favourites

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE, how is the new year treating everyone? I hope you've had a great Christmas holidays but now its a new year and time to be strict with myself and blogging. So as my welcome to 2015 post, I will share with you my December favourites.

So just above is a picture of all my favourites from last month. Some of these were bought by myself or given to me by friends as Christmas presents. So lets start off with the most obvious:
1. My drum kit in the background - this was given to me by my mum for Christmas and I can honestly say it was up there with my favourite present. Ever since seeing The Summer Set in November I've become obsessed with watching people play the drums. I told my mum I wanted a drum kit and she didn't fail, she bought me a desk size one. Im not good at playing one bit, but it was just a little present to make me laugh.
2. My eye shadows - oh my gosh, I am so in love with this palette. This is the BH cosmetics 120 colour palette 3rd edition (such a mouthful.) I did ask for this, for Christmas and I have such a bond with it. Sad, I know. But the pigmentation of these colours are amazing and there is SO many colours to choose from. From winter colours to summer colours. I was slightly disappointed with it as when it was posted, it hit the floor and a few of the colours were cracked, that was easily solved just by pressing them back down into their pans. Other than that I love it!!!
3. Phone case - below my eye shadows there is a blue phone case which my mum gave to me. It has the lyrics to "Crazy Girls" by Paramore on it, in the form of messages. Paramore is my all time favourite band and to add to my merch collection is always a good thing.
4. Lipstick- next to that on the right is my go to lipstick for the winter and that is the Rimmel lipstick from the Kate Moss range in the colour 107. Its a dark red/plum colour and it just goes so well with a nice red scarf in the winter. The only downside to it that it can come off quite easily in my opinion so I pair it with a lip coat, which burns like hell.
5. False nails- these nails were given to me by one of my best friend for a Christmas present and that is the elegant touch nails in the glitter collection called shimmer and shine. I wore these nails for Christmas as I usually get them professionally done but I didn't want to waste an opportunity to wear these gorgeous nails. Thank you Eve my darling x x x
6. Nail varnish - when my falsies have come to the end of their use, I've fell in love with painting my nails black. I'm never usually a fan of black nails on myself but I have been changed. Its a plain black nail varnish that I got in a nail set for Christmas from my auntie. It goes with everything I wear so its perfect.
7. Body butter - behind the nail products you can see a pink tub, that is soap and glorys righteous butter. It has been such a god send in December as my skin gets really dry and chapped so I applied this every night before bed and sometimes throughout the night and it made my skin amazingly soft. It was given to my by my bestfriend as she had SO many tubs of this, its unreal.
8 Conditioner - next is my kitoko advanced hair therapy conditioner. This is a conditioner made especially for dandruff/dry scalps. I made my hair feel so soft, me and my mum were sat playing with it for ages. It wasn't expensive at all, it was only 99p! It can be for men or women but it does smell like men's aftershave, which I'm okay with. I would highly recommend it.
9. Cleansing face wash - another addition to my skin care routine is this cleansing face foam. It comes from the same brand as my exfoliating face scrub "tea tree." I use this after I've exfoliated my face in the bath and in the morning before I put my makeup on, it really has made a difference to my spots.
10. Fan journal - This book was a Christmas present off my mum because it is Paramore and they are my life. But this book is just put together mainly from accounts that other fans have written about what paramore have done for them, or how they first found paramore. Its nice to look at how much one band can mean so much to one person and their stories behind it. This book is called "Paramore Decade 2004-2014" by Jeff Torkel. It is such a nice read.
11. Jewellery box - THE LAST PRODUCT. You are all probably grateful, I admit this was a long post. Anyway, this jewellery box was needed so much. I have so much jewellery but nowhere to keep it. so this box has been a life saver. on the inside it has different compartments for rings, necklaces and bracelets etc. It is just a fake leather bound box with a small love heart clasp on the front so it goes with the colour scheme of my room!

FINALLY, its the end. Sorry this post went on forever, but I had a lot of favourites from this month. Thanks for taking the time to read this and leave a comment what you would like to see next and/or what your favourites were this month. Love you all.

Ciao xo

Sunday, 21 December 2014

Being Thankful

HO HO HELLO EVERYONE, sorry that its been a while, I guess I've not quite got the hang of blogging on a set basis. Anyway, Christmas is literally around the corner and I'm probably more excited than a little child. But I just wanted to talk about something that I've been mulling over in my head recently, and that is how some people aren't thankful. Personally I am not the slightest religious so I do not celebrate Christmas for the original reason but I see this time of year to be thankful. As I'm English we do not celebrate thanksgiving but I see Christmas as being a time for this. I'm am hugely thankful for my family, friends and all the opportunities I have had throughout my life time. This is why its my FAVOURITE time of the year but I cant understand why people can be so selfish to not be grateful for what they get. Some people are all about materialistic goods and if they have the latest designer clothing but that isn't what its about. Its about being with family and for the religious people out there, its to celebrate the birth of Christ. I'm pretty sure we can all be materialistic sometimes, especially when you get socks for Christmas, like "wow, some socks. I love them!!" But remember, some people don't even get that. So all I'm trying to say is be thankful for everything you get because there are people out there who don't get as much as you do. You and I are so lucky compared to these people. I'm not going to rant any longer. I hope you have a Merry Christmas and have a great time in what ever holiday you are celebrating!!:) Leave your favourite thing about the holiday season in the comments below.

Ciao xo

Friday, 12 December 2014

Snowman soup

Hey guys, guess who is back? ME!!! Its been such a crazy week but everything is now back to normality, hopefully. So as I said in my last post after all my mocks and exam was done I would throw Christmas in your face. So, here it is. This is just a cute little idea for gifts I've found if you like creative, meaningful presents or if you haven't got a lot of money at the moment. Here is the recipe for SNOWMAN SOUP.

Its not as disgusting as it sounds, I promise. Its also not melted ice cream in a bowl which my granddad thought it was. All you need is;
  • cellophane cone bags, you can get these from amazon in different colours or sizes (I got large ones,)
  • Hot chocolate powder, any of your choice,
  • Mini marshmallows and I added sneaky smarties,
  • Wire ties,
  • Ribbons in Christmassy patterns,
  • string of some sort,
  • Tags, homemade or pre made,
  • scissors,
  • Candy canes,
  • A spoon for the hot chocolate,
  1. Start to spoon your powder into your cones, enough for a mug of hot chocolate, tie this off with a wire tie and cut off the excess after the tie.
  2. Place this into another cone bag, this will stop any of your marshmallows from getting chocolate powder all over them. Pour your marshmallows in and any other little bits you want to add. Tie this off again with your wire ties and you've got the basis of your snowman soup.
  3. Now you want to tie a piece of ribbon around the top with your tag on and a cute little message on.
  4. Add your Christmas ribbon around and tie it in a cute little bow. Place a candy cane through your ribbon and TAA DAA. Your snowman soup is complete.

That is it, not too complicated is it? I really enjoyed making these and cant wait to give them out. They are just so cute and really thoughtful. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and tell me if you want to see more. If you decide to make these, please show me by leaving a picture in the comments
13 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS

Ciao xo