Outfit: Date night

Hola,

I just thought I would share what i wore to my date night with the boyfriend. We went for a meal to Fat Buddah. I went for a long midi dress, with a grey scale city scape design. 

I took this picture above so you are able to see the full dress with out the jacket :)

Dress: Topshop, Jacket: Miss Selfridge, Shoes: New Look, Ring: Primark

Excuse the little pout i have going on here lol 

Next for the hair and the make up. Hair i just used a Babyliss curling wand to create this effect. Make up used;

Face: Estee Lauder Double Wear Foundation, Mac Blusher and Avon Flawless pressed powder.

Eyes: Clarins Wonder Perfect Mascara, Urban Decay Naked Pallette, Eylure Eyelashes no. 110 and Rimmel Xaggerate Liquid Eyeliner in Black. 

Lips: Pink Bubbly Limited Edition Vaseline.

Hope you like :)

Comment and let me know what you think?

~Katie x

January Wish List

Hellos,

I am constantly spending my time browsing the Internet online shopping or should i say online wishing! I rarely buy things compared to how much i actually look and want things. This may have something to do with my wages have already been accounted for unfortunately.

So i have decided to monthly let you know what i am craving that particular month. If i do also manage to squeeze some of these things into my budget i will post them and review them for you all because i am lovely like that!

Bodycon Dress In Abstract Stripe Print (Asos - £30) - I have an engagement party to attend this month and i think this would be lovely. I am very much into my fitted midi dresses at the moment.

French Script Boxes (Next, £14) - I think these would look lovely in my bedroom to keep all them random things in which you do not really know what to do with.

Track Rings Necklace (Topshop, £18.50) - I love this necklace it has a rustic gold colouring which i love and i think this would be a necklace which would finish off many outfits really nicely. 

Hack Grey Platform Sandals (Miss Selfridge, £49.00) - I have totally fell in love with these shoes! They would look gorgeous with most outfits and also come in black! Some time i will buy these! hehe

Nails Inc Special Effects Graffiti/ Nails Inc Special Effects Concrete (Nails Inc, £12.00) - I think these speak for themselves. They just make your nails and hands look utterly beautiful i expect. With my love for beautiful nails is growing i think these would make a lovely addition to my slowly growing collection.

What are you craving this month?!

~Katie

 

LOVE IT ~New Jewellery

Hello my beauts,

Well i have been selling a few things on Ebay as you know so i figured it was only right i buy a few new bits with the money i made. :)

I went for the cute factor when i was buying these pieces :)

This is what i ended up getting;

You can't get much cuter! lol Ebay - £3.99

0.49

Ebay - £3.99

£0.49 - BARGAIN!!

A girl can't have enough jewellery in my eyes :D hehe

Katie x

Valentines Day Surprise

Hello lovelies,

I hope you had a lush valentines day whether it was with the girls or with your other half. My other half isn't really a huge fan of valentines day so this year we decided we would do the card and then a small gesture. Mine making the most lush hot chocs i could think of whilst we watched the TV and his he cooked me a meal steak chips and side salad (NOM NOM) So gifts were off the cards.

I really enjoyed it and had a lovely day just me and him then he surprised me with a small Pandora bag :) (My face instantly lit up jewelleryyyyyyyy!) Previously i had said that no one ever really got me Pandora charms anymore to fill up my silver bracelet that i got for me 18th. So he got me this one to go on my bracelet :)

The Heart Charm :)

So i was totally over the moon because no offence to him but he finds the romantic stuff very hard and can't do surprises because he ends up telling me out of excitement so i was sooooo chuffed when he gave this to me i can't even explain :) yey! I ended up having an absolutely lovely day and wouldn't have changed a thing :)

Ohhhhhh and one more little thing this is the card i got him below which i found well funny!!! So did the girls i live with when i showed them it. Yet he didn't find it that funny! What do yous think?!

Sorry about the light but you get the gist

I hope you all had a lovely valentines day :)

Katie x

My Everyday Jewellery.

Hello lovelies,

Ok so one of my main weaknesses is jewellery i am totally obsessed by it! So i thought i would share this little bit of information with you and this brought me on to doing a post on what i wear everyday in terms of jewellery. I only have 3 main items that i wear on a everyday basis unless i change for costume jewellery to compliment an outfit. Here they are;



Firstly is my double wrap nude colour Pandora bracelet! I totally love this item mainly because i am such a neutral kind of girl and love this colour soooooo much! lol Therefore not only does it go with everything it looks lovely too! I decided to only have 4 charms on this bracelet and 3 of which have moonstone kind of stones in them so they blend with the bracelet and my butterfly best friend one is just plain silver. I can't actually explain how much i totally LOVE this item though :) hehe

Secondly this is a rather new addition to my everyday wear jewellery it was a 21st present from my mother duck :) So i am not too sure where she got it from if i am honest i just love the quirkiness of the design. Please ignore my little fat fingers for some reason i have never lost the baby chubby fingers! haha

Thirdly is ye old faithful and believe it or not this is from Argos yet it is the most trusty ring in the world lol (well probably not the most in the world but you know what i mean) It has been through a lot and rarely gets taken off purely because of the fact it hides a mole on my wedding finger which i DESPISE! lol. But again it is  a quirky style and silver and a lovely addition to my jewellery collection :)

Bit of a random post i know however the more i post the more you will find out about my jewellery obsession so i thought i would break you in pretty early :) hehe. Hope your all well.

Katie x

Love it. Want it. Lisa Hoffman's Fragrance Bracelets

Hey Ho,

Sorry i haven't blogged in a little while but work is trying to kill me with hours i am pretty sure of it!
Anyhoooooo.....I came across these bracelets by Lisa Hoffman which are fragranced and i completely fell in love! I just want one so bad.

Each bracelet has a different fragrance. Here are the variations;

• Japanese Agarwood Bracelet - 'Honey-toned noblesse wood beads, brass spacers, blue aventurine beads and an antiqued bronze-plated charm encircle the Japanese Agarwood bracelet, mirroring the fragrance’s woody, soulful scent —accented with the refreshing zest of bergamot, serene spiced ginger and warm amber.'
• Madagascar Orchid Bracelet - 'Cream-colored tanoak wood beads, gold-plated brass spacers and a brushed gold-plated charm embody the exotic, green floral scent of Madagascar Orchid, which comingles notes of sheer jasmine, ylang dew, mimosa mood and pink peony.'
• Tuscan Fig Bracelet- 'Amber-hued resin beads intermingle with rose gold-plated brass and howlite stone beads and a rose gold-plated brass charm to evoke the rich, gourmand scent of Tuscan Fig, comprised of fig, vanilla bean, honeysuckle and coconut wood.'
• Tunisian Neroli Bracelet - 'Red jade juxtaposed with a 14-karat gold-plated charm and beads echoes the intoxicating scent of Tunisian Neroli, a blend of precious neroli flower, ylang ylang and golden amber that’s both classically feminine and utterly modern.'
• French Clary Sage Bracelet - 'Green-tinted jade beads, an oxidized sterling silver-plated charm and silver beads reflect French Clary Sage’s fresh, sophisticated blend of clary sage, cotton and watery floral notes'

'Each bracelet comes with refillable fragrance beads so you can easily refresh the scent in your charm.  It's perfume, we just reinvented the packaging'
(Information in Italics is taken from http://www.lisahoffmanbeauty.com/)

I personally think this is a fabulous idea and am so excited to try and get my hands on one so i will be able to review them for you guys :) I am just finding it difficult to get hold of in the UK at the moment but i shall battle on :)

These bracelets would look amazing stacked or even special and unique on their own also if you were not that keen on the fragrance that comes with the bracelet you wanted you can get refills for the bracelets so you could just change them over =)

The price in the USA is $65 per bracelet and this includes the a refill of the same fragrance linked to the bracelet. Which i do not personally think is a bad price because they are just GORGEOUS! However they still are a little pricey so it would be beneficial if there were some samples of the fragrances so that you could decide on a one that suited you before purchase? I will keep searching though =)

So watch this space my lovelies :)

Katie x

LOVE - Black Soft Super Skinny Jeans

I bought these black soft super skinny jeans from miss selfridge because i was sick of buying black skinny jeans and then after a little while they sag at the knees and other areas and it is just a pain in the arse. But then leggings don't always work as well with some outfits therefore when i came across these i became very excitable because they are AMAZING and go with so much! Also they are unbelievably comfortable and make your bum look great ;)

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They are £36 from miss selfridge which to be honest i don't think is that bad considering the amount of use i get out of them.

They are so versatile you can wear them with cute pumps and a top for just casual occasions for example i wore them above to night going to the cinema with the girls i wore them with a dark green silk top from Topshop which i just got in the sale for £15 and black pumps with black knot detail and the jewellery i have added below.

Gold Bangles from Oasis ages ago have little green gems in not that you can really see on this pic lol

A green ring in which i think i got from dorothy perkins a little while ago

A necklace which i love because it is just mint its also a little clock and mirror inside it opens up may even do a whole other post on it later lol from ebay.

Again from ebay a pair of gold flower earrings with pearls in the middle =) Topshop originally

Just thought i would share these with you because i definitely love them and would say they are one of the items in my wardrobe which are most used even though they are a fairly new addition

Katie x

Clothes Show Live

So you knew how much i wanted to go because of my previous post well.......

I ACTUALLY WENT! and it was as AMAZING as i thought it would be!

Put it this way my purse is rather lacking cash to go along with my bank account eeeeeeekkkk!

However the main thing i got sucked into was the AMAZING  deals some of the stalls had on! Heres a one for you....

So naturally i had to oblige and get it lol
Here is a pic of most of the goodies/freebies i got at the show =)



Ignore the date my camera is well broken =(

 So we have:

• T-shirt saying 'It's the most wonderful time of the year clothes show live'
• Pack of Snack  a Jack cheeky chutney curls (yummy am eating them as i type lol)
• Tube of Oral B Pro Expert
• Some Velvet soft soft soft tissues
• Pack of Kleenex balsam tissues
• Dawood & Tanner tooth cleanser (I think its used as toothpaste havent worked it out yet lol)
• Pack of kiss everlasting stick on false nails (look a little small for my nails)
• Dove intensive repair conditioner
• Sample of Nivea visage daily essentials day cream
• 2 Samples of Nivea pure and natural body lotion and anti wrinkle day cream
• A Ricola original swiss herb drop (Your guess is as good as mine)
• 7 Capsules of wellwoman original vitabiotics
• Sample tube of kate moss ~Lilabelle (smells pretty lush)
• A Tube of Missguided lipsplash gloss
• 3 Barry M nails varnishes
• 3 Models Own nail varnishes in ~ Nude Beige, Jade stone and Pastle Pink
• A models own Blackberry Lip gloss
• A models own volumising mascara
• Rimmel sun safari quad eyeshadows

Then i paid only £7 and i got all of this

• Bourjois volume glamour black and diams mascara
• Bourjois khol & contour mineral eye liner
• Mini Bourjois powder brush
• Mini Bourjois Blush 04
• Mini Lipgloss
• Mini hydrating lipgloss i was well impressed!

I didn't buy many items of clothing because it was extremely busy and i was just happy looking around i did buy a nice pair of redish skinny jeans for £15 however these have gone to santa so wont be able to show you a picture.

The Risk

Darren and Lynsey from Hollyoaks

Maria from Only Way is Essex

Kimberely Wyatt

Arg and maria from TOWIE

I saw Arg sing to bless him he was propper nervous! awwwww

They were some of the celebs that were there on the day i went.

The other thing which i COMPLETELY loved was the actual catwalk it was amazing! Here are some pictures (Some are from google)

Storm models nom nom

It was totally amazing they did a brilliant job and they were dancing too not just walking up and down which made it even more AMAZING!

Here's some random photos of the day.

I will try and add some more later =)

As you may already have caught on i had a totally awesome day and would recommend it to anyone to go next year!

Much love xxx

Wrap Bracelets ADDICTIVE!

Ok so by now you have probably noticed i have a slight addictive personality.

I am totally and completely addicted to making wrap bracelets inspired by the Chan luu bracelets!

They are relatively easy to make and just look totally B-E-A-U-tiful lol.

Here are a few i have made so far......

This is the 1st one i made with thicker cord on the outside and contrasting thread

This one and the one below are made with the same colour thread to the cord and slightly thinner cord

Simple button fastenings

sorry this picture quality sucks a little

I need more beads and thread so i can crack on making more i love them!

Also i am not sure if i like the thicker or thinner cord bracelets best what are your thoughts???

Thanks

Katie

xxxx

Paper Bead Addiction

Hey guys,

So i made a start on the paper beads for the bracelets i am making some friends for Christmas. It is sooooo easy (a little fiddly) and takes a little time but easy enough and you can do it while catching up on tv lol.

Some of my 1st attempts



I just thought i would share with you how easy it is to do them. If anyone would like a tutorial step by step i would be happy to help as well =)

Katie

xx

Christmas organisation routine time.

Ok so i have started to try and get organised for Christmas because it is coming around sooooo quickly its scary! I lurrrvvvveeeee being organised so every year i do the same.

• Write a list of who am buying for
• Write a list of ideas of what i could get each person
• Think of how i am going to give them their presents (i.e. snazzy wrapping paper, boxes with tissue, do it as a kind of pic n mix) i know i think waayyyyyy to much in to it but i love things to look pretty and i like taking time and putting effort in to things =) hehe 
• Do a little research and find the best place to find what i am getting.
• Work out if my finances are going to stretch this far (usually dont and have to improvise lol)



So yeah this year i am feeling a lot more creative and was thinking with friends especially and maybe my sister of making them them things to go with and bulk up their Christmas presents =) so its extra special this year. Ideas i have had up to now.....


• Bracelets - there are a few types i have been reading tutorials on for example the chan luu inspired bracelets and also i found a tutorial for making paper bead bracelets and i wondered how they would turn out.



Paper beads bracelet



Chan luu bracelets



I thought by adding some things in their Christmas boxes like this it will give them more of a personal touch =) also i know that one of my friends wants me to make them a Record earring holder like i have previously posted about.

Another idea i had was sock monkeys i love them lol they are the cutest im not sure how good my sewing skills are yet but i may have a go lol.



Sock Monkey





The other idea i had so far for the girlie's was to make them a magnetic bobby pin (curby grip) holder.

Bobby Pin Holder

So yeah i will keep you updated with anything i do make. It's a good job they don't read my blog lol.

I'm struggling for the boyfriend a little bit tho so any ideas would be appreciateded lol.