Fun with lights!

Ok so the other week we recieved an email at work to let us know that marketing had set up 20% off vouchers for our store, available through a website. The website was mydeco.co.uk, and we decided to take a sneaky peak.

Mydeco is such a cool website, it's a sort of comparison site for all different lovely things to decorate your entire home! The other day I spotted the above chandelier on their home page, and I have fallen in love!!

Which has lead me on to trawl through pages of chandeliers, oohing and ahhing over my favourite finds

I really love these bright and quirky takes on chandeliers, and with pretty much all of these being under £100 I can see one of these winding up in my spare room!

and they call it kitty love

Well it's only been a few days since we brought little Roxy home, and already her and Jinx are best friends! In fact, they're a little too close! And so Jinx has spent the last few days outside having plenty of cold showers, and will be getting the snip next wednesday!!

Things I wont be buying again!

Ok, so it's no secret that me and Mr S have been very low on cash for the past few months, meaning we have been trying to watch the pennies as much as possible. Because of this, I have been keeping my eyes open for any bargains. I recently made the most of a 3 for 2 offer on maybelline products at boots, and also saved some cash by buying a cheaper dry shampoo from superdrug. Sadly these products are so useless, that I couldn't help but tell you all about them!

First of all, the dry shampoo. I usually buy batiste which was £2.09 in superdrug, so when I spotted tresseme's equivalent for around 50p less I thought I'd go for it.
BIG MISTAKE! I've tried my fair share of dry shampoo's and this is definately the worst! It is so thick it turned my hair white with the smallest amount of spray, and gave my hair a really horrible texture that just wouldn't brush out! The only way this dry shampoo will make your hair look fresher, is after you've had the shower to wash the bloody stuff out!

Secondly is maybelline's new falsies mascara. It was on an introductory price in boots a little while ago and was part of a 3 for 2 offer. I thought I was getting a real bargain after the advert saying 9 out of 10 people would recommend it. I'm not the biggest mascara user as I'm lucky enough to have naturally black eyelashes, however it's always nice to give them a boost! This mascara is definately the worst I've used. The brush is an awquard shape to use, and pulls out such thick clumps of gooey mascara, that makes such a mess and takes forever to dry!

Finally is maybelline's line definer eye liner. This liner looked perfect, it gives a nice clean, thin line which is great for adding a nice little flick! However, it is very very messy, designed like a pen you get a fair amount of liner smudge onto your fingers when applying, and after a couple of hours the lines on your eyes will have smudged or rubbed off all together! Tres dissapointing :(
Has anyone else used any of these products yet? If so what did you think? :) x

Another new layout!

Ok, so for the past few months my laptop has been dead and broken. At the moment I'm saving up so buy a shiny new one :) but for now I am using Mr S' notebook, which unfortunately only has a 8.9" screen! Meaning I can only see the very middle of my blog! However, I was pretty sure the background had vanished from my blog! So after a good amount of template hunting, i finally found a nice and simple replacement :) yay!
The only thing I'm not too pleased with is i need a new banner, and some of the fonts are a little dull, but this will have to wait until I have a bigger laptop, as this one is just too weeny to see anything!

names!

Today i got a phone call offering me this little lady for free under the promise of a good home :) so now she is wandering around infront of me, having a good explore of my living room! Leaving me time to think of the perfect name for her :) so far I have thought of misty, twilah and betsy, any suggestions? :)

Hapi-ness again

Hi all
I'm pleased to announce that after a week of time to get my head together, and a little bit of retail therapy! I am finally bouncing back into being Hapi-ness.
I have decided to rehome another little kitty, as our little jinx has been so sad since Esme died :( so at the moment we are on the look out for the perfect addition to our family!

Because it has been FOREVER since I have had regular updates with blogger, i have a nice range of goodies lined up to give away over the next few weeks! Yay!
I have missed all of my blogging buddies so much!! So right now I am going to have a trawl through some of my favourite blogs to catch up with everybody :)

a terrible month

Hi all. I'm sorry it's been such a long time since I posted anything, but the past month has been a horrible month, and I just couldn't concentrate enough to sit down and write about anything. However today I feel like I have to.

Last week my beautiful little girl esme went missing. I put posters up all over our estate to try and find her. I got a phone call yesterday to tell me someone thinks they had found her. Unfortunately she'd been dead in their garden for 3 days. I'm sure you can imagine how horrible it was to go and bring her home and make sure it was her by this point, which has left me in a state of pure misery since.
Other problems before this happened have also included a car accident (no body was hurt but we now are paying through the nose on insurance.) Matt lost his job, my vespa broke over and over costing nearly £500 to fix, which has been such a struggle to afford, and the stress and arguments that have entailed.

The only thing that has been keeping me going is the hope that things can only get better, and that my string of bad luck might finally be over :(