Dressing Table Tour

For a while now my room has been undergoing a make over! So now that I am 100% happy with my room I am very proud to share a big part of my little place of happiness! This being my dressing table. I have never owned a grown up dressing table before, so this makes me extremely happy! Having a dressing table reminds me of being a little girl first starting out with make up! I remember my mum used to flick through the Avon catalogue, letting me pick something out for myself! So now that I am half good at make up and can buy as much of the stuff as I please,  I can finally sit at a proper dressing table and apply my make up, peacefully. Instead of sitting on my bed and shamefully causing a lot of makeup stains on my carpet and bedding. If you'd have seen my carpet before, you would have cried!! I am far too ashamed to put up a before and after picture!

My dressing table is still fairly small as the size of my room is also small. Therefore I try to keep the top as uncluttered as possible! I like to keep my current perfume that I am loving along with my jewellery box! Now that I have a nice size collection of make up brushes, I like to keep them on show too! Underneath I like to keep some coasters because I aint standing for no mug marks on my brand spanking dressing table!  I also keep the book that I am currently reading on the side because I can't fit a bedside table in my room! This also reminds me to take a break and read, because with all the great YouTube videos available to watch at the minute, it's hard to fit in reading time too! In the two drawers I like to keep some of my fashion jewellery along with my chargers for my phone, laptop and camera, just so that I know exactly where they are!

Let the pretty pictures commence...

Please let me know in the comments if you have any dressing table storage ideas! I'd love to hear them!

Love, Laura

xoxo

Christmas Gift Wrap Heaven

So recently I have become a tiny winy bit obsessed with buying Christmas gift wrap! But more importantly really, really affordable too. Which admittedly makes me very happy inside! Cute and inexpensive festive gift wrap? I am all over it right now! It was only until my friend Em said to me "at this rate you'll have more gift bags than presents". I can't disagree with that but soon enough, at the end of this month I am hitting York for some serious Christmas shopping. Personally I find with gift bags it makes giving a present to someone that little bit more special! Also if you're like me and not so great at the wrapping part, gift bags are a great way to disguise your rubbish wrapping skills!

My favourite shops to buy my gift wrap have been, The range, Asda and T.K.Max. The Christmas fawn wrapping paper is my number one favourite! This was from Asda and they have a deal were you can buy 3 rolls of 5 metres for £5. Fifteen metres of wrapping paper is most certainly enough for me! Along with the wrapping paper they have the gorgeous gift bag to match! £1 and they are very generous in size! They also had a cute little pillow that goes too!

The paper bags with the felt Christmas designs on are from The Range! As soon as I saw these in the shop I knew I was going to use these for all my girlfriends' presents! They are just too cute! The gingerbread biscuit gift bag was from T.K.Max and they also had this one in a couple of smaller sizes too! They also have a great selection of baubles! I have a feeling baubles are going to be my next Christmas addiction, once I have bought one, there's no stopping me!

Please let me know in the comments if you know of anywhere else to buy such adorable gift wrap!

Love, Laura

xoxo

YouTube: October Favourites!

Hi there! This morning I uploaded my October favourites up on my channel. Head over there if you'd like to see all the things I have been loving in the past month.

Enjoy your day!

Love, Laura 

xoxo

www.youtube.com/doddslaura

What The Fudge?

On Sunday, Emma and I had such a lovely girly day out together. To start things off, of course we had to get some food in our bellies! Somewhere we had both wanted to go to for ages, The Fudge Bakery & Restaurant,  It is such a cute place, pastels galore! I ordered the granola, yoghurt and berry breakfast (oooooh healthy!) and Em ordered the fluffy pancakes with bacon and syrup (I tried them, they were amazing)! I went for the tea option, which came in the most humongous mug!! Whereas Emma went for a flavoured latte! After a late shift, I think she needed waking up a little bit! The outside area was adorable, I really want to go back in the summer so that we can sit outside! Then we popped next door to their bakery, which was also incredible!! I bought a posh sausage roll and a vanilla iced doughnut for take out! Completely defeating the whole point of having a healthy breakfast... ah well! We then headed into town for some well deserved retail therapy! It's safe to say the Christmas shopping has began! I bought three Christmas gifts (eeeeeek!). It felt oh so good! I also received my Boohoo order later on that day, and oh my I did myself proud. Look out for a haul on my Youtube Channel soon. Here are some photo's from our day.

I hope you all had a lovely weekend!

Love, Laura 

xoxo

YouTube: Another Homeware Haul

Happy Sunday! Time for a new video... Today, over on my channel I am talking about all the homeware bits and pieces I have picked up recently! Last weekend the decorating in my room finished, which meant I could add the finishing touches to my brand spanking bedroom! All the things mentioned in my video are completely affordable. I'm talking, Asda, Matalan, T.K.Maxx and many more! Also, now that my room is finished and looking all pretty, it's time for a room tour! So, stayed tuned for that!

I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend!

Love, Laura

xoxo

H&M Wish List

1. Camel V-Neck Blouse

2. Sleeveless Top

3. Marled Cardigan

4. Imitation Leather Skirt

5. Jumper in a Wool Blend

This weekend I am going on a girly shopping day with my friend, Em. Being the impatient person I am, I couldn't resist looking to see what's new in the shops already. H&M has definitely wiggled it's way to the top of my list for Saturday. I love that I can get back to wearing darker coloured clothing and loose fitted jumpers! I especially love the dark grey chunky knit cardigan, I think it's going to be one of those pieces that I am going to live and die in! It just looks so cosy and warm! I am also very interested in the Leather skirt, whether I can pull it off is a whole other story... But I think paired with some black tights and a smart wooly jumper it will look so cute! The sleeveless top I think will look great with my black disco pants and killer heels for a night out on the town! Then the mustard coloured blouse I think will spice up my usual boring outfit in the office, but still keeping the look professional and office like.

The prices at H&M are so affordable, it's great! Which is your favourite?

Love, Laura
xoxo

The Birthday Boy

Last Sunday it was Scott's birthday, so we spent the weekend celebrating by doing lots of his favourite things. One being horse racing, on Friday we travelled down to London to attend Champions Day at The Ascot Racecourse (apparently the most prestigious race day of the year!). I honestly wasn't expecting much but when we arrived I was kind of blown away by the scale of everything. It was almost like being in a huge arena! There was live music, a brass band, some amazing food in cute little vans and I even saw The Queen. Oh, and I won £40! Scott came up too, thank the lord, otherwise that would have been a long 4 hour drive home with a grumpy birthday boy! Then on Sunday he opened his presents in bed and I cooked us up some pancakes with lemon, sugar and Nutella (not together). Then in the afternoon we went for Sunday lunch at The Pipe and Glass Inn. It is the most gorgeous, warm welcoming, pub style restaurant. The food was incredible and the portion sizes were very generous! Scott had potted pork to start and I had the crab meat starter. Then we both had the Roast sirloin of beef for main. The only down side was that we were so full we couldn't fit desert in, so we took some salted caramel macaroons for take out. After a couple hours laze on the sofa watching Dexter, Scott's family came over with his presents and we ate my homemade blueberry and lemon curd loaf whilst watching the X factor. I then made Scott feel really old by telling him he'd now be in the over 25's category if he were to audition! The whole weekend was so lovely, it definitely made Monday at work a little more bearable, thinking of all the nice things we did (and ate). Here are some of the photo's we took over the weekend.

Love, Laura 

xoxo