Aloha! Welcome to my first Sunday Post of 2016!

You might have noticed that my blog has had a little makeover to freshen it up for the new year!

This week has been quite busy as my uncle and cousin were here from Norwich so we've been out and about a lot more than usual! Here's what we've been up to!

1 & 2 - We went into Edinburgh and spent a day wandering around the winter wonderland! I finally got a shot on the big wheel and the star flyer! Just as well I'm not scared of heights! Afterwards, we went to Tony Macaroni for lunch. It's well worth a visit! I had shared a Hawaiian pizza and a spaghetti carbonara with my mum and it was delicious!

3 - We had a day's shopping in Livingston where I managed to get my hands on the first of many bags of mini eggs! These are my weakness at this time of year. I could eat them all day!

4 - I baked some yummy salted caramel and peanut butter brownies. It was a test run for my stand mixer, which I have to say, performed very well! I'll share the recipe on here soon!

5 - I got me some new bed sheets for the new year! I had some vouchers for Primark for Christmas (haul coming soon), and decided I needed to get some fresh bedding. This tartan duvet cover set was only £13 for a king size set and it goes really well with my bedroom theme!

6 - The new year has begun! We didn't do anything this hogmanay, except sit in, have a nice meal, and enjoy some alcoholic beverages! Someone was setting off these fireworks in the park opposite our house as the clock struck 12! 

7 - Smudge was my first footer (kind of). Because face-timing a cat is normal.

8 - I met my auntie's new puppy! He's a cross between a Chinese puffball and a shitzu and he is just adorable! His name is Frankie because he arrived at my auntie's house right in the middle of Storm Frank! I need one!

So that has been about it for this week! 

Here's some posts you might have missed this week:

What I got for Christmas

Boxing Day Sale Haul

My Year in Review | 2015

Hello 2016!

xxxx

Blogmas Day 20 | TheSundayPost - 20th December

Aloha! Another week has passed very quickly and its only 5 more sleeps till Santa!

This week has mainly been about trying to clear my desk at work in time for the Christmas holidays!

This weekend we had friends over for dinner and drinks, then today involved shopping and getting ready for the week ahead. I feel like I've never stopped! Only 3 and a half working days left though! Looking forward to a short working week!

If you've missed any of my blogmas posts this week, this is what you've missed: 

Day 14 - Winter Evening Routine

Day 15 - Christmas Wrapping

Day 16 - Stocking Fillers for Him

Day 17 - The Christmas Tag 2015

Day 18 - Bargain Buys for the Last Minute Shopper

Day 19 - The Perfect Hot Chocolate

Have a wonderful week! The countdown to Christmas is really on now!

xxxx

Blogmas Day 6 | TheSundayPost - 6th December

Aloha! I've made it to day 6 of Blogmas! Woohoo!

Here is my usual round-up of what I've been up to this week!

1 - My Christmas tree is up! I bought some new red berry lights which I love! They are now reduced to clear in Tesco for just £7 so go get some if you love them too!

2 - We've had a fair bit of Snow this week! I much prefer the snow to the horrible wind and rain storms we've also had this week! Today it looks like we might get some sun so I'm going to head out into town to finish my Christmas shopping!

3 - On Thursday we went to watch the Street of Light show which is currently on as part of Edinburgh's Christmas celebrations. Unfortunately the weather caused a technical fault with the lights and it was cancelled. This was the best "Street of Light" picture I could take in it's absence! I was so upset, but they've said they will honour our tickets for a different night so hopefully I'll still get to see it!

4 - Yesterday the weather was just awful as Storm Desmond hit the country. I had my flu jab booked for the morning then I was meeting my mum and auntie to go christmas shopping. Thankfully we picked an indoor shopping centre to go to! The weather was perfect for wearing my new Ralph Lauren jumper that my dad brought me back from Florida, as well as my new velvet leopard print leggings which I grabbed in Tesco's Black Friday sale!

As I mention, I've been taking part in Blogmas this week. If you've missed any of my posts, you can find the links below:

Day 1 : A Blogmas Giveaway!

Day 2 : Chocolate Chip Cheesecake & My 200th Post

Day 3 : Christmas Tree 2015

Day 4 : My favourite festive fragrances

Day 5 : Gaga's Angel

I'm away to attempt to finish my Christmas shopping now! Wish me luck!

xxxx

TheSundayPost - 22nd November

Aloha! Another week over, another week closer to Christmas! I can't believe it's now less than 5 weeks away!

Here's my summary of this week!

1 - The weather has been so miserable this week. It's been cold, wet and windy almost all week! Coupled with it being dark by 4pm, I've not been outside much!

2 - Cuddles with Smudge have been had. I'm starting to notice him ageing a lot more recently. He's not able to jump up on the sofa as easy anymore. Sad times :( 

3 - My dad is away to Florida on a golfing trip for his brother's 50th birthday so on Thursday night he took us out for a bite to eat at Pizza Express. I tried their new christmas starter, smoked salmon rillette. It was delicious! Then I had my usual choice of pizza, the pollo ad astra on a romana base!

My dad has been sent to Florida with a shopping list for christmas presents so hopefully he manages to find the things I've asked for!

4 - Saturday night, the weather was rubbish again so we decided to have a night in with telly and food. We got some steaks from the local butcher and I made a spicy chipotle sauce to go with them. Then afterwards we toasted marshmallows and enjoyed a few beers whilst watching X Factor, I'm a Celebrity and The Jonathan Ross Show. Sometimes it's nice to just relax at home rather than go out in the cold!

That's it for this week. Now we go into the last full week in November! Scary stuff!

xxxx

TheSundayPost - 25th October

Aloha! Don't you just love Someecards? There's always one that sums up exactly how you are feeling! Anyway, as usual here's my weekly post about what I've been up to this week!

1 - Work. You may know that I work in tax and our busiest time of year is coming up with the tax returns due by 31st January. I've got a week off coming up in 2 weeks time, so I'm trying to get as much done as possible just now, so I don't come back to an overflowing in tray! Of course, that means I have no time for anything fun right now. Sad times!

2 - Wedding planning. I wrote my first post on here this week about planning our wedding! We are still on the venue hunt. It was going okay until others started sticking their noses in and telling me what I can/can't do. So frustrating. On Friday I was so wound up by it all that I was genuinely contemplating booking 2 tickets to Mexico and getting married out there with no one present to tell me what to do! I'm sure it will all fall into place eventually...

3 - Dreaming. I am in desperate need of a holiday! I know, I've got a cheek but when we were students, we were off visiting new places about 3 or 4 times a year. Now it seems like we have no time to do anything. In saying that, we are going to Ireland in a few weeks. Mikey has lots of family there which we are going to visit, but for me it will be all new as I've never been before. Hello Guinness factory!

So that's about it for this week! Hope you all have a great week ahead, whatever you are up to!

xxx

TheSundayPost - 18th October

Aloha! I can't believe it's Sunday evening already! Where has this weekend gone?!

So here is what I've been up to this week.

1 - This picture sums up this week pretty well. I've been dreaming of better things most of this week, mostly wedding related. Things are slowly but surely coming along on the wedding front. We viewed another venue on Saturday, which I'm pretty enthusiastic about. Hopefully we will settle on a venue soon!

2 & 3 - This week we celebrated 11 years of happiness and purrs with my little furbaby Smudge. It's crazy to think it was so long ago that we took him home with us after he had been abandoned in a forest. To celebrate his 11th adoptiversary, I bought him his favourite food and special cat milk, and wrapped them up for him. Needless to say he's scoffed the lot now! 

4 - I just love Autumn time. The colours are just my favourite. And the fact I can get my layers and cosy boots out again makes me very happy. 

So that's about it for this week! Now it's time to get prepared for another work week. I'm pretty sure I'm in need of a week off now!

Have a fabulous week!

xxxx