spring,spots,bits and bobs

Nearly the end of March? You wouldnt believe it if you looked outside.... i think the weather is as stuck in winter as i am. i still cant get over it being 2013 yet alone spring! But i am getting sick of this horrible weather, and would like to see a little sunshine please?!?  This time last year it was in the 20's ish! Haway mr sun, stop hibernating now put your hat on and come out to play! please <3 for easter? :)

I would like to put my extra comfy winter jumpers away and stop lazing about inside in my joggers and instead start to wear some of my summer clothes and laze around outside in some shorts with a book, is that too much to ask? Maybe it is, but im hoping by june at least. Maybe if i start asking now itl happen.
Cold weather depresses me. as does a lot of things. I love coats, but even my love for coats isnt enough to keep me happy with this coldness for much longer.

My skin could really do with some vitamin D. and supplements are never the same. and im trying my very hardest to stay clear of the sunbeds this year, but it is getting very tempting. Especially as of late with the amount of spots brewing on my chin/ around my mouth. I am absolutely sick. I haven't had this many or ones this red/angry in a while. Its a shame because last summer i really thought id made a great breakthrough with them, i was hardly getting any and now BAM i get loads.  I know that when i look back to when i was 14/15 this is not loads because i really suffered back then with them on my face/neck and back. but it is still really distressing. Im 24 ffs. When i was 14 i used to wish that by time i was 16 id have lovely clear skin so i could be beautiful. When i was 16 i used to think oh maybe by time im 18. when i was 18 i thought hey by time im 20 they may have all shifted. HAWAY MAN IM 24 JUST FUCK OFF! lol.
I 'lol' but it can seriously get to me sometimes. I know its superficial and people can look past them, but sometimes you do just think 'why me'! its so frustrating! Its frustrating because no matter what i use or put on them all i can do is wait! sit and wait and hope they go away. During the years ive tried everything, and id say the pill was the most succesfull candidate at eradicating them. however last year i discovered some problems down below and had to change to a lower eastrogen pill. I dont know if this has contributed in me getting more spots now? i have been on this pill for around 6 months now... so maybe it is.
Its so irritating, I eat healthy, Im not an exercise freak but every now and then i do a little, Id like to say i look after myself, i bathe i wash im clean. But i have been blessed with shitty hormones! that for all i know could never go away! yipeeeee!

Anyways, il stop being so ranty now.
what have i been upto? well! I have been plodding along.
Been to see a few films, Including OZ, the Croods, Song for marion(which i cried at! a lot)
Not sure how much i enjoyed OZ. i thought it would be much darker/better than it was. some of the scenes seemed only made for 3d and kind of made it feel silly/slightly childish. I normally love childrens films so this wouldnt normally be an issue but it spoilt it for me. Also i think they could have chose a better Oz and made mila as the green witch look a little better.
Croods was spot on for me! <3 love anything like that.
Id recomend songs for marion to anyone, but have tissues ready if you are a soppy git like me! i NEVER used to cry at films. but this really pulls on the heartstrings. I was nearly bawling at one point!

Had some catch up drinks with miss scott at the crabshack :)

I love the crabshack on a sunday :) Live music <3

Plus i love this outfit! :) 

leather look leggings from republic

blouse from topshop

Necklace - topshop

Jacket - topshop! :)

Mr daniel Howgate got made into a freeman of newcastle last week so i went and watched it was good fun. we then strutted around newcastle in our fancy clothes and acted rich haha and went to Yo sushi in fenwicks, nom nom nom!

 Awww :)

Went out for Courtneys birthday a couple of weekeends ago which was mint :) went to the county then town! really enjoyed myself.

Also with my week off work last week i tidied my room! it now has more shelves etc and places for things rather then them just be shoved in heaps haha. got two more shelves to put up though and a thing to hang necklaces on :) then i am complete! woohooo. Im quite proud of myself really, its not perfect but its definately better and feels cleaner :) 

Dont know what else to write about really!

Been eating loads of fish lately, ive turned into a fish addict! Salmon is soooooooooooo good! :) mmmm.

So its easter this weekend and to celebrate im going to make some easter themed cakes soon, maybe tomorrow! :) might put some pictures up.

toodles xx

2013

i cant believe its now february 2013. Life goes so fast! last time i posted was november!
:)

Had a Lovely christmas and new year, and january has flown over!

Was my birthday last thursday, Went and stayed in Keswick monday to friday to celebrate the occasion :) was so nice to spend my birthday over there walking somewhere beautiful! :)

Came home and went to house of smith with my friend Laura on the Friday night which was really good! good bootay shaking music! except why are the lads in newcastle such pricks!? i never have any bother with guys in shields groping me and not taking no for an answer but the lads in town just cant get their head around someone not being out to shag them and just being out to have a nice night with their friend dancing. you tell them to go away and they take that as a challenge! just f off! when a girl says no she means no.


Then on Saturday went out for mine and Jamie's birthday meal at Bravi and then down shields! had such a lovely night!!

This is my favourite picture of the night :)

me in the middle surrounded by some of my besties! 

GlossyBox

So i got my first ever GlossyBox last week :)
I have always wanted to try one because i love trying new products etc. so thought id suscribe for 3 months for myself for christmas :) as i wont be able to treat myself to much else with all the present buying going on! haha

this was what was in my glossybox :)

Yves Rocher - Hydra Vegetal Instant Anti-Wrinkle moisturizer

The Organic Pharmacy Enzyme Peel Mask

Sally Hanson Complete Salon Manicure in Calypso Blue

Skinetica Anti-Blemish

Anatomicals Don't clean it woman, scrub it body scrub

the Yves Rocher anti-wrinkle moisturizer has come in handy since im starting to notice small wrinkles around my eyes :( ever since i started to use the sun beds, ive stopped using them now.  Im living by the rule Embrace the pale! :) i always like being pale in winter anyway. Ive only used this a few times and i cant say ive noticed much but it definately feels nice :)

Havent tried the face peel mask yet... 

Put the nail varnish on todat, must admit i dont normally go for bright shiny blue's but im impressed with this nail varnish! it dries quickly, covers in two coats and claims to be a 5 step manicure in one : base coat strengthener, growth treatment, colour & top coat! so no wasting extra time with base coats and top coats and waiting ages for each to dry etc! Brilliant :) I will see how long it holds out, my nail varnish normally chips within a day haha. im not very careful with my hands!

I will have to take it off tomorrow night for work anyways.

I have actually quite grown to the colour, it looks nice and shiny and is quite fitting for november and the month of fireworks i think.

Ive been using the skinetica for a few days due to having a few of the dreaded 'period' spots left over from last week, and i must admit they have gotten fainter but not really sure if its due to this or just due to a few days passing. il keep using it and decide wether to buy some more. Its only 6.99 a bottle so might do if it does the trick.

Havent used the body scrub yet but it smells amazing!! i love pink grapefruit <3

and i quite like the witty name :)

been feeling a little down again recently, but have decided to live by this qoute
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, It's about learning to dance in the rain."
:)

My brother is doing Movember this year, i love Movember!!! i absolutely LOVE mustaches.

My granda ted always had a mustache

He was one of the best men in the world.

<3

When im old i want my husband to have a mustache and a flat cap. please. 

October :)

Pinch and a punch for the first of the month!
October is over
cant believe how fast the months are passing!
warning, lots of pictures in this blog :)

What have i been upto?
well i went to london early in the month, I am in love with Harrods and all the beautiful things inside that i couldn't afford. and the fact that the tesco express there sells krispy kreme doughnuts meaning that i got staff discount on them! haha :D

 qiute pleased with this picture! :)

My mam found a tomato on our tomato plant that is shaped like a duck! :)
she is convinced it could win some form of tomato contest.
i am amazed by it its one of life's little wonders.

 This is a picture of it when it was green and the beak started to go orange! haha :D
its all red now :)

Went out early in the month with my friend laura round shields, had a good night dancing like tards to gangnam style etc

 

 

 

went out for owens birthday to powerhouse which was a really good night, i always have a great night when i go to powerhouse! :)

my hair for the evening :)

 Marshall me courtney and owen

 <3

 Aww David and marshall look geet cute here!

 haha

 Dont know what im doing here!

 Marshall and his tongue? lol

 Owen and his pink drink :P

I went to see paranorman, madagascar 3 taken 2 and funsize at the cinema :) Paranorman was pretty good. and madagascar 3 i had been waiting for for quite a while because i LOVE the other two, it was really good :) thoroughly enjoyed being reunited with melman and co on another adventure. Im embarassed to say ive never seen taken, but was very impressed with taken 2 so shall definately get myself together and watch it sometime in the near future! who doesn't love a film with Liam neeson in! Funsize was alright too,typical teenage comedy thing set at halloween, funnier than i thought it was gunna be :).

 People who know me will know that i never buy CD's i just use spotify to listen to music. However i did buy this off Play.com for 6.99.

It is flipping beautiful.
Im obsessed with it.
i like every single song. Its hard to choose a favourite but i do flipping love 'I Almost Do'
along with 'The Last Time' It has frigging Gary Lightbody in it! and i LOVE snow patrol <3 and its so beautiful!!!
  'All Too Well' 'RED' and 'Stay stay Stay'
I love them all!!!!!
i can relate to pretty much every song on the album. they all bring memories from times when ive felt exactly like that!


i haven't really done much else because for a week and a half of october i've been really ill :( was bed ridden and couldn't eat or anything. was horrible. still gaining my strength back now, if i go out and wander around for too long i get all light headed and woosy and tired.  I forgot how boring being ill is! total waste of nearly two weeks of my life! :(. i did however get to watch a few films when i wasnt sleeping or rushing to the loo! including tangled, 101 dalmations, lady and the tramp, wrath of the titans and Some kind of wonderful. <3. Back to work tomorrow though.

Did manage to get my Halloween assessment done at college though, Used my friend Laura as my model :P. Went in while i was ill thinking i was getting a bit better and nearly passed out while doing this so its not really the best standard it could have been but meh. i had to rush it and leaved and come home and go back to bed!

Its so odd seeing laura looking that gothic! even when i went through my full on goth phase she was going through a nu monkey phase and we were still best friends haha.
looks so odd :P


Went to the pub last night for halloween, didn't really put any effort into dressing up as i hadn't been expecting to go out, so just ended up shoving some cat ears and a tail on with normal clothes and did my make up a little more gothic than normal. Was nice to see people after being ill and feeling like i hadn't in so long. took a walk along to trocs afterwards just to perve on people's outfits, seen someone dressed as Bane standing outside and instantly knew id seen the best outfit of the night! it was amazing, i wish i could have slyly taken a photograph! didn't bother going in to trocs though, went to get a kebab wrap (yes the girl who hates kebab and thinks its disgusting now likes kebab wraps) with garlic sauce and went home to bed :)

Also yesterday i made some Halloween Cupcakes!
Somebody once said that i NEVER make a good old chocolate cupcake, so i did and they are scrumptious. wish i could give him one!
Of course i stuck to halloween as my theme and made green butter icing and stuck haribo halloween sweets on top hehe :)
I was prancing about to the RED album as i made them haha :)


and that brings us to today! sitting in my pjs in bed typing this, going to get up now and try do something with my day off since its half term so no college! Considering krispy kreme doughnuts and christmas shopping... hmmm.

Love x

National cupcake week! 2012

So i was bored yesterday, and stumbled upon the fact its national cupcake week on twitter! so decided to make some cupcakes :)

i always make vanilla cupcakes, so decided to do something different but didnt want to go out and buy ingredients so hunted through my cake book for something that i had all the ingredients for. The result was ameretto cupcakes!! :)

 i took some pictures while i cooked :)

mix mix mix!

 cooooking :)

 (the ones at the back were in the bottom oven and burnt a bit because i left it on hotter than the top one ooooopsiiiieeee!! they still tastes lush tho!)

 ameretto buttercream! mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 i decorates them with some chopped almonds :)

the finished result :) nom!!!

Got the recipe from the primrose bakery cupcake book :)

they were scrumptious!

Trying to think of other things ive been doing recently!

went to the metro centre with my friend Jamie and raided Krispy Kreme!! :D so flipping good!

Got Lady and the Tramp on blue ray! <3 free with my disney movie rewards that id collected from other films :D

 Went to my favourite little haven (Cafe Caban!) with jamie for a caramel latte and some chocolate cake

where he lent me Warrior (tom hardy is such a beautiful man!) and gave me a copy of avengers <3

OOOOh that reminds me that i went to see Lawless, such a good film! really gruesome at some parts and i had to look away at some bits, and parts made me cringe but in a good way! really flipping brilliant :). (and of course tom hardy  in cardigans was an added bonus ;) ) i love films set a while ago :).

Ive been wearing my hair all pinned up a lot recently as im sick of waiting for it to grow :)

its messy but i like it :)

oooooooooo bought my new winter coat (im such a fan of coats! i love having nice coats... i feel that at winter you spend so much time choosing what to wear then end up covering it all up with a coat! so it has to be a nice one :)) Its a green parka style coat with a furr hood from Miss selfridge <3 i love it!


http://www.missselfridge.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=1&viewAllFlag=&catalogId=33055&storeId=12554&productId=5877255&langId=-1&sort_field=Relevance&categoryId=208077&parent_categoryId=208035&pageSize=40

Obviously i wont wear it allll the time as i like to have choice :PIll still wear my pea green granny coat from topshop <3 and my beautiful leather numbers, and my gorgeous furr coat with ears from last christmas!! ahhhh <3
Coats are the only thing i like about winter!

thats pretty much all i have for now.
Ordered some new make up from ELF and got that the other day but havent really had much of a chance to try it etc, apart from one of the lipsticks which is a really nice colour :) happy with it!

xx

Holiday etc

bit of a delay with this post
Went to Bilbao on the 10th for 8 days :)
went to bilbao bbk live.
Top bands were : Snow Patrol, Mumford and Sons, Keane and Sum41 :)
Also seen Ben Howard, The Cure, Radiohead, Garbage and a few spanish bands.
Was a really good festival, everything id close together once you get on site and its nice to not have to walk for ages to get around, food was reasonably priced and so were the drinks :).

Overall the holiday had some disasterous moments. but i cba to go into detail.
to cut it short, one friend got mugged at the begining, we had to sleep in an airport car park the last night and one friend got left in brussels n missed the connecting flight. so yeh.

But the Place we went was lovely and i got to go to the guigenhiem art museum which was fantastic. I love David Hockney and he currently has an exhibition on there! which was fabulous. But i wasnt allowed to take any photos which i found out after getting wrong ha.

i did however take some photographs of some sculptures which were around the outside of the museum :)

dunno what else to say really

Got another new leather jacket, safe to say im addicted to them.
this one is brown :) from Zara. its purdy. will get a picture up at some point lol :)

but as of next month im cutting down on buying new clothes. :( which sucks. but i have too. i need to start saving money!!!

also got some new make up from the airport and over there
bought get even by benefit which i like a lot!
A full size lancome Hypnose volume mascara
and some Hoola  by benefit :)

xxx

Week 2 of home Alone :)

So what have i been upto this week,
Tuesday i got up early and hit the river island sale with my friend jamie

I came home with these beauties

A bag

two pairs of shoes

a watch

a belt

a jumper

& a dress

<3

Originally would have came to around £200 but thanks to the sale and my friends lovely wristband for a further 50% off it came to around £80 :)

Later in the day i went to the metro centre with drummer just for something to doo and so he could find some jeans :) We had a KFC.

Found some amazing onesie's in primark. :) There is a monkey, a penguin, two different tigers, and a BATMAN onesie! oh and a girlie donkey and bear in the girls bit :)

Wednesday i went to the metro centre again with Lauren and Joe and we went for a meal at wagammammas. <3. yum. and Lauren got any last minute holiday things she needed and euro's.

I hadnt realised how close bilbao was. We go on tuesday :/ frig!

Thursday i had work & college and work again. Friday i had work then work again, and today? work. :( cant wait for midnight tonight. My parents will be home <3 yay

No more home alone

x