Birthday Haul!

Hi girls!! 

Today I will show you the goodies I got for my Birthday!! I was so lucky getting what I got and please do not think I am trying to show off or anything, I just got some really interesting things, which means I obviously want to share them with you!!

So first up is the things that my lovely Robert got me! I would say about three years ago my Nintendo DS (the very very first one that came out!) broke, it was well loved and sadly the top half of the DS came off after a few accidental drops. I was desperate to get a new one and Robert bought me a Nintendo 3DS!! He picked the blue one, which is such a nice colour (sadly the 3DS does not come in pink!!? Why not Nintendo?!!) and he also got me the new Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask game, which is in 3D and the blue accessories pack, which comes with a case and lots of other goodies inside!

So yea this has been a bit of a distraction for me from my blog (which I spoke about here) in this past week! It is awesome though and the 3D effects are amazing!!

My lovely friends gave me a £30 Debenhams voucher, which I haven't spent yet and I can't wait to go buy some make up goodies!! Any one got any suggestions?!! They also got me a notebook and pencil from Paperchase, as one just opened in Glasgow city centre and I haven't been yet! This is a good thing though, as I have a thing for note books and would probably walk out of there with about 10!!! Haha! So lovely presents from my friends and very well though out!!

From my dad I got a £25 Nintendo card to spend on a game or two for my 3DS and he also gave me money to spend on what I liked (which you will see below). My mum bought me a pair of Dolce and Gabbana sunglasses!! Oh and I also got a big chocolate champagne bottle from Thortons, but Robert (being a chocolate fiend) could not resist it and had it opened and half eaten before I could get a photo of it! At least I did get a little bit of it!! 

Onto my sunglasses... They are gorgeous! Blue and silver speckles through the frame and the shape suits me really well! I had just got a pair of Ray Bans when I was on holiday, which I love so much, but I think it will be nice having a pair that are so different to them to switch around with! I am so ready for the sun (if it comes to Glasgow any time soon!!).

So as I said, my dad had gave me some money to go and buy some things for myself!! I picked up a new Fossil purse, I love Fossil and would love a leather bag from in thee, but I wanted to spend my money on other things too, so I picked up this lovely cobalt blue purse!! I do have another Fossil purse that I used everyday for over a year and it is still in amazing condition!! I know this one too will last me a long time! The leather is so soft too! 

The inside of my purse has all the space I need! The lining inside is cute too, I am in love! 

I also went to Game and bought myself some more games for my new 3DS! I have the first two Professor Layton games so I thought I would complete the set and buy the two I didn't have! I can't wait to get playing them! I absolutely love mind puzzles like the ones in these games!! Right now though I am preoccupied with playing Pokemon White 2, which I bought along with the guidebook! I know some of you girls out there will love Pokemon too! I used to play the older games with my Gameboy when I was younger and I do have Pokemon HeartGold for my old Nintendo DS! I have missed playing Pokemon so much! And yes I did turn 23 and not 12, but I don't care, hehe!!

So there we go! A bit of a different haul than most, I think! Let me know what you think of the sunglasses and also what you think I should buy with my Debenhams gift card... I'm obviously thinking make up here girls!!

Love, Jen x

New Look Haul & A Gift From New York!

Hi girls!

So last Sunday, during my lunch break, I felt I needed a little pick me up... So I went to New Look and I left a little happier!! Hehe, So I am here today with a haul for you all! Now at the time I bought these things there was still a lot of sale in the shop, I for one am not really a sale person and can never be bothered looking through it all and when I do I never find anything any way. So all of these things are from the full price section, meaning are all available from store! Yay for you if you like something! Also if you have read some of my other haul posts then you will know I like comfy clothes! Hehe, you won't find any fancy shmancy clothes in this post!

So he first thing I picked up was this cute t-shirt, which has a light blue paisley pattern all over. It also has little rolled up sleeves, which are cute! This was £7.99.

I have been looking now, for a little while for skinny jean like trouser that I can wear instead of my jeans for a change. Well I found these cute jeans (I say jeans, but they are not as heavy as jeans), which are a dark cornflower blue. They are also skinny leg, which is the only jeans I wear, and these wear a snip at just £14.99!

Next up I picked up a long sleeved op in a pretty maroon colour (in the photo it looks more brown than it is!). I do like wearing long sleeved tops especially in the winter as it keeps me warmer! Hehe, I get cold really easily!! The price for this was only £4.99, which I thought was a bargain and they have them in loads more colours!

I then picked up another blue t-shirt (I seemed to be attracted to all the blue clothes in there that day! I picked up the above top, just so it wasn't so much blue!! Hehe), which had a cute design on it. It says American Revival on the front and is dusky light blue, which with a washed out type design on the front. This one was £6.99.

Sorry about the photos, I think my camera was having trouble picking up the colours in the dark evenings! So glad that they are now going to be getting dark later! When I was at the till, They were selling three pairs of socks for £4! So I had to get me some! I picked up two kitty cat ones and then an American Flag pair! Hehe!

And that was my New Look haul! I am really pleased with what I picked up! When I got home from work that day. My parents had arrived back from visiting New York! They brought me back a really cute charm from one of my favourite shops, Fossil! It is a cute NYC apple charm (the big apple!), hehe! I have a Fossil necklace, which I can add charms to, but at the moment it is on a charm bracelet, which I got for my 21st birthday! It came in this cute Fossil box, with a huge J on it! So thank you mum and dad for this cute little charm! It really reminds me of when I was there! 

Hope you enjoyed my little haul of goodies! Have you been in New Look recently?

Love, Jen x

Hump Day Wish List!

Hi girls! 

So I am in definite need for a wish list today! I would love to go shopping for some new clothes, but I am not going to so this is the next best thing!!

From Topshop, I chose a cute tshirt, that amazing nail polish from the Louise Gray Collection and I just want another lipstick, but as yet I am not decided on a colour! I think maybe Whimsical?!

From New Look, I chose an amazing Batman inspired jumper (!!), a cosy cardigan, ready for autumn and a cute swallow print tshirt!

From River Island, I chose two tshirts, because I love the tshirts form there, a cute pair of bright blue jeggings, an awesome USA inspired jumper, a cute stripy vest  and a blue striped jumper!

Ok and from Fossil, they have brought out these amazing bangles, which come in rose gold, gold and silver. I chose three amazing silver ones to match my watch! I think they would all look so good together on my wrist! Just wish they were not so expensive!!

That is my wish list for today! Is there anything that you would love to have? Or have already?!

Also on a completely unrelated wish list note, can I just say that at last, more chapters on Pottermore have been released!!!! Yay!! I think we have been waiting about four months maybe?! I can't wait to have a proper look at them! Very excited!

Love, Jen x

What's in my Bag?!

Hi girls! I always like reading these kinds of posts, so I thought I should do one too!I just got my bag a week ago and bought it online, as I never saw this colour in any shops! It's the Paul's Boutique Holly bag, in gunmetal grey. I have always quite liked Paul's Boutique bags (this is my 4th and a purse!!) and I know they have a quite bad name now just for the kind people who buy them, but I still like them (and I am also not one of those type of people! Haha). I also love the  fabric in the inside of Paul's Boutique bags, it makes it so much easier to see what's in your bag if the material inside has a pattern on it! Shows the quality, I guess, check the leopard print!! So just to let you know I have not taken anything out of my bag. I'm kinda really tidy anyway, so I don't usually leave like old receipts or anything like that in my bag anyway! Just in case your wondering why its so tidy! I would say my bag is very practical and has everything I would need during the day!

Ok so the main reason I liked this bag was for the size and the three different compartments within the bag, which means I can always find where something is, as I know what compartment I put it in!! Haha. So I will take things out from each compartment at a time! :)


Ok so in the back compartment, I have a Diary from Accessorize (that I use everyday, just to note down my working hours etc) and my purse from Fossil (which I love as it has a compartment for coins and then another place for notes and your cards!). This part also has a secret zipped compartment, which has a mirror I got in Hawaii (aloha!!), my microgynon pill (can't be having babies just now!) and then I have two tampons! Haha maybe not the most glamourous thing to have in your bag and nobody seems to have them in their bags! Surely they must though and just keep them a secret! Haha maybe I'm too truthful!

Ok so in the large middle zipped compartment I have a pen, a nail file that I also got in Hawaii, my 8gb memory stick, a hair clip from Accessorize, keys for the shutters at my office and a small tub that I fill with my Diprobase cream, that I use for my skin if it gets dry during the day!

In the front compartment I have a bottle of water, a packet of tissues, my phone (a HTC Chacha, which is ok, but not great), a packet of the new mentos chewing gum (which is so scrummy), a cinema ticket (I went to see The Dictator film last night, funny but not as good as Borat or Bruno!), my camera is kept in this space too (which is a pink Canon IXUS105), but for obvious reasons it is just my wee camera case here and then my keys, which has my car key, the office keys, a keyring I bought in Hawaii, another keyring from Accessorize and then a cat keyring (unsure of where it came from, I've had it for years and got it as a gift!) and then my house keys!

So that is my bag and its contents! I think my bag is a great size for all my needs and feels quite empty even with all this stuff in it! Let me know if you have done a post like this, as I love to have a nosy!! Hehe


Love, Jen x

America Haul!

Hello!

So I was going to let you all know what I bought when I was away in America! I bought quite a lot, which I guess is to be expected! So there will be pictures of what I bought and then I will let you know where I bought them from!

First of all, New York:

• a Fossil Watch. I have had my eye on one of these for ages and I do love Fossil! You also get to pick your own box to put the watch in, which are all quite vintage looking so that a nice touch! My watch had to have a bit of pink in it and also had to be silver because I never wear anything gold!

• I had to go into the Disney Store!! I bought two of the little cuddly toys - Stitch from Lilo and Stitch, who I absolutely love (and was so excited to go to Hawaii as thats where its based!) and Wheezy the penguin from Toy Story, just because Robert and I have a wee joke with penguins! I also got a big lollipop and a Cars suit for our nephew, who was just going to turn 2 when we got back from our holiday, so it was for his birthday!

• I also got some Nerds sweets, which I love and I have no idea why! I got these from Toys R Us which is just such a HUGE store!! It is so cool and has a ferris wheel in it! Robert and I are really just big kids so we love all that sort of stuff! Oh and I didn't buy the huge box in the photo below! Haha

• We then obviously had to go to the M&Ms store and Robert filled his bag up soo much! He loves chocolate! Hehe

• I also got an amazing hoody from Abercrombie & Fitch, which you would have seen me wearing in Las Vegas. It is faux fur lined in side and around the hood with a zip and is so cosy and warm! I wear it all the time!
• I also bought two things from Hollister, one was a pink and white striped t shirt, which I wore in Hawaii and also bought a pair of pink banded sweatpants just to wear around the house, which are really comfy!

Now onto Hawaii:

• The first thing I bought was a Tiffany necklace!! Now I did want to go to the famous store when we were in New York, but some how we must of walked right past it! I did go into the Wall Street store, but didn't buy anything. I was so pleased with my Tiffany necklace!!

• I needed to buy some more tops and I went a bit far and bought five (!!) new t-shirts, 3 from Crazy Shirt and 2 from Roxy. I was quite pleased with them as they are very comfy to wear and easy to wash! The top row are the ones from Crazy Shirt and the bottom row are from Roxy.

• I also bought two Pandora charms, one for my mum and one for me! I got the turtle charm and I got my mum a leaf that curls all the way round the bracelet. I am going to do a post on my Pandora bracelet in a later post, so you will see the turtle then!
• I also got some nic nac type things! I bought a nail file, a mirror, a keyring and 4 pretty flower leis (the flower neck garland thingies!) in lots of pretty colours!
• I also went a bit mad in Sephora! I absolutely  LOVE Benefit make up and I just thought I would top up my collection as it was slightly cheaper in Waikiki than it was back home! So I splurged on Stay Don't Stray eye primer, Posie Tint, which I love on my lips, Hello Flawless powder, Some Kinda Gorgeous Foundation and I also got Sun Beam, which actually only just came out in the UK the beginning of May, so I felt sooo lucky getting it when I did and its awesome! I also had a look at the Nails Inc stand too and oh my goodness, they were really cheap!! I don't know if it was because Nails Inc are new in America or what but I got two colours for $9 each! They are usually £11 in Britain for the normal colours, so thats quite a good saving if you think of the exchange rate and all that!! So I picked up Lanesborough Place, which is a light gold colour and has this liquid gold effect on the nails, apparently it is also a special edition, but it doesn't say it on my bottle! I also bought Connaught Square, which is a Special Effects 3D glitter polish, it has royal blue glitter with a smattering of purple glitter through it too and its gorgeous!

• So I then decided I was just going to go for it and buy a pair of Ugg Boots!! I always said to myself that I didn't ever want to get a pair, but I gave in!! Hehe and I'm so glad that I did!! They are super comfy and keep your feet roasty toasty!! I have worn them nearly every day since!! I bought  the grey colour as I don't like wearing black and I hardly ever wear anything brown or tan, so they wouldn't have went with my wardrobe. I also got the tall length because I am 5ft7, so the short ones didn't look right on me!

I never really bought anything in Las Vegas actually! I was too busy being in awe of the place probably. Although the shops were amazing!!! I think we were just too busy rushing around trying to see things! Although I did buy a novelty Caesars Palace dice! Ha

Hope you enjoyed my haul post.

Love, Jen x