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FASHION: My Boots And Me With New Look

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Over the knee boots are a trend that I fell in love with last year! Those big chunky boots came out on River Island and ASOS and I was sold - I got mine and I wore them whenever I had the chance to last winter! Then summer came along so they went back in the cupboard but I was very pleased to see that the trend came back with a vengeance this year - more styles, more colours, it just got bigger and better.

I decided that I wanted a flat pair that I could wear the work but after hunting around for weeks, I just couldnt find any I liked so I ended up buying them from Amazon. When they arrived, I loved them, but as I started to wear them more and more I realised they really didnt fit me very well! Of course they were comfortable and I loved that they had a cleated rubber sole but they would slide down my legs like crazy. In the end, I would only wear them with chunky trousers underneath to help keep them up and even resorted to buying bra tape to stick them to my legs. Not a good look when they slid down anyway.

Heres one of my favourite ways that I would wear them, I love the contrast between the black and blues. I wore this for lunch at Sheesh recently! Look how festive it was there over christmas!


Then, by some miracle, I came across another perfect pair* in New Look. They were also black suede look but they had pointed toes and there was structure to the leg, it had paneling so I thought it was worth a shot and ta-dah, they stayed up all by themselves, on my bare legs! Here, I paired them with my new witchy Motel dress from Ark Clothing. I can wear them with whatever I want without worrying they'll fell down.


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LIFESTYLE: My Christmas And New Year 2015

Monday, 4 January 2016

I'm super sad to say it but I'm back at work and Christmas has come and gone so in this post, I just wanted to share a few photos of what I got up to over Christmas and New Year! On Christmas Day, we opened all of our presents together around the tree before getting ready to go out for lunch with my grandparents. We spent the whole afternoon chatting, laughing and eating, the food was absolutely endless. Afterwards everyone came back to ours for, yes, more food and board games.

Next day I did the same thing all over again at Andrews house with Christmas lunch and more presents. We made the most of the rest of the holidays by eating far too much with fun plans, dinner reservations and different things going on every single day, lots of prosecco and cocktails (Dirty Martinis Dirty Grinch wins by a mile) as well as making sure I ate chocolate for breakfast each and every day! (See my Christmas stash below)

Happy New Year Everyone!

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LIFESTYLE: Doddle Runner App Secret Santa

Wednesday, 30 December 2015

When the secret santa campaigns start to roll in at this time of year I always get very excited to take part! Todays one was is in collaboration with Doddle - they are little huts at stations, shopping centres and universities that you can send or collect your parcels from at a time that suits you. They have a new runner service exclusive to Londoners by which you take a photo of whatever your sending, post it on the app and a Runner will pick it up from wherever you are and send it on for you.

So what day did I pick to post my package?! I left it until Friday, the day that we decided to spend our lunch break plus the next three hours in the pub. I thought I'd made this really hard for myself but I was so shocked at how easy it was! I ordered my runner to come at 2pm, left my gift with the receptionist and that was the end of that. The runner had come to pick it up and took it off you my secret santa while I was at the pub drinking prosecco.

The next day, I got a package to my house from Doddle. My secret santa didnt stay very secret for very long and luckily for me, she asked me if there was anything in particular that I wanted! I picked out a Kate Spade notebook, some chocolate truffles and a jar of prosecco gummy bears, sadly, no one mentioned to us beforehand that they wouldnt deliver glass so I never got those in the end but my other two products arrived safely!

All in all I think it works great. I got to the post office during lunch most weeks and have to stand in a que of 20+ people every time so this is a really great alternative!
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FASHION: 48 Hours In Denim #OffDutyDenim

Monday, 28 December 2015

You guys already know how much I used to love my black jeans but blue jeans are something I am still working on. So when George at ASDA asked me to pick a pair and see how I dress them up and down over a weekend, I decided to go for a ripped blue pair. 

Firstly, I just want to mention how comfortable these are, I haven't worn jeans properly for around seven months now because I am just finding them so uncomfortable but these are the softest, stretchiest pair of jeans I own so I was happy to give them a go - good start.

The weekend I picked, Andrew and I stayed at The Milestone Hotel! I have a whole other post to come on that but this one is just going to talk through what I wore. My dad actually drove us all the way there so to travel in, I started with a simple black look. I paired them with a plain black long sleeve tee, my over the knee boots and I took my amazing new faux shearling coat along for the weekend. I love wearing my OTKs with my new jeans because I love the contrast of the jeans to the boots.

I wore them again, later on that evening for drinks at the bar with my new gold sequin crop top that I picked up in H&M and my new George boots too! Lastly, to come home, we had to get the tube so out came the glasses and I switched it up for some comfortable converse and a grey slouchy tee.

Which Is Your Favourite Style?

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CHRISTMAS: Stocking Fillers + Fitbit Giveaway

Tuesday, 22 December 2015

In my house, stocking fillers are the main event when it comes to christmas presents, we do things a bit backwards now that were all grown up! There are no more stockings, just lots of small gifts under the tree, which my mum calls stocking fillers. This year, she bought me some surprises and tasked me with picking out the other half for myself. So while I was out hunting, I was also collecting some other bits and pieces that I thought would work perfectly in my stocking fillers guide! 

For the Beauty Lovers: There are so many lovely kits and sets that come out around Christmas time that it was just too hard to pick! I am mainly an eyes person when it comes to make up so both these eye kits are great! Soap & Glory Eyes Box just £18 but has four full sized products inside! Benefit have something similar with their sexy eyes on the run set which is more travel sized with mini versions of they're real! push-up liner, brown and black mascaras and remover - all you need to throw in your handbag. Lastly in the eye area is this The Glo and Ray Skybreaker Eyeliner kit, £28, from Beauty Mart which contains six different colours waterproof eyeliner pencils and a sharpener to keep the liners precision perfect! Lastly, I have some makeup bits from The Body Shop, I really fell in love with the packaging on this stuff!

For lips, I have a customizable limited edition EOS set which has three of the cute lip blams in Sweet Mint, Pomegranate Raspberry and Vanilla Bean, all enriched with conditioning oils, shea butter and Vitamin E. They smell incredible. A set of jeweled art stickers comes included inside - annnd this cute little Kissmas Cracker from Soap & Glory with a lip gloss inside - super cute and adorably stocking-sized.

Lastly, I have this Body Therapy set from Dermalogica designed to help you achieve healthy skin from head to toe. Inside, you get a body was, hydrating cream and a small body scrub.
This year I realised how much everyone loves candles! We have never used them in my house because I have a bit of an issue with not believing that I put them out, although Andrew's mum always has them burning and it makes everything better, they are super pretty and fill the whole house with a warm, cosy scent.

I have four minis from Yankee here which I will definitely be taking around the Andrews house for his mum. They are the small jars which are £8.99 and they are just so cute, I love their christmassy colours and little lids! They are new Christmas fragrances for 2015 and are available in all of Yankee Candle's six classic candle forms.  Berry Trifle which obviously smells like fresh berries with a hint of vanilla too, Bundle up which is one of those clean, citrusy scents, Cosy by the fire which is the majorly christmassy one with ginger, orange and clove and Winter Glow is meant to smell like a crisp winters day. My favourite for this time of year, obviously is Cosy by The Fire, but I seriously love them all!
I mentioned these earler this year but they are great gifts! I have already given one to Georgia and one to Juanita! They are the perfect gifts for the coffee drinkers in my life! £7.95 in Costa stores.
and for the tea drinkers? I was surprised at how lovely the gifts on the twinings website were! This cute golden bauble is filled with teabags and the green tin is filled with loose leaf mint tea! I had convinced Andrew that we need to order from Twinings for his family secret santa! You just cant go wrong with tea!
and for the chocolate lovers like me, I have a new obsession. Charbonnel et Walker truffles. Every Christmas I see people instgram photos of these boxes and every time, I tell Andrew I want to try some, he always forgets and so do I and then it never happens! Well this year is different, I spotted the stand when I was in Harrods and we got two to try and since then I have been on the hunt for more, they were delisicou! I found the cute little heart box in John Lewis and the huge round box in their store on old bond street! Next on the list are the Pink Champange ones and some more Banana and Caramel ones mmmm
And lastly, for getting healthy: Both Andrew and I have had a fitbit for quite a while now and they really are great! They are accurate and easy to use to track steps, distance and calories burned which is going to be perfect for anyone trying to be healthy, especially in January!

Since we got Molly and moved out to the middle of the forest, my dad is obcessed with counting the steps and distance of his walks so this is a perfect Christmas gift for him. It just syncs up with your phone and you can access all of your stats on the go plus it keeps track from day to day so you can see your progress. It also has a battery life of 7-10 days which is incredible for technology these days and comes in four different colours.
I have a Fitbit Charge to giveaway to help get one of you kick started for a healthy 2016! Just enter below as usual!

Good Luck!

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