29 May 2015

Garden Party Inspiration

My Birthday may not be until July 21st, but the party invites are already out! I love planning and birthday's, so when I combine the two I get freakishly excited. I've decided on a garden party and depending on whether I get round to purchasing a BBQ, one of those two! I imagine fairy lights, fabric bunting, jarred tea lights, picnic rugs and possibly a panda piñata. 

To cut down on costs I really want to do some DIY, arty farty stuff. I'm going to make lace jarred tea lights using old jam jars and possibly some homemade bunting.

The other day I found the most amazing jar in Aldi, an 8 litre glass jar that dispenses cocktails. For under £10 I was over the moon! Let's face it, a couple of cocktail pitchers just ain't gonna cut it for a 21st Birthday!

So where does one go for inspiration? Pinterest of course...








Please let me know in the comments if you have any of your own DIY ideas...

Love, Laura x

27 May 2015

The Wednesday Post

I've missed my little blog. 

talknineteenofthedozen is back...

With a well edited instagram photo of Zara walking away from the beach.

I feel pretty impressed with my editing skills with this photo, I managed to make an average day in East Yorkshire look awesomely sunny. Who knew awesomely was a word? I half expected it to be underlined with a squiggly red line. Who knew?! I'm kind of disappointed now, I love creating new words!

 Yeah, sometimes I just type absolute crap.

Please leave your blog address' in the comments, I love to read them in my spare time!

I was just thinking what's Bye in Cuban? As in 4 weeks time, that's where I'm gonna be... *excitement* but in Cuba they speak Spanish... So, adios!

6 April 2015

My Easter in Pictures


I thought I'd return with a nice and easy post to get me back into the swing of things.
I've spent half of my bank holiday weekend being cheery and productive (eating chocolate) and the other half with tissues stuffed up my noise, feeling sorry for myself. I honestly don't know how it's possible to have so much snot come from one person's nose. All I can compare myself to is a tap. Drip, drip, drip. There's a nice image for you all. Even if I spend my last day off work watching a dozen episodes of Prison Break I'm definitely going to make the most of it. Enjoy the rest of your Easter!

Love, Laura 
xoxo

3 January 2015

My New Year's Resolutions

Today I wanted to share my New Year's Resolutions. There's something more satisfying about physically typing them up and sharing them to other people. I don't know if it's the fact you feel more obliged to give them a proper go or that writing them down makes them feel more realistic. I don't know, but I am the kind of girl that loves writing list, so this I suppose is just another list. I think setting targets for the upcoming year is a great way to start feeling motivated and positive. So here are a few of my own... 

1. Do more of what makes me happy

2. Exersize at least twice a week (instead of wasting that £33 gym membership every month)

3. Spend more quality time with my mum

4. Stop overthinking everything

5. Drink more water

6. Start saving money and spend less on unnecessary rubbish

7. Schedule blogposts twice a week

8. Spare 30 minutes to read before bed

9. Start a scrapbook 

10. Stop clicking my fingers (it's gross!)

11. Try marmite

12. Respond less to negative people


What are your New Year's resolutions?

Love, Laura 
xoxo

14 December 2014

YouTube: Christmas Day Makeup Look Tutorial



I have been wearing this makeup look a lot recently, especially when I have been out and about doing Christmasy things! Which made me think... This is the perfect makeup look that I'd like to wear on Christmas day. Now that I have worn this makeup look a few times I know that I can count on it lasting all day! Perfect for having your photo taken and for sticking around after Christmas dinner!

What do you think?

Love, Laura 
xoxo

11 December 2014

Hull Bloggers Meet!

On Sunday I attended the Hull blogger meet up that was held at Fudge, an awesome cafe, restaurant, bakery down Princes Avenue in Hull. It seriously has all kinds of yumminess! The event was very well organised, when we arrived there were these huge goody bags, each labelled with our names scattered around the seated tables. 
I wore my Christmas jumper from Matalan that says "Ho, Ho, Ho" and to match the red theme I brought out my Ruby Woo lipstick by MAC. This was the perfect lipstick to wear because I knew that it would stick around even after food and drink!
Later on the staff from Fudge brought us out a lovely selection of afternoon tea goodies. Along with some very pretty china cups and saucers for a nice cup of English tea! They also brought out each table a bowl of nacho's which were also incredible! They do nacho's GOOD!
The food was presented very nicely and now for the scones...
The perfect amount of cream and jam (spilling out the sides, just the way I like it!!).
I ate mine burger style... Honestly I couldn't find a fork!!
Now I wanna talk about one of my favourite brands that were involved in the meet up. Some lovely girls from the company, Arbonne joined us to talk about their skincare brand. I was so impressed with their products but mostly at how passionate and knowledgable they were about their products. We had the chance to test out a selection of products from a few of their skincare collections! One of my favourites was their SeaSource Renewing Body Gelée.  
This product was so refreshing and cooling, I particularly loved the way it sank into my skin 
so quickly and how it left my skin feeling super moisturised! With it's calming scent it 
really  reminded me of something you would pick up in a luxurious spa.
Towards the end of the day their was a fabulous raffle! Unfortunately I had to leave early because me and Scott had previously made plans to go to the panto! Before leaving I bought some raffle tickets and I was lucky enough to win some great prizes that my friend has kept safe for me. 
Before leaving we were all given an extra little goody bag wrapped up as a Christmas gift. The whole day was fantastic and I can't wait to attend more events like this. The event was very informal and friendly and the atmosphere throughout the day left me feeling super happy and excited about blogging in the future! 

If you'd like me to do a more detailed post to show you exactly what I got in my goody bag, please let me know because when I opened up all the wonderful things it made me extremely giddy!

Thank you Alex & Jaye for organising such a great meet up! :)

Love, Laura 
xoxo

7 December 2014

YouTube: Drugstore & High End Beauty Haul



Hi there! Today I have for you a big old beauty haul over on my channel! Last weekend I went to York to do my Christmas shopping but I also ended up picking up a lot of beauty bits! A lot of these products I have been getting on with so well in the last week & I can already see some of them being in my monthly favourites!

Let me know if you've tried any of these products & what you think!

Love, Laura 
xoxo