Nail Polish & Cookbooks?

Thursdays are mine and Mrs J's (one of the besties) dedicated Frankie's breakfast and girly shopping day. And last week we decided it had been far too long since our last wander round TKMaxx. 

So after happily munching down Pancakes with syrup and bacon (I'm never going to lose weight!) and gossiping like we haven't seen each other in an age, we had by the way just two days before for coffee! We headed over to our local TKMaxx where I couldn't resist buying a few goodies. 

March's Elle magazine is a Comic Relief special and just £2.99, it was an easy purchase decision to make as its a good cause, while the Nail Inc polishes were just £3.99 each and just screamed bargain buy. They had a ton of different polishes on the shelves and it was mighty difficult to decide which ones to take home, it literally took me 1/2 hr to decide (Mrs J can vouch for this as she ended up walking off bored and leaving me too it!). I did however manage to stamp down my urge to take them all home and whittle it down to just 4 polishes.

International Fanworks Day.

Today's post is something alittle different, I thought I'd share with you a few of my favorite fandoms, ships and OTP's (one true pairings) to celebrate International Fanworks Day. 

I've always loved reading, since I was a little girl it's been my way to escape my troubles and stresses. Every free minute I have tends to be spent fangirling over one ship or another and when I'm not reading or watching videos of them, I'm writing my own drabbles about them. There is no better feeling than that of pouring my thoughts and feeling into a story and then have someone love what I've written... it's also one of the scariest as well.

The waiting game and changes afoot..

I'd love to say I'm a patience person but I'm not and the 10 working days wait for my TMA results drives me crazy every time without fault. So while I try not to pull my hair out I've been having a tinker round with my blog design. No major changes really I've jazzed it up abit, changed the font and colours, added an Instagram widget, although there had been one kinda big change.. Have you guessed it... course you have I've changed my blog title! 

I've not been totally happy with it for the last few months, I've been wanting something alittle more personal that gives me more freedom and inspiration, while also reflecting me just that little bit more and I'm quite happy with it, well for now at least. 

I'm also planning to branch out abit where topics are concerned as I'm much more comfortable sharing parts of my personal life with you all now, of course there are things I won't share  Mr H got me a Kitchenaid Mixer for Christmas that I've been dreaming about purchasing for years. 

I've also finally got the hang of using my bright and shiny new cooker, so between that and the fact that this beauty is just too damn pretty to stand neglected on the worktop, I've promised myself I'll bake at least once a week so you can expect plenty of baking and recipe posts in the future. 

If you didn't already know Memebox decided last month to no longer ship internationally so sadly that means no more Memebox beauty boxes to review. I do however have quite the stock pile of goodies I need to try and review so I'm also hoping to share more of my product reviews.

Our gardens (front and back) are also going to be undergoing changes this winter/spring, I have so many plans the first few are to move the veggie plot, add more edible plants into the flower borders and maybe plant some more fruiting trees. First things first though we have to have a good sort out inside and out and fill the 8 tonne skip that's sat on our drive.

Before I get started on all that though I think I'm going to make a brew.

x B x 

Just alittle mummy-daughters time.

While Mr H was out gaming, me and the girls decided to take alittle girly shopping trip into town to spend the last of their Christmas pennies. Our first stop was Build-A-Bear, we had a clear idea of what both girls wanted thanks to online browsing K wanted an Elsa teddy complete with full outfit and T just wanted to buy her Ted 'blue' the Elsa dress. Turns out K had ideas to make her Elsa just that little bit different so she's now the proud mum of an all singing (let it go) Elsa ted that's on holiday visiting Ariel so is all mermaided up. T also changed her mind mid visit she didn't want the Elsa dress but a Batman costume before changing it back upon seeing what her big sis purchased. Don't you just love kids.. 

After that lovely hour I decided to treat them both to a new lush goodie each which took  nearly another hour as they were like kids in a sweetshop with all the different colours. T even referred to the store as a little rainbow shop how cute is that and a perfect description for lush store. 

After much deliberation and many 'what do you think mummy?' and 'this is so pretty' they finally made their minds up and this is what they picked..

Christmas Gift to Myself the SoothingSista Memebox

Today I thought I'd share a quick unopening thoughts and pics from my SoothingSista Memebox which I bought for myself and stashed under our Christmas tree. SoothingSista is a YouTube vblogger who always looks immaculate in every picture and video, I'm very jealous I wish I looked that good! 

I love the little product cards that Memebox include in there boxes, and these cards also include a little info about who SoothingSista is and her style. As just a side comment about the design of the box, it's pretty and girly without screaming it in your face I love it and I'll definitely be keeping this one. 

SoothingSista's personalised product cards

Here's what the SoothingSista Collaboration #9 Memebox contains... 

Last week of using up my sample products in December..

So it's taken a while but I've finally got round to typing up my thoughts on my final week of samples and to be fair it was a pretty mixed week product wise.

Here's what samples I managed to get through in the last week of December..  

Disney Store Sale Finds

So the other day me and my mum decided to have a little post Christmas shopping trip and by shopping trip I actually mean meeting up for coffee, cake, gossip and a wander round the sales without my girls in tow. 

During our wander we popped into the Disney Store, it's one of my girls favourite shops (they adore the dresses) and they have a sale on, which is reason enough for me personally. They had quite a lot reduced for girls and boys and I really struggled to decided on just what to buy, I was looking for things for my youngest daughters birthday (it not til the end of spring but I like to be super organised when I comes to birthdays, I get it from my mum) but I didn't want to spend a small fortune, so I made a beeline for the sale baskets and started rummaging and found these.. 

Sleeping Beauty Pencil Tin Set (Reduced To £2.39)

This girly pencil tin contains 20 colouring pencils, a plain paper pad and a sharpener. We have tons of crayon, felts and colouring pencils littering our house but I know she'll love these as they are super girly and will be perfect to go in the new pencil case her Nanny bought her for school.