Sunday Song!

Hi girls!!

So I have come up with a little idea, which is called Sunday Song! Basically on Sundays, I will put a video of the song that I'm really loving at the moment to share it to all of you girls! You can tell me what you think of it and if you like it! What I would love you girls to do is also do a little post showing your favourite song of the week and we can then get to know other songs that we may not have heard before! Thus expanding our musical knowledge! Yay! I really love music, so this is an idea I have been harbouring for a while now! Hopefully you girls will want to take part too and leave you responses in the comments! 

Ok so for this week, my favourite song of the moment is a song called Wonderful by Angel. I really love the melodies and then the different beats throughout the song! I really get lost in this song when I listen to it! So yea at the moment I think this is definitely my favourite song to hear on the radio!

So yea, I wonder if the tattoos on his face are real?! Sore much!? Hehe Hope you like this song as much as I do! Feel free to join in, just leave me a little link in the comments, then we can all go and have a look! Just put that little logo at the top on your post along with a link to my blog, so everyone can find out what its all about! Also if you don't want to do a post then leave  a comment telling us what your song of the moment is! I really hope you girls like this idea! Thank you in advance if you take part!

Love, Jen x

Spending Ban Update! #1

Hi girls!!

So as I'm one month into my 6 month spending ban, I thought I would let you all know how I'm doing!! If you want to see where this all started from then click here to see my rules and the reason behind the ban etc!

Well for this month, I would have done very well if it wasn't for the Olympics!!! Man oh man, that was a lot of money spent and probably most on getting there! Who knew fish and chips would cost £8.50 and a bottle of Diet Coke would cost £2.30!!!! Yea a lot of money was spent on juice!!! It wasn't very good in that respect, because it wasn't as if you could bring your own juice in either!! Although you could get free water from fountains, but then who would wait in a humongous queue for water?! So yea the Olympics, I think completely swiped a huge amount of money from both me and Robert. So in that respect, this month didn't go to well in the whole saving money front. I will say though when we weren't at the Olympics, I haven't spent as much as I used to! I feel as if I followed all the rules that I created for myself last month, the only things I have bought have been my Gilly Hicks clothes, which were allowed as I was on holiday, and then uniform for the shop I work in, which is also allowed! 

The only thing that I still need to cut out on is food. I still feel as if Robert and I are spending a lot of money on food, and this is proving to be a very hard habit to beat!!! We eat out all the time and it's not very good for us health wise or money wise!! We are bad!!! We do like takeaways and goodness knows how I stay so slim!! SO this is the only thing that needs sorting! Then I will be able to save much better! Petrol isn't really that big an issue for me as my car is very fuel efficient and I usually only have to fill the tank every two weeks, which is good! I don't mind paying for my car either as it means so much to me to be able to drive when ever and where ever I want.

Also, I have a great secret as to how I keep track on all my spending! My Lilly Pulitzer planner has been helping me huge amounts!! I like to put under every day just how much I have spent so I can then add up how much I have spent that week! Its a great thing to have a diary and to keep track of everything! I have found this extremely helpful and it also makes me more cautious of what I have bought, as I would rather be writing in as small a figure as possible per day! So I am very pleased to have it! If you want to have a wee look at my review on my planner then click here!

I have also been able to put money into my bank account, which has meant saving more too, as we keep a big jar of change in my house that when its full, I'm allowed to keep  the money! SO this has been a bonus for me this month! But it does take a long time counting it out into the little bags in order to take it to the bank! Although this is a very small amount of time to pay in regards as to what your getting out of it!! So I usually enjoy doing it, while watching tv! I hope the jar fills up again quickly!! Hehe!

Is anyone else doing a ban on there spending?! Let me know how you are getting along! I know next month there will be much more savings going on!! Thanks for reading!

Love, Jen x

Friday's Letters #10

Hi girls!! Friday again! How on earth do these weeks go so fast!!? Seriously!! As you all know, everyone should take part in this awesome link up by Ashley from Adventures of Newlyweds! 

Dear Desperate Housewives, I am almost finished season 5 and I am so enjoying watching it!!! Does anyone remember Dave?! Trying to kill Kathryn and MJ?! Uhuh well I'm almost there, I'm at the episode when Edie crashes her car and gets electrocuted! Oh what a nice street to live on was Wysteria Lane! Haha, oh but I cannot wait to see the set when I go to Universal Studios in LA!! Dear Robert, how funny was that Tomato Sauce incident on Monday?! Haha! When we were eating dinner and I was trying to put the sauce on my plate, but because the bottle was so full it was only coming out a drip at a time and then you said "oh I can do it!". Well when I said to you do not squeeze it hard as it will explode out of the bottle, why did you not listen to me?! Haha, because obviously two seconds later that's just what happens!!! The tomato sauce goes all over the table, all over his glass, all over me (!!!) and all up the wall!! It was hilarious!! Also funny, because you hate tomato sauce and you had to excuse yourself from the table after cleaning it all up because you had to wash your hands as it was all over them!! Hehe, oh it was so funny! I'm glad we can laugh about it! Dear Tomato Sauce Bottle on Monday, haha! That was such a funny trick you played on Robert, I did tell him it would happen, but he never listened!! Hehe! Dear Sleep, I have been having very strange sleeping patterns at the moment!! I don't like waking up in the middle of the night and them am not able to fall back asleep!! Why do you do this to me and why on earth do I wake up in the first place?! You make me tired in the mornings and that is not good! So behave!! Hehe! Dear Shop, I really am looking forward to getting new uniform, but I really wish you made it cheaper for us workers to buy your clothes, because you are very expensive!!! Please put staff discount back to 75% instead of only 50%, because there is a big difference in price!! Thank you! I will buy a lot more when you change this back!!Dear Readers, thank you for reading my humble little blog! Don't forget to follow, cause then I will love you forever!! Hehe! Thanks :D

Love, Jen x

Benefit Sun Beam Review

Hi girls!

Today I have a review for you! Benefit's Sun Beam highlighter! I bought this back in January, but it only came out in the UK in May, I think. I was cheeky and just had to have it when I saw it on sale in Sephora when I was in Hawaii of all places! 

What Benefit say:

"This golden bronze highlighter gives you a natural, sunkissed radiance. Dot & blend over makeup on to cheek & brow bones for a bronzed glow that complements all skintones. It’s liquid sunshine in a bottle!

What do I think? I love it! It is quite pricey at £18.50, but I am so glad I bought this highlighter! It just gives such a warm radiant glow, that I don't think you would get with paler highlighters (as this is molten gold in colour). I haven't tried either of Benefit's other famous highlighters (High Beam or Moon Beam), but probably will at some point! For now this is definitely my go to highlighter for parties, a night out or special occasions!

The consistency of it is a little bit thicker than a liquid concealer, so it is really easy to work with and blend. One thing is that you should not be scared off by the colour. I'm pale and yet is still works well for me! As you can see from the swatch below , one half has not been blended and the other half has been lightly blended out on my hand, which shows you just how glowing the product is! 

Ok, so now for a how to! Its super easy to use, with the applicator brush just dab a small amount onto the top of your cheekbones and using your ring finger dab upwards towards your hairline making sure you have completely blended out the product. Then on your brow bone using a very small amount apply right under you brow and blend it down right along the bone. It's dead easy! In the next two pictures the only make up I'm wearing is Sun Beam and I also filled in my brows with a brow pencil!

In the photo above you can really see the golden glow it has given me, right at the points where you want to be highlighted!! Also in the photo below, I was on a night out and it is a great photo to show how it looks when I have all my make up done! You can really see the difference it makes on my brow bone and along my cheekbone! I think this product is amazing and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a sun kissed glow!!

Has anyone else tried Sun Beam? What did you think of it? Or have you tried those other highlighters of Benefit, would you recommend them as highly? Let me know!

Love, Jen x

Robert Tells All!!!

My 100th post means a special occasion!!

I actually cannot believe that I have wrote so much on my blog! it seems like only yesterday I started it off!! Crazy!!! So I have got a special post for you!! I asked Robert if he wanted to do a post where he told you girls some more about me that you didn't already know and he said yes (well maybe he was like hmmm, I'm not sure.... and then he said fine ok then!)! Hehe! So just to let you all know Robert always reads every posts, which I really love! Its nice to know that he wants to read about me and what I type on here, as well as all his football and sporty things he reads on the internet!! Ok so without further ado I shall pass you over to my lovely Boyfriend, Robert, who by the way knows me better than anybody!!

I have been asked (well maybe told!) to write a post for Jens blog on the theme of 7 things her followers do not know about her. This has proved quite difficult as for about the last 5 months she has given a blow by blow account of her thoughts, likes and dislikes on this blog. So here goes my attempt to educate you all some more on all things Jen! hope it’s not too poor of an effort or I will never hear the end of it!! Haha!

1. Jen is an aggressive driver and ends up shouting at other motorists from the safety of her car if they get in her way or are being bad drivers! She also drives way too fast and if she was a car then she would definitely be  Lightning McQueen from the Disney Cars film!

2. Jen is a Mcaddict (haha!!) to McDonalds to the extent that I think the highlight of our trip to the Olympic Park for her was getting to eat at the world’s largest one, while mine was to see the Olympic Stadium!! I also think this is a comfort blanket for her when we are away from home, as we always must seek a McDonalds out,  which is not so bad as it keeps the cost of holidays down and I am quite a fussy eater too!!

3. Jen has never cooked me my dinner... We have been going out for nearly four years!!! Although she does like to try and pass off cereal or toast as dinner, but I'm sorry that doesn't count! However I have been treated to breakfast in bed a few times on a Sunday when I don’t need to get up early!

4. Jen has a tweety pie cuddly toy that lives on the bed side table, that she has had since she was a baby!! She took it everywhere as a kid and lets just say that it has had better days!

5. Jen has lead a bit of a sheltered life and is sometimes amazed by the dishonesty of people.  When she started working in her shop in 2009, she realised that shop lifting was a real problem and has come across a good handful of crazies coming in and trying to steal stuff, which probably came as a real shock to her! For the same reason, she also really loves watching  police documentaries, such as Coppers or Police Interceptors, to see some of the crazy people the police have to deal with! Her reactions to these shows are quite amusing!

6. Jen has an obsession with bags!! It’s her favourite thing to buy and to me its kind of her trade mark to always have a big bag with her. She gets upset when I say she's obsessed with them but I only say it because its true!! Also when she does buy a bag, it tends to be quite an expensive one! For example in January she bought one from Fossil, which was £100 (!!!) and then not to mention her many Paul's Boutiques bags, which are not cheap let me tell you! Here are Jen's collection of Paul's Boutique bags!

7. It takes between 2 and 3 hours normally for Jen to get through the process of having a shower. As she has bad skin, it starts from when she basically has to work up the courage to take her shower and then has to put on all her cream after it, followed by waiting fro the cream to dry before she can face up to putting on her clothes and then eventually drying her hair! This means that she really can use the line "I am washing my hair tonight" as an excuse to not wanting to go out!!

I hope you enjoyed finding out a little more about Jen! Thanks for reading, 

Robert

It's Jen again! I just want to say a big thank you to Robert for writing my 100th post! Yay! Well done! So girls what did you think? Did you like this post!? I thought it was a fun way to share more about me through the eyes of Robert! If anyone else does a post like this, then let me know, because I think these kinds of posts are interesting and really funny!!

Love, Jen x