Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!
Hope you all had a lovely day. Though I'd share with you what I've been up to.

Christmas necklace from Thriftola.

Owl 'engagement' ring off Jenny.

Christmas vegan cupcakes by Ms Cupcake, clockwise from top left; triple choc, oh christmint tree (mine), mince pie and apple spice.

Christmas presents - aka spoilt.

Can't wait for my Jake film fest :D

I asked for a Heart Rate Monitor to get serious with my training in the New Year. My dad also gave me a sprouting kit (that he's clearly going to steal from me!)

For Christmas dinner we go up to my Aunty Mary's house (aka YM). Me and my Dad had a jokey bet on to see who could get YM to swear first. I won as she was showing me her joke Christmas present which was a lump of poo. I kept asking her what it was and she said "s**t" hehe. Its always so nice to see everyone, but this year we got to briefly see Aunty Barbara! She's a fan of the blog and usually gets me a necklace so look at what it was :O

Yey!

After YM's we go through to see my dad's cousin and his family in Durham. John Lavery (JL) always gets us jokey calenders, mine are usually "hunks" or something which he finds hilarious and I never use. This year I got this calender:

I think I will use this, bit of a novelty! Thanks JL!

Hope you all had a great time and hope Santa was kind!
I must go to sleep now as I'm one of those sados who goes to the Metro Centre early for the sales.
xxx

I (eye) left my heart in London town.

Tomorrow afternoon I'm getting the train to London. As most of you probably know I went to uni there and LOVE it. A lot of my friends are still there (though many have jet-setted all over the world!) so it will be nice to catch up with them.
I'm going to be staying with Lucy and Harry, my old housemates and lovely good friends. So excited to see them again. Mega excited to watch breaking dawn with Luce (even though we've both already seen it haha).

One of the main reasons I'm going is so I can attend Animal Aid's Christmas Without Cruelty Fayre. I have been going to it for years now! Last year I met Heather Mills (again) and she was lovely and signed her cookbook for my dad's Christmas present.
This year I'm going to do what I always do, stock up on extra yummy vegan treats (esp Ms. Cupcake cakes! It will also be lovely to catch up with her!)

I'm also going to be doing a spot of shopping. Shopping in London is awful at the best of times, but Christmas time is probably the worst. I'll manage though as 2 seconds after stepping foot onto Kings Cross I switch to 'London mode' and become an expert weaver.

I'll obviously not be posting over the weekend (as if I post every day anyways!) but I thought I would leave you a little peak at the necklace I will be sporting. I bought this a couple of months ago now, but it's yet to have it's debut!

Open eye.

Closed eye.

I love this necklace! It's from Topshop and is so quirky and fun. Definitely and 'eye-catcher' (see what I did there?)

Anyway I better get some sleep, got to get up early tomorrow to pack! Ooops!
x

Belated Birthday.

This is a (very) belated birthday blog post! Ooops!

I turned the ripe old age of 25 on the 4th November, and it was amazing.
I started off the celebrations on Thursday 3rd November by going to see Britney Spears at Newcastle Arena. I'd love to say I saw her live, but I don't think I can as she mimed! It was still amazing though!

I got home to find my birthday bedding on my bed ready for sleep :)

Love Cath Kidston - and love that this is from the children's range which is called "Cath Kids" ha. (If you're wondering that owl is my 'hottie' and I've named it Eglantine after the cute little owl in The Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole)

When I woke up as a 25-year-old I opened my cards etc off my family and then decided to get stuck into my presents off Jenny (and Max). I met Jenny two days before my birthday and was so excited as they were wrapped up so nicely :D

YEY!

 She even made me this brilliant card! So lovely!

I then went volunteering at GVOC (I'm a teaching assistant, helping adults with learning disabilities) and they sang me Happy Birthday :)

I got home to an unidentified parcel. Well, I knew it was off my good friend Lucy (and Harry) as Lucy text me saying she forgot to put the card in. Haha.

There is a lovely owl necklace from Forever 21 and some other great bits and bobs :)

I also had a little parcel and card from my very dear friend Billie who is currently in Berlin (Hi Bill!). It's a lovely hand-made tissue holder in owl fabric :D

I then got ready as I went out for my tea to Jack Sprats in Newcastle with my parents, best friend Hayley and neighbour Yvonne.

I didn't take any photos of the food, so here is a photo of my birthday nails.

The next day was obviously bonfire night. I changed my nails to look like fireworks, but apart from turning out to be a big mess I don't have any photos as my laptop died a few days later so I don't have that pic anymore. Sob.
I had some lovely cakes by Ms. Cupcake. My dad had been to London a couple of weeks prior and came home with 12 cakes (6 for then and 6 to freeze for my birthday weekend). I had a rose cupcake on my birthday, but we ate our way through these on the Saturday.

SO good!

On Saturday night, after spending all day getting ready and still ending up in a rush(!!) me and Hayley went to town to meet some other friends and had a very eventful, but enjoyable night.
Here are some photos.

Me and Jenny in Bar 42. 

Photo of the night is probably this one of me and Lowell (also in Bar 42).

Sorry I haven't posted for a while and then gave a short post, but like I said before my laptop died. Its a bit of a nightmare trying to blog on my slow, small netbook. Also tomorrow I'm going to a blogger meet up and then Hanson (don't ask) so I need to get to sleep!
x