I ♥ Holly Willoughby

I purchased this on Friday, on sale from Holly Willoughby's collection on Very.

Strangely it's gone up in price since I purchased on Friday, so not sure what's going on with that! It arrives on Thursday and I so hope it's nice enough to take on holiday to Italy with me at the weekend :)

Holly Willoughby is my ultimate style icon, I love her ladylike but up-to-date look.  This is my first dress purchased from her collection, I've looked many times but often thought it was a bit pricey.

What do you think? Have you got anything from her collection?

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Easter cake decorating ideas

I spotted these cakes whilst out shopping, they'e so cute! The look pretty easy to do so think I'm going to give it a go myself :)

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Wish list - Prada earrings

Just come across these beauties - aren't they gorgeous!

Prada £320.00

I really love anything with roses on, I'm obsessed with Rose scented perfume.

At £320 they ain't cheap, so I'm wondering if anyone has seen any good dupes or anything similar in a more reasonable price range?

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Clinique mini haul

I’m a completely suker for Clinique bonus time… or any bonus time/ 3 for 2/ extra advantage card points/ free gifts/ new products… you name it!

Luckily (or should I say unfortunately!) there is a big Boots just been opened right near my office so I’m in there every few days looking at what’s new, on offer or just catches my eye.  My purse has never been so empty!

This year I’ve promised myself will be the year of using up stuff because I always find that if I buy new products and prefer them to my old products, that the old ones end up sitting in a draw in my bedroom never to see the light of day until I’m foreced to have a clear out.

With this is mind, I DID need a new mascara as my old one didn’t seem to be working as well anymore (although it’s so hard to tell when a mascara has actually run out, isn’t it). But when I found out it was bonus time, I did stock up on eye cream.  I always use the same Clinique eye cream, so I figured this didn’t break my rule.

I bought:

High impact curling mascara.  This is the best mascara I’ve found so far, it doesn’t blow me away (alas I don’t think I’ll ever find the perfect mascara) but I miss it when I try another one and it’s very long lasting (in fact, it’s a pain to get off!)

I also bought:

All about the eyes rich.  I haven’t used the rich one before,  but I get such dry skin around my eyes if I’m not careful that I thought I’d go for it.

In the bonus time I got:

·      Superdefense SPF 25 Age Defense moisturiser

·      Eye shadow compact in French Vanilla, Night Plum and Stone Violet

·      Repairwear Laser Focus Wrinkle and UV Damage Corrector

·      High Impact Mascara

·      Superblam Moisturising Gloss in Grapefruit

·      Liquid Facial Soap

·      Cosmetics bag

I’m not a big fan of gloss, I don’t like the feel of it on my lips, so that will be straight on ebay but I’m excited about the serum because I’ve wanted to try that out for a while and it’s a good travel size.  

I’m not 100% sure about keeping the eye shadow, I have a lot of colours similar, what do you think? Should I try it?

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Blog Hopping!

I'm taking part in the latest blog hop, a few of the ladies I follow have taken part and it seems to me to be a good way to find out about new blogs as well as let other people see what I'm doing.

I thought this might also be a good opportunity to ask what you like about my blog and what could be improved? Don't be shy!  And if you're a new follower, particularly if you found me through blog hop let me know, it's always lovely to hear from people.

If you want to do some blog hopping, here's a link

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All I want this weekend is a dipped hem dress

I desperately want a dipped hem dress to take to Italy with me in 2 weeks.  What do you think of these?

I really love the colour of this Jolie dress, but I'm not sure it will suit my figure.

Jolie £36

I love, love, loved this, until I realised it was backless :) 

Republic £28

This new look version is rather safe, but at £7 could be a good casual weekend look.

New Look was £19.99, now £7

I'm not sure what this will look like on, but it might be good for my Mother-in-law's 60th birthday meal in Italy with some heels to make it look less dowdy

Red Herring was £35, now £17.50

This is probably my favourite, although I'm not 100% convinced of the colour

Very £35

What do you think? 

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The Versatile Blogger Award

I was awarded the versatile blog award by the lovely Rachel and Emily, thank you ladies!

Here are the rules: 

-Thank the person that nominated you with a link back!
-Tell 7 things about you!
-Pass this on to 10 newly discovered blogs and let them know they received the award!

Here are my 7 things:

1.     One of the things I’m most obsessed about at the moment is acquiring a Michael Kors Rose Gold watch.  I’ve just found out my company is giving me a voucher to put towards one as my leaving present – wohoo!

2.     My favourite place in the world is the Lake District.  I’ve had some great holidays there and it's where me and Will got engaged.

3.     I love spring, it’s my favourite season.  My colleague Tom just bought me some daffodils for my desk so I’m really feeing the joy of spring today.

4.     I love sweetcorn and regularly eat it straight from the tin.  I also love couscous and rice, especially if it has chorizo or halloumi with it!

5.     I’ve given up chocolate for lent.  At first it was really difficult, but now I don’t even miss it (probably because I replace it with non-chocolate cake and sweets!)

6.     The one make up item I couldn’t live without is mascara – I have boys eye lashes

7.     I also couldn’t live without having my eyebrows threaded every 3 weeks, it’s the one beauty treatment I always splash out on.

I award the versatile blog award to:

Lizzie

Roz

Rachel

Emily

Lizzie

Lauren

Jessica

Sam

Becky

Annabelle

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