Showing posts with label Primark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Primark. Show all posts

Bargain Hauling

Sunday, November 20, 2011
Hi guys :) I feel like I haven't posted a haul for ages! I'm trying to cut down on spending and I guess that shows on my blog!

Spencer and I have had  a very successful day today, we've finished most of our Christmas shopping and both bought a few items that we needed, all at great prices. I love days like this!

Christmas party dress - £17 Primark

Christmas party glittery brogues (I've given up on heels) - £12 Primark

Duffle coat - £10 down from £25 Primark

After we got everything we wanted in town we went to Raglan Garden Centre, it is the most amazing garden centre ever! I could have easily spent a couple of hundred pound in there (we did manage £80!). Most of what we bought there is presents, they do lovely bath bombs, soaps and Welsh food & boooze. I couldn't resist these items for myself.

 Santa Balls 'Ho Bloody Ho' bauble £2.99

Heart £1.99

What have you been buying this weekend?



OOTD & NOTD : Children in Need - Something Spotty

Saturday, November 19, 2011
Yesterday we had a dress down day in work and had to wear something spotty. We had to donate £2 to Children in Need and were then allowed to wear our own clothes. I did my nails spotty as I didn't think I had any spotty clothes, then I remembered my bargain £5 polka dot dress from Asda.



Dress - ASDA
Belt, Cardigan & Boots - Primark
Tights & Socks - H&M
Brooch (barely seen) - Dainty Roses


ELF White
Piggy Paint Dragon Tears
Barry M Yellow
Barry M Blueberry
No 7 Devils Delight

I was very pleased with how my nails turned out, I had so many comments on them.


Did you do anything in work to raise money for Children in Need?


OOTD - Almost Winter

Thursday, November 17, 2011
I feel as though I haven't posted an outfit for ages! I never seem to have the time to take the photos any more but I made sure that I took some last weekend. They were a last minute rush so I hope you don't mind the photos taken by my dodgy photographer Spencer, bless him, he isn't the best at camera angles!

Jumper - H&M
Jeans, Boots & Necklace all Primark

I wore this outfit last weekend when it wasn't quite as bitter cold as it currently is! One thing I will say about this outfit, if you like the look of the necklace by all means buy it, but be prepared to buy another string/chain to put the pendant on, the string on mine has snapped in two different places now!



Recent buys...

Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Is it really only Tuesday?? Its pay day Friday so I'm counting down the days, the reason why I am so skint is due to all these lovely things that I have been buying this past month.

Forever 21



Boots




Superdrug

Bookman in work

Primark




H&M


Local market

What have you been spending your hard earned dollar on this month?



Looking Back & Looking Forward - September/October

Saturday, October 1, 2011
October has landed along with an Indian Summer (that's right, its now October which means its officially an Indian Summer!) I'm loving the last minute summer, except for the dilemma of having no clothes to wear seeings as we haven't had a summer yet!

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This month I've been loving...

Beauty...
Lauren's Way fake tan. I finally got around to using this last night! I bought it ages ago but have been putting off using it to be honest because fake tan scares me! For the first time ever in my fake tanning life I've come out streak free! I have got a few patches where I've missed bits, the lighting in my bedroom is awful so its not very good to see what you're doing! This tan is instant though so I can just top these up today.

Fashion...
Coloured jeans. Not just the jeans that I'm wearing here just coloured jeans in general. I only own this pair so I need to buy a few more pairs. I'm particularly lusting after a maroon pair.

Food...
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Limited Edition Triple Chocolate Mars Bar. These are simply amazing. Enough said.

Blog posts...

Mrs Red post sharing with us how she made some huge changes to her blog. I still haven't got around to trying this out!
Leanne's easy peasy nail design - I'm actually sporting this look right now!
Claire Louise's very impressive nail art - I'm not even going to attempt this one, I could not do it justice.
Emily's sparkly nail design - on my list to do. That list is huge.
The family tree shown on Sammy's Tuesday Treats - I must attempt this myself, it looks amazing!

The products that I've used in full this month...
Rimmel 25 Hour Foundation. I loved this when I first bought it, you can read my review here. It is a  good foundation. It lasted absolutely ages and I just get bored of using the same foundation for so long, I'm trying to be good and not start other products until I've finished the one I'm using, I think I started to resent this foundation because I wanted to try others but couldn't until it was finished!

The Body Shop Peppermint Intensive Foot Rescue. This may be good for people who don't have feet as bad as mine. It certainly didn't rescue my feet but my feet are as tough as a crocodile so it would take a lot to rescue them. My quest for the miracle product still continues.

Looking back...
I've had a good month. There have been a few problems within my group of friends which has riled a few people including me. I'm not letting it get to me.
I've met more bloggers this month - yay! I absolutely love meeting bloggers! They are all so nice.
I've been doing well with my Weight Watchers considering how badly I stick to the diet! My weekly weigh in this week left me 1/2lb away from loosing half a stone. I had a sneaky weigh in this morning and have hit half a stone :)

Looking forward to...
1.10.10 (tonight) Swansea with my ladies :) All our boyfriends are away in Butlins on a stag do. We decided to go away ourselves! We're catching the train to Swansea and staying over night. Cannot wait!
8.10.10 Cadbury World. Spencer and I bought this through Groupon. We are staying in the Park Inn on the Saturday night and then going to Cadbury World on the Sunday. The Sunday is our engagement anniversary (2 years) so we thought it would be nice to do it that weekend.
12.10.10 The Cardiff blogger meet.
28.10.10 not necessarily anything to look forward to but I thought I'd put this in. I've been in my job for 9 years this day! That makes me feel so old!
29.10.10 its my cousin's 30th Birthday so I've been told to keep this Saturday free. We're probably just going out local, I think she wants to do fancy dress. I may finally get to dress up as a geek, been wanting to do that for so long! I think we're going to surprise her by asking the pub to bring out a cake and putting balloons & banners up if they'll let us.

I didn't realise how exciting my month ahead was until I typed this up! Have you got anything exciting planned?





OOTD & Primark Buys

Saturday, September 10, 2011
So I've been to Primark today, for a change! I'm surprised the staff don't know me on a first name basis by now!

I took a few things back from my last trip. I've also learnt a tip when shopping in Primark. Always buy something that you will need to return, in my local Primark the queue at the returns desk is always much shorter!

This is what I wore to go shopping (one day I will learn how to pose):

with flash, without flash, jewellery
 Top & Jeans - Primark
Brogues - Peacocks
All Jewellery - Flutter Face via eBay
World cup nails - post to follow...

These are the bargains of the day...





Have you been buying anything lately? I need to stop buying!



OOTD and Get Your Freak On: 15 Weird Facts Tag

Thursday, September 8, 2011
Hi all, how are you? What a miserable week with all this rain and wind hey!

I'm still really miserable as my hip still hurts, I have booked a Doctors appointment for tomorrow so if its still bad I will hobble over to see them!
A while back the lovely Rachel over at A Pretty Obsession tagged me in a post called Get Your Freak On, you can view her answers here. Today I am going to share my weird facts with you! Be warmed I do struggle with these posts so I'll probably ramble haha

1. What is a nickname that only your family calls you? 

None of my family call me a nickname, sometimes my name gets shortened to Lea by them. A lot of my friends call me Stundon, or if my sister is out I sometimes get called Junior.


2. What's a weird habit of yours? 

I never lock the bathroom door when showering unless I'm home alone. Wouldn't want the intruder catching me naked in the shower would I! They're welcome to the rest of the house though!

3. Do you have any weird phobias?

I don't think so, the usual things like spiders and bees, and there is my odd number phobia. I won't watch the TV/listen to music with the volume on an odd number, it has to be turned up so that its a nice even number.

4. What's a song you secretly LOVE to blast & belt out when you're alone?


I agree with Rachel on the 5ive front, I frickin love 5ive! Venga Boys are another fave of mine, particularly "the venga bus is coming...". Everyone knows I love stupid music though so I don't keep my belting out of crap songs a secret! 

I do love a good sing along to Adele when no one is around, my ribs hurt from singing so hard!



5. What's one of your biggest pet peeves? 

People walking slow in front of me and taking up the whole pavement, just move out of my way!

I also hate people who don't say thanks, I get so wound up when I go to places like London as there aren't a lot of people there that do say thanks! 

I'm quite often sarcastically shouting 'thanks' to people after I've held the door open for them / stood to the side to let them past and they've blanked me.  I didn't do it cause I owe you anything love!

6. What's one of your nervous habits? 

Fidgeting. I often fiddle with my rings or necklace when nervous. I also jumble my words up which can be quite embarrassing!

7. What side of the bed do you sleep on? 

I sleep on the left side at home, as that is where the shelves are. I don't have a particular side, I just sleep on the side where there is somewhere to put my drink, phone and glasses.



8. What was your first stuffed animal & it's name?

Seriously how do people remember this stuff! I did have a little koala bear thing, it was one of those little ones that you squeezed and his arms and legs opened so he would cling to things, if that makes any sense at all!! This type of thing...

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I don't remember his name but apparently I never went anywhere without him. We have a photo from when my sister had her school photos and I went up to have one with her, I have him in the photo, my mam says that I cried and cried when they tried taking him off me so they just gave in and let me have him in the photo!


9. What's the drink you ALWAYS order at Starbucks?

I don't go to Starbucks very often as I can't afford it! When I do go I just order whatever takes my fancy at the time, usually some sort of toffee or caramel coffee.

10. What's the beauty rule you preach.. but never ACTUALLY practice?

Not really sure to be honest! I don't really preach a lot of beauty.

11. Which way do you face in the shower?

I stand with my back to the shower head.

12. Do you have any 'weird' body 'skills'? 

I can lift my big toe up really high and my fingers bend back quite a bit. The doctor thought I had hyper mobility syndrome at one point because of my flexible joints, thankfully I didn't, its nasty!

 
13. What's your favourite 'comfort food'/food that's 'bad' but you love to eat it anyways? 

Chocolate all the way. I've known myself to eat a whole big bar of Cadburys when feeling a little down. And still want more.

14. What's a phrase or exclamation you always say?

"Thanks", see no.5. 
"I'm hungry" haha

15. Time to sleep- what are you ACTUALLY wearing

I'm in my PJs now which are my rather unattractive pink checked ones, shirt style top and bottoms. Sexual.

OOTD

Now onto an outfit! This is what I wore when I went shopping the other day, although I didn't actually wear it out of the house! I was about to leave the house when I realised that the fly in my jeans was undone, then I remembered that they were the ones with the dodgy zip that I'd been meaning to throw out for ages, so I quickly got changed! I like the outfit though so am showing you it anyway!





Blouse - Primark
Cardigan - Primark
Jeans - not sure but they have a dodgy zip anyway so who cares!
Sandals - Peacocks
Necklace - Primark

If you're reading this you're all tagged to do the 15 weird facts!!



Sorry about the stupid spacing issues in this post, I really don't understand what went on with it!!!

Primark Haul :)

Friday, September 2, 2011
Hi guys, how are you all? What a lovely sunny day it is today! I'd given up on nice weather so had quite a shock today as it is actually warm and sunny! How lucky was I to have booked today off work :)

I was supposed to be getting the house ready for my guests that are visiting tomorrow, but instead I took a trip to town!

As per usual the majority of my buys were in Primark. Here is what I bought:

 2 Pillow cases £3 - I have been thinking of my guests for part of today, these are for the spare bed!
Socks reduced to £1

 Brogues £10 - I'm now in love with brogues so decided I could do with some for work 

 Colour block vest £4 - This top is like a tend but it looks nice with the jeans (below)

 Skinny jeans with belt £14 - As you probably know I tend to live in dresses. That is because I feel comfortable in dresses. I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone by wearing more trousers. 

 Gloves £4 - Who could resist these?

 Belt £1 - annoyingly I picked the wrong size up and its too small, must go back and change it for a bigger one 


Dress £15 - I saw this dress on Eloise's blog, she had in white. I decided I needed it! I was going to buy the white one but fell in love with this colour. The only annoying thing about it is that it is short so I will have to wear thick tights or leggings with it :(

My local Wilkinsons have just started stocking Rimmel and Collection 2000. The Rimmel nail varnishes were 2 for £4 so I picked up these two.