Loving the coral obsession

And Rimmel's 60 seconds nail varnish, I picked up their "Coral Crush" today, got home and gave it a go, and I love it. Normally its all so fiddly and "ahhh no I got it on the side of my fingers" but the wider brush really helps with that. On and done! Any bits you do get on the sides... they come off really easily once your nails are dry under water. It took two coats for me to get the desired effect I wanted, but its a decent sized pot and not badly priced so thats ok. I loved it so much, I even painted my toenails! It's 2 for £5 in superdrug too, which rocks!

so close to being offical...

Only a week and a bit (or so) until we are officially engaged... if everything goes to plan! Here's hoping it really does... Stu's parents are happy and supportive, so with some luck mine will be too and things will go nicely... I hope my rents will be happy for us!

I may moan...

About the country I live in. There may not be a stable political scene (at least not stable to us), and we may be just out of the official grips of recession. But this I can all swallow.

To think of the women in prison in Afghanistan for "crimes against morality" (daring to leave their husbands home without his permission), the women who are married off at 12 and abused to the point that they set themselves on fire in desperation, and who risk their lives to go to school...

I don't know how lucky I am. But thank god I live in a land where I am equal and I can wear what I like, I can go to school without fear, and then to university, I can work without having the permission of my father, and the man I marry will be MY choice and nobody elses.

I may complain... but I'm thankful as hell right now.

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By Brand New

Well I wrote your name and burned it,
See the color of the flame,
And it burned out the whole spectrum as if you were everything,
I'm just burned gold,
A normal flame,
I am not anything,
And all that I remember is the feeling of waking up,
When we were kids you were the sun to which my eyes would not adjust,
When we were kids I was a fountain you could never drink enough,
Then came all the boys who swept you up,
Played careless with your heart,
And every night there was a new girl sitting beside me in my car,
Something dies when you grow older,
But you do the best you can,
I am glad,
I am glad,
You found a good man.  

Saturday 2nd June 2012

So it's an awful lot later than we planned, but a 2010 wedding... not going to happen. Our wedding will now (hopefully) take place 2nd June 2012. We have a location, we have plans for who to invite and what we want our wedding to be, so all we need is the cash. And so we have this (ok, so it's still rather provisional...) date to give us something to work for. It might alter a little (Maybe a few weeks either way... depending on how fast we save and how fast the place gets booked up) but it is our destination, and it feels really good to have it in site and a bit of a plan to make things work.

Until then we have lots to focus on, lots to help ourselves achieve to make the final goal easier to achieve, but we will get there =]

Published and Made up!

Yeserday a copy of the Uni newspaper came out, and I rushed out for it because this week, one of my articles was going to be published in it. I opened it up, flicked over the page, and there I was on page four.

"Postgraduate boom Expected"
And then my very first by-line!

I swear I could have screamed there in the shop, the rush was incredible! I will definitely be going back for more asap!

So I think friday was my weirdly lucky day, my mummy (in celebration of valentines day and my publishing accomplishment) bought me three items of Benefit make-up (yes I am Benefit obsessed now!), all of which I now wonder how I lived without...

High Beam
Posie Tint
Some-Kinda-Gorgeous foundation.

As much as I adore the Max Factor Facefinity foundation, Some-kinda-gorgeous definitely gives me a more even coverages and lifts my skin more, thus with sme avon face perfector underneath, it'll be awesome. It's very matt looking which I adore, and helps my skin keep in it's moisture which is perfect for me.

The posie-tint is fantastic, one little pot two amazing uses, giving me a nice pink glow on my cheek bones, as well as a fantastic base for blush, as well as a brilliant pink stain for my lips, which when combined with a pale colour lip gloss just looks fab, nothing fancy for a night out, but a perfect lip-gloss look.

High Beam just illuminated my brow bone and very top of my cheek bones to give me a very very slight shine, emphasising my eyes beautifully. This can be used very little to create a nice "alive and alert" look for things like work, or apply more for a night out.

So while I take two products off of my make-up wish list... I have one to add: Dear John, the moisturiser, which the lovely lady used on me in the shop when i asked about the posie tint and high beam, my skin felt gorgeous with it. It's a very thick moisturiser making it perfect for dry skin, and a little goes an awful long way. but at £26.50 I'll be waiting a little while to pick that up.

Wedding bits and bobs...

I thought I would keep a record of all the bits and bobs I want to get when planning my wedding for the day itself...

This Tiara from Wedoweddingfavors.co.uk would be my perfect tiara... here is hoping it is still around when I come to buy this stuff!


There are plenty of butterfly bits on aweddinglessordinary.co.uk that I think would work fantastically, I would love to get a guestbook from there, as well as the pen and holder, and my youngest bridesmaid a purple bucket for petals for her to scatter down the aisle.

As placecard holders/little favours at our wedding these are the thing I would love to have from purefavors.co.uk


For our bigger reception/party I want these little placecard holders from purefavors.co.uk (click to view) Hovever for myself and my hubby, I am planning to have one of each of these adorable little bride and groom placecard holders from purefavors.co.uk.

Invites... I've spent ages trying to find invites, and finally settled on these from weddingcardprinters.co.uk, simple, classic and gorgeous.

Hopefully with all of these saved, when the time comes it will be far easier to budget, plan and order.