Life!

So once again life has gotten in the way of my blog. I always knew this would happen, but never expected it to be so bad. It's been far too long since I posted anything, which is annoying as I actually have a few things to talk about! 


On October 30th I turned 21! Hence my absence. Because I have family and friends both where I live (Hull) and in my home town (Grimsby), I spent the best part of a week and a half travelling and doing various things all over the place for my birthday. 


I was well and truly spoilt for my birthday - if I do say so myself! The weekend before my birthday my family in Grimsby took me for a lovely meal three times whilst I was with them. Then during the week leading up to it, as well as fitting in university and work, I attended a Scroobius Pip gig (which was awesome) and a Jessie J gig (also awesome) with my boyfriend. I then had two nights out with my friends, went for another two meals and eventually(!) got some rest at the beginning of last week. 


Now that's all over and it's back to reality, I have a monstrous amount of university work to be getting on with. It actually exhausts me just thinking about it - over 10,000 words overall are due in before the end of this semester. Although this is spread out in various assignments, and doesn't really sound that much if I'm honest, it's actually going to be really tiresome having to chop and change what I'm thinking about constantly! 


The joys of student life hey? 


Hopefully as the Christmas holidays draw nearer I will be able to properly start blogging again. I would love to get more posts up and really get the ball rolling with it. I love writing about things, looking at all the new products coming out as well as discovering new blogs. I can't wait to finally have time for all these things. 


I hope you guys aren't having to put up with the stresses of university life right now! And if you are, good luck and I'll see you on the other side! 


If you have a blog that I might not already follow, I'd love to check it out! Leave a link below for me :) 

I Love Halloween!

Halloween is possibly one of my favourite times of year! 

Not only because my birthday is on October 30th ;-) 

I love getting dressed up and being creative with make up looks as well as finally having reason to snuggle up in front of the fire watching nightmare before Christmas :-) 

This year, I'm dressing as a zombie and have found a few little bits and pieces of inspiration that I thought I'd share with you today, seeing as I have neglected the blog a little!

This tutorial by Sayanythingbr00ke on youtube is a really simple and easy zombie look to achieve and as she says - it doesn't even have to be followed to the letter, the crappier the better! After all, zombies are gross! 

I also found this tutorial:

Which is a bit more difficult but I also think it looks awesome! If I wasn't just going out to get drunk in a club, I would probably do this look over Brooke's. 

I really love this look:

Image courtesy of Google Images

The teeth are so disgusting!

I also found this really thought out page on how to dress and act like a  zombie:

Wikihow - Look like a Zombie

What are you dressing up as for Halloween? Have you found any brilliant tutorials anywhere or have any of your own tips? 

Happy Mondays #1

Finally, that little bit of inspiration I've  been searching for is back! To celebrate I'm starting up a series on my blog of 5 things that have made me happy within the past week :) 

I'm probably not the first person to start doing this so I'd love to see what other people have been posting on their blog! 

1 - Getting in the best shape ever. 

Although I did have three takeaways over the weekend - bad I know - I am actually on the path to getting in the best shape ever. I've been a member of the gym for ages but skipped it for a while when I was feeling really run down all the time. But now I have my energy back I'm trying to get into going as many times during the week as I feel possible, whilst not pushing myself too hard. 

I've also started doing the 30 day shred again (although not every day) and have started using this website - http://www.fleetly.com/. It is a relatively new website that combines social networking with exercise. You add friends via your profile, join challenges with other members of the website and track your workouts to gain points. I think it's a fab way to provide motivation to those who may find it difficult to keep up with their exercise!

2 - Watching new TV series with the OH. 

Image courtesy of wikipedia.

I don't know what's going on in TV land but there are some really good shows coming out just lately. Firstly there was Sirens during the summer holidays and now my boyfriend and I are obsessed with Awkward (MTV, Tuesdays 10pm), Fresh Meat (Channel 4, Wednesdays 10pm) and Happy Endings (e4, Thursdays 10pm). 

3 - Having awesome friends. 

Huge pub crawl. Playground whilst drunk. I need not say more.

4 - Shopping for my flat!

I won't even be moving into a flat on my own until next Summer but I'm already super excited. Naturally, I'm being really keen and finding bits and pieces to purchase whilst I can afford to now! I've always been one to plan ahead and this occasion is going to be treated no different. It's going to be my first flat, paid for with my own money (as opposed to student loans) and looked after entirely by me. It's a huge step for me even though I've lived in student housing and I can't wait. 

5 - Birthdays!

It's my boyfriends birthday on Wednesday but I feel like we've been celebrating for the past week! I've been trying to sort out little surprises for him for ages and thinking of nice things we can do for it. I love making other people happy, especially him, so it's been pretty enjoyable :)