Aloha! Happy first day of Spring! Finally, Winter is over!

Here is what I've been up to this week!

1 & 2 - On Tuesday night, the northern lights were visible over Edinburgh! I was at my mum's house for tea so we went out in the car to try and get some good pictures. Unfortunately it was very misty and cloudy but I did manage to get these 2 pictures! I was so excited!

3 - I finally managed to fit back into my tartan pinafore dress! I love this dress but I'd put too much weight on for it. Thanks to my fitness drive lately, I've managed to lose half a stone in 2 weeks and it fits again!

4 - And here is a lovely attractive picture of me after a run. This snapchat filter made me laugh so much. You can add me on snapchat at katiemccann92 for more funny faces and food pictures!

Have a fab week!

xxxx

Lifestyle | TheSundayPost - 28th February

Aloha! Who can believe we are already heading into the 3rd month of the year?! We will soon be entering the 'less than a year until our wedding' period! February has been a bit of a quiet month. I've been stuck in a bit of a rut of working all week and being so tired by the weekend that I sit on the sofa all weekend in my PJ's!

Here is what I've been up to this week!

1 & 2 - I had Monday off work as I still have a few annual leave days to use before the end of March. I had spent the whole weekend in the house so I decided to get out and go for a walk! I picked a cracking day to do this as the sun was shining. It was still super cold though! I was trying not to fall on the ice whilst taking these pictures!

3 - I bought this cute little jug whilst I was out on Monday. It's obviously not meant for flowers but I think it looks cute! I've got a full haul featuring this jug coming soon!

4 - I couldn't resist these PJ's in Tesco the other night. They were reduced from £16 to £9. I used to have a cat called Puddy after my mum kept saying tweetie bird's 'I tawt I saw a puddy-tat' saying! The name just stuck! Unfortunately he died about 6 months after we took him in (he was a stray that starting living in our greenhouse). We think he may have had cancer and his owners dumped him rather than face the big vet bills to manage his illness. Poor puddy! At least we gave him a comfy, loving home to live out his last 6 months! 

So now we are moving into March, which will hopefully be another good month! Hopefully I'll find the energy to get out the house a bit more as we move into Spring! 

And just incase you missed it, you can find my blog from this week about Yankee Candle for Spring 2016 HERE.

Have a great week!

xxx

Lifestyle | TheSundayPost - 21st February

Aloha! Another week has been and gone and here I am sitting typing this post in my PJ's having not left the house all weekend! I am such a lazy bean!

Here's what I've been up to this week!

As usual, the dreaded work! I used a days annual leave on Friday though and I'm also off tomorrow so that's nice! 

On Saturday I was a little bit hungover after spending Friday night round at a friend's house! I decided to light this candle so I could pretend I was on a tropical island! It's part of the Yankee Candle coconut collection and is the Coconut and Pineapple one. It smells just like malibu and pineapple. Yum! 

I cooked up this yummy smoky beef stew on Saturday night! It was a bit of an experiment but it was really tasty! I'll post the recipe here soon!

And on to today. I have done nothing useful today except finally go through all of these wedding magazines and cut out the pictures I like for my wedding scrapbook/moodboards! It's taken me all afternoon! 

And I also cooked this Sunday roast! We haven't had one in ages so I thought it would make a nice change! I slow cooked the chicken and it made such a difference! It was literally falling apart!

And now it's almost time to start a new week! I think tomorrow I'm going to take a wander up into town and see what bargains I can find to treat myself with, as well as buy boring household items we need!

Have a great week!

xxxx

Lifestyle | TheSundayPost - 7th February

Aloha! Another week has passed already and here I am writing another Sunday post. I just don't know where the weekend goes! Here is what I've been up to this week!

I captured this pretty photo on Monday on my way to work. These are nacreous clouds and could been seen all over Edinburgh! I thought they were so pretty with all the rainbow colours!

This week's throwback Thursday! We've started looking into the possibility of making a very special trip to NYC next year - more to come on that one!

I've never been so happy to see Friday! I've reduced my hours to working 4 day weeks for the next few months and I can't wait to just chill out on my extra day off! I miss being a student!

This weekend was spent watching rubbish TV with a little tipple! We got these valentines edition tennents lager bottles in our local Tesco. I thought the Scottish slogans on the front were pretty funny! And I'm such a classy lady with my tennents lager obviously!

So now the countdown to Thursday evening is on! I finally have an appointment with the knee consultant this week so I can get my useless knee sorted out!

Have a fabulous week!

xxxx

TheSundayPost - 31st January

Aloha! It's finally the end of January and the busy period at work is over! I can finally get back to blogging and wedding planning!

This week has been so busy. I've been working pretty much 12 or 13 hours per day!

And this has been my mood for most of the week!

On Friday my boss said if we stayed until 9pm we could have the weekend off!

This was celebrated when I got home with a tub of my favourite ice cream, a couple of beers and falling asleep on the sofa!

I've spent much of this weekend catching up on sleep and relaxing! Now I think I might go bake something and finally get some proper use out of my mixer! 

Have a great week everyone!

Xxxx

TheSundayPost - 23rd January

Aloha! Sorry I've been rather quiet this week! It's been a pretty busy one at work!

Here is what I've been up to this week!

Last Sunday was my brother's birthday but he was away on a lad's weekend so on Monday night we all headed out to Pizza Express to celebrate his birthday. The food was particularly good which was probably because I was absolutely starving having only had a small bowl of soup and some breakfast biscuits all day!

We've had more snow this week but only in West Lothian it seems! It's all gone now!

I've spent most of this week in work! I've been working until 7 or 8 almost every night this week which is pretty hard going. The light is in sight though! Only one week to go and January is over!

We got a new mattress! It is literally the comfiest thing in the world. If I thought getting up for work in the morning was hard before, its about to get worse!

So that has been it for this week. Another pretty dull week involving far too much work and not enough play!

xxxx

TheSundayPost - 17th January

Aloha! It's Sunday once again which means it's time for this week's Sunday Post!

Here's what I've been up to this week!

This week has been a long and busy one once again! I've been working between 10 and 12 hour shifts all week, trying to get all my tax returns done in time. I'm getting there but there's still another 2 weeks to go!

As I've been working so hard, this weekend called for a treat! Fajitas is my favourite meal. And accompanied by a cheeky little beer, they are even better! My mum bought me a few of these mason jar drinking jugs for Christmas. They are the perfect size for a whole 440ml beer can so I can look a bit more ladylike with my drink haha!

We've had plenty snow this week! Especially yesterday! We went to visit our niece in Edinburgh and by the time we got home, all this snow had appeared! 

So now I'm off to do some research for an amazing idea that Mikey came up with for our wedding. I'll share it on here if we decide to go for it! If your nosy though, check my twitter ;) (@sunskittlesblog)

And if you've missed some of my posts this week, you can find the links below: 

John Lewis Haul

Chicken Myers Recipe

Have a fab week!

xxx

TheSundayPost - 27th December

Aloha & a little late Merry Christmas! I've been a little quiet for the past few days as I was enjoying spending time with family and having a little break after blogging for 24 days straight!

I'm back now and thought I would start off with what I've been up to this week!

1 - Eating. A lot. This smoked salmon roulade is my absolute favourite Christmas treat. I need to find a recipe to make my own!

2 - Drink. My parents got this bottle of bollinger champagne for their 50th Birthday and we've been  meaning to open it for some time! It finally got opened on Boxing Day.

3 - Cuddles with Smudge. He loves when I stay over at my mum's house coz he gets cuddles with me! Doesn't he look cute!

4 - And of course, Santa came! I was a very lucky girl this year! I'm going to do a what I got for Christmas post in the next few days so keep your eyes peeled for that!

I thought I would also share this picture from Christmas Day. This is a large group of the family together, including both my Grans. They are both suffering from dementia so this photo is special to me.

Here are the posts you might have missed this week!

Blogmas Day 21 - Christmas Eve Box

Blogmas Day 22 - Christmas Throwback

Blogmas Day 23 - Easy Gingerbread Recipe

Blogmas Day 24 - Things I'm Looking Forward to this Christmas

xxx

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 13 | TheSundayPost - 13th December

Aloha! Another week has passed and it's now less than 2 weeks until Christmas!!

Here is what I have been up to this week!

1 - Last Sunday I headed into town with Mikey to try and finish the last of our Christmas shopping! We managed to get 99% of it done so we rewarded ourselves with a hot toddy in one of the pop up Christmas bars overlooking the ice rink.

2 - The week was long and stressful as I try to get as much work done as possible before the Christmas break! Friday night was my work's Christmas night out. It was a great night! Here is me looking grumpy before going out!

3 - Saturday was spent mostly nursing a hangover. We spent the evening on the sofa watching the X Factor final, eating chocolate and drinking beers. It was nice to sit in the cosy house, with the Christmas tree lit up, and just relax for a bit! 

4 - Today it is very cold outside so I'm staying inside in the warmth writing up some more blog posts and baking banana bread! I love a lazy Sunday!

If you've missed any of my Blogmas posts this week, you can go and have a read of them now by following the links below!

Day 7: My favourite Christmas Songs

Day 8: Tanya's December Tarte Train

Day 9: Best of the Boots 3 for 2

Day 10: Festive Fivers

Day 11: Christmas Party Outfit

Day 12: Christmas Jumper 2015

Have a great week!

xxx

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 - 23rd August

Aloha! So another week has flown by and it's almost September. The countdown to Christmas will be starting soon! (X factor starts next weekend, that's usually a good indication of how close it is!) I just don't know where this year has gone!

Here is what I've been up to this week!

1 - I had a little shopping trip on Monday night which involved buying this cat car freshener from New Look. It's very me haha!

2 - We actually had a pretty decent week of weather! This is the church next door to my work where I have been sitting eating my lunch and catching some rays. It's such a lovely peaceful place to sit, and it beats eating at my desk!

3 - Can't believe this was my first frappuchino of the Summer! It was goooood!

4 - We finally booked flights for a little trip to Ireland! I'm super excited as I've never been before! We are flying into Dublin and hiring a car to travel round Galway, Limerick and Cork before heading back for a night or two in Dublin! Guinness factory here I come! 

5 - Saturday was spent with a trip to Ikea, then hanging around my mum's house waiting for Mikey to come off the golf course! Whilst I was there, Smudge decided to claim ownership of this Amazon box. He's a strange one. 

6 - I made tacos!! They were pretty damn good if I say so myself! Now if only I could teleport back to Mexico...

So that has been my week! Can you believe this post is actually going up before 10pm on a Sunday?! I'm off to bake some lemon and blueberry bread now. Have a lovely week! 

xxxx