new diet starts NOW!

Hello ladies! Well today I officially started the Rosemary Conley inch loss plan with my mum! It's a diet and exercise regime that claims you can loose a stone in a month (wouldn't that be nice?!) Our first meeting was tonight at 7.30, where we were given a little goody bag and our target card. The best things in my bag were firstly the magic measure

It's a regular measure that comes with colour coded clips. You get two of each colour clip, one that doesn't come off once it's closed, and one that does! The point of this is to mark your original measurements all over, so you can see how many inches you've lost :) it seems like a good idea for motivation, we'll see how it goes!

Secondly are these portion pots, you get a little guide to tell you what each pot measures, to help make sure you have the right sized portion! It will make life much easier, but knowing my usual portions i think I will be going hungry a few times in the next couple of weeks, especially as for the first 2 weeks of the plan you can only have 1400 cals a day!!
Not too long ago I did take part in the this morning healthy starts diet. This was a good diet as it was nice to have meals planned out without counting all of the calories. Admittedly i did loose nearly 2 stone on that diet, but I did not get my money's worth as due to matt loosing his job, we couldn't afford to buy any of the groceries we needed for the recipes! Fingers crossed this one is a little more affordable and is easier to stick too :) I will keep you posted on my hopeful weight loss!!

new ideas for my head!

Ok so as some of you may know I have a bit of a thing for colouring my hair :) my most recent favourite was my lovely bright red! Unfortunately the red would only last an average of 2 days!! I loved the colour soooo much, but staining my hands and neck every other day wasn't an option! Another shock was to find that red is even harder to bleach out than black! So for the past couple of months I have been a brunette, and as of 2 weeks ago, I am now an odd gingery blonde!

Not far off this colour! It's not the nicest colour in the world, but it is working progress, as this is the beautiful colour I want to get to!

Isn't it yummy :D but it seems a very distant dream right now!! So far my hair has been bleached 4 times and it is STILL orange!! But it'll all be worth it in the end :D
Also a big thanks for all your messages for my graduation :) it was a lovely day, and being in all the black robes, and having the ceremony in lincoln cathedral felt just like being in harry potter! hehe! Photo's will be coming as soon as dad gives my camera back!

Graduation!

Today is my graduation day from Lincoln uni :) I am very much looking forward to getting it all out of the way! I have been haunted by dreams of falling flat on my face for the past week, so today will be full of nerves and giggles hehe!

Fingers crossed it all goes well!!

Discount count down!!

Hi all!
I've been itching for a good old fashioned shopping spree for a while! But with only one income coming in and a hell of a lot of payments going out, I have to keep on waiting to get my fix!!
In another week I will finally be entitled to my staff discount at dwell, which is great as I have a list as long as my arm of things I want to buy when we have the cash! Here are some of the bits I'm loving right now :D

This table is just too beautiful! In real life the veneer is so yummy! Definately want this in my kitchen :D

This coat stand is amazing, I'd just use it to hang ornaments or jewellery from!

These glasses are stunning, they have a really classy vintage look, and are so sparkly :D

Another awsome bit of sparkle! This skull is covered in little diamonte's! It's so rock and roll :P

This sofa is beautiful, the colour is soooooo nice! I always have to stroke our model in the showroom when I go past hehe!!

I love this vase, it's really heavy, but the roses are so pretty! We had one of these with a lovely flower arrangement on display in our window last week, Looks amazing!!

Finally these salt and pepper shakers. A customer ordered some of these and picked them up today, I had a sneek peak at them as we haven't had any in our store yet! They are ADORABLE! I have to have to HAVE to buy these when I have some more pennies :D

For now though I'm just enjoying seeing all of the new pieces coming in from the new catalogue :) every delivery is like christmas! Except I don't get to take everything home! If anybody wants to check out the rest of dwell's goodies, I can pop you on the mailing list to recieve our catalogue and vouchers :D yay!! xx

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