Saturday 31 March 2012

Avon haul..

Years and years ago i used to buy from Avon all the time, i even became an Avon rep myself - not for long though, was too much like hard work! lol
Anyway, after a while it kinda dwindled out and i hadn't used any Avon products in years, partly because the novelty wore off and because there were no Avon reps in the area (that i knew of anyway!)
So i was just a little bit excited when a friend of mine became a rep - yay!
So for the past couple of months, i have being ordering myself a bag full of goodies!
Here's my lastest lot..


 from left to right
Cherry Blossom Hair Refresher (£1.25)
Glamorous Gold Gelled Body Oil (£2.55)
Cherry Blossom Room and Linen Spray (£2.00)

Sassy Scents 15ml Eau de toilette sprays
Vanilla Berry (2 for £4)
Vanilla Blossom (2 for £4)
Frosted Berry (£1.75)

12ml Nailwear Pro in Apricot Mystery (2 for £5)
12ml Mosaic Effects in White (2 for £5)
8ml Colortrend Nail Enamel in Surf (£1.50)

Big Colour Eye Pencil Duo in Green Dream and 
Hint of Mint (£1.50)
Onyx Lustre Tri Lipgloss (£1.99) 
Far Away Exotic perfume sample (free)

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•The Cherry Blossom Hair Refresher is great, i think this is either my 3rd or 4th bottle. I end up buying a bottle every other order now as i use it so often. It's just like a scented water i suppose, i spray on the bottom half of my hair to bring back the natural curls.

•Glamorous Gelled Body Oil - i have never tried this before, i have bought it for my holidays, to smear on over my sun lotion. I tested it on my hands and it smells amazing and leaves a very slight shimmer on the skin - perfect over a glowing tan! :)

 •Cherry Blossom Room and Linen Spray - I have several of these room and linen sprays already, (all different scents of course) so really, i don't need any more but when they bring out a new scent, you just have to add it to your collection!.. don't you?! lol

•15ml Sassy Scents Eau de toilette sprays - Never tried these before, but as they were on offer, i thought i'd give them a go. They aren't the type of scents that i would usually go for as they are quite sweet, however they are nicer than i expected them to be! and being a little 15ml bottle, the size is perfect to fit into a little clutch bag for a night out!

•Apricot Mystery Nailwear Pro and Mosaic Effects in White - I don't often purchase Avon nail polishes as i feel they are too over-priced for the quality (usually £6 each) but as these were on 2 for £5, i thought i'd give them another go as i really wanted the white mosaic effects. Haven't tested them yet so i can't really say anything else.. :)

•Colortrend Nail Enamel in Surf - Yet another bottle of nail polish to add to my 200+ bottles that i already own! To be honest, i only really bought this as i needed to spend £5 in the clearance brochure to receive the duo eye pencil for £1.50 - so that is what i did! lol

•Big Colour Duo Eye Pencil - This is gorgeous! the texture is soo soft and smooth. I haven't yet wore it on my eyes but just tested in the back of my hand.. as you do! The two green colours go great together.. just hope it goes with my blue eyes!

•Onyx Lustre Tri Lipgloss - This lipgloss is lovely, i have been wearing it from the second i removed it from its packaging - Love it! It's not gloopy or sticky which some lipglosses can be, applies really nicely and lasts quite a while compared to other lipglosses i have had.

•Far Away Exotic - This smells lovely, i have had a couple of samples of this already and because my friend knows i love it, she gave me another! :D

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p.s if you live in or around the Huddersfield/Mirfield/Dewsbury area (even Leeds i suppose if you're willing to hop on a train to come a little closer) - my friend Julie will be happy to provide you with a brochure. I know you can order online but if you're like me, love to sit with a coffee and have a good look through the brochure! - just leave me a comment and let me know, i'm sure we could sort something out! :o)
xXx

Thursday 29 March 2012

#marchphotoaday


14 - clouds

15 - car

16 - sunglasses

17 - green

18 - a corner of your home

19 - funny

20 - before and after

21 - delicious

22 - kitchen sink

23 - moon

24 - an animal

25 - breakfast



Click here for #marchphotoaday pictures 1 - 5
Click here for #marchphotoaday pictures 6 - 13

Goodies for sale..

Just updating my ebay link..

I have just listed a selection of new items on my ebay account this afternoon..

YSL youth liberator serum- from the harrods glossybox
30ml Britney Spears perfume gift set
Narciso Rodriguez for her eau de parfum - from the harrods glossybox
A selection of Books & DVDS
FAB (first aid beauty) gentle body wash
MURAD skin perfecting primer
MOLTON BROWN bath & shower - from the harrods glossybox
17 Nail polish & other beauty items


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p.s.. i am a little behind with the #marchphotoaday blog posts, i am up to date with the photo's its just that i have been a little too busy to write the blogs! :-/ - I may post one later today (i think!) and another tomorrow!.. promise! :)

xXx

Saturday 24 March 2012

Saturday 17th March..

....I went to the O2 Academy in Sheffield to see Black Stone Cherry - They were FaNtAsTiC!!!

I'm not sure how many of you have heard / know of BSC, i hadn't untill around June/July last year. A friend introduced me to them and i have not been able to get enough of them since. They are a hard rock / southern rock band from the US - not my usual type of music at all.. or at least i thought not!
I have all 3 albums - Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea being my favourite! One of very few albums where i actually like every single song on it! I love their lyrics and can relate to them in many ways. When i listen to their music it reminds me of the person who introduced me to them.. and that makes me smile.. :)

I took rather a lot of photos at the gig - 82 to be exact lol.. but don't worry, i won't bore you with them all! lol here's a few of my favs..









If you would like to see the rest of the photos i took on the night,click here



Friday 23 March 2012

Quick post..

Just realised i haven't posted in a little over week.. Oops! :-/

I have just had 9 days off work and it has been sooo nice, back a day early actually but i won't go on about that!! lol That's probably one reason why i haven't blogged much, because i usually write all the drafts while i'm at work then add pics another time & hey presto.. a blog in seconds! :D - will get back to it now though, got lots to say! lol 

I am at work right now so can't blog about the things i want to as i can't transfer the photo's from my camera using works computer etc - so i've just had to steal a few pics from my facebook!
At work we take it in turns (or at least we used to!) to bring some biscuits for the tim in the staff room. I get fed up of the same boring old rich tea's & digestives all the time so i like to do a spot of baking every now & again, here's are some the my home-made goodies... :)


The mini pink buns above were just regular victoria sponge with strawberry icing and edible glittery sprinkles
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Theses buns were also victoria sponge with a vanilla frosting and citrus flavour sprinkles
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This home-made battenburg was going to be my pride and joy - untill the pink food colouring disappeared during cooking! You can see that there's a slight difference in colour, 2 of the squares sections have a yellow'y tint and the other 2 just look like plain sponge, the cake mixture was bright pink before it went in the oven.. didn't come out that way though :-( - still tasted absolutely yummy!! :)
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This one here was just a random picture i took at work one night, hadn't done any baking that day so instead i bought a cupcake from asda.. needn't have bothered - the frosting was sooo sickly, couldn't work out what flavour it was supposed to be! ..and the sponge was a little dry too! Looks cute but i think i'll stick to making my own in future!

xXx

I am constantly updating my ebay with things that i no longer want or need, various items from unwanted Glossybox items, books, perfume etc - feel free to have a peek.. :)

Wednesday 14 March 2012

ebay..

Items for sale on my ebay..

for those of you that don't want to commit to the monthly beauty boxes such as Glossybox etc or those that receive different items, i have listed a few of my Glossybox items that are of no use to me - might as well let other people have them.. well buy them ..hehe ;)

DEBORAH LIPPMAN
SUPERDRUG
ZOYA
ORLY
BRITNEY SPEARS PERFUME
EYEKO
17
PAUL MITCHELL
FIRST AID BEAUTY

just click on the link below to see..

xXx

Tuesday 13 March 2012

#marchphotoaday

 6 - 5pm

7 - Something you wore

8 - Window

9 - Red


 10 - Loud

11 - Someone you talked to today

12 - Fork

13 - Sign


xXx


HARRODS GLOSSYBOX

WHOOP! ..soooooo pleased with this months box! :-D




•YSL Youth Liberator Serum•
A lovely luxury item, i think i might put this to one side for a few months and start using it on the lead up to my holiday and whilst on holiday

•BURBERRY Lip Mist•
I ♥ this cute little lipstick so much that i actually don't want to use it! lol..but i will! :)

•CLARINS Extra-Firming Body Cream•
I'm not that overly fussed on Clarins products to be honest, if it was a face cream i'd be happy but i have more body lotions than Boots!! so this will probably end up on ebay by the end of the week! ;p

•NARCISO RODRIGUEZ for her eau de parfum•
This is not a name or scent that i am familiar with so my thoughts are pretty neutral on this one, it may end up in my handbag or on ebay - haven't decided yet!

•MOLTON BROWN Heavenly Gingerlily Moisture Bath and Shower•
Along with body lotions, i have a ton of bath and shower gels too, it does smell rather nice so i may use it at some point, these little bottles come in handy for travel so i'll probably save it for a trp away!

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All in all i think this is my favourite Glossybox yet (first one was the December box)
Although slightly disappointed about the colour of the box, i was sure i'd seen one that was a grey/silvery colour?!.. and was really looking forward to that :( - but i guess it's the contents that are more important really!
I was really happy to receive YSL and Burberry products, these definitley make me feel like i have got my moneys worth!! - something i did wonder though.. we have received this months box early haven't we?.. it isn't usually delivered untill around the last week of the month?! oh well..

Thanks Glossybox.. definitley a thumbs up for this one!! :)

Rachel xXx

Thursday 8 March 2012

13 personal questions..

Just watched a couple of tag videos on youtube including these questions so i thought i would do it in a blog instead..

The Questions:



1. What do you order at Starbucks?

a cinnamon or gingerbread latte.. yum :)

2. What's one thing in your wardrobe that you cannot live without?

my coat - i'm always cold!

3. What's one thing that most people probably wouldn't know about you?

ha!.. might have to get back to you on this one!! lol

4. Name one thing that you want to do before you die

get married..

5. What's one food that you cannot live without?

bread

6. What quote/phrase do you live your life by?

'if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all!'

7. What do you like and dislike about the YT community?

dislike- posers, braggers, people who are way too hyper in videos
like- you can just delete people who bug you!

8. What's your number one most listened to song on iTunes?

Birdy, Skinny Love

9. What kind of style would you define yourself as having?

generally whatevers in fashion and whatever i am comfortable in! :)

10. Favorite number

8

11. Two hobbies

ebay and walking

12. Two pet peeves

Obnoxious people who sneeze way too loud!! and negatve people

13. Guilty Pleasure

watching tv


Rachel.. xXx


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Wednesday 7 March 2012

#marchphotoaday

Howdy folks :)

So i just read on someone's blog about #marchphotoaday and thought 'yay, i wanna do that!' so i am! :D
Apparently there was a February one on Instagram but as i don't have that, i hadn't heard about it until just now - but no matter what month.. what a great idea anyway!

I always take my camera with me everywhere i go, taking pics of random things like my lunch, blackberry bushes, the sun peeping through the trees (when we actually have sun that is!!) and i also take countless amounts of photo's of my little baby Dexter. Anyway.. each day there is a said subject in which your photo should have a link to.. see pic below. I stole this pic from someone's blog (sorry :p) so that i could refer to each day to see what i need to take a picture of..


I don't think i'm gonna have time to post a pic each seperate day, so i may end up just posting maybe 3 or 4 per post - we'll see :) - here's my first installment of pics..

UP - 1


FRUIT - 2

YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD - 3



BEDSIDE - 4

SMILE - 5





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http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/dexter09101/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25&_trksid=p3692

Sunday 4 March 2012

Blah blah blah..

I'm 'on one' today so this post is gonna be a bit of a ramble and a moan!! lol

Here goes..

I put a load of veg in my new slow cooker last night before i came to work - got home this morning and after 10 hours of it slowly simmering away, the veg was still rock hard! grrr, so i switched the setting onto high and buggered off to bed. Got up at 2pm and guess what, the sodding veg was hardly any softer!!! I'd put swede, carrots and sweet potato in along with a couple of stock cubes (i had already made the meaty part of the stew the day before) I was just doing this extra veg to add to it, i may as well have just steamed the extra veg, it would have been way quicker and i wouldn't have wasted 15 hours of my electricity!! - oh well eh?!

A little later i stuck my head out of my room window and took the ' your neighbourhood' photo for #marchphotoaday, and was gonna pop across to the library to upload pics 1, 2 and 3 - but by the time i had eaten lunch and got ready, it was already 15:50 - the library closes at 4 on a Saturday so i couldn't upload the photo's :-( - Will have to do that post on Monday or Tuesday now.. hmpf!!
I do have a PC at home but i haven't yet been and bought a dongle so i can have internet access at home - really need to do that this week!!!

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I seem to be flagging quite abit lately and i'm finding it hard to be enthusiastic :-/ ..things just seem to be bugging me more and i'm finding myself being more and more frustrated.. which i really do need to snap out of because it's not good!!
From the 13th March, i have 10 days off work.. which can't come soon enough!! I just need a break and to have some time to myself! I am currently in the process of re-decorating my place, so i'm going to crack on with that and get as much done as i can with no interuptions!!
One thing i am excited about though.. I am going to a Black Stone Cherry gig in Sheffield on the 17th - CANNOT wait for that!! :D

Hang on in there, i'm nearly done! lol..

One other thing that really annoys me.. when people say things they don't mean!!! grrrr.. like 'i miss you' for example.. don't tell someone you miss them when you've made no effort at all to change it!!
Don't say something just to keep someone sweet or because you think it's what they want to hear - because it's not! Don't say one thing, then do another.. or even worse, not do anything at all! Either don't say anything to begin with or if you do, just be honest!!! - sorry if this doesn't make enough sense, i'm not really one for airing my dirty laundry in public lol so i can't really say what i really want to say - but you get the jist... i hope!

Anyway, that'll do for now.. don't you think?! lol - it's 00:58 and i'm at work, i only have another 7 hours to go! :-/ lol.. so i think it's time for a coffee and a biscuit!