Free shots!

My birthday celebrations consisted of a party area at Revolution with my closests and partied with free shots and discounted drinks. And Natelle came home from Birmingham especially!

The one.

The BFF's.

Shots, free or not, I honestly will never drink one again. Not because of the morning afters but because I'm allergic to some sort of colouring/flavouring in them. Huge fail!

And the night obviously ended in sharing a tray of chips and kebab with my man. Can't go wrong.

Tonight is the night.

Let's get drunk and dance the night away!

Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to me-eeeee,
Happy birthday to me!

Weekend wonders

Saturday was a day that both my mum and I needed. Lunch and shopping, just us two. I've always been close with my mum, she's like my best friend. I hope Lily and I will always be as close, or even closer.

Later on, my brother's girlfriend joined us and treated me to having my nails done for my birthday - only 3 sleeps away!

And Sunday was a day for quality family time, all cosy at home with Jay and Lily. Perfect.

Casually blogging from my shiny new iPhone!
There's literally an app for everything.

iPhone>Blackberry.

It's uniform month at work, which means mega discount. Oh yes!
One item I purchased was a beautiful cream, cable knit jumper. Warm.

Oh and my man surprised me with 24 cans of this beautiful drink shipped all the way from the US of A

Are you jel?

Oh Bruno

Tuesday night, Jay and I watched hundreds of girls (including me) swoon over Mr. Bruno Mars. As he said "Guys, let Bruno do the talking". Above is the outfit that I was hoping would make the hawaiian singer fall in love with me. Obviously, I should've worn a dress!

Despite me unfortunately being ill the whole night, I had a lovely night. Bruno Mars puts on an incredible show. His X Factor performance which I posted a few days ago is just a glimpse at what his whole live show is all about.

I spoke before the show of my make-up that night. And here I am ...

I love make-up and discovering new looks. I'm always checking out other people's on the internet and in magazines and playing around with what I already have. I have a bit of an obsession with nail varnish too. I wish I'd have done a make-up course after my A-Levels - one of my many dream careers is a make-up artist.

Today I went all natural on my lips and matched my brown eyes with brown eyeshadow and feline eyeliner flicks.

Wednesday was family day - pub lunch and shopping for Lily-Lou. I got a bit carried away, so of course she had to play dress up.

Time for a cuppa and Celebrity Juice.



Currently glamming myself up for a night singing and dancing to Bruno Mars live. Wow! The hunk that is Mr Mars will be doing his thing a few feet away from me.

I'm going for eyelashes and red lippy with a bit of blusher. Simple but stunning.

You can't go wrong with red smackers!
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She's beautiful.

Little treats and teasures

I've neglected my blog for the past week. I've been a busy body! With Christmas shopping, treating myself to little somethings, days out, looking after my little treasure and work, I haven't had chance to sit down and get tapping away at my keyboard.

As I speak, Lily is beating her Nan up; poking her in the eye, pulling her hair, hitting her around the head with toys. You name it. So I thought whilst she's being tortured, I'd sit down for 5.
Speaking of Lily, she's nearly 8 months, so crawling should be in order soon, but for now she's just rolling up and down the room.

First off, I am super excited that it's November, which means my birthday is soon!! And on that day, in 2 weeks time, this little beauty will be all mine.

Trick or treat? I treated myself to some of the new Models Own nail polishes from the 'Beetlejuice' collection. I can't wait for them to arrive so I can play!





On Tuesday, Jay and I visited my all time favourite place, Alton Towers, for their annual Scarefest. It was both of ours first Scarefest and my oh my were we scared! Such brilliant concepts and actors involved in all of the attractions especially for Halloween. From zombies to scary clowns. Psychopathic twins to mysterious men in cloaks.

There were 3 scare mazes. Not exactly mazes, more like indoor trails that went up and down, in and out, squeeze through small spaces, all in darkness or strobe lighting. Actors jumping out at you from no where, taunting you, blowing in your face, and most frightening of all, clowns asking you for a kiss and claiming they'll have clown babies with you. I didn't have a phobia of clowns before this visit.

And the best thing that happened all week?! Jay and Lily visiting me at work.

Runaway Baby with Bruno Mars - The X Factor 2011

Watching this has made me extremely excited to see the man himself, Bruno Mars, live next week. Incredible!

Sparkle

These bad boys are on my birthday/Christmas wish list!



I've ordered this little beauty of a Cath Kidston scrapbook to fill with photos and memories of Lily's first year in the world as a gift for her first birthday. It will be 100 pages of a fairytale. My night's will be full of creativity, and I'll love it!

I can't believe how quick this year has gone. We're nearly is 2012, if you didn't know! My first wedding anniversary has been and gone, it's my 20th birthday in less than a month, then it's that time of year when everyone's all merry, and soon after Lily will be a whole 1 year old. Crazy. Madness. Just so unbelievable how quickly she's grown and she's no longer that baby that could just lie there.

Introducing Lily, my daughter, the poser...

No more photos, Mummy!

Winter's here

Time to wrap up in some chunky knits, leggings and boots, teamed with must needed gloves and a cute satchel.

All Topshop of course!

And the serious hunt for our first family home begins tonight. Any help is appreciated.

Rainy day

But I didn't get rained on today, because I was in the car at 0730, posing in front of Chris Harris' camera at 0900, back in the car at 1100, and starting work at 1200. From 1630 onwards, I was showering thelittle lady in my life with a serious amount of love, laughter and tasty treats.

I can't wait to see the photos from today, and hopefully we got a winning photo for Ben! My vamped up purple smackers looked incredible.

To finish off this short but sweet post, I will share my excitment by saying that this little white beauty will be mine in a months time. A little bit in love. Bye bye Blackberry. I won't miss you.

Week roundup

On Tuesday, Jay and I had the day off so instead of staying in all day, we decided to make the most of it and took Lily on a trip to White Post Farm Park. We practically had the whole park to ourselves. It was a chilly day, thankfully no rain, but I love wrapping up warm on Autumn/Winter days.

Such a happy girl!

And I became the bird lady!

I was back in the salon on Saturday for another new change of hair. It's always exciting because I never know what it's going to end up like. That's what you get for hair modelling! Luckily, I haven't yet disliked any styles. This is for Tuesday's shoot for Ben's collection. Exciting stuff! But I haven't got much hair left to play with now.

Birthday and Xmas wish list

Faux fur coat
Brown ankle boots
Dress for my birthday night out
Jewellery box
More jewellery to go inside said box
Onesie
New book
Bunch of roses

And most importantly, love, happiness and good health.

Take note!

I will most probably add to this list.

New job

Turns out I'm not meant to be sat behind a desk 40 hours a week. Whilst on maternity leave with Lily, I decided I needed a change. I didn't want to be working full-time and never having time to see Lily, nor did I want to be unhappy at work.
So I went in the total opposite direction and landed myself a part-time job in every girl's favourite shop, Topshop! And I couldn't be happier.
Everyone's so lovely that I work with and within my first month, I've really started to feel comfortable working there.
The downside?! Seeing every single piece of clothing, jewellery, shoes etc. and wanting to buy it all!

Flash Bang Wallop

A couple months ago, an awesome man named Darren Black let me pose for him. I loved working with him and greatly appreciate the opportunity he gave me. Fantastic experience for my first test shoot! You can find some of his work on his blog.

Here are the results from our shoot.

The first of many years

Saturday was our first wedding anniversary. There'll be plenty of wedding anniversary's to come, but never again will we experience our first (unless we want to dish out a load of money again). So we just went full on romantic and created our ideal date night; shopping, meal, drinks, hotel. And it was beautiful!

Dressed smart/cas for a freak October night heat wave completed with my 5inch wedges. LOVE!

I've got a huge sweet tooth. I'd happily go out for dinner and straight away ask for the dessert menu. Get straight to the good stuff, no messing about! But I was naughty and had a main and TWO desserts. But on was only a shot size so I'll forgive myself. Jay and I couldn't resist these little delights.

Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nottingham have such comfy beds!

My life