The Birthday Post: What I Got For My Birthday.

Good afternoon lovelies! After a lovely birthday weekend I have come back down to earth! My birthday weekend has been one incredible weekend and I'm so thankful to all my family, friends and wonderful boyfriend who well and truly spoilt me. On Friday 10th January, I turned 20 years old which was kinda scary, there's no going back to being a teenager any more and responsibilities and adulthood seem to come hurling at me!

On the Friday my Mum and I went to Bicester Village which is a designer outlet and all the items in the shops are a lot cheaper than what they cost in the regular shops. Mum and I shopped and ate until our bodies hurt! In the evening my boyfriend, Tyler, took me to my favourite Chinese where we had a lovely meal and spent the rest of the evening together. Saturday was Tyler's Mums birthday and his family and I went to our local Cosmos restaurant. If you haven't been to a Cosmos near you, you NEED to! It's an all you can buffet with nearly 300 dishes including dessert! And it's all different types of cuisine from Chinese to your typical English Roast Dinner and Thai, it's incredible! Finally, on the Sunday, I had a large family meal at Prezzos followed by an open house for tea, wine and birthday cake in the evening! It literally was such an incredible weekend and I was also spoilt and showered in gifts!

Firstly, perfume, bath and body and girly bits! Everyone knows how much I love bath smellies so I wasn't short of any this birthday followed by my favourite perfume at the moment, the Lady Gaga Fame perfume which smells divine! Candles and nail polish are also a big hit with me. I'm basically just a lover of anything girly!

Miscellaneous presents included my favourite TV show cook book from The Great British Bake Off, I can't wait for the new series to start again in the summer after watching the Sport Relief episodes! Katie Piper is also one of my idols and I'm beginning to learn so much from her, especially when it comes to positivity.

My Mum chose well when she picked the gold chunky chain for me from Accessorize! I've never been one for watches, partially because I feel that they just don't suit my small wrists, however, I just fell in love with this one and my Granny brought it for me.

Clothes are always essential at any birthday or Christmas!

The remainder of the Alcohol left! I can't wait to try the cocktails! When I'm out I'm not really adventurous with trying new cocktails as I feel as though if I don't like it I've wasted that money - I can be quite tight, haha!

Whilst shopping I treated myself to a gorgeous Ted Baker purse and Vivienne Westwood bracelet which I couldn't resist, I think we all need a little bit of something special in our lives!

Other presents which I didn't photograph were things like money and vouchers. There were also presents which I couldn't photograph such as Tyler surprised me with a trip to London to go one the London Eye, followed by the London Zoo and lastly a stop off at the Ice Bar, all things which I've talked about in the past and said I wanted to do, and it shall all be taking place this coming Saturday, I'm so excited, it feels like it'll be my birthday all over again! And finally, my Dad and Step Mum have paid to put Tyler and I up in the Marriot Hotel by Gatwick airport the night before we fly to Corfu as our flight is at 6 o'clock in the morning we were worrying about what to do and the costs of it all. Teamed up with my Mum there's also dinner and breakfast too! Which is hugely generous of them all. In fact all my friends and family have been so generous, I actually can't believe how lucky I am to be surrounded by such lovely people in my life and hopefully I'll have many more birthdays to celebrate with them all!

Happy Birthday To Me!

I've been a little quiet over the last week and that's because last week on Thursday was my birthday! I can't believe it had been a year since my exciting 18th birthday and I am now 19, which to some of you probably still seems like a baby, but it makes me feel old. I want to be 18 forever! I was so incredibly spoilt for my birthday and I'm only going to show you a selection of my favourite presents from my family, friends and wonderful boyfriend. As things like money, vouchers, knickers and socks aren't really exciting to photograph!

These are some of the lovely gifts which I received. I also received some lovely clothing too but haven't included them in the photo because they're in the wash from wearing them at the weekend.

My Mum brought me the Ted Baker wash bag to match my make-up bag which I had been trying to get my hands on for ages and eventually did, you can read my blog post about it here. So I'm ecstatic that I now have the matching set! This was perfect for my weekend away. My Granny also a lovely large 150ml Liz Earle Hot Cloth Cleanse and Polish. I absolutely love this stuff, it has to be my most favourite cleanser and now I'm stocked up, especially as I got some for Christmas too! The fairy lights are to replace my old ones which broke, I'm in love with them and have already placed them around my headboard of my bed. My bedroom looks so cute and girly at night with these lights, it's definitely my safe haven, and place I go to relax.

 I am mad on baking, and when I was out shopping with my Stepmum I pointed this book out to her and said how much I loved it and would one day like to buy it. She remembered our conversation and went and brought it for me! Yay! There will definitely be more foodie posts coming soon as I work my way through the cook book. I'm drooling even thinking about it!

 I love, love, love, love this gift from my Auntie, Uncle and Cousins! Recently I have become a major Vampire Diaries fan and have even gotten my boyfriend, Tyler into it as well. This is season 1-3 and we're currently half way through watching season 1 on Netflix, so I can cancel my subscription now I have the box set and save money! Are any of you Vampire Diaries fans, girls?!

 Again, my Dad and Stepmum did so well with these beautiful shoes which I have been lusting over for months, I now own them in cream and purple!! Miss Selfridge are great for shoes if any of you girls are looking for ideas.

 This really had to be the best birthday present of all!! My boyfriend was amazing enough to take me to Paris on the weekend of my birthday! I couldn't believe it when he told me, I was in so much shock and so, so incredibly excited! We have both been wanting to go to Paris for quite a while and were planning on organising a trip for March but I couldn't believe it when he surprised me with a trip for my birthday. I really am the luckiest girl alive. I had such an amazing time this weekend and I really can't thank him enough! I'm going to do a short post of a few holiday snaps of Paris soon!

As well as taking me to Paris for the weekend during the day on my birthday a delivery van pulled up and delivered me the most beautiful bouquet of flowers I have ever received from my boyfriend, that man is full of surprises!

It really has been a great 19th birthday and I am so lucky to have such a wonderful family, boyfriend and friends. There really aren't enough words to tell you all how grateful I am, and how right now life is just perfectly amazing. 2013 has kicked off with a bang!

 

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Hope you all had a lovely weekend.

 

#94. Meet my new baby. - A short story.

Yes, yes this new Ted Baker Make Up Bag is my new baby! Jealous? You should be! It took me an arm and a leg to get hold of this! I saw them a while back and instantly knew that I had to have it. So I went onto the Ted Bake website and they were sold and had been sold out for months! The only one which they did have was the large wash bag at £29 and I didn't fancy putting my make up in that and lugging it about. So when I went to London for the weekend I went in to so many Ted Baker stores and House Of Frasers and not one of them had the make up bag in stock only the flipping wash bags. I then went back onto the Ted Baker website and did a live chat with a very nice customer assistant who told me that the only they could locate is in Manchester Selfridges. MANCHESTER?!?!?! Thats not really helpful when I live down South in Reading near London. She told me that they did postal orders and gave me number which turned out to be the wrong number! The guy in Manchester Selfridges was also so unhelpful that at the end of it I decided I couldn't be bothered and that maybe it just wasn't meant to be.

Then, on a trip to Reading to buy Tyler, my boyfriends birthday presents I cut through House of Fraser and right by my exit was Ted Baker and immediately it caught my eye. Yes!! They had one!! But it wasn't over yet!... I ran over and nearly knocked the old woman out the way who was eyeing it up and grabbed it. Finders keepers is all about the one who gets ahold of it first. I took it to the till to pay to be told by the girl that she wasn't allowed to sell the display one and would check out back for me at this point the old lady was right by my side and I knew that she was after it too. When the girl came back in her hands was the makeup bag all nicely packaged and she told me that it was the last one in stock. VICTORY WAS MINE!!!! At last I had the make up bag I had been lusting over for months and I didn't have a care in the world that it cost me £25 or the fact that the old lady went home with nothing. This beauty was mine and I have been cherishing it ever since. Sometimes a girls got to do what a girls got to do for something she loves!

 

Thanks for listening folks!

Do you have any short storys about something you've had to have?!

 

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#88 NOTD

Just a quick Nail of The Day post today, as recently I have really gotten back into the routine for making sure I give myself a good manicure at least once a week, and it's working! My nails are growing faster than ever and are in such good condition!

If you read my recent posts you'll know that I was given the Ted Baker From Ted To Toe Nail Beauty set for Christmas and used it for the first time ever, and I have to admit I was really impressed at the quality of the Nail Varnish as I'm always a bit wary when ever I get given products in sets like that.

The first colour which I tried out of the set was this dark brown. I always used to love my dark colours and that's all I would wear but recently I've been getting into pastels and more bright colours so when I wore this colour I remembered why I loved my dark colour and fell in love all over again!

The polishes come up very glossy which I love. It also has a sight red tinge to it when in very bright natural light and then the other times it's a really dark brown. Like most polishes it also needs at least 2 coats and a top coat to give it that perfect finish. I haven't yet tried the other 3 polishes so there are some more NOTD posts to come!

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#86 This Week on Instagram.

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1. Over the past few weeks I have been running a small giveaway so don't forget to enter here it is closing on Wednesday.

2. Again I have spent quality time with my niece, I absolutely adore her. Babies at this age are just so cute and so much fun!

3 & 4. Face of the night for when I went to see Magic Mike - ladies, it is brilliant! If you have an obsession for Channing Tatum like I do then this will sure satisfy that craving. It is such a drop dead sexy film!!!

5. I finally managed to find poptarts in Tesco's again!! I love them, they are my guilty pleasure!!

6. I've been having a clear out this week and found this Ted Baker nail set and did a post on the blog about them. They are amazing nail varnishes! The post can be found here

7. The other day whilst waiting to be picked up from work I thought I'd have a mooch around New Look and found these amazing jeans in the sale!! They were originally £26 and went down to £8. I was so impressed with my bargain hunting skills!

8. A cup of tea and some poptarts went down brilliantly at 7 am before work on a Saturday morning!

What have you all been getting up to this week?

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#85 Ted Baker - From Ted To Toe.

Good evening ladies, it's a very dark and dreary evening over here in Berkshire. The sky is literally black and looks like there is going to be a downpour any time soon! So whilst the weather was awful today I decided to have a sort out and a throw  out of my room and I came across this little gem.

I was given this little set around Christmas time and I had completely forgotten all about it, and in fact it has been unused since Christmas until today. The packaging is some what eye catching and still carries on the Ted Baker Origami theme.

When you open the box up the colours are all very eye catching and bold. I'm the sort of person that wears bright colours during the summer and darker colours during the winter months, so in this set there are colours for all year round! I'm really excited to try all the colours as they're all something which I would wear. However, I'm going to spread the swatches out in separate posts for NOTD posts as I can't be dealing with the hassle of applying the nail varnish taking a few photos, taking the nail varnish off and then doing all over again another three times. That is just too much time wasting!!

But fear not, as there is one post on its way tomorrow! Can you guess which colour I have tried out first? If you know me well enough from reading previous posts then you'll know what sort of colours I wear most!!

I have also looked if this giftset is still available to buy, and unfortunately Boots have stopped stocking it. But when I was researching it I came across a lot of people selling the set on ebay for about £5 if any of you are interested. I've also had a sneak peak at the Ted Bakers nail varnish set which they are releasing for Christmas 2012 and believe me they are stunning!!

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