A few weeks before Valentine's Day I signed up for the Valentine Blogger Swap and last week I received my little parcel in the post! My package was sent from Yuna, the writer of TechBunny lots of little bits and bobs!  Sinful Colors Nail Polish in Pink Fever- I'm not much of a pink fan but this pink is so pretty! I can't wait...

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Welcome to the first edition of a little new series on the blog! Every month or so I'm going to share the music that has been thoroughly replayed constantly on my iPod! This first edition is a little special as it's also a bit of a review of You Me At Six's new album- Cavalier Youth. ...

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I haven't really had OCPD-obsessive compulsive pinning disorder- this week but I have pinned a little bit. So once again I will be sharing my favourites from this past week! Blue Funfetti Cake- I Heart Bakingohmygod! this cake is amazing!? Cake I pleasejust eat this now? Pretty & Understated Wedding Luxury- The Sweetest OccasionJust look at these vintage cups?! How pretty are they? Summer...

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At the beginning of the week I finally took home my Valentine's gifts and flowers from Darren. On Tuesday, I recreated my dinner from Frankie and Benny's and it was fineeee! I also received my little package from the Valentine's Blogger Swap. On Wednesday I had Avon delivered so it meant sorting out more orders! Going to actually try a little harder with...

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The first proper book I picked out of my little jar was Maria V. Snyder's, Posion Study. I picked this book up last year while in The Works and was looking for a good deal! Without hearing any hype about this book before picking it up I am quite surprised with how I ended up feeling after reading it.   Warning does contain...

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Last Friday was obviously Valentine's Day so that means the blogging world has been taken over by everything lovely recently- and that's not going to stop here either! Since being together from May 2010, Darren and I have celebrated Valentine's Day every year, even if we have been a bit short for cash. Every year we get each other a few cheesy gifts...

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So this is a bit of a late Pinterest Favourites but I have to admit I've done the most of my pinning tonight as I've been so busy doing other things over the past week. But I hope you like what I have came across recently!  Mint Elephant More minty goodness! Love this cute little elephant! Be Rumi- Kelly Barton This is such...

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This week I've been pretty busy with college and uni and valentine stuff! I had a bit of a Primark haul last week and bought this necklace for 50p! Last week that I had started organising my digital portfolio for Grays, and on Tuesday this week I finally managed to sort my life drawing stuff out. Just ignore the fact that most are...

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My first book I read this year as part of my To-Read book challenge was Fallen In Love by Lauren Kate.  This book is part of the Series called Fallen by Lauren Kate. Even though this particular book doesn't add to the plot. However, this book isn't one you want to miss out from the series. The book is set out as several...

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So today's is obviously Valentine's Day! And personally I love it even though I know it is just really a commercial holiday. But it's great and I can't wait to share the day with Darren!  However, even though Valentine's Day is a day where everybody makes an extra effort to be extra special for their significant other, it shouldn't be the only day...

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Coversation Hearts Screen Print / Secret Message In A Bottle / Heart Party Straws Heart Themed Gift Tags / My Heart Belongs To You Necklace With Valentine's right around the corner, you may thinking about buying or even making some little bits and pieces for the loved ones in your life! The collection of DIY's I've came across are great and even versatile...

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This week I've been kind of crazy on Pinterest so I have no idea how I'm going to whittle it down to only a selective few! Over the past week I've been back to college so that's meant more design based pins and Darren bought an iPad mini so when he's not been using it I've been scrolling through Pinterest pinning like everything!...

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This week I woke up to a letter from Perth College inviting me to an interview later this month!! omg! Then spent Tuesday morning drawing some hands in life drawing as we had no model. Wednesday I went on a little shopping spree and bought this cute little wicker heart for my room plus a necklace, scarf and tree lights. Thursday I ended...

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So a few weeks ago I bought a fair few things from Boots after getting my Boots Advantage card and being persuaded by Clare a lot! I thought I would share what I bought and my initial reactions are to them are. Boots Botanics Shine Away Inoic Clay Mask- I've used this a few times since buying it and I am pretty please...

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I seen this tag floating about a few places and decided just to write it up without being tagged as it seemed like a fun idea! I'm also not going to bother tagging anybody as I hope everybody who finds this interesting would write their own one as well. 1-Who are your most influential bloggers? Who are the ones that you really rely...

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hello love / cupcake / xo / airmail / love flower / be mine / love fortune / arrows / love Fonts: Sweetly Broken & Simplicity What a lovely treat! Two pinterest inspiration posts this week! However, this one is all focused on one thing, and one thing only, looooooveee.  I have to admit, like with everything recently I'm loving the more modern design...

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Actually meant to add this section onto my 'Hello February' post but I forgot about it at the time- oops!  Anyway, throughout January I've been... Reading- Rapture by Lauren Kate, Fallen In Love by Fallen Kate, Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder Watching- Revenge, The Tomorrow People, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Devils Due, Up, Tangled, Chenobyl (not quite finished yet), Saw 2 (first Saw film...

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I did feel like I should upload the Valentines pinspiration post today but I'm really enjoying sharing my favourites so that post will come later in the week.  Colour Block Pins- Modcloth BlogWhat a cute idea! I had never though of taking boring, plain bronze coloured pins and painting them like this! They certainly look better and prettier. Craft Room- Songbird BlogI love this...

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This week I officially started the #100HappyDays challenge and so far I have been keeping to uploading a photo a day so far! Overall this past week has been pretty low key with some good highlights!  The week started of to some horrible weather which ended up in me capturing a photograph of a rainbow and make some hot coco! The day after...

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I've kind of started having 'goals' in the back of my mind this past month that have stemmed from my resolutions including: Illustrating more things to start selling.Ok, so well this hasn't gone completely to plan. I have had ideas and I have drawn some of them. But that's really as far as I've gone with them. But I will do a bit...

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