Fashion Post: Style No. 2

Outfit number two under £50.

The Outfit:

• Jacket (Asda) £16

• Bird chiffon top (Select) £12

• Jeggings (Asda) £12

• Red shoes (Office) £3 - Bargain

Total Outfit £43





I couldn't believe these red shoes only £3 in a sale at Office. I never thought I would ever get a bargain like this in there. I love them and they are pretty comfortable, I think I will be wearing these a lot.

Outfit Under £20 - No.14

I picked up a bargain yesterday at Store Twenty One as they had 70% off selected items. This Red and black dress was £14.99 and I got it for £4.49 can't grumble at that.  

Wasn't sure at first as I still have weight to lose, what do you think?


The Outfit:

• Dress (Store Twenty One) - £4.49 (was £14.99)

• Leggings (Asda) - £6

• Black Wedges -£? ( I've had these years)

The whole outfit is for £10.49
Excluding wedges but would have been under £10.

Friday Fashion

This rainy/sunny Friday we have plenty of sales going on:

• Dorothy Perkins have 30% off everything

• Avon have started a summer sale early

• Peacocks have 50% off select lines

• House of Fraser have a two day event which ends today with up to 25% of brands so better be quick

• I've not shopped at Asos for a while but they have up to 70% off

Selects freebie Friday liked and shared for another week, I love the clutch and jacket but not too sure on dress and those shoes look super high I don't think I could walk in them.

If you are a regular at store twenty one they have up to 70% off selected lines. I'm not sure why but they no longer sell online. 

I picked up a bargain....ok maybe two. This Red and black dress was £14.99 I got it for £4.49 can't grumble at that.  May add to my outfits under £20.

My second bargain was a denim style maxi dress for £5.30 it was originally £17.99. It's a bit plain so I thought I'd up cycle it and add some gems for glamour. I haven't done it yet but I will share once I have. I've been watching a programme 'SuperScrimpers' where they give a budget to spenders and they almost always up-cycle clothes which I think isn't a bad idea so long as it doesn't look tacky.

Happy Friday

4 years....OMG

Four years ago today I was wearing my lovely white dress and celebrating with family and friends. I can't believe where the time has gone (I said that last year too)

We've only really celebrated our anniversary once which was the first year as it was also to mark our 10 years together plus it was just the two of us then. We travelled around Scotland seeing Fort William, Loch Ness, Inverness, John O'Groats, Ullapool, Skye and Edinburgh, It was quite a trip.

Our 2nd anniversary we had a 9 day old baby so we had our hands full that year. 
Last year our 3rd I can't really remember I think we stayed in with a bottle of wine.

So how to mark our 4th, well I've been out and about with the boys as hubby has been at work. Starting at a sure start group this morning which was awful as I didn't know anyone and just got stared at so left half way through and spent a sunny day in the park and lunch at asda ( living the high life lol!).
When hubby is back We said we would go out or dinner at a local pub suitable for children of course, life is so different nowadays.

Complete

I love personalised jewellery and on my 31st birthday I had Ollie's footprint put onto silver as I was going back to work so wanted part of him with me.

I'm now 32 with another little boy. I felt I couldn't wear just the Ollie print alone after having Joel so I had to have a print of Joel's hand made into silver so I could add him to my necklace. I received it today from Kiddieprints who did both prints for me. 

Here it is doesn't it look great.

I will now wear with pride as my piece is completed with my two little terrors in silver. 

Check Out Kiddieprints on Facebook for all personalised jewellery ideas.

Friday Fashion

What is happening this Friday? 

Well Matalan have a £5 shoe event..... Bargain, bargain and bargain again, but not a huge collection to choose from. Ends THIS Sunday. 

Dorothy Perkins have an extra 10% off sale items online.

19th April

12th April

Select Fashion do a Freebie Friday outfit giveaway that you have to like and share on facebook to have a chance of winning the outfit. 

This week is a blue dress and super high heels so I thought I'd give it ago although very unlikely to win as already over a thousand likes

I liked and shared last weeks Freebie Friday, didnt win so I ended up buying the lace vest, Tempted by the shoes too.

Offers with Select:

• Handbag promotion with 25% off by entering GIFT25 at checkout. This is not on all bags just a selected few. 
• 2 for £8 Leggings
• 2 for £10 Tops
• 2 for £5 Vests 
• View online sale if you go instore you can buy one and get one half price

George at Asda have another sale. This is when I stock up on a few baby bits like vests and sleepsuits. I got eight vests for £4 and a sweet hoody for Joel also £4 (not on website anymore). Nothing for Ollie this time.

George also has a facebook page (who doesn't). They put together outfits such as this for Fashion Friday which I actually rather like. 





The dress is £10, Shoes £10, and bag £7, Earrings £3.50 so all this for £30.50. 

Liking some of the summer shoes in Asda, These are my favourites: 

Leopard Print Wedge £16

Zebra Sandals £8

View all Shoes

Personalised Gift For Father's Day

It's early I know but I have already purchased my hubby's Father's day gift from The Personalised Gift Shop I found them on facebook.  

I only ordered it on Saturday just gone and I received it today. Super fast delivery, great communication and at a fab price.

Ollie & Joel one side (hubby likes this pic)

Engraving on the other

  

Check out the facebook page - The Personalised Gift Shop for all products available.

Fathers day is on 16th June if anyone was wondering.

Two Year Old Celebrations

First of the celebrations for Ollie's 2nd birthday was a little family party on Sunday 14th so Nana, Grandad Bob, Uncle Luke and Great Nanny Ann could spoil him with presents and all the attention he craves.

The theme was Peppa Pig as this is the only cartoon he tends to watch and I made number two cookies which I am pretty proud of.

Handmade cookies

Tuesday 16th April was his actual birthday, he was spoilt yet again by mummy and daddy. In the morning before daddy went to work he opened one present which was a big George from Peppa Pig. He had to wait for the the rest until daddy came home which included his favourite things like colouring books and story books, but his main present was a little tikes car which to our surprise came in quite a few pieces so that's daddy's job to build.

Milkshake mouth

My friend Debbie came over in the day and we took Ollie to the park then he was treated to his first milkshake and his own mini cupcake. 

In the evening grandma and grandad came with yet another present and treated us all to pizza.

Overall I think he had a pretty good birthday as he had all the attention he needs and deserves.

Happy 2nd Birthday little man :)

OMG....I Had Sleep

I'm amazed at Joel he's only three and a half months old and he only woke up once during the night last night woohoo! Which meant mummy actually got some sleep.
The two nights before he woke up at 2am then around 6am which was also pretty amazing for his age. I do wonder though if it is because he's catching up on sleep as the night before that he had an awful cough which meant he constantly woke up so that night both of us didn't get hardly any sleep so you can imagine how I was feeling the day after having an active nearly two year old all day as well :(

Overall he's a quiet, content little boy and not much trouble at all. He loves to watch Ollie and me going about our day and he responds with lots of smiles. He's so different from Ollie as a baby as he was hard work from day one with crying all the time, never let us put him down and would never sleep much until about 14 months, he was and still is exhausting.

Fashion Post: New Style No.1

I am loving the khaki craze at the moment so I got myself a khaki jacket £18 from International and I couldn't resist this vest top from Asda George £8 which has khaki and pink flowers and the words Love Peace as that is just what I want PEACE.

My boots are from Tesco that I purchased in a sale last year at only £5 and the jeggings are from Select also purchased last year for £12.

More than I would normally spend but the outfit is a total cost of £42

What do you think thumbs up or down?

Silent Sunday

Rant Rant Rant

So many things today have angered me, I only wanted to take the boys out for some fresh air and walk to the post office.

I only had to step on my driveway for the first pang of anger as some inconsiderate dog owner had left poo on my drive not the path my drive. If people want dogs they should clean up after them it's disgusting.
The second anger pang on my walk were cars parked right across the paths, why do people so it. Now I have a double buggy it's made even worse that I have to push my two babies onto the road because again people being inconsiderate.
The Third and final rant today is the postal service charges. I like to sell unwanted items on eBay but after selling a coat and thinking the postage cost second class would be approximately £3.95 as it wasn't all that heavy it actually cost me £8 because of new pricing that looks at size and weight of a package, unbelievable, the minimum cost is now £2.60 for second class which is utter madness.

Rant over

Toddler Stress

I don't think I have been prepared for the toddler tantrums and the phase of terrible two's as they call them, I hope it doesn't last long but Ollie isn't quite two yet :(

Over the past week I have found Ollie incredibly hard work with shouting, screaming, hitting, banging, constantly pestering and wanting everything NOW. Even changing his nappy and getting him dressed had become a massive chore.
I tell him off but it hits deaf ears or he laughs which winds me up even more, I keep telling myself he's only 23 months and its what they do but its so hard to keep calm. I've started shouting myself as he just goes too far and I just can't keep my cool. When he's naughty we tend to put him in his cot as that is the only place he doesn't get out of but even then he bangs, shouts and screams so the neighbours must think what the hell am I doing.
When I have had sleep I can normally handle it and take a deep breathe and distract him with something but on hardly any sleep at all I'm shouting back at him which makes it worse and I just don't have the energy for all the attention he needs, I just find it all so stressful that I can't wait for him to go to a nursery but we can't afford to pay for him yet so i'll have to wait for the free 15 hours they get. For now the only break we get us at bedtime.

The last couple of days have been even more difficult because I have a bad back yet again which also stressed me out.

I would love to know how all you other mummies deal with the tantrums.

Craft Box Clearance Sale

I'm having a clearance sale of all modern greeting cards on Craft Box.

All handmade cards are now 50p so once they are gone they are gone please take a look at the range of cards

        

Full range here

Easter Weekend

Good Friday was a stressful one, I was on my own ALL day with the two monsters well one in particular has hit the terrible twos which seems to have appeared on and off over the last few months but my god the last two days have been testing. Anyway Good Friday I thought I'd take them out for a walk to get fresh air and see if any Easter eggs were left (the shelves were bare). It was all fine to begin with we were counting cars in the way to town but in one of the shops Ollie kept shouting very loudly because he wanted this rabbit teddy, so embarrassing as people stare and I'm sure a woman even tutted - she has no idea. I just walked out in the end and being a desperate mum I tried to stop him by giving him a biscuit, bad I know but my stress levels were to boiling point.

My cakes

The rest of the outing was fine but as soon as we got home Ollie started again by shouting, demanding biscuits, hitting his toys and when I tell him off he laughs. What are you suppose to do, I ended up raising my voice which isn't me but he just goes too far and my patience wares. To get back to sanity I thought I'd make Easter cakes and get Ollie involved but he wasn't interested other than eating the icing. I was pleased with the end result.

All afternoon and early evening continued being stressful as Ollie started trying to hit Joel or sit on him I tried to distract him with hoovering as I know he likes that which did for a little while so at least that was something. The hubby didn't get home until 7pm so it was a long hard day I just hope this terrible twos stage doesn't stick around because I really don't like being at home if it does, I've never felt so stressed in my life.

Ollie with Nana & Grandad

Saturday was a much better day and I had my parents come round so we had a walk to the park and I got my tattoo I've wanted for ages. Ollie was better behaved, Joel was as good as gold and I had company.
It was actually so nice to have someone else push the buggy other than me.

Easter Sunday started with me tired after Joel woke every 2 hours yet again, I just can't deal with this lack of sleep anymore. Ollie woke up at 7.15am, once he's awake that's it for the day.
We did an Easter egg hunt for Ollie but once he found the first egg he unwrapped it and ate it so it probably wasn't one of our better ideas.
The rest of the day we went for lunch at Paul's parents which was nice we got a bit of a break and Ollie had another Easter egg hunt. The amount of chocolate he ate was bad today. I hope he doesn't expect it every day now.

Second egg hunt at Grandma's

Joel was very unsettled most of the day as he just didn't get much sleep, I wonder if it was because he wasn't used to the environment we were in as different noises to wake him up and not just Ollie's, poor thing.

Easter Monday didn't start well with me having no sleep again as the only way to settle Joel was to let him sleep on my chest but that meant I didn't have good sleep at all. 
Ollie started the day screaming at me which reduced me to tears in the end as its all too much on little sleep plus I'm on my own all day again. I really do need a break. I feel my every waking moment has something to do with kids. 

Overall it hasn't been the best easter due to stress and tiredness. Time for tea and chocolate I think :)

I Did It - Two Hearts For Two Babies

I finally got my tattoo I've been thinking of getting for ages, two hearts to represent my babies Ollie and Joel.

I felt quite excited but nervous on the day but here it is. One heart seems to be neater than the other which is disappointing but you can't really tell unless you see it close up, it does bother me a little as I can't erase it now but I'm thinking both children are different so maybe it's good they aren't completely the same shape heart.

It's a little fuzzy around the edges but I'm hoping that will disappear as I only had it done on Saturday so needs time to heal.

What do you think.....be honest?