LIFESTYLE, PARENTING
When I was putting my makeup on for our wedding day, my photographer commented how she had never seen one person with so many makeup palettes. In fact, every time she went to take a picture of me, I was holding a different one up to my face. I think I may have a little bit of a problem, I’m just addicted to buying makeup palettes! I’ve picked my favourite ones out to share with you in today’s blog post. This isn’t even my full collection…
Being on a diet can be tough. It’s hard to stick to a healthy nutrition plan when your friends are asking you to go out for dinner and drinks. You don’t want to feel like you’re missing out but then you have to be the awkward, fussy person who won’t just settle for a trip to Pizza Express. I am kicking my 2017 off with a return to my three week shred – a strict nutrition plan designed to detoxify after Christmas and break all those bad habits I got into. When I got invited out by intu Eldon Square to try their new restaurants, I thought I’d have to endure a night of serious FOMO. But luckily for me, the brief was to prove that eating out can still be healthy. So is it possible to stick to your diet when eating out?
I strongly believe that if I think I look good when I’m working out, I will feel better about myself. And if I feel better about myself then it will be less of a struggle getting out of bed at 5:39am and braving the cold. I will also feel much more comfortable lunging in front of other people. For me, looking good is about wearing colour and bold prints, so I’m sharing my top colourful sportswear picks for those who are bored of plain old black.
So it turns out I have rather an extensive daily skincare routine. I have no idea how it got this in depth, but it really is! I am also discovering just how many beauty and skincare products are tested on animals and after declaring one of my new year’s resolutions is to use more cruelty free products, I realised my daily skincare needs a bit of an overhaul. Find out exactly what I use and what I now need to replace.
There seems to have been loads of chat this year about new year’s resolutions / goals / targets / mission / objective / ambitions / intentions – WHATEVER it is you want to call them – and how much they suck. Now I am all for setting myself goals. I think the key is to make them fun, make them manageable and give myself a deadline. And if I don’t achieve them then I look at what they have taught me instead. What have I learnt? Why did I fail? Then I take responsibility for it and move on. I thought I would share with you the top resolutions I have come up with for this year.
Happy New Year! I have had a lovely ten days off work and blogging. I totally forgot to keep scheduling tweets because I was too busy face planting into five roast dinners, three meals out and a tub of Miniature Heroes. But here I am, back again to kick 2017’s ass. And to start the new year off, I thought I’d share with you what I got for Christmas. Because I am super nosy and love reading these posts so I know you will be too!
At the end of 2015 (which feels approximately five minutes ago btw), I set myself some blogging goals for 2016. Given I had only been blogging a matter of months then, I wasn’t really sure what I was doing (definitely still don’t) so I wasn’t sure what were reasonable goals to set myself. Looking back, it’s interesting that all the goals I set were based on numbers. This year, I’ve realised that it isn’t just about the numbers. While I fully understand that the stats often get you more opportunities, there is more to a great blog than just how many people follow you on Twitter. So I’m here to review my year in comparison to last year’s stats goals and think about what goals I might set myself for 2017.
Last week I introduced you to what I got in days 1 – 10 of my ASOS advent calendar. Well this post is all about (you guessed it!) days 11 – 20. I appreciate that still leaves four days worth of treats before Christmas that I haven’t shown you, but I will. I just can’t bring myself to open the doors until the actual day. It spoils the advent fun!
Christmas is all about spending time with your loved ones but it’s easy to get caught up in all the business of buying presents, going out for the work Christmas party and generally feeling frazzled. So when The Pip Stop offered to send me a wine tasting kit to enjoy at home, I couldn’t resist. It gave me the perfect excuse to spend a lovely evening in with my husband and try some new wines that the experts at The Pip Stop recommended.
So it’s confession time. This year, I totally failed at organisation. I didn’t carry out my wifely duties. I failed at being a decent human being. I completely forgot to get Andrew an advent calendar until the last day of November, when I frantically rushed around Newcastle looking for the good Lindt one (with no nuts). Needless to say, it was nowhere to be found and I had to confess my failings to my husband. To my horror, I then came home to find he had bought me the ASOS advent calendar. Cue me feeling like a total dick!