Jingle bells eeeeeeee

I wanted to post this in December, but to hi light my excitement, November it shall be. I love Christmas and everything about the preparation eeee this is my favourite time of year. This year I will be having my very first christmas tree of my own, something that is also proving difficult to find but that is another blog post. Here I wanted to share with you a couple of decorations I have picked up, if this is anything to go by I will have a very bare Christmas tree.... I love these, I am excited to have a very miss-matchy Christmas tree. At home at both my parents homes they have very 'designer' Christmas trees with uniform decorations and this is completely not my style, I am hoping for a very homely feel. Yes I am aware I give these things too much thought.

These decorations are from

Rudolph - Accesorise

Ginger bread Man - Acessorise

Joy - The Range

Star's - The Range

Kelly xxx

Winter Hat - RI ( Would you buy the watch? )

Here is one of my favorite hats from RI.... so comfy! I think RI use the best wool ever, I have washed this baby several times and it still holds its shape after a whole year!

Do you love RI hats? Which do you have?

I am having a moral dilemma, I think this counts as a moral dilemma I am not 100% but here goes.

For the pat however long I have been 'nesting' so to speak, spending my money on making my flat look and feel as lovely as possible and now I am wanting to buy myself something completely selfish.

Something that is just for me and pretty useless for the price. A watch.

A woman came into work one day, wearing this gorgeous watch, the strap was white but the face, THE FACE was to die for. I don't think it would be to every ones taste but to me it is the nicest Watch ever. I was on a mission. I have since tracked down the watch and they have the watch face on a much nicer strap, all gold plated and eeeeeeee!

Its sold out on-line everywhere! There is one I have found in a department store that I can get posted over. Why cant I bring myself to just Buying it? To be fair its £200 and I am not that materialistic usually, once in a blue moon I will get myself something really nice but arghhh I have the Devil on one shoulder telling me to Behave and I have my mini-mee on the other telling me it will look Gorgeous.

( I am not going to say which watch it is for several reasons, mainly I cant handle it if someone replies with ' oh I have that watch') hehe

What would you do?

How pathetic of me? its a watch,

but then again.....

Blog Sale ! ! ! !

Hello Lovelies, this post will be live for a few days and then it shall be deleted.

Whilst having a day of sanding the bureau and generally tidying the flat I thought I would pass on some of my unloved makeup to someone who may actually want it.

- If you would like an item simply, Leave a comment with the item name and your paypal email address, I will invoice as soon as I notice the item is SOLD. First comment , first serve.

- Shipping is £2.00.

- All items will be packaged safely don't worry.

- No Refunds, Sorry.

River Island Stud Handbag

It measures approx 16" x 13" x3" / 41cm x 34cm x 8cm

The bag is in great condition on the outside, It has been well used. There is a small Nail polish spillage inside, i will try to clean this up before I post it out

£20.00

postage £5.00

MAC

Scatterrays Solar bits Pigment by MAC

98% left

£8.00

MAC

MAC Rich Ground fluid line

Has been used twice, can be seen in the photo.

£5.00

BENEFIT

Benefit Powderflage,

Bought on a whim, I just don't have the time to use it.

99.9% left

SOLD

MAC

MAC Heatherette Alpha Girl beauty powder in other packaging

Hardly used

SOLD

BARRY M

Barry M Bronzer

Used once/twice

£4.00

MAC

FAFI - Fashion Frenzy Blusher

Used

SOLD

kelly x

Project Bureau

For the longest time now I have been trying to find Antique pieces of furniture to make my flat look less like an Ikea showroom and more like a home, my family is very big on refurbishment and dealing in antiques! Yesterday my best friend Ed's mum and dad gave me this beauty, an old bureau. I have been looking for one of these for months but they always looked too shiny and new and I plan on a complete makeover so this is a lovely gift eeeeeee.

I am planning on making the Bureau white, with a purple 'Interior, including drawers and new handles. What d you think? Im so excited I just had to blog about it!

kelly xxx

Winter Hat - Gul

Here is another of my favorite winter hats! This perticular hat is from Gul, I believe Gul is a growing Cornish company in the UK. I Bought this at the same time I picked up one of my current surf boards so its a good 3 years old! and I am sure it is still available.

Today I have been made permanent staff at the Aquarium where I work one day a week which was nice! I have been there 1 month now. Here is a photo from today...

Kelly x

NewLook Basic Staple ( curvy women?)

Over the past year I have accumulated an absolute tonne of a specific item of clothing from NewLook. I have around 6 different colours and around 4 of each colour.

Introducing this £4 little Beauty vest top. I absolutly love these, there excellent for layering on the colder days or looking bright on the warmer days. They have an excellent collection of colours, during the summer I fell in love with the lilac, baby blue and corals, at the moment I am enjoying the grey, black and whites.

They are made from 100% cotton and I love to stretch them! This is going to make me sound like a complete crazy lady but, as a size 16-18 I find it difficult to find basic tops that are not made from fabrics that cling. If you are a similar size to me you will understand that 'clingy' tops are an absolute nightmare to wear. We don't want to hi light our lumps and bumps, I personally like to give myself a nicer outline and so around the bottom of these tops whilst they are wet from the washer I shape them, I do stretch them slightly but then I like them to be lovely and fitted around my chest.

Once again, I highly recommend them and thought someone out there may appreciate this post. Here are a couple of shots of the tops.

http://www.newlook.com/shop/womens/tops/essential-jersey-vest_180522801

At the moment they seem to be 2 for £6 on line, so I may have to get some more!

kelly x

Redken Request + Extra

I have recently been asked a couple of times to recommend hair products that I use, and love. Over a year ago now my hair fell out and i have managed to rescue my hair and maintained my healthy hair using a brand that I absolutely love, introducing... Redken.

My hair was originally rescued using Redken allsoft, which is in a golden looking bottle, since then I have seen other people recommend other types from the brand and so I purchased.

Over the next few months i will be reviewing Redken for my readers and I think this will be very helpful as sometimes these shampoos aren't the cheapest and so this will help you work out which will be best for you... I hope.

I also picked up a Treatment shampoo from Redken for sensitive scalps that My better half will be testing for me, for people with Eczema or sensitive scalps, he does have quite long hair and so im hoping this will give you again some information as to whether or not it works.

Enough of me going on, just to finish quickly, I have received some products from Celnique, which I will review briefly in the next couple of weeks.

http://www.cellnique.com/

1. Seaweed Cleansing Gel http://www.cellnique.com/index.php/products/product-range/cleanser/seaweed-cleansing-gel.html

2. Soothing and Hydrating Lotion http://www.cellnique.com/index.php/products/product-range/toner/soothing-and-hydrating-lotion.html

3. Total DayTime Protection 30 http://www.cellnique.com/index.php/products/product-range/sun-protection/total-daytime-protection-30.html

Kelly x

( There is an upcoming Blog post, that will be published on Halloween to show my hair story over the past 3 years)

Vintage Mulberry

Introducing my Scotch Grain Saddle Bag by Mulberry. I picked up this beauty during the summer and had planned for this to be my casual bag for the beach! It can hold my phone, camera and a lip gloss or two... I believe the bag is from the early 80's so its almost 'vintage', I love the quality, I love the scotch tartan lining, I love the quality of the zip inside ( its the little things people! ) .

Leather Jacket - Matalan

Bag - Mulberry scotch grain saddle bag

Skirt - Zara 2010

Tights - Jasper Conran

Boots - Primark 2009

Kelly x

NAKED

Finally i have time to tell you what i think about the NAKED Pallet from Urban Decay 2010. I have a soft spot for Urban Decay, ever since I purchased the first Book of shadows from Kelanjo in 2008 I think? I had never used any other brand of make-up with such amazing eye-shadow quality. I am fond of MAC cosmetics and cant live without Sudio Fix Fluid, however their price of eye-shadow is steep for myself who only wears eye-shadow a couple of times a month.... I do own 3 MAC pallets of eye-shadow and blush and all have some sort of damage to the content as they don't protect what's inside at all. Waste of money. I love that you can buy 12-16 shadows from Urban Decay for around £25 in gorgeous packaging.... Genius!

Kelly x

Winter Hat - Billabong

Dont know if anyone has noticed the weather recently, its absolutely freezing brrrrrr.

Out come's the winter wardrobe....

Here is one of my favourite hats, it is from Billabong during the spring 2010 I think and was around £25. I love chunky knit!

Do you think I can get away with a thick chunky knitted scarf or would that be over kill?

I think i need one.... eeeeee

Kelly x

Aquarium

Hello, so today is my one day of the week where i feel like me. Just me.

Tuesdays I work in the National Marine Aquarium and it is actually amazing. Here is my gorgeous uniform, I am so so sorry for lack of decent post today but tomorrows is drafted and more exciting.

Meet some of my friends.....

Bagpipe the common Octopus. He is about 6 months old now.

Here are the mermaid purses for a couple of sharks and rays.

My well balanced Lunch i have in the Aquarium.

kelly xxx

Newquay student surf champs

Today I ventured up to the North coast with the Boyfriend and the Brother (in-law i guess) for the final day of the student surf champs, this is my first year in the past 4 that ive not been able to take part as I graduated in September.... The weather was lovely but still kind of freezing in the shade!

Here is what i wore... Again a very beachy casual kelly, I kind of love how me and chris both ended up wearing plaid shirts hehe

So all in all besides some minor work cock ups have had a decent weekend.... hope you all had fun!

Question - What do you wear to the beach in winter???

I will be in flip flops until they have to cut my legs of...

kelly xxx

The two pound coin, was spent.

I am in love

Besides my silly posing because well, I no longer have half a bald head and plan to photograph my face as much as possible in celebration... The focus of this post is the chain I am wearing... This is yet again a Primark find that I think its just incredible value for money. Costing only £2 this dirty gold tone chain with delicate charms is gorgeous, and can also be worn as a bracelet.

I think some of these charms are so pretty i love the mix of coral and turquoise too... Though I think this dirty gold is much more autumn than summer so this gets the thumbs up from me.

Going to Newquay today for the last part of the student surf champs eeeeee

kelly xxx

Introducing.... The Winter Coat

For as long as I remember, I have worn some sort of ski jacket from the likes of O'neil, ROXY, Billabong during the winter months along with some variation of flip flops... Yes I wear flip flops 12 months out of the year !

This year im 22 and think its about time I have something to wear too and from work that makes me look more like ( a lady?) is that what im going for here??? I dont know exactly.

I tried on coats everywhere and the fabrics were too heavy, sized too small, and with my large chest they made me look like an absolute beast so I gave up my search.

Until I stumbled across this beaut. Again I know this wont be to everyone's taste but that's me for you... Though id like your opinions... Its light weight, it has a snuggly hood, its extremely soft and best of all it didnt break the bank !

(I unfortunately used the flash for the above photograph and so the colours are a little harsh, the other photos are more of an accurate representation.)

I purchased a scarf to go with my new coat... I know I am so adventurous aren't I.... it looks lovely to be fair... and keeps me warm eeeeeee

Have a lovely weekend

kelly x

Birds

I was supposed to start my new job today, now I have to go in tomorrow instead so.... I have free time for blogging and shopping! happy dance!!! Its feezing again outside so thought I would wear this cute jumper i got last week from Primark! its gorgeous and so soft... Im wearing it with a typical Kelly skirt, this one is by ROXY....



Boots - NewLook

I am aware i dress like a casual miss matchy beachy bum....


kelly x

Where i blog...

As you may have noticed i am starting a fresh with my blog... and it feels good!

So months and months ago i saw these posts kicking around, photographs from where you all blog and i absolutely loved reading them and getting that sneek peak into your worlds and i think this is a good place to begin.

Here is my typical blogging and fiddling around on the internet trying to do work/ be creative and generally do damaging online shopping that leads to me saying things like

'oh it was in storage' or ' oh this old thing? ive had it years!'

So here you go... Please bare in mind i have only just moved really and the apartment is pretty bare! im still trying to get to grips with the rules of communal bedroom hehe ( must avoid pink apparently)



( yes yes i do have a bieber fever sticker on my crap top...shh)

My side of the bed is pretty basic, i always have a book by the bed, im currently reading an Alex Garland book, The Beach... There is some sort of inconvenient (yummy) coffee just before bed time sat on the side every evening and plenty of candles around the room... The ceiling is super high with 3 sky lights so i can lay in bed looking at stars which is pretty sweet!

I love reading through fashion/ textiles blogs at night recently... I am much more interested in fashion and think its more exciting than make up looks ect ( i love being creative with textiles i could blog about my sewing area one day soon if you would like?)

And here i am... in case you had forgotten what i look like :)



This is a pretty lazy evening after a days work in the Aquarium, I love this camo skirt from ZARA...... Anyway, have a lovely evening and if you do a post like this, I'd love to see your space so link me up!

kelly xxx