November crafting post

This is my monthly crafting post to show what I submitted for my design team challenges this last month.

Card 1: Free for all

Card 2: Halloween

Card 3 - Bonfire Night

Card 4 - Sketch design

The week that was....

Apologies for posting this a little late but I’ve been really busy this week, not doing anything exciting but working so instead of telling you what I’ve been upto I’m going to do my loves and hates.

Loves

• Swedish Dance Mafia - love love love their tunes!
• Christmas adverts - I’m getting excited about christmas now but still can’t believe that it’s November
• Ebay - I’ve made £177 on selling my old stuff and have listed loads more new items so hopefully I’ll make some more pennies!
• Arranging a shopping trip to York in a few weeks. Me, my mum and our friend are going on a coach trip with the WI!!!! I’ll report back once we’ve been!

Hates

• Swedish Dance Mafia - because their songs make me want to go out and party and dance all night long!
• My skin - I have had a major outbreak of spots on my forehead and blackheads on my nose, thankfully they’re going now but I have no idea where they came from!
• Cold, dark nights in alone. BF is working alot at the moment so I’m spending alot of time at home alone which is getting me down but he has to earn the pennies! In fact he’s just left for a course in Swindon so I won’t see him until friday (not all bad as he’s got a stinker of a cold! No germs for me thanks!)
• Companies who take ages to consider your job application - I applied for 2 jobs so long ago I can’t actually remember when and they still email me saying that they are still considering my application. This doesn’t give out a good impression of the organisation
• My internet - It’s on a mega go slow at the moment, some websites take AGES to load, nightmare!

And finally a photo....

All together now.... "Awwww"

Craft Haul

Last week when I went shopping I bought some new crafting goodies so thought I would share what I got with you.

Decoupage sheets and die cut messages

Peels offs, metallic christmas stickers

and Pepper and Friends die cut stickers

Multi coloured star gems and Daisy and Dandelion

die cut sentiments

Lots of nice goodies but don't know when I'll get time to use them as work I'm working all the time at the moment!

And lots more haul posts to follow!

What I did with my Sanctuary OOTW...

A couple of weeks ago Boots had this Sanctuary set as their offer of the week. It was £19 reduced from £40.

I wasn't really bothered about the goodies you got inside, I wanted the box to use as make up storage because my make up table looked like this.....

A mess. In the morning I have very little time to get ready so sometimes hunting through this mess if a bit of a nightmare. So with the help of the Sanctuary box my make up table now looks like this....

Ahhh much better! So what have I put inside it?

In the bottom drawer I only have my Benefit Confessions of a Concealerholic.

In the middle drawer I have concealers, mineral foundation, primers and powders. As you can see there is still loads of room left for more make up goodies!

And in the little top drawers I have eyeshadows, eyeshadow applicators, eyelash curlers, nail file, pencil sharpener and a foundation sponge.

Oh and on top of the box is my container with my make-up brushes in, my clock, tissues, mug with odd liners in and my kabuki brushes.

I love this box and am so glad I bought it!

Did you manage to get your hands on one of these? What have you used the box for?

Boots Strictly Come Dancing offer of the week

Starting tomorrow the offer of the week at Boots is the Strictly Come Dancing Fab-u-lous cosmetic case.

This is being reduced from £45 to £22 for one week only!

Will you be getting yours?

Product use up

Last months use up challenge went quite well. Products I have left are:

• NONE!!

Yes that’s right I used up everything! But unfortunately I’m still lagging behind from other months so I still have left:

• Soap and Glory greatest scrub
• Avon planet spa eye cream
• Handlicious hand scrub
• Soap and Glory sit tight
• L'Occitane verbena body gel
• Toni and Guy brunette blow dry spray

This month I only have a few products to use up, this just shows that I'm doing well as using my old stuff up!

This months products are:

• Toni and Guy brunette shampoo
• Toni and Guy brunette conditioner
• Molton Brown shower gels (not much used form one but it’s been open ages!)
• L’Oreal make up remover

Has anyone else got a challenge like this going?

The week that was....

This week has been pretty boring. Working lots, yet again. Not that I'm complaining because I need the pennies! So other than that what have I been up to this week...

• I was given my work hours up to christmas, which made me realise how soon it is! And some weeks I'm working 7/8 days in a row without a day off, I'd better get all my sleep in now!
• This week on my design team challenge was bonfire night which I was really struggling to find inspiration for. But years and years ago I bought some firework spritzer inks which came in very useful with this one (crafting post coming soon!)
• The BF got caught speeding again, naughty naughty! And it was in a lorry! He had a clean license for a whole of 6 months after his other points were taken off! Serves him right! Silly boy!
• And the clocks went back an hour this morning which is good as it's been pitch black getting up this last week which doesn't do anything to motivate you to get out of bed!