Christmas Sorting

After Christmas, there is always the task of finding a new home for our lovely gifts. I love my V candle my mom bought me. I can never find anything with a V or my name on so this is really special, I've put it on my new white floating shelf in the bedroom.

I also have loved replacing my old toiletries with these new beautiful smelling Ted Baker ones. I live their pink and rose gold finish and their floral smell. I also love the mini perfumes, especially XO. 

Polaroids

Last Year Dan bought me some impossible project Polaroid film and we used them over Christmas to capture the day, this year we have done the same and we are building a gorgeous collection. I just thought I would share them with you as it is becoming our tradition to document Christmas with the retro Polaroid. 

Christmas Eve

The most exciting time of the year. Christmas Eve. This year we invited my family over for some festive snacks and a bottle of Verve as we swapped presents and put them under the tree ready for the big day. 

I've been published!

I'm so happy that's my photos from the Albrighton Extravaganza have been published on three websites this week! I took my new canon 100d out just to capture the atmosphere, it was my first year attending the extravaganza and as you can tell from my previous blogposts, anything Christmas and I'm there. Feeling very grateful to Dan for getting me the camera and very proud of myself as they were all taken on manual after learning how to use my camera at my 2 month university night course. 

It's a costa Christmas

December kicks in and the mad rush to buy Christmas presents is on. Not a space in the car park, but thankfully after many laps I nip in and get started. Of course every shopping trip needs a half time break. It was time for the seasonal Gingerbread Latte. I think there should be some kind of petition to have the gingerbread flavour all year round. Especially with the cute gold stars and man popping out of my cream! And we can't forget the adorable robin cup if you order a small, or grande, or whatever it is they call it.

Festive Decorations

Christmas comes once a year, and it starts in our house in September. I started buying little decorations in the Autumn in the excitement of Christmas coming and now with only 18 days to go they are finding places in our home.

I love our sparkly mini Xmas tree and Xmas diffuser Mom bought us the other week. She is Queen Xmas so I must follow in her footsteps!

When Dad met Jamie

Birthday Boy Pappa A really made me giggle this weekend when he decided to leave My mom and sister in a queue at The Clothes Show to meet Binky and have a wonder round. Dad recognised the Candy Kittens logo having had to live in a Made in Chelsea obsessed house. So he grabs candy Kittens founder Jamie Laing and Chelsea cheeky chappy  by the neck and starts talking rugby. Jamie played a charity rugby match in which one of the professional England team tackled Jamie and left him on the floor with broken ribs. The funniest thing was that Jamie enjoyed talking to Dad and asked him for a selfie!! We can't take him anywhere! 

Sausage dog mugs

On a weekend there is nothing I love more than staying in bed and being able to have a decent breakfast. One thing I'm awful for is not having a drink before leaving the house, so on a weekend our new mugs go down a treat in making sure I consume a heck of a lot! Me and Dan have an obsession with daschunds at the minute and crave for the day we have a garden so we can have our own. Next had a sale on and I spotted these mugs at £3!! They're huge and just the cutest!

Christmas Smiles

Dan and I have both been a bit under the weather recently so it was really nice a few nights ago to mess around taking selfies of us in our Santa and reindeer hats. We wind each other up so bad that by the end we are like hyperactive kids. I'm so glad I'm with someone who has a love for Christmas to match mine, it means I can cover the house in tinsel without any complaints he he! 

The 1975

It's finally the day!!! I can't believe I'm seeing the 1975! I know I'm fangirling here but I've fallen in love with them so much and I cannot wait to see what they are like live. We travelled to rainy Manchester, the band's hometown to catch their gig at the Apollo. After checking in I got changed into my new Miss Selfridge top which I'm in love with at the moment and off we went to join the que to get in. The que was mental. It stretched way past the uni and showed no sign of moving for at least half an hour. Thankfully pre-gig we found an awesome bar called Big hands so we chilled in their and listened to some vinyl before heading into the academy. 

The band were amazing live. It's all about the visuals. The 3D blocks, backing videos and of course their filler whale like music. Half way through Matty told the crowd to put their phones away and live for this moment and join him in experiencing the gig with our eyes and not through a screen. It was nice to see everyone put their phones away, and also gave me a better view becuase I'm so damn small! Highlights for me were the saxophonist who rocked, hearing Robbers and Sex live and Matty coming out after the encore with no shirt on...come on a girl can look! If anything I love them more now and can't wait for the album to come out in February.

The tree is up!

The day I look forward to all year, tree putting up day. I love that feeling when all of the Christmas things tumble out of the loft and cover the floor in glitter. We had to find a new place for the tree this year having moved house but I think it sits nicely in the corner of our living room. As soon as the decorations were on and the lights sparkling me and Dan were like small children all excited for the big day, only 21 sleeps!!

Tumblr

I've been Tumblring now for as long as I can remember. I have an obsession with finding inspiration photos that I think 'ooh I want to take one like that' and never get round to actually doing it. Id love if you hit my page up, give me some likes and comments! 

http://www.perfectlyprettyphotos.tumblr.com 

Christmas food shop 1.0

It's Christmas!!!!! The first Christmas shop  saw us gorge on all the chocolate necessities! We also bought a gorgeous naughty and nice duvet cover for our Christmas bed. I'm hoping for the nice pillow! We also found these gorgeous smelling Yankee candle votives that are exclusive to asda. We picked up 2 home baking votives that Are divine, we've already lit one...shh don't tell! 

How to be Parisian

Dan comes into me after I've had a really rubbish day and hands me a little Amazon parcel. He tells me it was for Xmas but he thinks it will cheer me up. As I unwrap it, hooray! It's the book 'how to be parisian.' I stumbled across the book after getting Alexa Chung's 'It', it was a recommended read. It's gorgeous photos and hilarious quotes make it such an easy book to pick up at any point and have many useful tips that prove that although looking effortlessly cool, sometimes it's not all that 'effortless.' Must read girlies, I'm loving it 

Fairy

I finally cracked open my Thorntons Chocolate Fairy Princess I had for my Birthday, Someone knows me too well! It was the cutest thing ever with all the detail of the hair and dress...but it tasted even better! 

Adult Colouring Book

Since being a kid I've always loved to colour. Give me a set of pencils and a book and I'll be quiet for hours. I did wonder whether I would look silly giving in to this new 'adult colouring book' hype but after flicking through the beautifully illustrated pages I had to give it a go. I've collected three books now, just becuase I like swapping between the different themes. My favourite has to be Millie Marotta's Tropical Wonderland. She puts SO much detail into her drawings that the colouring is vibrant and beautiful. 

These two colouring books are ones I have my eye on and are on my Amazon wish list for Christmas. I wanted to buy them all but decided to be sensible and go for one and work through that first. But the New York one, for obvious reasons that I've fallen in love with the place since I went in the summer and the Christmas one, becuase who doesn't want to colour in Christmas scenes at this time of year!?

Vinyl Love

Telford has long lacked a music store since hmv shut its doors in many shopping centres a few years ago. But with the revival of the brand we finally got the store back about a month ago now and I was itching to see what it was like.

As you can see I was more than happy with the mass of vinyl on display. I know Dan will be seriously happy now we don't have to travel to Birmingham to pick up a record. 

Dinner at The Shrew

For my Birthday Dan took me for a gorgeous meal at our local Restaurant 'The Shrewsbury Arms.' The food is always so tasty and presented really fancy, so you feel like you're getting a special meal. It was lovely to dress up and walk down there so I could have a glass of wine (or three) and enjoy the evening. 

I loved this mason jar my sister bought me for my birthday. It was great to pop a cheeky vodka and Coke in before I went out.

For my dinner I had salmon with mash, peas and bacon bits and Dan had a house burger and a huge side of pulled pork...yum!! 

22 Roses

I was so lucky to receive not one but two huge bunches of 22 beautiful Pink roses. That's 44 roses in my house! I'm in love! 

Birthday Bash!

I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22! I had such a lovely gathering to celebrate my 22nd Birthday, full of pink fluffy and inflatable flamingos! Dan outdid himself with his thoughtful and crazy flamingo decorations all around the house. We even had 5 inflatable flamingos dotted about which everyone grabbed and danced with by the end of the night! It was so nice to have everyone who means something to me in our apartment to share sparkly fluffy pink Flamingo evening! 

New hair

Hello from a brunette Vicky! Okay so I kept the ends blonde, but even they have been toned down to an ashy blonde rather than my yellow summer blonde I was going for before. I've also had my fringe put back in, I have such a love hate relationship with fringes, as soon as they grow into my eyes it's swept to the side for a few months until I decide to go back and get it out back in. The amazing Ashley Gamble team always impress me with their skills and knowledge of what will look good. 

Peace at the Civic

'She tastes like Sunlight, and she's always gonna be there in the back of your mind'

My Favourite lyric from Peace- Cali Days, was beautiful to hear sung across the huge Wolverhampton Civic Hall Crowd. One of my favourite gigs I've been to this year, and the best that i have seen them play as a band, having seen them 3 times now.  The best part was meeting Harrison before the gig. Although sarcastic, it was to be expected from someone so uber cool. I told him i liked his necklace, he said yeah me too... point made.