The New Year!

2015 is fast approaching us!

I know that everyone is saying this, but seriously, how quick has this year gone?!

I don't know if it's the fact that a one year child takes up so much time in your day that the year just goes so quickly, or if it just really has flew by?

Our Christmas was amazing again this year. 

Everything was so much better and exciting now that Maisie really understands Christmas, who everyone is and who brings the presents!

She had a wonderful day spent by opening hundreds of presents!!

Long Time No Blog

Can we just stop a minute to blow the dust off this little old blog?

Yeah, it's been a while. A long while!

Within the past year life had definitely caught up with me.

The struggle of having my own house, work, college and let's not forget to most challenging but most rewarding without a doubt - being a parent.

Now, I can't lie and say I have the toughest life, or I don't have enough time, because honestly, that's just not true in the slightest.

My life was at the point where after a day of being a mammy, then going to work and college and being home late at night the last thing I wanted to do was sit write, photograph and edit posts on my blog. Honestly, I just wanted a cup of tea and my bed.

The time I did spend on my blog was amazing. Reading comments, interacting with other bloggers and just simply enjoying watching my blog grow.

Now that my life has seemed to calm down a little bit (I say this as I work two jobs, have a one year old daughter and it's Christmas time - which means a lot of sale prep at work!) I hope to be able to blog more often.

I'm definitely not saying I will be blogging religiously with four blog post a week. But I will try my best to keep everything consistent!

    - Louise xxx  

IMATS London 2014

Hey everyone!

I've been wanting to go to IMATS for about three years now, but this year thanks to my mam I got to go!

It was part of my birthday present for July, but obviously IMATS is a three day only event.

I got up at 5am to get ready for the 7.30 train to London on Saturday, and let me tell you, I don't think I have ever been so excited!

We finally arrived at Olympia at about 11, where getting ID'd was literally giving me heart palpitations!

Inside the venue I have never ever seen anything like it! All the hustle and bustle of everyone going to different makeup stalls and looking at all the new and discounted makeup, watching people get made in beautiful creatures and demons, makeup master classes and demonstrations. Everything was just amazing.

So Happy That's Over!

Long time no speak!

Safe to say that college is now over and I'm totally finished the course! 

YIPPEEEE

That is unless I get an email from my tutor to say that something is missing, and then it's a race against time to get that piece of work in!

Fingers crossed, that wont be happening!

College took up so much of my free time.

I found myself at almost every Maisie's nap time, either cleaning the house or catching up on college work, and the same for most nights.

Other nights that I had free were either spent at college in a class, or ironing or very little me down time, which was very needed.

I am honestly so so happy to say I have now finished, and with all this spare time now during Maisie's nap time, I find myself wondering what I can do!

I have defiantly missed this time, and hopefully I will be able to catch up with all the blog posts I have been missing.

I want to get back into the blogging world and I have missed reading everyone's blogs, so hopefully I will get back into the swing of things really soon.

Thank you for understanding!

- Louise xxx

Slim Fast: Does It Really Work?

Hi everyone!

This post is a little bit different to what I normally blog about, but i wanted to get my views across about this "quick fix" weight loss diet.

After the birth of my daughter 14 months ago, I have struggled be happy with my body. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with what my body went through to create my beautiful girl, but what I'm left with after has always made me miss my body from before.

I've gone up a dress size, both top and bottoms and I'm really not happy about it. My stomach used to be flat and is now rounder, and the scales which told me the honest truth were a little bit too truthful than what I would have liked!

I've always wondered about Slim Fast and if it really works or if it's just a fad. 

I heard one of my friends say she was on the Slim Fast diet and lost a lot of weight and really recommended it. So after searching the internet I found the whole range was half price in Boots. I thought to myself, why the heck not just try it while it's half price.

I picked up four tubs of shakes from Boots and a shaker as they say it shakes everything together a lot better.

Shall We Get Up To Date?

Hello again, do you remember me?

Probably not...

I'm so so sorry I've been gone for about five months or so now.

I've still been reading blogs and watching YouTube videos but when it comes to sitting down and actually writing my own blog, I don't know what's happened.

So let me just begin by saying, I'm back at work! I went back in November but where I can I'm trying to get overtime - lets face it, working nine hours per week just doesn't cut it when you have a baby and a house to run...

So that's stress number one.

I'm still doing to Access to Health course, I only have about 8 weeks left or so, but my gosh does the work start building up! I'm onto my last big project at the minute and its definitely a pain!

Stress number two.

And baby (i can still call her that, right?), is fourteen months. So that means I never stop! If she's not trying to get somewhere she shouldn't be she's running into another room where she can't be seen! She keeps my days busy but very very entertained!!

So with that said, the only real me time I get is either Maisie's nap time, or when she's gone to bed, and by then I can never really be bothered to anything other than just sitting and either reading a book or just watching TV!

So I just wanted to say again that I'm so sorry and hopefully I will be able to get back into blogging soon, especially with my course finishing soon!

Thank you xxx

Louise xox

Baby's First Christmas!

So as your may (or may not know), I have a little baby girl!

I say baby, she's nearly one now, and I still haven't come to terms with this. I honestly think that if I think about it too much, I might cry! Sad I know :(

With it being Maisie's first christmas I didn't want to spoil her too much, because at 9 months old, there's no way she will remember christmas! We bought her about 7 toys and a few outfits, but then of course, off both families she got spoilt.

We woke her up a little earlier than normal because of on christmas day she was a busy little girl visiting all her family and eating her first christmas dinner, and of course opening all those presents takes a toll on a little girl and she has to have some naps!!

Below are just some pictures of Maisie opening her very first presents that santa left for at mammy and daddy's house.

Enjoy!

'Keep Calm I'm Santas Favourite Baby'

What are these mammy?

Are they for me?!

I'll open this one first!

Getting there!

Ooooo this is a nice book!

Thank you santa for my book!

Mrs Claus Christmas Outfit!

Thank you for reading my pretty late blog post, but I wanted to document Maisie's first big event!

     - Louise xx