Product use up

Once again it's the beginning of another month, where is 2010 going?, so it's time for my product use up feature.

Products I have left from last months are:

• Handlicious hand scrub
• Soap and Glory sit tight
• L'Occitane verbena body gel
• Soap and Glory Spa blueberry thrill body butter

And from the previous month:

• Toni and Guy brunette blow dry spray

I'll keep these on a roll over product use up so next month fingers crossed I'll have used up a few of them!

So back to this month I'm going to finish these products:

• L'Occitane red rice cleanser
• Soap and Glory greatest scrub
• Avon senses reflection shower gel
• Organic Surge face wash
• L'Occitane citrus verbena shower gel
• L'Occitane shea butter foot cream
• Avon planet spa eye cream

I'm quite sure that I should finish off all these products this month and of course I'll keep working on the ones from the last 2 months!

30 day challenge - Days 25 - 30

Day 25 - Describe your day

Well today I took my mum back to Ikea at Nottingham because she had to swap a drawer front which was cut wrong. So we spent the day at Ikea and in the shopping complex opposite which has a Next so a haul post is coming up soon!

Day 26 - Describe your week

Tuesday - I was working all day

Wednesday - Working, again!

Thursday - Day off so I did all my housework, and believe me there was alot!

Friday - Working

Saturday - Working

Sunday - Lazy day, did some blogging and watched some films

Bank holiday monday- Again a lazy day but my mum and dad were coming round for tea so it was kind of a family day!

(Image: weheartit)

Day 27 - Describe your month

Soooo August has been a boring month. I’ve been working lots so I haven’t been doing fun stuff! I’ve been to Ikea 3 times, been making up for the fact that I haven’t been for 2-3 years! So overall a boring month!

Day 28 - Describe your year

This year (from September 2009 - September 2010) has been the year where I’ve made the transition from student to proper grown up adult!

I finished uni last April and graduated in June so this last year has involved lots and lots of job searching and application forms and unfortunately lots and lots of rejections, I did have 2 job interviews though. But I didn’t get them :-( But back to the beginning......

So in Sept 2009 I had 2 jobs, I was working 4 hours a week for one company and I worked sundays for another. I wasn’t happy with my 4 hour job and decided to leave in October when I got offered the chance to stop working sundays and work 15 hours in the week instead at my sunday job which I took. But as it was also coming up to christmas I got 15 hours extra for 3 months too which meant I would be earning lots of pennies. I would have got lots of extra hours at my other job if I had stayed on there but you hardly ever got your full dinner break, the customers were rude, you were tripping over each other as there wasn’t room to swing a cat and one particular colleague seem to get very mardy and bitchy when working at xmas and I felt that I couldn’t do anything right so I left! And haven’t looked back since.

Then on 21st December my dad had a heart attack. Me and Chris raced to Sheffield where he had been transferred and at 1am in the freezing cold it wasn’t the most pleasant experiences. When we got there we had to buzz security to let us in and then we got stuck in the worlds smallest corridor as all the doors were locked and controlled by buttons on the outside so we had to open a fire exit and enter again via another! Everything was OK in the end, my dad had his operation and we left at 4 am. My dad came out of hospital on xmas eve but my grandma who was also in hospital after having an operation because she had cancer came out on xmas day. Thankfully they are now both ok!

So onto 2010. In February me and Chris moved house. We were living in a flat near the center of town and needless to say at weekends it was very noisy. We found a house just outside of town with a garage and little garden so we moved in on the 22nd February.

June was my 22nd birthday. I didn’t do much, just had my friend round and we watched TV and I made us a bit of lunch and then me and Chris went out with my mum and dad for tea. Also in June I sold my first car :-( it was getting old and needed abit of work doing to it so it made sense to sell it before my insurance needed renewing. So I sold it on thursday, saw a new car that night and Chris went and bought it for my friday afternoon!

Since then nothing much has happened. Oh no wait something has happened the amount of jobs to apply for has been reduced to a big fat zero so it looks like I’m going to be stuck doing the same one for a while longer!

Day 29 - Hopes, dreams and plans for the next year

So for the next year I hope and plan to:

• Pay off my debts
• Finally buy a headboard for our bed!
• Go on holiday somewhere (even the UK would be fine)
• Finally get a job related to my degree!

Next year I am:

• Going on my first hen weekend! Sooo excited! (and this doesn’t class as my holiday!)
• Being a bridesmaid for the 3rd time
• Save some money and start being more money savvy

Day 30 - Whatever tickles your fancy

Tomorrow I'm launching another blog giveaway so check back tomorrow evening for more details!

Girls Aloud party lashes

Hope your all having a good Bank Holiday!

Today it's 5 months until New Years Eve - how time is flying! So I thought I'd do a post showing the new Girls Aloud party lashes. These are £5.95 a set and they can be bought from Boots.

(Images from: Boots)

I ♥ Next

To me Next always seemed the kind of shop women in their 30's went to to buy their clothes and it was quite expensive. I still had that perception until about 2 months ago when I borrowed a friends Next Directory.

So hers was the Home one but I liked sooo much stuff in it and it wasn't that expensive and I ended up with a few things.

Then another friend of mine gave me the whole Next directory which she didn't want and there was so much stuff I liked. I bought a few things (haul to follow soon) and I came up with a wishlist.

Stripe top - £18

Scarf/hood - £20

I think this is so cute and is ideal when your coat doesn't have a hood.

Ruffle dress - £35

Parka - £55

(Images from: Next)

I think I'm going to get the scarf/hood and the stripy top at the end of next month - fingers crossed they'll still be in stock!

30 day challenge - Days 20 - 24

Day 20 - A hobby of yours

I love to craft. I make cards as a hobby and try to sell them to make abit of extra money. I have a blog for my crafting which is HERE is you want to have a look or follow.

I also love to bake cakes and the recipe I use is coming up next!

(Image: weheartit)

Day 21 - A recipe

This is a recipe for a Victoria Sponge.

6oz Margarine

60z Sugar

6oz Self raising flour

3 eggs

Cream margarine and sugar together, gradually add flour and eggs and beat together to get lots of air in. Separate mixture into two cake tins and bake at 180 degrees for about 20 mins or until the middle is springy to the touch.

This can also be used to make buns, generally it make 18 quite large ones.

Day 22 - A website

It’s hard to narrow my fav websites down to a single one so I’m not. My fav ones are:

Next (Clothes and homewear)

Boots (cosmetics and beauty)

Yankee Doodle (Yankee Candles)

The Glitter Pot (for crafting supplies)

My fav blogs are:

Sprinkle of Glitter

Lily Loves Lola

Makeup Savvy

I Heart Cosmetics

Day 23 - A YouTube video

I’m not into YouTube, making or watching, so I’m going to skip this challenge!

Day 24 - Whatever tickles your fancy

In my last 30 day post in this section I did 5 facts about me you don't know so in this one I'm doing 5 thing that annoy me!

• Customers at work who come up to me and ask me "Do you work here?". No, I go in all shops and pull their stock forward!
• Chris (this is a general one as most things he do annoy me!) In particular leaving his phone charger plugged in
• People who treat you like your their best friend on day and then the next completely ignore you
• My next door neighbours who thud up and down the stairs
• Old people who seem to think that because they're old they have the right to be rude, Grrr this make me mad!

One last post for this challenge tomorrow and it's going to be a long one!

Review - Clinique and B.Liv

Clinique - 3 things to do before your 30.

I've only ever tried 1 Clinique product before, an eyeshadow set, and I wasn't that impressed. Then when I saw on another blog about their '3 things to do before you 30' product giveaway I jumped at the chance to try them.

(L-R: Liquid facial soap, clarifying lotion and dramatically different moisturising lotion)

I used these religiously for the past week and a bit and boy oh boy I wasn't impressed.

Ok, so the liquid facial soap I quite liked. It got off my make-up and left my face feeling clean but then you use the clarifying lotion....

Firstly I don't know why it's called a lotion because it's a liquid and then there's the smell. Alcohol. Ewww not nice. I put it on my skin and it left it feeling horrible. But the dramatically different moisturising lotion didn't change this. After I applied it, it took ages to sink in, left my skin tacky and it seemed to make my pores on my cheeks look huge which I had never noticed before.

Overall I wouldn't buy these products again and I wouldn't recommend them. The only good thing I have to say it that the sample sizes were quite big. I ran out of the clarifying 'lotion' first but the dramatically different lotion would last for ages but I threw it away.

B.Liv - Off with those heads.

I'd never heard of this brand before until May on her blog gave readers the chance to get a free sample.

B.Liv is by Cellnique which is an American company and it's products are aimed at teenagers and young adults with problem skin.

The product I tried is called 'off with their heads' and it aims to remove black and white heads in 14 days without having to squeeze them and it also prevents them from reappearing.

The clear gel gets applied onto problem areas after cleansing/washing but before moisturising.

I used this morning and evening for about a week and I can honestly say that I did see an improvement.

I would buy this product and use it on a daily basis. B.Liv do ship this internationally and prices are: 30ml $49 (approx. £31) and 45ml $63 (approx. £40).

30 day challenge - Days 15 - 19

Ok, I started this challenge absolutely ages ago so I'm going to speed my way through it so I've at least finished it. So this post is featuring days 15 - 19.

Day 15 - Fanfic

I’m not really into all this fan fiction stuff so I’m going to be naughty and skip this!

Day 16 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)

Ooo this one’s hard. I don’t think there is a song which makes me want to cry but one song which is really inspirational to me is Proud by Heather Small.

Day 17 - An art piece

I’m not really into art, wasn’t good at it at school so had no interest in it but I do quite like Starry Night by Van Gogh.

(Image from: pandalous.com)

The way he sky has been painted looks mesmerizing but also mysterious with the hills in the background and the little quaint houses and church in front of them.

Below is a modernised version of the painting where the cute little houses have changed into skyscrapers and modern buildings.

(Image from: toconline.org)

Day 18 - Whatever tickles your fancy

Ok so I'm going to share 5 random facts about me with you:

• I love to look through people's photo's on Facebook regardless of whether I know them or not
• If I had to go a day without being sarcastic I think it would kill me
• My favourite film used to be A Knights Tale with Heath Ledger. I watched my video so much it broke and I had to get it on DVD
• I'm an only child and I slightly suffer from only child syndrome (e.g. I don't like sharing!)
• My boyfriend's nickname for me is Mooney! And I HATE it! Especially now his friends call me it too!

Day 19 - A talent of yours

Maybe it isn't really a talent but I'm quite good painting nails and doing other peoples for them.

I'll be finishing off this challenge in the nest week or so. This was types up really quickly so I apologise for any typo's or sentences which don't make sense!