My Pandora story...

This bracelet means the world to me, I have had it for just over a year now as it was a Christmas present of my parents along with my first 2 charms of Nathan to start it off. Each charm means something to me and I want to share this with all of you because it is a huge part of my life. 

So let's start with a basic overview of my bracelet.

My bracelet is the Pandora Charm Bracelet in Sterling Silver £55, I asked my parents for a bracelet but they chose me a simple one that they knew I would like. I'm going to start explaining my charms from left to right rather in order of buying/receiving them as it's a lot easier. I can say I am very lucky and all I asked for during the earlier stages of 2015 coming up to mine and Nathan's anniversary was charms and I bought one myself, so I am grateful.

So the first charm on the left is my Me & You charm I received this from Nathan on the day he returned from Canada along with Ralph Lauren Romance perfume which smells heavenly! I was so shocked with this charm as I didn't expect anything back from Canada but he complete surprised me and meant so much as this is not sold in Pandora in the UK and is one of a kind.

Next to this is the flower space £15 which I received of Nathan for my 20th birthday, I loved this spacer as I like flowers and nature and love taking long walks with Nathan and his dog through forests and things like that.

My third charm in is the one I bought myself. I purchased this from the Pandora near Lake Windermere in the Lake District, this was £30 and I bought this because I have always loved photography and textiles and taking photos of my work and keeping special memories.

Next to my camera is a charm I lusted for forever! I received this of Nathan for Valentine's day so it's almost a year old awww! I asked for this and hinted at this for the longest time but I think he took the hint. This charm is the My Princess tiara charm £30 and has the engraving of My Princess along the link. This is so sentimental to me as Nathan always calls me his princess.

Next up is one of the two charms I received when I got my bracelet. The heart spacer £15 was a charm Nathan picked for me along with the Gingerbread Man £30 for my first Christmas presents of him. I said to him I wanted a charm to represent love and Christmas but instead he picked me two charms rather than one because he does spoil me hahaha! I love these because they are my first ever charms and he really thought about me when purchasing them.

Next is the Openwork Heart Charm £20 which is one of 2 charms my mum has bought for my bracelet. She wanted to buy me a charm to represent love, this was bought for me at the same shop as my camera one in the Lake District as was a truly beautiful gift. 

Not surprisingly the next charm is army themed, if I could have got a tank charm I probably would have but the Toy Soldier Pendent Charm £35 was a perfect representation of my love for Nathan. I always the toy soldier emoji on my phone when posting about Nathan or whatever so this was perfect and the loveliest gift to receive from him for our 1 year anniversary.

Finally, this charm is the Heart Clip £35 I received this off my mum for getting a Distinction in my uni Textiles course so it was kind of a little well done treat. Again my mum chose a heart because she wanted to say she loves me and remind me of that when I wear it. I chose a clip purely to stop the bracelet from stretching and I want to keep it looking beautiful as it would really annoy me when my charms would swing round all over the bracelet.

I truly love my bracelet and intend to add more to it, I don't want a completely full bracelet just the centre part so I can only fit two more charms maybe onto the space.

  I decided to add in the last two charms I would like to add to my charm, the first up is the Tea Cup Charm £25 that I want to add next to my You & Me charm to represent my gran as she always loved cups of tea and tea parties and I really wanted something to remember her. The second charm is the Globe Clip £30 that I want to get for when me and Nathan travel or in fact just to represent that wherever he is we are always together and can work through the hard times.

Well that's all for now my lovelies! Hope you enjoyed the read I enjoyed writing it as it is like a personal story for me,

All my love, 

What I got for Christmas 2015...

So I was super spoilt this Christmas, but I'm not one of them spoilt girls who gets everything they want and most of the time anything I do want when it's not Christmas I buy myself with money I earn because my parents payed for enough for me as a little girl. So in no way am I bragging because I know a lot of bloggers and Youtubers say this but I LOVE these kinds of posts maybe because I'm nosey in regards to stuff like ''what I got for Christmas' or 'what's in my bag' I'm a huge follower of this kind of stuff, so here goes...

So this is just an overview image of all the lovely gifts I got, I know it looks an awful lot but this was from friends, family, Nathan, Nathan's family and his grandparents and each of them received gifts back of me.

So obviously my mum asked me if there was anything in particular I really wanted for Christmas and I just said like bath stuff really because she knows I love soap and glory Sugar Crush so she picked up a Zest A Girl Can Get set for me which included a body wash, scrub body spray and a little ducky. Which my mum said reminded her of me as soon as she saw it and I love him!

Along with that set she picked me up a Once Upon A Lime gift set with small travel size of the sugar crush products inside which I will use for travelling and sleepovers at Nathan's but one of the most extravagant sets I received was the Well I'll Be Glammed makeup gift set that consisted of Thick and fast Mascara, Archery, Smoulder Kohl, Supercat, Sexy Motherpucker Lipgloss in Candy Queen and another in Plums Up, a Love At First Blush, Solar Powder, 6 shades of Lid Stuff and 3 makeup brushes for bronzer, blusher and eyeshadow.

My lovely best friend Emily also picked me up a Once upon a lime set also as she knows I love Sugar Crush along with a Zoella Soap Pop which I had just mentioned in conversation and the ultimate sweetheart that she is picked me one up! Can we just establish her awesome wrapping skills!

Now my lovely little neighbour Jay who I look after in Fridays surprised me with a lovely Soap and Glory cracker filled with lip glosses so I think I got like every Soap and Glory lipgloss for Christmas with all the sets I received haha!

Finally my last soap and glory gift set was the Whole She-bang £30 that I get every year well for the past 3 years anyway, as me and my mum agree it is well worth the money for all the products you get!

Such a stunning set and this along with the rest will last me all year!

Onto clothes, so at christmas my parents rarely buy me clothes the first reason being the sales and secondly at the minute I'm trying to loose weight so I don't wanna buy something beautiful and it be too big for me. Fair play something being small I can work to fit into it which I am doing but I don't want anything to go to waste. Anyway, I did receive a beautiful scarf of Nathan's grandparents which I am in love with and have wore it everywhere like shopping etc, secondly were a pair of mittens that I seen in George at ASDA that were around £8 and I fell in love with because they match a wrap around I have but my mum picked them up on her own to surprise me. Last but not least, is an amazing hoody from help for heroes which I have wanted for SOOOOO LONG like all Nathan's family wear them and I wanted one so me and Nathan got matching ones well his is black but same style! I love this I wear it all the time with leggings and stuff its so comfy and huge on me!

Onto cosmetics, so my mum knows I am a huge mac fan so from her and my dad (obviously my mum picked haha) were some products that I had been lusting over! First off was the mac mineralize skinfinish in soft and gentle then spice lipliner and Brave lipstick along with two pigments in rose and Naked. The picture of the pigments is probably my favourite so stunning! Along with some products I bought myself from soap and glory as it was 3 for 2 in Boots and if I spent over £15 I got a free gift so I picked up the Kickass Camouflage concealer in Light, the One Heck of a blot all day liquid to powder foundation in Fair Enough and I'm loving it so far and last the Glow All Out Highlighting Powder which is stunning!

Here's a look altogether!

Along with the gift set I received for spending over £15 that had a blush,mascara and lipgloss inside.

Bits & bobs

So onto the random parts of What I received, of Nathan's sister the lovely Jane I received a pop figure of 'Peasant Belle' from Beauty and the Beast and she's in her lovely blue dress, it's funny actually because I bought Jane a pop figure too of Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon along with the little Build-A-Bear bear for the Minions which I was happy I could get for her as Nathan told me she really wanted it. Along with a beautiful necklace and storage box of Nathan's parents which was lovely!

Ofcourse I put her next to my belle cup! I absolutely love her, definitely collecting the rest!

Along the lines of Disney I also received a minnie mouse stocking which my mum filled with chocolate and my favourite cadbury foamy snowmen and some daisy duck tsum tsum socks which I actually have on as I write this hahaha! Not to mention the funniest little snowman from Frozen Fever that talks when you talk to it, me and my mum have a good laugh saying 'zoe smells' and it repeating us hahahaha!

So along with bits and bobs my parents bought me some stationary, my mum knows I love stationary and gold with polka dot along with pastels so when she saw this gold organiser set she picked it up for me in BHS along with the VelvetGhost stationary bits from Primark, I love them though they look so sleek on my new desk for my iMac and really professional along with my little Frozen Fever snowman that guards my mac lip pencils...

 These all now sit nicely on my new desk from Ikea that was £30 I think

Almost at the end now, but one of my final was a bag I had been lusting over FOREVER the Victoria's Secret duffel bag in black and grey which I now take everywhere I go! It is so beautiful with the PINK logo along the strap and fine detail all over! 

Last but not least was my big surprise of my parents! A set of the GHD Arctic Gold Curve soft curl tong in a gift set and some Cloud Nine Straighteners which I literally screamed at when I opened them!

So finally onto what the lovely Fiance got me for christmas, now Nathan felt awful because he had left my big gift the Zoella box at camp (why he took it to camp I don't know haha). But it is filled with lovely smelling bath and body products...

So he thought he needed to buy me more but he honestly didn't I think he just loves to spoil me hahaha! Anyway, from Nathan I received a beautiful striped box filled with  Lush bath treats and Victoria's Secret goodies! 

THE BOX SMELT SO GOOD IT WAS UNREAL! Even though I had a cold hahaha

So as I mentioned he bought me some Victoria's Secret goodies which consisted of a night shirt in grey which is so soft and cosey! I have actually wore it out with leggings and my Timberlands before hahaha...

Secondly was a kind of naughty little night top for when I stay over as I like this style and this little sequin bow on the back is beautiful!

It's a little cheeky this top but it's so comfy and like gives you room to breath so I love it!

Nathan is a true gem like and I couldn't be more grateful as he had already put a ridiculous expensive ring on my finger!

Well that's everything I received for Christmas 2015 hope you enjoyed my lovelies! I am so super grateful of everything and hopefully all my friends,family and Nathan enjoyed there gifts. I'm sure Nathan did because I spoilt him rotten!

All my love,

Lush Haul Christmas 2015

Hi my lovelies! So when I was debating about what to do for my next post I was thinking about what I loved and what I enjoy, and I instantly thought about Lush. Maybe it was the scent of like sherbet and loveliness coming from my cake stand with all my bath bombs on that reminded me but anyway..

I received so many Lush goodies for Christmas especially of Nathan, he knows that Lush with me is just the safest gift so he bought me around 6/7 gifts that average at if I can remember £20.50. I'm one of them girls that is fine with knowing the cost of gifts like I'm so grateful for everything I receive, in all fairness I did pick these he just told me 'to go crazy and get 6 or 7' because he didn't wanna get me something I didn't like the smell off or that would bring me out in a glittery rash hahaha.

So I have had my cake stand for my bath bombs around 2 years and it has been filled with many things over this time such as soap and glory products, jewellery and recently bath bombs. My mum used to keep it in the kitchen with sweets and chocolate on until I pinched it for my room oops hahaha. Anyway, before Christmas I got a really nasty cold and I thought to clear my sinuses having warm baths would be good and I could use my bath bombs. Little did I know that my cold would last about 9 days and I used most of the bath bombs I had (cry cry cry) so Nathan brought me round a bag of around 4/5 bath bombs that he picked up as a treat to make me feel better. 

In a way my cold was a good thing because I got to try out lots of different bath bombs and bath bars such as Dragon's Egg which made my bath orange and sparkly! Along with dashing santa and santa clause that made my bath lovely and red with green and made my skin so soft with a lovely smell left on my skin.

One of the first bath treats I received of Nathan was 'Bar Humbug' Bubble Bar described as licorice bubbles to soak away your inner scrooge. I love the colour of this and the swirl as I am a big big fan of the comforter and candy mountain so he knew swirls were a winner plus my favourite colour is purple.

Second up is The Experimenter (£3.95) on the left, described as vibrant colours, popping candy and Fair Trade vanilla this bath bomb sounded AMAZING! I had seen it on Instagram I think and it literally made this girls bath look like a galaxy with so many mixed colours so I had to get one when Nathan offered Lush bath bombs for Christmas.

Next to The Experimenter is Dragon's Egg (£3.50) described as fizzling and crackling turning your bath into a citrusy gold, this bath bomb is reminiscent of sherbet (my favourite) with a hint of jasmine. I think this is why I probably have this bath bomb at the top of my list because I LOVE CITRUS! It also has tiny pieces of glitter in that look lovely on the skin once out of the bath! 

Probably a new product for me Mmmelting Marshmallow Moment (£2.00 each) described as soothing marshmallow and marigold powders if it doesn't remind you of dolly mixtures then it will definitely be cotton candy. I hadn't seen these in Lush before but Nathan let me get 2 because they were so cheap and small, but I actually went in after Christmas and picked up more because they smell so good! So glad they are in lush all year round!

Now an old classic for Lush at Christmas time Butterbear (£1.95) with a generous helping of cocoa butter with a vanilla smell this cute little bear will leave you with silky soft skin. I really enjoy this for a simple bath no big explosive bath bombs, really wish they did this all year round!

A joint Christmas special Dashing Santa ballistic (£2.95) this was one of my poorly surprises of Nathan, turns my bath a lovely red colour and smells amazing! Described as containing mandarin oil, bergamot oil and orange flower absolute that help put a spring in your step. which is exactly what I needed when I had my cold.

Now a Christmas Lush classic Snow Fairy (£12.95 for 500g) with a bubblegum and sweet vanilla fragrance I actually bought the smaller one that's around £3.75 well no Nathan bought it me to be fair as a back up incase I use the big one (doubt it) and it smells so good. I was super pleased to get this in my stocking on Christmas Day of my mum because it's my first shower gel from Lush and its a huge bottle.

Talking about Snow Fairy couldn't have that without it's bubble bar in crime, the lovely Candy Mountain(£2.45) one of my all-time-favourites this bubble bar turns my bath lovely and pink that's why I'm hoarding three on my cake stand so I don't run out haha. Also very pretty looking it makes me excited for the Lush Valentines collection with the unicorn horn that is multicoloured swirl bubble bar.

Also, a newby for me Stardust (£2.95) maybe it was the shape I was drawn to (excuse the pink smudge of Candy Mountain on it haha) Ugandan Vanilla from the Mountains of the Moon and precious intoxicating rosewood. This bath bomb is another one that is very simple smelling and seemed very relaxing, because I chose a lot of like bright and wacky scents I also wanted some simple bath bombs like this one and Butterbear.

Now probably two bath oils I am SUPER EXCITED for! You've been mangoed is another bath oil (£2.00 each) as soon as I seen the word mango I asked Nathan and he put two in a bag for me. I'm a bit of a weirdo but I love to sniff these they smell unreal! Made with the butter of mango and avocado, it also free's lemon and lemongrass with lime oils into your bath. Lush finally answered my prayers with this one because I love lime,mango and avocado, I will for sure be purchasing as many of these as possible!


A personal favourite of mine and Nathan's Ickle Baby Bot (£1.95) a gentle lavender bath bomb designed for kids makes the bath a gorgeous blue colour. It apparently is supposed to use its aromatherapy oils to soothe children and little ones to sleep (it works on me and chills Nathan out haha) while Lavender is a traditional medicine used to help skin irritation, burns and bug bites as I have delicate sensitive skin this works wonders on me.

Coming up to my last two products, Nathan bought these last two for me one as a Christmas gift and the other to replace the ones I used when I was poorly, starting of with The Comforter Shower Cream (£4.95 for 100g) Nathan chose this himself impressively as he wanted to get me the larger bottle but I insisted no as he spoilt me enough with all my other bath bombs. I love the comforter bubble bar and Nathan knew how much it has a place in my heart so he thought well why not try the shower gel without the hassle of running a bath.

And last but not least, The Comforter bubble bar (£4.95). with the snappy caption berry yourself in a fruity blanket this smells incredible! Smelling like blackcurrant the bergamot gives it an uplifting note, I love this as I can get 2/3 baths out of it because it is huge! It is literally bigger than my hand, so it is well worth the money! 

Well that's all for my Christmas Lush haul, thank you so much for reading and I hope it helped give some ideas of all the lovely things they have in Lush still, definitely worth checking out their Valentine's Day products too!

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All my love,