29th April 2016 | Friday Favourites

 
Oh yes we do!

Our bae Friday has arrived, and that means the start of #FridayFavourites on my blog.

A mini run down of the things that in the last week I have been loving.

Lemon Water!

More specifically lemon water in 1.5 litre bottles. I know I sound like a crazy lady, but having my water in a larger bottle, just helps me drink more as its constantly accessible. I'm always trying to ensure I drink enough, and aiming to drink 2 or these a day is working for me. So if you also struggle to drink enough water, I would suggest giving this a try.

Suits!

I binge watched the crap out of this, and its 98% due to the fact that Harvey Specter aka Gabriel Macht, makes my insides melt.  

*Swoon*

Netflix has series 1 - 4, but you can find series 5 online. Personally season 4 I didn't think was great but season 5 brought it back to its best. Season 6 has no release date yet, but internet speculation is June/July this year.

Onto the next binge watch, suggestions welcome. I'm watching Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - which tbh is a bit naff, but I'm resisting the urge to loose my life to Game Of Thrones...

Oil Infused Micellar Water!

 

If you saw my post (here) on Wednesday, you will know I purchased this whilst hiding from an angry April shower. It's a brilliant double wonder product. Firstly it removes your make up better, and much more gently than the original micellar waters, and secondly it leaves your skin moisturised ever so slightly. It's not greasy, even on my combination/oily skin and just gives your moisturiser a little helping hand.  

Random...Chinese - Sweet & Sour Chicken Balls 

 I've had a serious craving for these all week, and caved twice! But whilst searching for an image of them tbh I think its put me off - phew! Things could have escalated and just looking at these things makes me feel a dress size up.

Silks

The last couple of lessons I have split the session 50/50 between pole and silks. Silks is so much fun, and the moves are all so pretty. At the start of each session, we begin learning to climb as it's the hardest part of silks to get to grip with, I've learnt the French climb and now the Russian climb pictured above. And I got to the top of the silks on my first attempt with the Russian climb!!!

So know I can get to the top of the silks, but coming down you have to remember not to slide down or you will get silk burn and so I just panic and end up half sliding half jumping LOL maybe I should work on that... 

This weekend we are off to book our honeymoon, buy wedding rings, view a wedding band a few other bits so expect a wedding heavy themed post next week!

Much love

Carla x 

Fancy Restaurants | Filing | Mini Boots Haul

Good afternoon, how has your week started off? I hope with lots of catch up coffees and maybe a cream cake...hmmm I wonder what time the bakery closes.

 

 I think I might have blinked and missed last week, but I did manage to squeeze in a couple of nice restaurants, an unplanned, April shower induced Boots mini spree, a spin / silks class and nope not a single gym session...or is that a lie? I might have gone Monday, either way last week was yet another gym fail.

First lovely restaurant I went to was Café Rouge, which although there are two in Norwich I had never been too. In case you don't  know it's a French restaurant, and it was really lovely and every single course of mine was heavy on cream - tasty! I went with friends during the week and had a lovely evening, and although debated I passed on the snails...

Second restaurant meal of the week (pictured below), was the always on point No.24 in Wymondham. It is one of mine and Joes favourite restaurants, and we went on Saturday night with his dad and partner. The food as always was exceptional, and made even better by the fact they had sticky toffee pudding on the menu - my favourite!

On Sunday I was in a "OMG I need to organise everything, and why is nothing ever where I need it to be, and I don't think I've filed since 2014!" mood. So I popped to Staples and purchased some files to (re)organise all of our paper work, as it had gotten out.of.hand. with piles of paper stuffed in every draw our house can accommodate and then some. So I spent all of Sunday with our paperwork all over the living room floor(with 3 pups in the house, good thinking Carla!) and have it all nicely organised now. 
Feeling accomplished! 

So here is the result of my dart into Boots to avoid the damn showers that have plagued us all weekend.

Hail in April - no thanks!

Truth be told, I didn't break the bank so I don't even count this as a splurge (technically means I'm still entitled to a splurge this month as I'm not counting this right..?!) 

Batiste Dry Shampoo in Blush - an absolute babe of a product, and if I could upgrade a product to friends status it would be this baby. 

Soap and Glory Body Wash & Body Scrub - The Sugar Crush is the only scent of Soap and Glory that I do like, and its one of my go-to brands as you just get so much product for your money, especially as it is always on 3 for 2.

Cotton Wool Face Pads - I actually purchased 4 packs of these, because who doesn't always need these?

Oral B Toothpaste glamorous shine - Not sure my teeth need to shine glamorously, but they were buy one get one free and they match the make of my teeth whitening strips so in the basket they went.  

Massage sponge - purchased solely for the white scrubby bit, as anything that helps with exfoliating in my books is a winner.

And then the two products that I'm really excited about

Garnier Micellar Oil Infused Cleansing Water - I've read good reviews about this beauty, and I use the standard micellar water at the moment, the one with the pink lid. But it doesn't remove my mascara with scrubbing, which leave my eyes sore, and I still wake up with panda eyes. Also my skin is getting dryer as I get older, and my usual moisturiser isn't cutting it so I'm hoping to give it a help in hand with the oil from this product - I will report back how I get on with it.

Rimmel Sun Shimmer In Shower Self Tan - Now I am a fake tan virgin! I've always just been way to paranoid about it going wrong, or streaky or orange or GREEN! and then theres the fact that seriously who cba! But when I noticed this advertised, I thought if I saw it in store I might give it a go. Mostly because I will do anything to prolong my shower, secondly it's buildable, so I'm hoping it will be pretty light and forgive any poorly applied-ness! and thirdly I don't want to be as pasty white as I currently am *sobs* I haven't read any reviews on this, but again I will update you.

Wish me luck!

I hope you've had a lovely Monday (and Tuesday as I didn't get this up on schedule), I'll see you Wednesday with a wedding update!

Much love

Carla x

22nd April 2016 | What To Do

F R I Y A Y !

Friday has come, with all it promises of drizzle, cold and yep SNOW! Urgh.

So I'm faking my Friday feeling and hopefully a little miracle will happen and it will crawl out from under the bedcovers, which is where I wish I currently was.

 

I'm seriously missing the sun, and feel like I NEED a beach holiday, but can't go on holiday because we are saving for our wedding, and honeymoon but that's not till September and I know, I know my life is so hard right....right?!

 

I've been thinking about how to bring some structure to my little web space, and I think I'm going to go with a Monday, Wednesday, Friday Routine.

Monday Life

Wedding Wednesday

Friday Favourites

That'll give me things to focus on, instead of just brain dumping every few days. It also gives me an idea of photos I need, which gives me purpose to go play with my camera - WIN!

But until then I'm just going to ramble - soz and that.

 

I must must must get back into my weekly gym routine, I have been off it for at least two weeks, just going the odd here and there and feeling crappy about it, not because of body woes, because I actually really enjoy it and miss it.

 

I went for my first run of the year this week, it's taken me ages to get up the courage to go, and it was only 1k to test my headphones. But I'm not going to even pretend that it didn't knacker me, because I was d.o.n.e. But I have to start somewhere, and what did I expect, I haven't been in over 6 months!

Not even going to bleat about how much my calves hurt for the next few days, as Carla you're an idiot, why did you not stretch after....

 

Ok, I'm not doing a great job at faking that Friday feeling am I.. being all whingey and moany and sob sob sob where is the sun FFS!

 

Right, I'm going to leave you lovely lot, and hope you are having a better day than I currently am.

 

Bring on the weekend - I'm going to bake cookies!

 

Much love

Carla x

19th April 2016 | RIP Georgie Junior

Stealing Pizza behind Joes back... 

 

Luna trying to join the gang 

Rocking a dodgy Mohawk

 

I had planned a weekend round up post yesterday, but yesterday morning I lost my bunny Georgie junior, and so didn't feel like rooting around in my head for words as I was sad.

Georgie Boy had the tamest personality out of all my rabbits, allowing the puppies to kiss him whenever I had his hutch open, he always could be found cuddling cupcake or Binky whilst sleeping and pretending to enjoy my cuddles unlike his mum and sister. He also had a love for junk food, regularly trying to steal pizza and donuts - boy after my own heart!

I've had 4 indoor rabbits Georgie Boy passed away years ago when he was poorly. But in the last 6 months I have lost both Georgie Junior and Binky(Dark Brown)due to old age and it's horrible. I have my original baby still Cupcake (White Rabbit), but now she is all lonely and that in itself makes me sad, but it makes no sense to buy her a friend as she is very old and then I would be back to square one at some point. I could look to rehome an older rabbit, but tbh she's a bit of a bitch and probably wouldn't like her new play mate anyway.

So she is just going to have to put up with lots of over compensating cuddles, grooming and kisses from the puppies - as you can see from the photo above, the puppies adore the rabbits and do all they can to get in with them.

 

Apologies for the dodgy quality images, but they are from various phone cameras.  

 

Much love

Carla x

11th April 2016 | Life Update

 

 Good day you patient lot!

I've been gone for a good week because basically work got cray cray! and that's what lets me live in my little house, and do all the lovely things I wanna do so that's what I have to focus on when I'm stressed up to my eyeballs - Soz and that.

 

So lets update you

 

Fish Tank Dramas: Last Sunday our fish tank leaked, we realised it had been for a little while as we started to notice the floor coming up. The Fish tank is 6ft x 3ft-ish and holds a shisha tonne of water so we needed that sorted asap!

We headed off to Notcutts in Norwich to look at fish tanks threw a strop about how expensive they all were, came home realised we had to buy one anyway and then Joe went back and ended up purchasing two smaller tanks to accommodate all the fishies that live in our previous big tank.

Sorted. Oh and the floor needs replacing *sobs*
 

 Work Work Work: For anyone that doesn't know, we have our own company supplying bespoke timber buildings, specialising in Shepherds Huts like the below. With this type of business you obviously get peak periods during the year, and the Easter bank holiday is THE kick starter for this period, so I was swamped in the office and been working late most nights to catch up. Hence the no show on my blog. but I can happily say I'm back in control and things are A-Okay! 

Fitness - HA!: The gym also had to take a step back due to the work. I didn't get to the gym all of last week, and ate like a stereotypical uni-student - it wasn't great, and made me feel sluggish and meh. This week I'm gonna be back on it so no biggie.

 

Camera: I'm slowly getting to grips with my new Olympus Pen Lite E-PL7! I love it and currently find myself searching for fellow bloggers who also own it and have been kind enough to blog about the fundamentals on setting it up / using it. (hint, if you know any let me know!)It's my current baby, and comes with me almost everywhere now in this snazzy little handbag I purchased for it from Clarks.

Pole Fitness: I'm now officially doing inverts in pole, and it's the scariest and best thing ever! Ooh I also now work on a spinning pole as well as the static pole, and although it's terrifying if you kick off and spin for the next 2 days its so much more fun. My arms though...I have never known them to ache like it!

Gimmie the guns!

Wedding planning: I now have flowers half sorted, and make up sorted, by my lovely make up artist friend for life Kelly. We had a lovely catch up over a pub dinner, and made me all happy that no matter how much time passes we can just pick a date and it's like nothing has changed.

1 & 1/2 things ticked off the to do  list

 

Hang Over: And the last thing to add is yesterday I experienced the 2nd worst hangover of my life. I'm usually quite good, and avoid the hangover - but oh man it was horrendous. We had a brilliant night at Joes dads for Fiona's birthday, and much fizz was consumed! luckily I left about 30mins prior to it really kicking in, and so most of my drunken behaviour happened at home...which was fun for Joe to deal with, who for once was the sober one! Still feeling a little delicate today, but nothing a few gallons of lemon water wont resolve.

 

So that's all of that and you're all up to date.
Have a lovely day. 

Much love 
Carla x   

 

 

 

 

  

24th March 2016 | Did Someone Say Cake?

Good morning you beautiful bunch of people, today I'm talking about cake, if you know me personally it will come of no surprise to hear that. However this isn't just some ordinary cake I'm talking about today, nope I have found our wedding cake! *Girly squeals*

I think I'm right in saying this is my first wedding related post, and that's probably due to the fact that we are being extremely blasé about planning our do, and should probably pull our fingers out as it's less than 6 months away...

 

Ahh well

 

The whole process has been a bit stress free, and I'm waiting for the chaos to kick in as that's what happens when you organise a wedding right? you get mega stressed and panic about the whole thing and then wonder why you are doing this instead of just faffing off on holiday with the money...

 

Touch wood it stays this way (if I'm looking back at this in 4 months time thinking you smug bitch - sorry!)

But yeah I have the cake sorted! Yay, I was struggling a little bit for the cake, as what I want is simple so begrudged paying what I had been quoted from a few places, and I wanted a cake maker who had personally been recommended. We'll that half happened as in Helen Anderson's YouTube video (find Helen here) she recommended a local lady she knows called Elise, find Glamourbakes on Instagram here, and the cupcakes she had purchased were gorgeous! So I pinged off an email to Elise and now yay I have a cake sorted!

Obviously I'm not going to upload photos of the style of cake I am interested in, but here's some photos of cake from Pinterest...YUM!

Next big thing to sort is honeymoon! Dream destination would be Bora Bora, it had always been the Maldives since I was a little girl, but Joe took me to Hakuraa Huraa in the Maldives in 2014 ( wow is that right?) and we got engaged which was THE DREAM! 

However we are not particularly saving too hard at the min, so maybe that is a fantasy. If not Joe was liking the sound of St Lucia which isn't exactly slumming it either!

Maaan I need some sunshine in my life right now.

 

Hope you are having a lovely day, comment your honeymoon destination or your dream destination for some inspiration please!

 

Much love

Carla x



23rd March 2016 | Camera Troubles, Puppy Grooming & New Shoes

Good evening you lovely people, I have had a great day fuelled by mostly too much coffee, so have spent the afternoon wired and scatty - lucky me!

 

I got all my work done early, and had a couple of hours I could kill so popped into the city with the goal of purchasing a new camera, but not just any old camera (oh no no no!) I was after the blogger cliché Olympus pen e-pl7. Its beautiful, and most importantly soon to be discontinued (so I'm told by the helpful staff at Jessops) resulting in a nice little price decrease which I had been made aware of by the lovely Carly Rowena. Bringing it tumbling all the way down to my budget - YES! So I tottered off, with high hopes I would be bringing my baby home with me today so obviously the last one had been sold yesterday...and they had no more in the warehouse...and you can't buy the deal I wanted online...I was starting to see my beautiful camera fade into the distance, but alas Ipswich store saved the day with 1 camera left in stock, and it's in silver which is the cheapest option (winner) and it's ex display so can potentially get some more dollar off (bonus round winner!)So I will update you on Friday whether I buy it or not (hint - I will be buying it Eeek!)

I had the puppies booked in for a groom at scruffy to fluffy and although the whole time I was in Jessops I was clock watching, it seemed that as soon as I left the shop I hadn't the foggiest clue that I was in a rush, and whilst on my way back to the car decided on a leisurely stroll around H&M.

In the queue with a baggy, long classic white shirt, a basic grey v neck oversized tee, and the most beautiful brushed fur leopard print Chelsea boots in the sale at £10! which I actually broke a shelf to get my hands on (Oops, sorry H&M) I suddenly remembered I was supposed to have had the puppies dropped off 10 minutes ago. Shit.  I was in a queue, with no signal, a missed call from the groomers, and my beautiful last size 5 sale boots in hand. . . so as I (obvs) waited to pay for my boots (I was no way leaving those babies in the shop) I tried to text for help, I tried to call the groomers praying my phone would find signal and help me out - it didn't. So after leaving H&M I managed to get a call of help out and Debbie thankfully dropped the puppies off at the groomers for me, and I turned up 10 minutes later all flustered and apologetic and please don't take it out on my babies haircut!

I then spent the rest of my afternoon working, completely wired and in a bit of a flustered haze until I had to go pick the babies up who look completely adorable. I tried to bribe them into a few photos - it didn't work well. I will leave you with the few images I managed to snap.

Prim (or Prim the princess as she is known) is the caramel & white Shih Tzu, and Luna the black Shih-Poo! Yes that's pronounced how you think it is...(shih Tzu x Toy Poodle) aka my babies.

 

Much love

Carla x

21st March 2016 | 5 Best Bits Of My Weekend

 

Welcome to the first Monday of spring, which is long overdue and if the weather could now take the hint and warm up a little bit I would be very appreciative. My usual Monday morning is underway; coffee, scrambled eggs, weekend emails with Youtube on in the background wading off the Monday morning blues. 

 

 I have decided to summarise my weekend into my 5 best bits! As I prefer quick snappy posts, and you guys I'm sure have very important things you should be doing rather than wasting time on blog posts...or is that just me that does that?

 

Doubt it.
 

5 Best Bits Of My Weekend

 

 One| Eating - I have a new rule that is working for me with my quest to eat healthy, and that's meal prep throughout the week and eat bang on all week Mon - Fri no cheating!, but then for the weekend I just chill and allow myself to eat how I want, what I want, when I want, ya-no within reason I'm not going to eat crap 2 days straight! I'm not trying to lose a lot of weight, so for me this is currently working great, it means I'm refreshed and motivated for the next week, and if I start to flag during the week I only have a day or so till I can have whatever I'm craving - which by then the craving has usually done one!

 

Two | Pole Fitness class - I enjoy this so much and would love to be able to go more than once a week, but I'm a busy lass. This week I was working on a routine, and a couple of new moves. Routines are not as sexy as they sound, and simply mean you have to really concentrate on remembering how to do each move and enter and exit the moves without looking like a clumsy hippo with your tongue out. . .so mainly just stumbling around the pole looking confused.

 

Three | City shopping with the bezzie, nothing fancy (end of the month and all that *avoids bank balance until payday*) just popped into good old Primache, Boots and of course a stop at Costa, where instead of my usual Soya Caramel Latte, I opted for a Soya Mocha, and me and Vicki got a little excited that it will soon be iced coffee time of year *squeals* 

 

remember when I said this was gonna be a quick snappy post...

 

Four | Films - On Sunday evening I got a teenage girl blast from the past when Cinderella Story was on, I watched this film all the time when I was younger, and it had nothing to do with Chad Michael Murray I'm sure of it...and as that was finishing I was speaking about how that and 10 Things I Hate About You were the films that I used to watch repeatedly as a teenager, and O.M.G it was only bloody on the other channel! I missed the start, but still I was pretty happy and sank into the sofa for another hour.

 

Five |  New Car - Ok so that's a lie, I didn't get a new car, but I did finally make the decision to get a new car, so it kind of counts. And I'm being a complete girl, and want a Fiat 500 Cult, in either white or that super pale baby blue colour that they don't have on their website *raarrh* But I'm going to go to my local dealer this week and price up my baby - so watch this space!

 

Let me know your favourite thing from this weekend!

 

Much love

Carla x

17th March 2016 | Fitness Goals

Hey guys, skipped a day as I was so busy yesterday, I had the longest hair appointment known to man! (13:30 - 17:30 My hair just loves to go ginger, so the bleach didn't take as well as my hairdresser would have liked, so she done it twice which was lovely of her to not send me out into the world with ginger streaked hair. I had the plan of a really messy ombre effect, with dark brown roots - but now it's done I think I'm going to go back and have the blonde taken all the way up to the root, but keep it messy - so no photo update yet, but watch this space! I then plan to mess about with some grey toner so that's that!

 

Last post I promised new fitness goals and below are the beauties! the reason I like to display them like this, is I can have it as my phone lock screen and it's a constant reminder to stay on track, and what I am aiming for and obvs it looks super cute!

5k I know for some people is literally their warm up run, but I used to not even be able to do 5 mins, so for me it's a start which i am hoping to have nailed by the summer - you never know might even enter into a few runs around Norwich to give me more motivation, maybe the colour fun run - is that what it's called? The 3rd one I don't expect to reach in the 6 week period, but half way there would be nice!

 

It's Thursday which tbh is the day I usually cave and give into takeaway night, but I am feeling strong, you never know tonight might be the night I surprise myself - I managed to go buy Joe fish and chips last night, and then come home and make myself a salmon stir fry so willpower 1 - fast food 0!  

 

Also I have now cute out all milk and sugar from both tea and coffee, and am loving it!

 

Let me know what your current fitness goals are!

 

Much love

Carla x 

 

 

15th March 2016 | Fitness Goals Update

I'm still in a sleep haze, despite my two giant mugs of coffee, 9 hours sleep, it's almost mid-day and I have good hair today.

 

Yesterday was a great day, I got lots done at work, I was eating clean and there wasn't a craving in sight. The evening was rushed, which got me into a bit of a grump and I had pasta for dinner which made me bloat like a puffer fish, but once I got to the gym I was feeling good. It was leg day, which is probably my favourite muscle group to work, simply because you can rack up heavy and feel like a badass!

 

I had forgotten we were taking measurements, it had been 7 weeks since the last ones, and I have been keeping track now since the end of September. It's great as sometimes when you can't see your progress and are reaching for the donuts, the figures can remind you that you've got this, and you are progressing *put down the donut*.

 

In total I have lost 3.75inches and am super happy with my progress! Especially as 1 whole inch was lost from my waist *high 5*

 

But I also had a look through my old blog posts and I found my fitness goals (find it here) written in October 2014 - so obviously this was forever ago, and I should have completed them all, but I was still very happy to see that I had more than achieved the 3 goals I had then set myself. So today I am going to be pondering to set myself 3 more - and am hopefully not going to take 18months to reach them.

 

Hope your day isn't as slow as mine today, and that you are too reaching your goals 1 step at time, if you don't yet have any why not set yours today too and we can move forward together!

 

Much love

Carla x

 

14th March 2016 | Project Kitchen DONE! (almost)

Here we are, Monday morning again. Didn't know whether to blog through the weekend or not, but decided against it as we were super busy. Half a week of blogging and I'm already craving a decent camera as my iPhone is shocking, and it's just plain irritating.

Urgh just went to make my scrambled eggs for breakfast to find one had cracked. Fantastic. Luckily I'm a little food hoarder and had a pot of porridge in my draw to save the day.

Back to it, Friday 11th March: We left off work early on Friday which is always nice, and I spent the evening having a bit of a pamper, overcooked my steak which was annoying, but we had an early night. Perfect - Oh and Joes mum bought me some flowers, just because she is really great.  

Saturday 12th March: I had planned my Saturday thinking Joe was going into the workshop, but he didn't and made a start at finishing our kitchen! So I left him to that. I had a mega busy day ahead of me.
I went to my pole exercise class. It was my first class back after a break of around 5/6 months, I stopped going as I just didn't have the time but I absolutely love it! I spent the class going over everything and seeing how much I had forgotten -surprisingly I remembered most of it, but oh my goodness my body had forgotten how much it hurts, and how much it bruises you. The lovely Robyn, owner of Unique Fitness in Norwich was kind enough to take a few photos for me, which was quite funny as when I had the camera on me I couldn't remember anything. 


The Good vs The Bad...below photo taken straight after pole, the bruises are now horrendous.

 Next I had family visit to make as it had been my Aunties birthday, had a nice catch up with her and my cousin, which was lavly.
I always over stay as we get chatting and don't see each other often enough (because life)and just generally really enjoy catching up, so I had a mega rush to get to my hairdressers, The Powder Rooms in the city, only just made it in time as I was stuck behind a tractor #Norfolkproblems 
That evening I went out for a meal for Vicky's' birthday with her, and a couple of her friends. It was at a pub in the middle of nowhere and we got lost and had to call Joe to direct us (stranded girl cliché)
Saturday done!

Sunday 13th March: Kitchen Kitchen Kitchen - We grouted, we painted, Joe made a new cabinet for the wall, which we then couldn't hang as the B&Q plasterboard plugs kept breaking - utter shite. I'm so happy with the kitchen, it's actually beautiful, and exactly as I imagined it to be when we moved in 2 years ago and had no kitchen at all, when the only kitchen worktop I had was the top of the dishwasher (priorities)and a borrowed camping table. Joe has worked really hard on it, and I'm very proud of both him and the kitchen itself. It's 97% finished, we just have to hang the cabinet (1%) paint the ceiling (1%) and put something between the tiles and worktop (1%) Yay. I have put a couple of sneaky peak pictures here, as I don't want to take full photos until it is 100%. Then we had an Indian...Nommage.

 

 

We were just going to bed, and I went to get the food for my puffer fish out of the freezer and realised I had not prepped my food for tomorrow, so annoying but if I didn't do it I would be more annoyed the next morning, so instead of going up to bed I grilled the chicken, and cooked all the rest of the bits I needed, then bed.

Wow that was a super long post, and has confirmed the fact that I will blog at the weekend in future. Well done if you made it.

Much love
Carla x
 

11th March 2016 | Spring Where You At?

Just realised I kicked off yesterdays post as the 3rd of March...good start Carla #fail.

Morning has sprung, and it’s a misty wannabe lovely kinda day. The sun is trying, and I appreciate the effort but seriously try harder! Spring please hurry up and arrive, and stop teasing us. Yesterday was a perfect spring day, made all the better by a sneaky half day which I am proud to say I did not waste on my phone! Well done Carla, have a gold star.

Left off work in the glorious sunshine, feeling good about the fact the pooches were gonna get a run around the field, which is our favourite thing to do in the afternoons. Holy Moly we pretty much had to swim into the field as the entrance was horrendously water logged, Prim the princess almost strangled herself on a bush to avoid getting her paws wet and muddy – she failed.

 

Then for the pooches it was that time of the month….bath time! Which is fun. . . .

Martin and Stacey came over for take away, with their little bundle of cuteness Eddie. Side note I had a chicken kebab minus the pitta and mayo aka technically a grilled chicken salad, just earnt myself another gold star in the healthy eating category of life (Brain: and you had a piece of pizza, shall I delete this memory…gone) followed off buy an awesome arms and shoulders session at the gym with Vickster.

Personal note: stepper, level 10, 30 floors in 7mins – I was proud, and I managed to not go home and finish off the pizza! Yay.  

Yesterday was a spring day at its best, and I’m so ready for many more.

 

Much love

Carla x 

10th March 2016 | A Fresh Start





Ta Pinterest you beaut!

 

Oh hey guys, what are you doing here? What am I doing here?

This is as much of a shock to you is at is to me, I thought I was done with starting a blog thing. Over it, it’s been overdone, small fish big ocean yada yada yada...but I’ve been pining for it over the last week and this morning thought why the hell don’t I just write my thoughts down? So here I am word vomiting and it feels very releasing, like when you have carried around a secret and then you’re allowed to speak of it and. . .

breath, relax, calm.

 

 Since the last time I blogged I’ve realised that the reason I didn’t enjoy it as much as I should have, and I seriously should have because I have always love to write, talk, get information out of my brain into the world as fast as I can think of it! Is 1 - I hated my job, and was stressed up to my eyeballs and a blog on top of that was never gonna happen, and 2 - I was just following the blogging trend, beauty reviews, hauls, outfit posts, and although I do love all that stuff on “The Youtube” (Gavin and Stacey anyone…?) what I really love to read and watch are lives! Whether that’s a dull day, and someone’s thoughts and worries or if people are up to something exciting and I want to live it with them on my dull days, or if it’s just as simple as being nosey and wanting to know what someone had for lunch, what can I say I’m a simple creature. I just enjoy people and the stories they have to tell there’s nothing more interesting than a person, and to get to know them through something as intimate as a blog is something I really darn enjoy! 

 So that’s what I am going to do! I’m going to update this little blog with whatever I want, and for personal reasons, not followers. I want an online diary to relive my days in a years’ time, two years’ time – let’s not get ahead of ourselves little lady! I want to record my days, especially as I am currently planning a wedding - gimmie all the emotions! Excitement! Panic! Worry! Delight! Anticipation!…I want to log them all.

 

So this is me telling you, that this is where you can find me, feel free to join the ride.

 

Much love

Carla x

 

P.s. Keep your eyes peeled for a make over on here, seriously Carla what were you thinking! 

Luna...

For you guys who viewed yesterdays post (thank you!) on a mobile device, I have realised that the pics of Luna were super small...and I did promise cute pictures as a bribe to reading my long post, so I felt I outdone you a little. As I'm nice like this, and the pictures are far too cute to have not seen in there full glory below are the pictures in full size. Enjoy x 

 

Much better,

Remember to come find me elsewhere, all links are in my "About Me"

 

Carla x