Week in Photos #38

This week has been...

DELICIOUS

Steak & Stilton with new potatoes and a herb dressing.

SLOW

We've made two stews this week using our new slow cooker. I love it. It is so nice coming home from work to a stew.

TASTY

My favourite meal of the week.

UPDATED

 I finally got around to putting the wall art up in the bedroom, it was so easy to do and it looks lovely. Can't stop singing Snow Patrol when I go to bed now though!

FISHY

 I'm not a big fish person but I really enjoyed this, Cous Cous with Mackerel and Leeks.

 GIFTED

 I received this mixture along with a set of instructions this week. This is Herman, a German friendship cake! I will update you with the progress as I go along.

NEON

 We got our neon on last night for a friends hen do.

NAUGHTY

I had this yummy breakfast bap yesterday to set me up for the drinking session ahead. Its all grilled so not as bad as it looks....

JAMMIE

Jammie Wagon Wheels FTW!

HUNGOVER

Today's hangover cure. As always my eyes were a lot bigger than my belly and I left half of it. The cats enjoyed it though. I pan friend the bacon in olive oil with leeks, it was amazing!

CHRISTMASY

Our town do a Christmas Cavalcade every year which is basically a carnival and the switching on of the lights. I went with my sister and my niece, my cousin and her daughter were also there. The kids love it, and I'll be honest it does bring out the kid in me!
Apologies for the rubbish phone photos!

I also saw the most amazing Christmas jumper last night!

What have you been up to this week?

Through The Keyhole #1

Hi all, as I love being nosey and I'm pretty sure that most of you do too I thought that I would do a series of 'through the keyhole' posts, each featuring a different room in my house. I'm going to start it off with my 'getting ready room'. This is my favourite room in the house. It holds my make-up, nail varnish, jewellery, handbags and wedding dress.

I love this light shade as it gives off so many patterns around the room. I bought it from No Frills a while back, it only cost about £10.

This is where I do my make-up, the drawers hold most of my make-up. Its actually a really bad position because only half of my face has the natural light on it, but it has to do as there isn't anywhere else! The duvet cover hanging from the side of the wardrobe houses my wedding dress. The monkey has my Race for Life badge and my pass from when I visited the Houses of Parliament around his neck. The flower garland is from some fancy dress event.

These drawers are from The Range. I can't remember how much they cost. They also hold a lot of make-up, mostly my back up products.

The famous nail varnish storage! The shelves are from IKEA. The wire dress is from The Range and the wicker chest was a gift from Spencer's parents, it holds my handbags.

The boiler's home, which doubles up as my shoe cupboard. The pink whistle is from my friend's hen night.

My jewellery. The pink drawers and jewellery box are both from TK Max. These were bought a while ago. The flower hooks are from Homebase.

Wall art from eBay, please ignore the fact that I put the quote up the wrong way around. Fail. It still makes sense though. Sofa bed from No Frills. LOVE Cushion from Primark, pink cushions and wallpaper from Wilkinsons.

Do you like to see other people's home decor and storage? I may show you my kitchen next as I'm quite proud of my pale pink and blue colour scheme.

Week in Photos #35

This week has been...

EXPLOSIVE

 

Spencer and I went to the local fireworks display last night with my sister, her partner and their daughter. These are a few of my favourite photos from the display.

We weren't sure what Gracie would think of the fireworks, we prepared her by telling her that they go 'BANG'! They have a children's display first with quieter fireworks, Gracie was bored when that one came on. She loved the adults display at first, but again got bored! She did sit there shouting 'bang' for a while! 

The display was brilliant. They do them to music which always makes it quite dramatic. Thankfully the weather stayed nice. 

COLD

Wrapped up warm ready for the fireworks!

NEW

 

We finally got around to replacing the blinds in the bathroom! The top photo are the blinds that were in the bathroom when we moved in. They are a lovely colour but they are metal, which means that they have rusted really badly! We decided to get some cheap bamboo blinds from IKEA!

DIY-TASTIC

Along with replacing the blinds we also added another IKEA shelf to my ever expanding nail varnish collection and painted the feature wall in our bedroom with Wilkinson's Pearl Grey.

INVITING

We received an invite for a wedding in March. I love a good wedding :) The bride is English and the groom is Welsh hence the rose and daffodil joining.

STOLEN

Cheeky Kitty helping herself to my glass of water!

TASTY

I decided to have a go at making Philly meatballs. They were amazing. Recipe coming to a screen near you soon....

CUTE

Flick, my mam and dad's cat Alfie, Kitty and Flick sleeping together :)

Alfie is one of the cats that I grew up with and he is still going strong. He is a HUGE tabby and is so loveable. I love having cwtches with Alf when I visit my parents.

REFRESHING

Can't beat a Crabbies :)

MUSICAL

I've had my iPhone on shuffle while doing all the DIY and house work this weekend. Certain songs come on and get me so excited! Stereophonics Traffic is one of these.

I've also enjoyed watching:

Top Boy

The Hangover Part 2

V for Vendetta

Hollyoaks (they finally got him and what an epic way to conclude the story!)

What have you been doing / watching this week? Did you go to a fireworks display?