The best present I received was.... I'm off to Orlando again! Super excited, as we're going around Halloween again for the 25th birthday of HHN. Not only that we're staying at Cabana Bay one week, and Disney's all start sports one week. Reaping all the benefits of transport early entry etc. And we have our own hire car again and I will be able to drive this holiday! For Christmas I bought Jamie a new camera for Vlogging, I will post the Youtube URL when we start Vlogging. Only 306 until we're back in favourite country, doing what we love!
Monday, 29 December 2014
Christmas!
Fist of all I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and you all got what you wanted and spent some time with your family and friends! To those who that work in the forces, emergency services, the care sector where your jobs are all 365 days a year 24 hours a day, thank you for hard work! Myself I work in the care sector but was very lucky to have Christmas off and spend it with my loved ones.
So Christmas kicked off in my household at 6am, where I went downstairs with my mum who was putting the turkey on whilst she was doing that I laid out everyones presents. Around 7:30 am the rest of my family woke and came downstairs, we all went to our stockings and opened those gifts first then to the main presents. This year my main presents were clothes as I need a new wardrobe as I've lost a bit of weight and not a lot of my clothes fit anymore. My partner bought me a nail kit storage box, as I have so many nail varnishes and tools my old box was getting a bit crowded.
After opening all our presents, we sat and watched a bit of TV then we went and got ready as Christmas lunch was being held at my house this year!
Around 1pm my auntie and uncle and my two cousins came around, we sat down for lunch and had prawn cocktail for starter or chicken and sweetcorn soup. Then for main I had your usual Christmas lunch, trying to be good at Christmas but I managed it not piling my plate nor did I have our usual bucks fizz I had some water with my meal! I even resisted temptation in not having any pudding, which i'm surprised at.
After lunch we sat down with all very full stomach's, we watched a couple of Christmas films. Around 4pm we went on walk with our dogs down to the local field near the tamar bridge, burning off some of them lunch calories!
After the walk my mum laid out a small spread that we could help ourselves too. My Partner came over in the evening, we sat and watched some films and some soaps.
I have really enjoyed this Christmas just being able to spend it with my family and having a nice day!
So Christmas kicked off in my household at 6am, where I went downstairs with my mum who was putting the turkey on whilst she was doing that I laid out everyones presents. Around 7:30 am the rest of my family woke and came downstairs, we all went to our stockings and opened those gifts first then to the main presents. This year my main presents were clothes as I need a new wardrobe as I've lost a bit of weight and not a lot of my clothes fit anymore. My partner bought me a nail kit storage box, as I have so many nail varnishes and tools my old box was getting a bit crowded.
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| Christmas Presents!! |
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| Me, Holly and my Mother! |
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| Me and Holly Ready for our Christmas Lunch! |
Around 1pm my auntie and uncle and my two cousins came around, we sat down for lunch and had prawn cocktail for starter or chicken and sweetcorn soup. Then for main I had your usual Christmas lunch, trying to be good at Christmas but I managed it not piling my plate nor did I have our usual bucks fizz I had some water with my meal! I even resisted temptation in not having any pudding, which i'm surprised at.
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| Me, Melanie Holly, Mother, Chloe and Gemma! Putting my selfie stick to good use. |
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| Christmas Lunch fun! |
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| Christmas walk selfie with Chloe! |
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| Me and Jamie! |
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| Christmas Snuggles! |
I have really enjoyed this Christmas just being able to spend it with my family and having a nice day!
That's my Christmas summed up!
Monday, 15 December 2014
Benefit Brow's
So today I treated myself and got my eyebrow's done at the Benefit Counter, I have to say it is by far the best treatment I have received. The lady doing my eyebrow's kept me informed throughout the whole process. First off she started off with tinting my eyebrow's, then she moved onto trimming my eyebrows, I think she was really shocked at how long my eyebrows were, after that was over, she moved onto Brow Mapping. Brow mapping they use the brow mapping tool and line it up with the inner corner of your nose and the inner corner of your eye. Then they make a mark using brow zings, this tells you where your eyebrow should start. Next they hold the next section of the brow mapping tool from the outside corner of your nose through the outer corner of your pupil and make another mark, this is to show where your arch should be! Finally they line up the outer corner of your nose with the outer corner of your eye and make the final mark, that is where the eyebrow should end. They then use brow zings to create your new and improved brow.
Before proceeding the lady showed me to make sure I agreed, which I did. Next up waxing, the waxing didn't hurt but I guess it vary from person to person with your own pain threshold. After she had done one brow she handed me the mirror to show me, my eyebrow looked ton's better already! She then proceeded to do my other eyebrow, after she finished waxing she handed me the mirror to show me the nearly finished eyebrows. After the waxing she applied gimme brow, then hey presto my new brows are finished!
I definitely recommend this, it was a pleasant experience and really informative! If you want any more information feel free to comment or message me.
Before proceeding the lady showed me to make sure I agreed, which I did. Next up waxing, the waxing didn't hurt but I guess it vary from person to person with your own pain threshold. After she had done one brow she handed me the mirror to show me, my eyebrow looked ton's better already! She then proceeded to do my other eyebrow, after she finished waxing she handed me the mirror to show me the nearly finished eyebrows. After the waxing she applied gimme brow, then hey presto my new brows are finished!
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| My eyebrow's before! |
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| And after! |
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| With discount I paid £14 for this! |
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| Medium/Deep shade, is what I bought |
I definitely recommend this, it was a pleasant experience and really informative! If you want any more information feel free to comment or message me.
Friday, 12 December 2014
December!
I'm actually looking forward to Christmas this year, due to having pretty much of the whole festive period off including New Years! With having Christmas off in my job role is pretty rare, I'm pretty lucky in starting a new place and being given it all off. With that I really want to get a Christmas Jumper this year, they've got a few nice one's in New Look that I'm keeping my eye on.
After finishing the studio tour we got our souvenir guides and headed on home! We stopped off at Bristol and went to TGI Friday's, which didn't impress me too much if i'm honest, then we got straight back on the road and headed home! I definitely recommend the studio tour, I've done the tour a few times now and each time it changes!
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| Where the Magic begins! |
So this weekend just gone me and Jamie took a day journey to Watford, to go and see Hogwarts in the Snow! We set off bright and early at 7:30am, we had one stop at Gordano Service station to swap driving. We arrived at Leavesdon just after 11:30 am, we parked up and walked to the studio's to get our tickets, automatically we noticed something was missing. The chess pieces had gone, not quite sure why? If anyone know's comment on the post, rather intrigued to know why they're not there at the minute!
After arriving we went and got some lunch in the cafe inside the studio, I had parsnip soup with toasted bread! It was lovely and Jamie had a tuna sandwich. After finishing our food, we took some photo's of the inside just before entering the main studio.
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| The Christmas tree in the Entrance of the studio's |
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| The Flying car from the Harry Potter Films |
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| Our tickets |
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| The Cupboard under the stairs |
We waited in the que for about 20 minutes, which wasn't too bad. We proceeded into the cinema, where we had our intro about the Studio. After that we went into the Great Hall, where all the Christmas decorations were out. The small and finest details were amazing, each time i've been i've gotten a different piece of information. This time was about the fire place and the crest at the back and how it was never seen much in the films due to having a roaring fire on most of the time.
After about 15 Minutes in The Great Hall we were asked to proceed to the next room due to the next tour coming in, which was fine and you are allowed back in if you didn't get to see everything! In the next part of the tour we came to the main bit, which is mainly set's, costume's, hair and make up!
After finishing up the first main sound stage, we proceeded outside to see some of the outside set's which include's some of Privet Drive, The Knight Bus, Hagrid's motorcycle, the Weasley's car etc. This is the only part of the tour you can eat and drink at, they have butter beer on sale if you so desire to have one! I haven't had one from the studio's but if it's anything to go by the one's they do in Orlando, I recommend trying one!
After finishing up and getting plenty of photo's from the outside set's, we head into the next sound stage. This sound stage consists of one of the model's of Hogwart's which was covered in snow!It also consists of Diagon alley, which also double's up as Hogsmead and multiple other set's I was told.
After finishing up in Diagon Alley, we went to the next room. Where the Hogwarts model was, it was covered in snow!
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| The Great Hall |
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| Hufflepuff's Christmas Crackers |
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| Slytherin Crackers! |
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| The Fire Place in The Great Hall |
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| Gryffindor |
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After about 15 Minutes in The Great Hall we were asked to proceed to the next room due to the next tour coming in, which was fine and you are allowed back in if you didn't get to see everything! In the next part of the tour we came to the main bit, which is mainly set's, costume's, hair and make up!
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| Gryffindor Common Room Set |
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| The Sorting Hat |
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| Potions Classroom |
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| This Set up was brilliant it showed how they done the snow in the films! |
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| The Weasley's House, The Burrow |
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| This is a new section in the studio tour, this is featuring the Dark Arts. You may recognise the hand from Borgin and Burke's |
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| Nagini is also new to the table, in which I haven't seen before! |
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| Right before the exit to the courtyard above the door is, Thomas Riddle's grave stone. Which I haven't seen before, but I think I was more observant this time! |
After finishing up the first main sound stage, we proceeded outside to see some of the outside set's which include's some of Privet Drive, The Knight Bus, Hagrid's motorcycle, the Weasley's car etc. This is the only part of the tour you can eat and drink at, they have butter beer on sale if you so desire to have one! I haven't had one from the studio's but if it's anything to go by the one's they do in Orlando, I recommend trying one!
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| The Knight Bus |
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| Number 4 Privet Drive |
After finishing up and getting plenty of photo's from the outside set's, we head into the next sound stage. This sound stage consists of one of the model's of Hogwart's which was covered in snow!It also consists of Diagon alley, which also double's up as Hogsmead and multiple other set's I was told.
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| Nearly headless Nick |
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| Mandrake Plant |
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| 3 out of the 4 dragons from The Goblet of Fire |
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| Basilisk Head |
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| Model of Gringotts Bank |
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| One of the tour guide's was showing us how the footprints were made, when Harry was wearing his invisibility cloak |
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| Florean Fortescue, not as good as the real deal in Orlando! |
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