recent treats...

hey! so i've been really good lately and not even touched my bank card in ages! then i slipped and well...this happened. (over the past month or so but still, i'm meant to be saving for a car!) i wanna kick myself every time i buy something but it's just so hard to save every penny and i just couldn't resist picking these things up over the last month or two!

i adore this top from primark. i think i paid £6 for it in the sale and got it in a few sizes up so it was slightly oversized on me. i love the floral detail and the collar. so cute and i think i'll get a lot of wear out of this right through spring and summer.

this chunky gold necklace is from boohoo. i paid £8 which i think is pretty good! i've been wearing this with pretty much everything - it's so simple but adds a bit extra to a plain outfit.

i also spotted this cute cath kidston style notebook in home bargains today! they had this pink spotty one and a few different floral ones practically identical to cath kidston and for less than half the price! i love making lists. to do lists, shopping lists, 'to read' book lists...it goes on and on. i've already filled a few pages of this notebook and i only bought it this afternoon! i may have to go back and buy the other designs.

on wednesday i ventured into York which was absolutely lovely despite the horrific weather and the worry of whether or not we would be able to get the train back with the flooding and things. i had a good old look around the cath kidston shop while i was there and picked up this lanyard for my keys to help me try find them a bit easier in my bag as i always think i've lost them! i love the cute little bird design and i think i only paid a few £s for this which is a bargain considering how long i'll probably use this for.

today i also picked up the famous aussie three minute treatment. i got the 'take the heat' one as i straighten my hair most days and i hate the feeling of the ends of my hair going dry and horrid, a nightmare when i'm trying to grow my hair! hopefully this will keep those dry ends at bay and i won't have to trim them off. a while back i also bought these two lipsticks from mac. 'captive' and 'girl about town.' i love both of these shades, i think they both suit my pale skin tone and give me a nice pop of colour when i need it. i love plum shades and deep pinky purple colours at the moment. i think they're a good colour to use during these wintery months, especially on paler skin, and i would recommend both these shades to anyone looking for something similar!

i picked this barry m nail polish up the other week for my friends birthday and loved it so much i had to buy myself one too! it's one of the sequin nail effects polishes and i chose the baby pink one with different coloured glitter in it. it's so nice!

finally i just had to buy this movie on dvd. i saw 'About Time' when it first came out at the cinema and went in to the showing thinking it would probably be either totally awful or kinda okay. how wrong i was! i honestly think this is up there with all my favourite films ever! such a cute film with lots of twists and turns in it. it's a bit weepy at points but also made me smile a lot too. i watched it the other night with my mum and she loved it too. also i just love Rachel Mcadams and want to have her face a teeny little bit.

and that's it! i really need to be good and not spend any more of my wages because i have a week off work in march and i'm wanting to have my car bought by then so i can spend my holiday driving round new places and doing different things! have you treated yourself to anything nice lately? xo

payday treats...

hello! i thought i'd share with you all a few things i've treated myself too with it being payday on friday. every month i love to treat myself to new things and i haven't really bought myself new clothes for a while so i thought i'd get myself some new wintery pieces. 

the first thing that caught my eye was this dress on the boohoo website. i'm not usually too keen on the whole 'tartan' trend apart from my tartan scarf, but i absolutely love this dress and can't wait for it to arrive so i can wear it everywhere! i think it'll look super cute paired with thick tights, some ankle socks and my winter boots with a chunky necklace or scarf. it was £18 which i think will definitely be worth it.

the next thing i bought was this jumper, also from the boohoo website. i've been after a slightly oversized, cosy jumper like this for a while now but have always refused to pay the price for one. then i found this one for just £15 so immediately snapped it up as others i'd been looking at from the likes of topshop/river island etc were double the price! i think this will look really nice paired with skinny jeans and converse and will be great for layering and keeping me warm over the next few months!

i spotted this necklace in my 'you may also like' section on the boohoo website and it was only £8 so i thought 'why not?' this will go with just about any outfit i think and i love that it's chunky but not overly so which is something i hate with jewellery at the moment! 

lastly from the boohoo site i got this chunky knit scarf for £10. i have one quite like this but in a mustard yellow colour which i've worn for a few years now and it's all stretched and in need of a good replacement. i liked this one as it's pretty thick and warm looking and it is quite long which is something i prefer in a scarf. i am definitely looking forward to wrapping up in this over the coming months!

the final thing i bought was from asos. i am in need of a new pair of blue denim jeans as my pair from topshop are stained and i just can't get the mark out - so annoying considering i've not long had them! i'm so clumsy. i've never really tried any other jeans apart from topshops, but looking at these, which are the 'ridley petite jeans' on asos i'm pretty sure i'm going to like them just as much, or even more than my beloved topshop ones! i paid £30 for these which i think is pretty decent for jeans - hopefully they will fit okay. fingers crossed!

have you bought any nice treats for yourselves lately?

xo

a very lazy weekend...

gooood evening! i honestly can't believe it's december! where has this year gone? i'm properly in the festive spirit now it's december. i have lots of things to look forward too this month - opening my advent calendar every morning because i'm still a complete child at heart, my 21st birthday, i'm travelling up to Edinburgh the day after my birthday, i have my work meal and night out, seeing all my family, christmas!!, anddd the possibility of buying my first ever car if things go to plan. (yay) 

anyway, i had the whole weekend off work which rarely happens and i made plans to just do as little as possible and have some time to myself to be super super lazy. and that is what i did! 

i hardly ever have baths but i treated myself to a super deep, hot bubble bath and smothered myself in victoria's secret body wash, moisturiser & body mist. i am in love with the victoria's secret products and i'm so glad that while i was in new york i picked up so many different things!

i spent the majority of my weekend laying in bed and watching movies. on saturday i was watching loads of classic cheesy christmas films and today i have watched a few disney films because i'm so cool...

this afternoon i got ready and went christmas food shopping with my dad. we got loads of nice things and we went a bit mental buying chocolate which was supposed to be kept for christmas but we kind of ate it all after about five minutes of being back home! oops!

and last but not least, look at my gorgeous flowers i was given for passing my driving test! this is one of three vases, it was the biggest bunch of flowers i have ever seen! i am such a lucky girl right now.

what did you get up too over the weekend? i can't believe there's only three more weekends until Christmas! I seriously need to finish my Christmas shopping. I've not even done half of it yet and I feel like I'm leaving it so late this year. Have you started or finished yours yet? 

xo

hello! this post has been a long time coming. as some of you may know i went to new york at the beginning of october. it was honestly the best holiday ever and i was completely blown away by how incredible everything is over there! you can just imagine how excited/nervous i was - i'm almost 21 and had never actually been on a plane before this holiday!! i kinda threw myself in to the deep end with a super long first ever flight. considering the furthest i'd ever traveled away from england was paris (by ferry) when i was about 13 years old, i think i coped okay! though i'm sure everybody who shared the two flights to get to america with me may disagree - i talked super fast, non stop the entire way there because it's what i do when i'm nervous haha! 

the feeling when we stepped out of JFK airport and in to the taxi to the city was something i can't really put in to words. the sun was shining, it was boiling hot and, well, we were in new york!! what could be better? the best thing was that that feeling stayed with me the entire holiday. i cant believe i did so much shopping, eating and walking in one week. i'd love to go back because there was just so much to do and see that i could easily go back for another week and not do the same thing again twice!

anyway, here are some photos of my holiday, they were just taken on my iPhone so apologises for the rubbishy quality.  

walking through the streets on an evening was so surreal. it was so busy everywhere you went even when it was like 1am!

this was the view from my hotel room. you could just see central park in the distance! it was so cool! especially the night i took this photo when it was a bit misty in the distance and all the lights were shining through the fog.

times square was about five minutes walk from our hotel. we would go for a walk down there every night after we had dropped all our shopping off at the hotel for the day! there was so much to do and so many good places to eat - i miss it!

so many tortilla chips! and avocado!

9/11 memorial. it was so moving seeing this in real life and not just on the tv / on pictures. 

grilled cheese mmmm (apologises that every other photo is a food picture ha!)

the buildings were so tall! 

one morning we went on an adventure right through central park. i couldn't believe how big it was. i kept chasing squirrels like a child and pointing out all the really posh pedigree dogs everywhere! you could easily forget you were in new york, one of the biggest, busiest and noisiest cities while walking through central park - it was strangely quiet and peaceful! so nice! 

i took this walking across brooklyn bridge. it was so so hot this day even though it looks cloudy. there was a hurricane warning over the city and it was super humid! i've never felt anything like it. in the uk we never get weather like that.

obviously i had to try pancakes one morning for breakfast!

just some of the things i bought! saving every penny of my money for months before coming here was so worth it.

and lastly, a giant cookie from a cafe next to our hotel. it was the size of my thigh and it took me three days to finish it!!! 

have any of you been to new york? or anywhere else in america? i'd love to travel back to new york and i'd also love to do a road trip across america some day. hmm who's with me!?

xo

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas!

there is nothing better than coming home from a bad few days at work, having a super hot shower, making a cup of tea and then curling up in bed with a movie on. i’m watching the notebook (yes, cringe but it's so cute) and then i’m gonna try and get some sleep. tomorrow i have a driving lesson and am going to try and pop down to the hairdressers to see what they can do about my hair (i'm wanting to go slightly lighter and more my natural colour). i kind of just want tomorrow to go really quick because on thursday i'm going for a cinema date and then going for a look round town at all of the christmas stuff in the shops which i haven't had a chance to do yet - i'm so excited haha... i turn in to such a child over the run up to christmas.

have you started getting excited for christmas yet? what's your favourite thing about this time of year? i think my favourite thing has got to be wrapping up warm when it's snowing outside, hot chocolates, all the classic old christmas songs being played everywhere, decorating the christmas tree and buying loads of presents for those close to me!

xo

i was going through a load of old photos and i came across these! it might not look like much special but the places these photographs were taken mean so much to me. it's where my family and i would all go on holiday every summer when i was growing up. we would all squeeze in to my dads car, drive for about two hours up to the borders of scotland (near berwick if anyone is familiar) and then all squeeze into a teeny tiny caravan and spend the entire holiday going for trips out together, enjoying the sun and getting a take away every night without fail. yep. the places in the photos are taken in eyemouth which is a little fishing village, on the borders of scotland, and coldingham (around a five minute drive from eyemouth) which is famous for it's amazingggggg beach, rock pools and chips! ohhh so british! anyway, this was the last time we all went away as a family, in 2012. we got super lucky with the weather as you can tell, although the first few pictures look a bit blah it was actually really warm! this blog post has no real point to it...it just makes me smile and i wanted to share it with you all.

have you got any funny/nice family holiday memories? i'd love to hear them!

xo