5 Lovely Happenings

1.I have lovely newly cut conditioned hair! My boyfriend suprsied me with a hair cut last night, i'd been going on for ages about how I needed to make my first trip to a salon (yes), and get someone to give my hair a complete makeover, get rid of all the ends and give it a new interesting cut. It'd gotten to the flat, no volume state (hard with really wavy/curly/thick), split ends galore and I had no idea what to do with it, now it's a fair few inches shorter, shiny as a mirror, strokeably soft, full of volume and I have a new look to boot! Lovely, and far to kind of him.

2. I'm off out for an indian tonight, the Mr's been paid (lucky) so we're going out with his parents to a nice little local resturant, it'll be nice to do something, i'm always so lethargic and sleepy when I get in from work lately, maybe this'll bump the energy levels (and my weight sigh)

3. Two sunny days in a row, what country is this? I bet the weekend will be pants in a sod's law fashion, but i'll happily take a few days with wearing pumps, no tights, and a thin jacket instead of my whole winter ensemble before it heads to the minus' again.

4. We might be having a weekend away in a few weeks with family and down by the coast,I was only saying a few days ago that I needed a weekend away somewhere. What a lovely thing to look forward to :)

5. I Repierced my ears! When I was younger I used to have 14 or so piercings, a few have gone here and there, however i long to wear teeny tiny little hoops galore in my lower ears, and can now do so (the second piercing on one side won't repierce though! Maybe a trip to the piercer if my longing continues)

 Not so lovely

1. After loosing one of my favourite earings last night (realised at the hairdressers), I found it when I got back in and presumed i'd just knocked it out when tying up my hair (idiot), so I wore them today, and I've actually lost one forever now. Not in my hair, not in my coat, not in my office, not anywhere! I rarely like dangly earings, but I was inlove with these, and they go with everything I own. Sigh. RIP little one, I doubt i'll find a suitable replacement for you...

2. I also have a pounding headache, photoshopping all day does nothing for the migranes, neither do glasses unfortunately. Oww!

Number Eight

8 Things

8 TV shows I watch...

Broadwalk Empire

The Mr and I sit down to watch this every Sunday evening after our dinner before bed, the last glimpse of the weekend before the early start Monday.

 24

Technically the last series of 24, another Sunday tradition, however i'm going to start from episode 1, series 1 when I get a spare minute

Hollyoaks

 After a stressful day at work, this is exactly the sort of crap I need to relax before enjoying my evening (speaking of which it's on now)

Glee

I despised this at first, then I was mildly amused but still not to fond, now i guiltily love it!

Americas Next Top Model

New series, old series, any series

American Dad

Underated by far   

Eastenders

It fits perfectly in time with eating dinner, another sort of mindless crap

Gok

8 Favourite places to eat... (I dont really eat anywhere, so this will be creative)

The chinese resutrant the Mr and I went to on our 'first' platonic (later to be first) date.

Sentimental

The Oxo Tower

The Mr and I's first official date!

Living room haha!

Dining table

On occasion, placemats and candles!

Pizza Express

Our friend works there, and sentimental

(struggling....) His parents house

They make yummy food!

My parents house

It'll always be home :)

..to be honest I don't really eat out ever, however anywhere with food and my friends/family is a great place  

The chinese take out we us

Whilst sitting watching eastenders/gok etc. yum!

8 Things I look forward to...

V Festival

With the Mr and friends (August)

Foo Fighters

LOVED FOREVER (June)

KIGNS OF LEON 

LOVE MORE!

Take That

Lets be honest they'll be broken up straight after

Summer, Summer, Summer

April bank holidays/Royal wedding

11 days off work for only 3 holiday days, kerching!

The weekend

I'd really like a lie in...

Christmas

We have no holiday planned, and christmas is 'our' time, when we met and our anniversary.. sap :)

8 Things that happened yesterday...

Pulled my neck somehow, still hurting today

Filled my car up with petrol

petrol money on loan until payday urgh!

Re-bought my FIRST EVER foundation

in the correct colour, picked up the wrong one- idiot (now to learn how to use it)

Used my no7 Voucher

Got depressed about money

Had a lovely cuddley evening

Told my sister she was beautiful

Which she bloody is!

Pulled most of my clothes out of my wardrobe whilst trying to find something to wear to work..

8 Things I love about winter...

Seeing the pretty snow outside when your wrapped up all warm inside

Christmas!

Our anniversary :) 

And our christmas' together

Christmas films

Even if its only December 1st

Snow

Yes it mucks everything up but it's pretty, and exciting

Christmas Markets

Mulled Wine

Smell only, it tastes like vomit 

Cuddles, whilst looking at the snow, being warm inside and watching christmas films

8 Things on my wishlist...

A large bedroom

Not possible until we move in the future

A cleaner

I'm no housewife, sigh.. I try but i'm more slob

Makeup Brushes

A large wardrobe

Ideally with compartments or the walk in compartment variety please

A holiday

A gym membership

I can't afford one, and I need to fight my expanding figure :(

Ipad, notebook, Macbook

All of the above (just one), to carry around and do all my thinking processes on the go.

A home that's ours

Owned please

8 Things I'm passionate about...

My family

More than anything

Creativity in all forms

Fabrics

My Mr :)

Summer

And christmas

Clothes

Not necessarily fashion, but fabrics, colours, drape

Babies

Broody

Photographs of everything!

8 Words or phrases I use alot...

I won't even try and think up any, I have no idea haha!

8 Things I've learnt from the past

You will always spend to much time on people who are never worth it, and feel heartbroken when in reality your not 

I am so protective of my sister

 Trust your instincts, if you genuinly think something it's usually true especially first impressions.

Try to feel confident with your appearence at least once in a while

I should have let people take more photos of me when I was younger, because looking back i'm in very few with my friends in my teen years, I felt unnatractive fat (I was a size 8!) and didnt really have anything to worry about!

I should probably start feeling this way now, as I know in a  year i'll look back and wish I looked like this, which is what I do with images from 2 years ago. typical girl.

 Take photos all the time, everywhere, of everything and everyone.

I love the amount of photos I have to look back on, countless of my family, friends from school, my partner and I have hundreds of things we've done and places we've been.

Don't let people make you feel inadequate

This goes for boys, friends and family members. Too many have made me feel like this, some unintentionally, some deliberatly.

Respect yourself and make everybody work for everything! 

Boys don't just get you, they need to treat you like a princess, friends can't just pick you up when they want, not if there true friends, they'll always be in contact through some sort of medium.

Never loose your creativity

I've lost mine and am yet to get it back

Live more than you think you are

You'll always look back and will have had 'what if's, and why didn't I, I missed out..' I have a few. There are so many things I want to do because i've never done them, so many I can't because of money at the moment, but you only live once. Screw it :)

8 Places I would love to visit...

1Venice

New York

Vegas

Thailand

 Peru

Rio de Janeiro

Rome

To see the Nothern Lights

8 Things I want or need...

A wardrobe that fits me better 

Nothing fits me right, and my body keeps changing

A gym membership

My body is seriously getting me so down

A cuddle

Feeling a bit low

A new job

My salary would only be enough if I lived at home AND had no rent to pay, part of me wants a massive change, to locate to a new place, start a career.. now to get someone to hire me!

A holiday/weekend break/day trip, 

I need to get away from my home for a few hours, with the Mr and just  have fun without worrying about money, or getting stressed with jobs (hes in need too).

A dog

I really like westies

Some lovely underwear would be nice!

Simple way to feel sexy, knownig your wearig nice undies 

MONEY!

I have mothering sunday, a significant birthday for my sister, my partners birthday and a few others (important people) to buy for all within the space of this months paycheck. I never have any money to spend on anything extra in the month, so how i'm going to work this is going to be  a bloody miracle! 

8 Bloggers I'm tagging...

1: laura-laments.blogspot.com/

2: just-like-jasper.blogspot.com/

3: girlheartfood.wordpress.com/

4: brunette-lady.blogspot.com/

5: carelesslycutyou.blogspot.com/

6: corsetscraftsandcupcakes.blogspot.com/

7: arosieoutlook.blogspot.com/

8: lilaloves.blogspot.com/

Inspiration

 

 

 

Just something about them

Dream House pt. 2

5 lovely happenings

1. I had my nails done for the first time at the weekend with my partners mum. She's a lovely lady who I get on with greatly, and I was really excited to get them professionally done. Is it sad at 23 i've never experienced it? Anyway a session later I have some gel nails(?!), with a nice little french manicure, lovely!
2. The Mr and I were discussing holidays the other night (and how we really can't afford one), but we realised we have such a great summer lined up already (and most paid for pre-christmas, yay!), whilst we can try work finances out for holiday. Kings of Leon, Foo's, Take That, V-Fest, I can't wait! So what a lovely summer to be looking forward to.
3. I've got to 10 people following me, and 1 on my personal blog, this is great as I love reading peoples blogs and I see why they have hundreds of followers, but I ramble, can't write well and make no sense so it has definitely put a smile on my face
4. I did half an hour on an exercise bike last night (this is a great achievement as my legs are pathetic in strength, although bulbous in size), and I felt better for it. I'm going to try build up my length and keep it up!
5. I've been looking at lots of lovely interior images which has given me a lot of inspiration for one day when we have a house.


ps. it's Tuesday which is nearly Wednesday, which is nearly the weekend :)

Dream House pt. 1

Dream House Introduces..

My partner and I live in a lovely little two bed rented flat, saying it's little is the wrong term, nowhere near this size infact, but it's so homely somehow it has that quaint, cute feel about it. I wish I could turn this flat into a two story house, the layouts great and it's definitely big enough for us for the time being.. problem is I want a house, i've always wanted a house, if our flat could be a house it'd be the most beautiful little house (it would be little in house comparison), but with neither of us being anywhere near financially able to put down a deposit, a house is something for very far in the future. 
I'd like to be able to decorate our home It reflect us, but obviously with a rented property there's only so much you can do, it has gorgeous interiors anyway, so after we put up our own curtains and stored the landlords, put some pictures up on the wall, photographs and covered the window sills with our 'bits' it reflects us as much as it will ever do.
I'd like to own our home (or to own a new home), and know its ours, that all the money we're putting in is towards our future, all the decorating is for our taste, and not just working around someone elses (granted ours is beautiful), arranging each room to it's full potential and (one day) purchasing the furniture to furnish for ourselves, to build a home for our future.

The only problem I have with our flat is the bedrooms, neither are big enough. We are lucky to have two, but the second isn't big enough to be a bedroom as well as house the things it needs to. The master bedroom is a funny L shape, with an en-suite shower/toilet room but after a bed (ours) and a wardrobe (landlords), there isn't room for anything else! I have a small dressing table cabinet (really isn't room), because it needed to come out of the spare bedroom, and it's helpful for holding mirror/holding makeup/hair dryer etc.


Our second bedroom currently holds the second wardrobe (landlords) right behind the door, I can't move it because it's too heavy, and there's nowhere to move it too. This room holds my partners work equipment, my mannequin, a bookcase full of our books and a desk (and now a chest of draws as we needed more clothes storage!). It's a neat room but dark, with a smallish window, as we don't need a second bedroom it makes sense that this room is our office, but it feels so cramped. I would love to have the luxury of having a second bedroom so my siblings could stay in there instead of on the couch, same with friends visiting etc. but there's just not enough room, same as i'd love to have a master bedroom that feels relaxed when walking into it, without the wardrobe (or even with if there was more room), but I can't.

This sounds like such a massive moan on our home ha, it's really not, I absolutely adore it, I'm just realising we need more room, most people wouldn't need an office, but most peoples hobbies aren't also there jobs and so equipment is owned personally not just through the company. I do love our home, realistically we've used the space the best we can, and it's not too messy or too cramped, I just seem to crave minimalism and organisation a lot more now, and sometimes it hurts my head.

I'd love for us to one day either have a walk in wardrobe (who doesn't), or built in wardrobe/storage as I think it's such a great space saver and storage option. Everything has a purpose built place and it might make my wardrobe stop looking like a bomb site (I need more room). This way we'd be able to have a bedroom which was relaxing,  and uncluttered, which I feel a bedroom really should be.


One day in the very distant future, we'll manage to save up for a mortgage and get a lovely house, I don't want a large house, never have done, just one to live comfortably, where I can start from scratch and work out where our lives will fit in :)

(maybe i'll win the lottery soon haha!)