hear muffs

I am a massive fan of earmuffs, I mean they keep your ears warm without having to worry about flat hat hair.  They are an essential accessory for me as I live on a bit of a hill which means it gets very windy.  I suffer from awful brain freeze when its windy, I have been reduced to tears at times because I forgot my earmuffs and the earache is so bad.

I have a dog called Maisy that needs walking regularly, this means I have to go and brave the cold breeze on a daily basis so when I was recently contacted to try the mobile accessory Hear Muffs I jumped at the chance.  They keep your ears warm whilst listening to your favourite tunes {or in my case its currently an audiobook} they are basically the perfect dog walking essential for music lovers that live in cold windy areas {pretty sure these were made for me, they should rename them Sammuffs.......maybe I'll contact them about that}.  Its still pretty chilly around these parts so I've given them a test drive on a few occasions, you just plug them into your iPhone and your good to go.  Seriously now these things are SO WARM, the sound quality is fantastic, they are a bargainous £10 from John Lewis and what I also love about them is the fact that they have a little volume control on the cord. Winning combination if you ask me.

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so long, long hair

I have no idea what kind of pose I am trying to pull off here

Jeans/Gap>>Jumper/Newlook>>Vest/Primark>>Boots/Ugg>>Lipstick/Body Shop Pink Ginger

I did it!!!!! I had the chop.  

Yesterday I went along to my friends salon and got my hair cut into this long bob style.   I loved it before she had even finished it :-) I kinda feel liberated to be free of all that hair.  I did have a few subtle flashes of a caramel colour put through the underneath but you can't really see it so I think I'm going to go crazy and have a load more put in next time.  All in all though, I am super happy with how it turned out.

Happy Friday to you all, I hope you have a fantastic weekend.

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my spring essentials

I am so excited for spring and it feels like its very nearly here.  Here are a few of my current loves for this spring

A great pair of earrings/F21>>Coral lipstick/Mac Costa Chic>>Pastel nail polish/ Essie Mint Candy Apple and Fiji/Barry M Peach Melba>>A fresh scent/DKNY Golden Delicious>>BB cream/Garnier Fair>>Gradual tan/Garnier Suumerbody>>Blush/Nars Orgasm>>Matching shower gel and moisturiser/Body Shop Shea

Coral jeans/Gap>>Print shirt/F21>>Grey blazer/Topshop>>Chick lit/Sophie Kinsella

Daffodils>>Chocolate

I think its evident that I'm loving coral this spring.  I can't wait for the April showers to pass I've got high hopes for May/June/July.  Im dreaming of the days when I can go for a walk on the beach without a coat.

What are your essentials for spring?

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Another top with animals on

Top/Forever21>>Vest/Primark>>Jeans/Gap>>Boots/Ugg

Its been a while since I've shown my face around here so here it is in all its glory, and yes that's right I'm wearing yet another top with animals on.  Todays choice is lizards.

I hope everyone had a lovely Easter, I had an extended break as I needed to use up my annual leave before the end of March so it was lovely.  My week off involved a lot of chocolate consumption, catching up on Homeland, painting and decorating and early morning walks in the SUN, yes that's right, the sun made a bit of an appearance over the last few days and boy oh boy has it changed my mood, its amazing what that big yellow bright thing in the sky does to ya, just needs to warm up a bit now so that I can wear sandals and flip flops instead of Uggs.  Oh and FYI my hair can't wait to be chopped next week, it took me FOREVER to style it this morning.

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time for a change

The last few weeks have been pretty miserable for me hence the lack of posts.  I've been feeling a bit low of late.  I'm sure its all to do with stopping breastfeeding and those pesky hormones and then throw in a poorly baby a few family troubles and some really rubbish weather and well that's one pretty big FUNK!!  But I'm slowly crawling myself out of it and as I really don't want my blog to be a negative place I always try to focus on the positives in life and so rather  than dwell on things in the past or stuff that is completely out of my control I've decided to put all my energy into enjoying the RIGHT NOW and planning things to look forward to in the future.  So with all this in mind the time has come to have a bit of a change mentally and physically starting off with a new hair doooooo.  I'm booked in with my hairdresser on 11 April and I have decided to go for the chop with some colour too.

I was thinking some nice caramel highlights through the underside of the hair (kinda like a subtle ombre) like good old Caroline Flack here:

But I want it shorter, kinda like Kimberley Walsh:

Next on my list of things to do is to try and find some sort of yoga/meditation/mindfulness class so that I can really just let all my tension go and learn to relax again. I found yoga really beneficial before and after having Fletcher but as my Baby Yoga classes have now finished I feel like I need something to fill the void.

I've also started taking a multivitamin supplement daily, I'm drinking more water, getting more fresh air and generally trying to make more of an effort to look after my body (we only get one body to work with, right?)  

I am sooooo ready for Spring now, so come on sun lets burn that freak snowstorm away and give everyone in the UK some much needed vitamin D!

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kitty cat

Top/F21>>Jeans/Gap>>Boots/Rocketdog

Throw a few bright pink cats on a top and I am sure to buy it, in fact throw any kind of animal on a top and i'll probably be drawn to it. My hair is still having a break from heat as I gave up my heated hair tools for lent so I did this simple braided style courtesy of Luxyhair, check them out, they have some really great tutorials.

I went to London last weekend with my girlfriends to watch Girls Aloud at the O2.  It was my first night away from Fletcher EVER and it was kinda weird but also really lovely at the same time.  Our train got to Paddington on Friday at 11:45am {it was 20 minutes late!!} and we all had appointments to have our make up done at MAC at 12pm!!  After pegging it to the tube and running to Selfridges with our suitcases in tow we made it {again 20 minutes late, it was all the trains fault}. I absolutely loved how the guy did my make up you can kind of see it in this picture.

And Girls aloud were awesome and they didn't leave us waiting for 2 hours like Justin Beiber.  

Saturday we hit Oxford Street for some serious shopping where I bought a lot of tops with animals on.

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my home - bathroom

I don't know about you but I love nothing more than having a sneaky look around other peoples homes.  I'm THAT person who stares into your lounge window as I walk past when its dark and you've left your lights on and your curtains open {I know I'm not the only person that does this}.  So here is your little sneaky look into my bathroom window.

 I don't have any before pictures but I do have this "in the process" picture.  Oh that was not fun!

The original layout was a small bathroom with a cloakroom directly next door.  We knocked both rooms into one to make one larger bathroom.

The bathroom suite, bathmat, turquoise soap dispenser, beaker,brush holder all came from Homebase.  The tiles and mosaics are from a local tile shop.  The toilet seat is from The Range, the floor mats/towels are from Asda, toy storage bucket is by Mebby which I bought it from Amazon.

I hope you enjoyed this post, I might be brave and show you around a bit more of my house soon.

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