A New Year week in photos

Fireworks / Curled hair / Charlie / Chocs! / Turkey curry / MUA Palettes / New hair products / Possible new look for 2014? / New notebook and diary

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So it's officially 2014! I've already been back at work for two days and have had as many takeaways in as many days. Oops.

It feels like forever ago that we were watching the fireworks at midnight but it really was only on Tuesday, or technically Wednesday. Like the past three years or so I spent the evening at Vince's parents house, tucking into some yummy, yummy food. We watched the fireworks and Vince's dad even let some off that he had too. I curled my hair especially for the occasion using my Babyliss Curl Secret.

I'd watched a few videos on Youtube of people styling their hair with it and they all made it look so easy but I found it pretty difficult and my hair kept getting stuck in the automatic barrel thing. It was a bit frightening! Anyway, I managed it eventually and my hair did stay in tact for quite a long time!

I didn't start the New Year off in the best way actually as when I parked the car on NY Eve I didn't realise I had torn a hole in the tyre due to hitting the curb so when Vince and I drove home at around 1.30am it was loosing air by the second. By the time we got home it was completely flat and I had to call my dad in the morning to help me fix it. Unfortunately I needed a new tyre so it was a pretty expensive NY to be honest! I should probably just learn to park properly so it doesn't happen again!

On Thursday I was back at work so I guess things have properly gone back to normal now. I now know what day it is and the Christmas tree and all of the decorations have come down. Now it's just regular old January. Boo!

Vince had the day off yesterday so we managed to get our food shopping done. What a thrilling life we lead, eh? We actually also popped to Matalan to check out the sale and I picked up a lovely new jacket! Hopefully I'll be able to feature it on the blog soon.

Today I've spent the morning doing the cleaning and have now settled down for some blogging. I think next weekend I may venture to Bristol to spend my vouchers. I have a £50 Primark voucher burning a hole in my pocket!

How had your week been?

A Christmassy week in photos

Christmas presses / Christmas Eve dinner! / Mum's Christmas tree / Christmas Day table / Vince playing with his new present / Neals Yard goodies / Daisy by Marc Jacobs / Coin purse / More goodies / Daisy / Goodies from work / Soup mugs / Candles! / Nail polishes / Lovely Diary and Notebook / New phone! / No7 goodies! / Mum's dinner

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Is it just me or has this week completely flown by? Not fair!

On Monday I had work and it seemed to be the slowest day ever! I was off from Tuesday and spent most of the day cleaning the house from top to bottom. It took me hours and hours. I also attempted my traditional mince pies, which failed massively. I'm not really sure what went wrong as I've made them perfectly for the past two years but this time they just went horribly wrong. Don't think I'm going to bother in future!

On Christmas day we had to wake up pretty early as Vince had work at 7.30am. We got up around 6am and opened up all of our lovely presents. Vince got me some great goodies, including a new iPhone 5C! I'm a lucky girl! After that I got myself dressed and ready to head to my mum's. My sister, her boyfriend and my niece and nephew came round in the morning and it was great watching them open their presents, although Oscar is only three months so he couldn't really open them himself. Daisy got thoroughly spoilt with lots of lovely gifts, her favourite was definitely a Robofish! They must be the latest craze or something…

I haven't lived at my mums for more than a year and a half now so unsurprisingly by the end of the day I was sneezing non-stop, probably due to the dog. So by the end of the day I felt pretty awful and just wanted to get home to bed. I did have a nice day though and absolutely stuffed my face with food.

On Boxing Day Vince and I went to his parents for lunch, which was lovely. I do enjoy food the most about this time of year. Well, I enjoy food the most about any time of year really. Talking of food… Vince's family went to my family's house on Friday night for dinner and my mum made ridiculous amounts of food! It was all so good and it turned out to be a really nice night. Something we should definitely do more often. I'm looking forward to New Year's Eve as we'll be going to Vince's parents again this year. It's become a bit of a tradition now and his mum makes loads of yummy food! On Thursday I'll be back at work - I can't believe how fast it is coming around. Next weekend I'm thinking of going on a bit of a shopping trip as I have a couple of vouchers to spend, including a £50 for Primark! Eek!

There's not many posts to catch up on this week as I had a bit of a quiet one blogging wise but make sure you check out my review of W7's 'In The Buff' Palette HERE. Great Naked3 palette dupe!

A pre-Christmas week in photos

Sparkly nails / Derren Brown tickets arrived! / Naked palette dupe? / Sparkly eyeshadow! / Delicious lunch at Bella Italia / Heisenberg mug!

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I can't believe how close it is to Christmas already. This week has flown by and this weekend has just disappeared in flash. I'm only in work tomorrow and then I have nine days off, hurrah!

On Monday myself, Vince and our two friends from college decided to take part in pub quiz at our local. We had no idea it would be SO busy. There were zero tables and we ended up sitting upstairs for the first half of the quiz so we couldn't hear anything! We eventually moved to standing on the stairs just to hear the questions, it was so frustrating! Unfortunately we didn't win. There's a surprise, but it was fun anyway!

I've had a pretty busy week this week actually. On Wednesday I popped to my Nan and Grandad's for dinner as I haven't seen them in ages and I wanted to drop their Christmas presents off as I won't see them before Christmas now. Dinner was a delicious casserole type dish with mash and green beans followed by Bakewell Tart. Yum!

On Thursday after work I went out for a Thai meal with my colleagues. It was really yummy and gave me another chance to gobble up some tempura. I'm loving it lately. I want to try and make my own but I think I'll wait until the New Year. I also had a good old Thai Green Curry, which was delicious, followed by mango ice cream!

I've done quite well with eating out this week! Vince and I went to Southampton yesterday for a little day trip and ended up eating lunch at Bella Italia, which again, was delicious. Not sure why we decided to go to Southampton really but we haven't been back since leaving Uni and thought we'd have a bit of a day out. We had some Christmas shopping to do but it was SO busy and the weather was awful. I managed to pick up a few bits and pieces but am still going to have to pop out on Christmas Eve to get more.

As I mentioned I'm working tomorrow and am then off. I'm planning on popping to town on Tuesday and making some mince pies! It's become a bit of a tradition for me to make mince pies and last year I made the pastry myself too so I must be getting better. This year I'm going to attempt traditional mince pies as well as pies with apple and orange zest and pies with a little tiny hint of cranberry. We'll see how they turn out!

Are you baking anything for Christmas this year? Did you catch all of this week's posts?

I featured Kiko Cosmetic's new Longlasting Stick Eyeshadow set. It's the perfect Christmas gift!

I also popped up an outfit post that's been sat in my drafts for quite some time. Check out my New Look cardigan and peter-pan collar top.

Stuck for a last minute Christmas gift for him? Check out my Gift Guide.

It's been a little while coming but I eventually got around to posting about my Clothes Show Live haul.

And last but by no means least, I reviewed the very sparkly Rimmel Space Dust in 'Moon Walking'.


Just quickly before I go - check out my little interview on Bonjour Blogger!

A speedy week in photos

Pretty Christmas tree / Roast dinner! / Lush haul! / Skittles! / Barry M haul / Elemis goodies / Models Own haul / Ciate goodies! / Clothes Show Live shopping! / Ciate advent calendar!

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Ahh my week off has gone so quickly! I feel like I didn't really get much done. I was planning on taking lots of blog photos and getting lots of posts scheduled but that kind of went out of the window unfortunately.

On the plus side I spent quite a lot of the week with Vince and his work was surprisingly quiet this week, which is lucky. We managed to get a bit of Christmas shopping done and also did a lot of watching of Breaking Bad! I'm absolutely loving it at the moment and we're already on the second series. Unlike lots of other TV series the episodes are really easy to watch and don't drag on for ages so we're speeding through it.

I also went along to The Clothes Show Live on Monday with a friend. I'm hoping to dedicate an entire post to everything I bought on the day, with a bit of a more indepth 'review' so I'll briefly mention here that I had a good time shopping! The actual fashion show, if you can even call it that, was absolutely awful and cringeworthy but it was a nice day out overall. I managed to pick up a Ciate nail polish advent calendar for only £10. I couldn't believe it when I heard the price as they're usually £42. I had to get one for myself and I also picked one up for my sister as well. I'm planning to write a post on it once all of the doors are open!

Next week I'm back at work and have work again on the 23rd but after that it will be the Christmas holidays. I am SO looking forward to absolutely stuffing my face with food. I can't wait!! I have the majority of my Christmas shopping done and everything I have so far is all nicely wrapped and under the tree. Just a few little bits left to get. Roll on Christmas!!

How has your week been? Did you catch all of this week's posts?

I reviewed the Weleda Pomegranate Gift Box. Great Christmas gift idea!

I shared my favourite Christmas jumpers.

I also shared my thoughts on the Pürminerals 'Bare It All' Collection.

I discovered the fab new Rimmel Glam'Eyes HD Eyeshadow palette in Brixton Brown.