New Year Reading

Hey Guys!!

 

Well been as though I have now nearly finished The Hunger Games Trilogy, I thought I would share with you what I am planning to read in the New Year. I have picked 5 books out of my book collection and has given myself the goal of 3 months to read them all. I know its a lot of books in a short space of time but I am determined to do it :)

 

So I have decided out of my book collection I am going to read:

Casual Vacancy - J.K.Rowling

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Go Swift and Fall - Douglas Westcott

Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chebosky

 

I am going to read them in this order as well so that I'm not reading the same sort of book one after another. Also I chose these as I have not read them yet, and also because I love the classics like Charles Dickens as well as the more up to date authors like J.K.Rowling.

 

I honestly can not wait to read them and am hoping I don't get many books for Christmas as 3 of the books in this list are from 2 Christmases ago.

 

Has any of you guys read any of these books?

 

Do you prefer classics or up to date?

 

 

Hope You're Having A Good Week!!

 

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Outfit Of The Day: My London Trip

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I apologise that there hasn't been any posts the past few days as I was in London over the Weekend and didn't have any internet connection so couldn't post :(

 

But now that I am back home I have beautiful internet :D so you have a week full of posts :)

 

Todays post I thought I would share with you my outfit I wore in London, its only one as we were only there for one night :)

 

I'm not sure if you seen but I did do a shopping haul post on what I bought from London a little while back which you can read HERE :) and that was the outfit I decided to wear :)

 

 

All that is worn is from Primark and it was all so warm and comfortable especially as we done a lot of walking in just the one day :)

 

The jumper was £8, it is surprisingly light to wear and is lovely and warm which was good because it was a little chilly. The jeans were £11, these were very, very comfortable and so stretchy that they moved with your legs, if that makes any sense ha ha My shoes were £10, they were very comfortable and practical, I definitely picked the right shoes to wear :) I have just got to put a little bit of Vaseline on the back as the one shoe did rub the back of my foot :( I did also wear a hat but I didn't actually wear it that day which was £3 :)

 

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Making A Roast Dinner

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Its Cooking Day!!!

 

On Monday we decided to have a cooked dinner as Llewellyn was in work on Sunday and doesn't finish until late, so being a good wife cooked dinner Monday. So I thought I would share with you how I did it :)

 

We had to go and get a chicken first as we didn't have one, some potatoes, a parsnip, some stuffing and some carrots.

 

So the first thing I did was wash the chicken out to make sure there was no bits inside and I did this by holding it under a hot tap. I then put it on an oven tray and started the stuffing, which being boxed stuffing all I had to do was tip the packet into a bowl and add boiling water :)

 

 

Then once I stirred it round and it was all sticking together shall we say, I then stuffed the chicken with it :) I must admit as lovely as it tastes I hate stuffing a chicken, I always feel like I am violating the chicken, Does anyone else feel like that or is it just me haha?

 

 

Once I had stuffed the chicken I then peeled and cut up some parsnip into strips for Llewellyn and also cut up a potatoe for Llewellyn to have roasted :)

 

 

I put the chicken into the oven on Gas Mark 4 and let it cook for the next two hours, checking on it every now and again to make sure it was cooked.

 

While it was cooking I prepared the rest of the vegetables. I peeled and cut up some potatoes and put them in some water with salt, though we did cheat with the carrots as we got a tin of carrots instead of fresh :( and put them in the same saucepan :)

 

 

The only thing with a cooked dinner is that it smells so nice when cooking and it takes ages so by the time its done I'm starving, though I do enjoy it a lot more that way.

 

So when it finally finished cooking I took the chicken out and just stood and smelled it for a while because it just smelled so nice :) Then after Llewellyn came and told me to stop sniffing it I took the stuffing out and carved the chicken, though Llewellyn said I butchered it ha ha

 

 

We then finished it off with a Yorkshire Pudding, home made gravy and mint sauce :)

 

 

I must say it was blooming lovely!! Especially as it had been such a cold day, it was nice to have a hot meal that tasted delicious!!

 

What veg do you guys have on your cooked dinner?

 

Is there a set day you have yours on?

 

Hope You're Having A Good Week!!

 

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My 5 Favourite Make Up Products

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As you can tell by the title I thought I would show you my 5 favourite make up products I have been using a lot lately. I rarely wear make up everyday as I tend to have bad breakouts and I don't want to make it worse, so tend to just wear it at occasions. Anyway here is my 5 favourite products :)

 

So first off is my foundation. It took me a while to find the right foundation for my skin, as I used to wear powdered foundation and that just made my skin look flaky. Then I was in Superdrug one day and thought I would try this Matte Foundation from Make Up Academy, the shade is Honeycomb which is perfect for my skin tone. This particular one is £2 and I do use a primer under it from the same range. I love this as it leaves my skin feeling so soft and it makes my skin look amazing and shall I say it.....flawless!! I would definitely recommend it :)

 

 

Second is my Bronzer from Make Up Academy, I can't remember how much this was as I bought it for the Wedding. I've never used bronzer before and thought I would give it a go. Its in Shade 2 and from Superdrug and to be honest when you put it on its not to dark which is nice because obviously I didn't want to look to dark in my wedding photos. It goes on very easily which is nice, especially when contouring and just giving myself a general glow :)

 

 

Third is my Blush from Make Up Academy, do you see a theme here ha ha? This is in Shade Bon Bon and again from Superdrug. Surprisingly this goes very well with my skin tone and blends in well with my bronzer. I didn't want a to bright blusher so this was perfect and the same as my bronzer it goes on really well :)

 

 

Fourth is my Eye-shadow Pencil from Jillian Dempsey for Avon and I'm not sure how much it is as I came across it in one of my drawers. It is double ended as it has a cheek and lip pencil the other end but I rarely use that end. Its a Golden Brown and I use this all the time, for my everyday look as well as if I'm going to parties, I love it that much.

 

 

Lastly is my lipstick!! This is from the Everlasting range of Avon and is in shade Pink Peach :) Now I have never been one to wear lipstick before, I never used to like it, but all of a sudden I just love wearing it :) My lips are not to dark but they're not to light so it goes really well on :) I do notice though if I have had it on a while it does make my lips look cracked and dried out, so I tend to top it up every now and again. I don't wear this all the time but sometimes when I wear it I do put a little bit of Barry M clear lipgloss on top, just to give it an extra shine :)

 

Well I hope you have enjoyed reading about what my favourite make up products are and let me know what yours are?

 

Also if there's any products you would recommend!!

 

Hope You're Having A Good Week!!

 

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My Recommended Read

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I thought for todays post instead of giving you a review on a book I'm reading, I would suggest a book you should maybe read if you haven't already, and of course if it takes your fancy :)

 

So I thought I would recommend 'The Time Travellers Wife' I picked this up while away in Rhodes as I had finished reading all my other books and needed something to read :)

 

Of course I had already watched the film before reading it, I have a thing about having to read the book first before watching a film :/ but that didn't stop me from wanting to read it, it actually made me want to read it more :)

 

 

I absolutely adore this book and is definitely the perfect book for a holiday where your just relaxing on the beach or by the side of the pool!!

 

I love the way in the book that she wrote it from both perspectives and always started each bit off with 'Clare:.........' and 'Henry:..........' so you knew who's perspective it was from. Another thing I loved was how she portrayed the love between them because as you are reading it you feel the exact same feelings, and I must admit this book actually brought me to tears towards the end. 

 

The difference between the book and the film is that in the book there is a lot more detail and obviously there are bits in the book that's not in the film.

 

I definitely want to read this again as I loved it the first time and I'm sure I will love it the 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th time :)

 

I am going to finish this post here as I don't want to spoil the book for people who hasn't read it, as I like to read books where, even if its recommended, I know nothing about it :)

 

Let me know if you do decide to read it

Or

Let me know what you thought of the book if you have read it

 

Hope You're Having A Good Week!!

 

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Bath Market Haul

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On Saturday me and some of the family went to Bath for their yearly Christmas Market & of course we ended up buying some stuff :) We walked around the whole place and picked stuff up off some stalls and also some stuff out of their high street stores. Its a lovely market and got such a Christmassy feel to the whole place :) all the stalls are in the style of little wooden huts and are so cute to look at :) On to what we bought :)

 

So first off as we were walking around we seen a stall that were selling books, me being a bookworm this was perfect, and the author was actually there signing his books and just explaining what his book is about. I am really looking forward to reading it as its about Bath and its about WW2 :)

 

 

We then carried on walking for a bit, had a little something to eat and could smell chocolate brownies, so thought we would take a look. It was a little stall that was selling different flavoured brownies, one with armaretto, one with marshmallows, then your normal chocolate brownies :) I wasn't sure whether I would like the other flavours so thought it best to go with original :)

 

 

We then carried on walking around and I got rather excited as I seen a 'lush' store and couldn't help myself and had to go in. As soon as you go in it smells absolutely gorgeous and I was so confused as to what I wanted to get because I've seen so many really nice things. I wanted to get something as I've seen so many blog posts and videos on YouTube raving about 'lush' products and wanted to try something. I love the fact that they're very reasonably priced as well so I bought a few :) I got Shoot For The Stars, Golden Wonder, Candy Mountain and Snowman, these all smell delicious, especially Candy Mountain. The only problem is they look so nice and I don't want to use them :( ha ha

 

 

After I dragged myself away from 'lush' we walked back to where we started as there was a little stall there that was selling Christmas tree ornaments. You could choose which ornament you would like and then have your names written on them. We chose one with two reindeers on, especially as there is only us two, had our names written on them and Merry Christmas 2013. It looks lovely on our tree :)

 

 

After that we popped into one more shop before going home :) We both love chocolate so we decided to pop into Hotel Chocolate to pick up some nice chocolatey products :) We were a bit spoilt for choice as there was just so much chocolate :D We had a look around and decided on a big slab of chocolate, some really cute white chocolate penguins, champagne truffles and a small choc brownie slab :) I really can't wait to eat these. makes my mouth water just writing about it :)

 

 

Then it was back on to the coach for the journey home :( I definitely want to go to Bath shopping again as there is so many shops around that I would've loved to have gone in but didn't. So I guess there will be another trip there next year :)

 

Hope You're Having A Good Week!!

 

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How I Curl My Hair

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Hair post day!! I thought for today I would let you guys in on how I curl my hair :)

 

I do wash my hair before curling it normally, this may say sound a little gross, but it does curl a lot better when my hair is a little greasy.

 

The first thing I do is spray all my hair with a heat protection spray, the one I use is from Avon :)

 

To then curl my hair I use my Babyliss straighteners, I use it on the highest heat setting as I do need a lot of heat to curl my hair. I normally section it and curl it but I was short on time so just had to curl it without sectioning it :) To curl it I put the straighteners at the top of my section of hair and curl it that way, I'm not really sure what words to use to describe it :/

 

 

Then once it is all curled I spray it with extra firm hold hairspray :) and scrunch a little bit :)

 

 

This is the finished look for today :) Hope you like it!!

 

How Do You Guys Curl Your Hair?

 

What Products Do You Use?

 

Hope You're Having A Good Week!!

 

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