Also another great track called 'Left Too Late' by Florrie, I just think it's a really cute song and have again been listening to it loads the last couple of weeks!
Saturday 30 November 2013
Tantalizing Tunes :-)
Also another great track called 'Left Too Late' by Florrie, I just think it's a really cute song and have again been listening to it loads the last couple of weeks!
Monday 25 November 2013
My First Review. . .
So (get on with it Dani)! The Tangle Teazer hairbrush. . . !
Now I say the majority of the time because especially when I had longer hair, I found that the brush didn't quite get through the heavy thickness of my hair and I found that I needed to use my other regular hairbrush with its slightly longer bristles first, to get the main knots out and then I could go over with the Tangle Teazer to really smooth everything out and finish off. But now my hair is shorter, the brush is a dream to use and I love the way it makes my hair feel extra soft after just a few minutes of using it and with very little effort. It was £10.99 when I bought it with my birthday money from Boots (though if I remember rightly I think I used a 10% off voucher to help buy it at the time).
The teeth on the brush are very gentle and glide through my hair, never snagging or pulling (I just hate it when that happens!) I would also say, it is absolutely amazing on just washed damp hair!
So all in all, I would most definitely recommend it :-)
Friday 22 November 2013
A Trip to the Hairdresser's, At Last!
This is about the only decent 'before' pic I could find!
Yes I'm aware that I take the worse 'selfies' ever. . . apparently!
Tuesday 19 November 2013
Helping Hedgehogs
Here are just a couple of photos of our current resident hedgehog (he doesn't have a name at the moment so if anyone can think of a good one, please let me know). I don't have any photos of Wilf yet but as soon as I do I'll post some :-)
P.S. Please remember to keep a look out for our prickly little friends, they are very vulnerable and there are many dangers around in the garden, anything from dogs and cats, not checking piles of leaves, bonfires, ponds and many more. If there are underweight they will not make it through a harsh winter and need all the food they can get. Feed them with dried meal worms, cat food (not fish based), wet hedgehog food like 'Spikes' available from 'Pets at Home' and dry Hedgehog Mix available from 'Ark Wildlife'. Please NEVER give them bread and milk, it's an old myth and can cause them a lot of harm by swelling up in their stomachs! Hedgehogs are now considered an endangered species and could be extinct within the next 10 years, so please do all you can to help them! :-)
Friday 15 November 2013
Decorating a Denim Jacket
I've been loving the studded denim jackets etc that I've seen everywhere, but either couldn't find one I particularly loved or one that I could afford. So after I finally found the right jacket, I went on to Amazon and found myself some lovely little silver studs, I got several styles as I wasn't 100% sure what I was going to do at first, I also got some from a local haberdashers. The white pen is to mark the fabric where I wanted the studs to go, I also used the blunt plastic end of a nail file but a non sharp rounded knife would work just as well.
After deciding on the round and square shaped studs, and placing them on the jacket, I move them around and tried several different variations until I was happy with the pattern. Then I pushed the back spikes into the fabric to keep them in place while I fixed them on properly.
To fix them in place, I used the plastic ended nail file to push the spikes down, then I carefully used the hammer to lightly tap the spikes to make sure they were really tightly pushed into the fabric. One thing I would definitely recommend is to have a folded piece of kitchen paper or a piece of medium thick fabric underneath the stud you are hammering or the top of it will indent and it could mark your work surface to!
I'd say it was reasonably easy to do and took me roughly about 2 hours or so but of course so worth it. The pockets were definitely the hardest to do but I'm really happy with the finished look and can't wait to put an outfit together with it :-) Let me know what you think...
Sunday 10 November 2013
No Treats Today
Friday 8 November 2013
No.7 Free Gift
Hi everyone, today I thought I would tell you about my last trip
to Boots a couple of weeks ago. I was looking
forward to buying one of the No.7 Stay Perfect Lipsticks (I got the shade Classic
Rose) and No.7 Precision lip liner pencil (because they're staying power is amazing! I got
shade Plum) And to my great surprise and
excitement, No.7 were giving away a gift pack for any two items purchased :-)
In the pack was yet another Stay Perfect Lipstick in Modesty, funnily enough the same colour that I was intending to buy originally, a gorgeous shade of High Shine Lipgloss in Smile and a very handy No.7 lip brush, all package in a very pretty little gift bag!
Right, now for the main bit - the lip brush is really good and I now use it for many of my lipstick for extra staying power.
The gloss, well, it's not too bad. I find I have to apply a lot for it to actually look like I'm wearing any at all, even a thin layer. It does stay on reasonably well (but does any gloss really stay put!) One thing I will say is that it's a beautiful colour, though more in the tube than on the lips as it's very sheer but I will use it a while longer and give it another chance.
In the pack was yet another Stay Perfect Lipstick in Modesty, funnily enough the same colour that I was intending to buy originally, a gorgeous shade of High Shine Lipgloss in Smile and a very handy No.7 lip brush, all package in a very pretty little gift bag!
Right, now for the main bit - the lip brush is really good and I now use it for many of my lipstick for extra staying power.
The gloss, well, it's not too bad. I find I have to apply a lot for it to actually look like I'm wearing any at all, even a thin layer. It does stay on reasonably well (but does any gloss really stay put!) One thing I will say is that it's a beautiful colour, though more in the tube than on the lips as it's very sheer but I will use it a while longer and give it another chance.
Monday 4 November 2013
Blogger Plans
Hi everyone,
welcome to my first blog post! So, I
thought I would start by telling you what type of posts you can expect to see
on here. I want to write about things I
like and enjoy, and I hope you will find them interesting too. I LOVE music (especially Linkin Park), crafts,
Poodles, Magick & Wicca, make up, fashion, YouTube, shopping, singing and of course SHOES!! :-)
I'm hoping to do a room tour (once I've
finally finished refurbishing my room and when it's a lot tidier!), I'll show
you my make up collection and storage and tell you about my obsession of
lipsticks. I'm looking forward to doing lots of makeup and product reviews, as
well as showing you shopping hauls and 'outfit of the days', I'll tell you
about craft projects I'm working on (because I just love to customize
everything!), my gorgeous Poodles and my general life! I also have a health condition called
Fibromyalgia, so I will tell you about how I deal with that.
So hopefully
there will be something for everyone and I would love to have you follow me
along my journey, quite literally :-)
Please feel
free to leave any helpful comments or tips, as I'm a newbie to blogging and
welcome all suggestions and if there's a particular product you would like me
to review, just let me know and if I can get hold it (and afford it!), I will
let you know what I think of it.
*******
So, to start
introducing you into my life, here's a few pics of the things I enjoy :-) Hugs from...
Our beautiful
Poodle babies, Tilly and Katie (you'll be seeing a lot of these!)
My most favorite music in the world!
My beliefs...
The most wonderfully romantic story, plus vampires and a sexy werewolf - what more could you want!
Me!
Some of the type of things I like to make
My extreme love of birdcages, roses, shabby chic and anything 'vintage'!
Another me in one of my favorite outfits :-)
Decorating my denim jacket
Shoes.......!!!
The wonders of makeup!
Real Techniques, the best makeup brushes ever invented!
Crapy health issues - Fibro, Anemia and EDS!
A couple of pics of some of the jewellery I love to make!
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crafts,
fashion,
fibromyalgia,
jewellery making,
Linkin Park,
magick and wicca,
makeup,
music,
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Poodles,
shabby chic,
shoes,
shopping,
singing,
Twilight
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