Autumn To Do List

Hello Again,

Today's post is going to be a list of all the goals I want to achieve by the time winter sneaks up! Autumn is literally my favourite time of year (but isn't it so weird how people love this time of year and that it's so beautiful yet everything is dying - yeah) and every year I set myself a little list of things I want to do and I hardly ever do any of them - so this year I thought if I did a whole post about them then it might actually give me a good old kick up the arse to do them. So if you're a fan of Autumn and would like to make the most of it then check out my To Do List!

1. Try a Pumpkin spiced latte - not a fan of Coffee but I've heard so many good things so I'm willing to try it.
2. Snuggle by a fire.
3. Crunch in leaves - OMG that's my favourite part!
4. Go on a Conker Hunt.
5. Watch Hocus Pocus - OK I do manage this every year - it's a classic!
6. Carve a Pumpkin - I'll leave my 2 from last year down below.
7. Take a foggy morning walk through the trees.
8. Make toffee apples - horrible for your teeth - perfect for your tummy!
9. Go to a Pumpkin Patch
10. Collect fallen leaves and do arts and crafts with April
11. Make homemade soup
12. Go trick or Treating
13. Layer up in cosy burgundy jumpers
14. Drink hot chocolate in the morning (I see no wrong with this)
15. Sit cosied up surrounded my cinnamon candles

So that is my little To Do List, Do you have an Autumn Tradition or something you've always wanted to do?

'Till next time ...

sources: pinterest

Life ...

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This post is just going to be short and sweet. I first set out doing this saying that I would do three posts a week, which to begin with was fine. But recently it's been a bit of a struggle, work has been very stressful (thank god it's almost the weekend), home life has been, well home life and I don't want to be taking time away from family because I have a blog post to write (family is the most important thing to me) so I'm going to go down to two a week! I think if I kept doing three just now then I wouldn't enjoy it and I'd start to resent it - which I never want that to happen.

So for now, not saying that it won't go back up in the future, but for now two is more realistic with my life. So every Tuesday and Saturday I will be posting.

I couldn't do a post without a picture though, so if you don't follow me on instagram (the link to my instagram is at the header) here are a couple of my favourite photo's that I've taken recently.

The first day April could 'scoot' on her scooter, A mini make up Haul and the beautiful bouquet of flowers Sam sent me on my birthday.

April (looking so damn grown up) and my favourite from Handmade Burger, Piri Piri chicken with bacon in a pitta bread (Now I'm starving).


'Till next time ...

My Review of August's Glossy Box!

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Earlier on last month I did a blog post on my very first Glossy Box - if you haven't read that, then go read that then come back. You back? Good! So I have been using these products over the past month now so I thought I would do a review. Some of the products I have loved and others I haven't been to fussed about.

I am going to start with the products that I have been impressed by which was all bar 2 really. First up is the Naobay Calming Face Toner. Now I have never used a toner before until this as I've explained before that I never really had a skincare routine until recently, but this was a lovely addition. I just feel that after I use my cleanser this is perfect to sweep across my face and remove any traces of make up left. I also love the packaging of this - the wooden lid looks lovely on my vanity. The only thing I was a little disappointed with was that on the Glossy Box product fact card was that it said that it had a nice citrus smell and I just don't think it has any smell at all. But other than that I have loved using this and I definitely want to keep it part of my skincare routine!

Next up is the Manna Kadar conditioning eyelash primer. Now, to be perfectly honest with you when I saw this in my box I was very apprehensive (I've only just been converted to an eyelid primer - I thought an eyelash primer was just taking the biscuit). But I was pleasantly surprised, I find that this really helps my mascara cling to my lashes even more! But I don't think it would be a product that I would buy over and over again, it's more of a luxury product! But I do enjoy having it as a part of my collection.

Next up is a product I've spoken a lot about on both here and over on my twitter, it's the Sass Intimate Purifying Cleanser. Now, I was using this as a facial cleaner as it I was instructed to by my little glossy box info card - but after about a week of using this on my face (which by the way, left my face feeling amazing) I found out that it was actually a cleanser for my lady thang (I'm channelling my inner Miley Cyrus - up in here!) We're all grown ups here and this is my blog so if I can't speak about that, then I may as well shut this down here. But this is honestly now something that I've been using ever other day and I don't think twice about it. I just see it as part of my typical shower routine. I love this and the brand themselves have been really good over chatting away with me and recommending more products over twitter - on pay day I will be checking out the rest of their range in boots! I'm very glad this was in my Glossy Box!

Next up is my most disappointing product - but this is only because of the shade. It's the Emite Artist Colour Powder Blush, which the guys at glossy box deemed this as a 'Blunzer' so a mix between a blush and a bronzer. I am very very pale (Imagine a milk bottle - yup, that's me) so as soon as I saw this I just knew it would be too dark for me. But putting that aside I did try it and I do really like it, the pigmentation is brilliant as it the formula. I just used a little at a time and I found it to be quite bendable. So if it were in a lighter shade I'd definitely be reaching for it more, but sadly i think this will either collect dust or be given to a friend.

Last but not least is the MeMeMe Lip Glide in the shade Playful Peach. I have been trying this out now and then but it just isn't my kind of lip colour. It is a beautiful coral-pink-peach which I'm sure would suit a lot of people but I just don't think it suits me. The texture though is great! It's very soft and easy to apply. I think this will be added into the little selection of make up that I let April play around with - which I'm sure will make her very happy!

So that is all from August's Glossy Box. Do you get the Glossy Box? What did you think of your August Products? I can't wait to see what's in this month's box!

'Till next time ...

My Blogger Beauty Box!

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I am so excited to be writing this post as I got the honour of managing to get my hands on this months Blogger Beauty Box! Now if you don't know what this is, it's a monthly beauty box for bloggers co - set up by Vix Meldrew (I will leave all the links down below - you should definitely check it out) it is only £10 (an absolute bargain) and there is only a very small amount available each month so when I got a email saying that I had managed to get one I was super excited!

I was having a particularly bad day at work when my fiancé text me a photo of a parcel that had arrived for me and then I saw the Blogger Beauty Box sticker in the corner - I couldn't wait to get home to open it. So this post is going to show you what I got in the box and then later on in the month I will do a review on all the products! So here we go ...

The packaging was simplistic but classic! I really like the pop of pink with the tissue paper and when I opened it up I literally yelped with excitement (when I say literally, I mean literally).

I just want to start off by saying that I think this is such great value for money (like I said earlier it's £10 including postage and packaging) and I can't begin to imagine what it must take to get all this arranged with brands etc - so thank you very much to all involved at Blogger Beauty Box - I appreciate all the hard work! So I'll stop babbling and get to the products!!

There are 5 beauty products that I received in this months box (There was also a cheeky strawberry maoam sweet, but I ate that before I reached for my camera). So first up was some Yes to - Age refresh cleansing facial wipes.I have never seen anything from this brand but it definitely makes a change from the average baby wipes I carry around with me (all you mums out there will know exactly what I'm talking about) I opened these up straight away to have a smell and they smell so amazingly fruity - I'm looking forward to carrying these on the go! There's so many times when I'm out and about and need a little re-fresh - so I think these are going to be perfect.

I was then attracted to the two lip products. I got a beautiful movements cosmetics lip gloss in the shade gypsy spirit and also a Makeup Revolution (one of my all time favourite affordable brands) lipstick in the shade luscious. I love the colour of Gypsy Spirit - it's a nice warm terracotta colour and I absolutely love the fact that it is cruelty free as well as paraben free! The Make Up revolution lipstick is very similar in colour to Gypsy Spirit and they will either be great alone but they will also work perfectly together! I have been pushing myself with wearing colour on my lips so I think these will both be really good for transitioning into Autumn (by the way - how excited are we that it's almost autumn - yay!). 

The next thing that I picked up was a sample of Yours Truly Organics beautiful inside and out Fix me! Repairing serum. This is something I have never used before so I'm quite looking forward to trying it out. It says that it repairs smoothen and brightens your skin (tick!) Who doesn't want a radiant complexion - fingers crossed that it agrees with me!

And last but certainly not least, as this product could be my favourite of them all, is the Sniffy Wiffy Raspberry Hand Cream. Now I have a skin condition on my hands called Pompholyx - which is a mix between dermatitis and eczema (my hands get all blotchy and sore - not nice). It tends to get really bad at this time of year so I will literally try any hand cream hoping that it keeps it at bay! So I'm really looking forward to using this - I also like that it's the first company to bring the fight against breast and testicular cancer into bathrooms everywhere. It's such a great way of bringing awareness - I'm sure no matter who you are or where you are in the world you or your family have been affected in some way by cancer. I'm going to leave their link down below so you can find out more about them and their mission - also it smells good enough to eat and it has already left my hands feeling super soft and that's only after using it twice!!

So that is my Blogger Beauty Box for the month of September. Here is where you can find their blog and register for a box (be quick as when they're gone - they're gone - and as I said before it is only available to bloggers - but you can enter to win a box!

http://www.bloggerbeautybox.com

• You can also find Blogger Beauty Box on Twitter and it's co - founder Vix Meldrew:

https://twitter.com/bbloggerbox

https://twitter.com/VixMeldrew

• Also if you could, take a couple of minutes to check out Sniffy Wiffy and all the wonderful things they are doing:

http://www.sniffywiffy.com

Have you ever used any of these products, I'd love to know how you got on with them?

'Till next time ...