I’m back with my second wish list! I made one before Christmas, essentially as a hint to my family for what I wanted for Christmas and I got a few things off of it so it paid off! However I’m back now with a few things that I’m saving up for which will make my new year a bit easier and more enjoyable, plus working towards a few goals that I’ve listed on my Day Zero Challenge.

Smashbook

I got one of these for Christmas and it is so much better than I could ever have imagined. You can see the big plans I have for it on my Pinterest here.

I got the pink one (obvs), so I’d like to go for a bit of a change and go for the 365 folio, so that I can document the whole year. You can also see that there are loads of accessories, unfortunately I have too many craft bits I don’t know what to do with so I’ll have to wait before I buy any of the Smashbook ones!

Blair Waldorf Pencils

What Would Blair Waldorf Do? I mean what a question, and a damn valid one at that. They are currently sold out but I’m definitely going to buy some when I find some in stock somewhere, a completely valid purchase regardless of how skint I am. Who cares what Beyonce would do, it’s all about what Blair Waldorf would do.

Terramundi Money Pot

I’ve wanted one of these for a while and they’re not actually too expensive. Then again you are basically spending £20 to smash something…They hold a fair bit and I’m really bad at putting money aside then taking it again and spending it. So this would stop me from doing so! I like the colours and stripes of this one!

Soap And Glory Blusher Stick

I read a really good review about this about a month ago and now I’m dying to try one. I love all kinds of pink blushers and having a creamy blusher definitely lasts longer than a powder. I’ll have to treat myself to one of these at some point. Plus it’s a lot cheaper than I thought so it may be sooner rather than later.

Photoshop

Last but not least, I am dying to try Photoshop. I’m sure it’s simple to use once you get the hang of it but I feel that my photos could really benefit from it and it gives me a bit of extra knowledge should I ever require it in the future!

Day Zero Challenge

Happy New Year you beauts!

I got my inspiration from this blog post here. This Day Zero Challenge is to do 101 things in 1001 days, roughly 2.75 years. That's plenty of time right? I'm going to be doing a mixture of personal goals and fun things that I want to achieve. I'm going to be doing this instead of doing my New Years Resolutions, even though a lot of these are things I want to do this year, it's just a bit nicer to have projects that I can keep going for longer. 

Start: 01/01/2015

Finish: 28/09/2017

Key:

Incomplete

In progress

Completed

Personal:
1. Write 5 Letters to 5 people who changed my life
2. Write a personal mission statement
3. Cook a roast dinner for my family
4. Keep up a savings jar
5. Make a uni scrapbook
6. Write bad memories on a piece of paper then burn it
7. Completely rewrite my CV
8. Go to the spa
9. Do something different for a holiday
10. Go to a concert
11. Go to the Theatre
12. Find 50 things that make me happy 
13. Keep a "my day in six words" diary for a month
14. Create an inspiration board
15. Create a photo collage
16. Create an inspiration book
17. Create a memory jar
18. Sort out my pinterest
19. Sort out my emails
20. Keep my car cleaner (it's white so it gets dirty so quickly)


Purchases:
21. Get a new Phone
22. Throw away all my underwear and start again
23. Throw away all my makeup brushes and buy new ones
24. Buy a Camera
25. Buy a pair of heels (I threw all mine out)
26. Buy completely new bed sheets

Health and Fitness:
27. Do the couch to 5k running plan
28. Do a 30x30 challenge (30 minutes of physical activity for 30 days)
29. Detox January - no alcohol, no bread, no dairy
30. No alcohol for 1 month 
31. Track my progress - take a picture of myself on the 1st of each month
32. Lose 3 Stone
33. Get myself a good workout regime
34. Write a meal plan and actually stick to it for 1 month
35. Find a skincare regime that works for me
36. Get to a healthy BMI

Sell, save and earn:
37. Create a strict budget and stick to it for 4 weeks
38. Make a product to sell on Etsy
39. Only make birthday presents for my family for a year
40. No paying for meals out for a month
41. Save £100 in 1 month (this is hard for me)
42. Do my weekly shop in £20
43. Create a budget and stick to it
44. Get out of debt

Style and beauty:
45. Buy myself an expensive dress when I lose 3 stone (over £50)
46. Get a manicure
47. Get a facial
48. Get a massage
49. Declutter my wardrobe/chest of drawers
50. Get a hair cut (I NEVER ever get my hair cut)
51. Get a spray tan

Travelling and Exploring:
52. Visit my sister at her Uni in Nottingham
53. Visit Paris
54. Stay in a B + B
55. Visit Ireland
56. Go for Brunch
57. Go to a festival
58. Write a travelling bucket list

Career:
59. Get promoted to key holder
60. Get promoted to supervisor

Blogging:
61. Join postcrossing and send 5 postcards around the world
62. Do another blog challenge
63. Reach 30,000 hits on my blog
64. Go to at least 2 blogger events a year
65. Write a weekly post about weight loss in January (January 2015)
66. Improve on my photos
67. Learn HTML
68. Advertise on another blog
69. Design my own advert
70. Get my own Business Cards

Fun:
71. Apply to the GBBO
72. Visit a Zoo
73. Visit an Aquarium
74. Attend the Spring Good Food Show
75. Attend Eat Well Good Food Show
76. Go to the cinema 10 times
77. Read a book my mum or dad recommends to me - Gone Girl
78. Make a playlist of my favourite songs
79. Write a letter to myself to be opened when the 1001 days is over
80. Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet
81. Open a cookbook to a random page and make that recipe
82. Take a photo of the same place for every month for a year
83. Turn the previous challenge into a calendar
84. Make at least 10 things I've pinned on pinterest
85. Write a cookbook
86. Walk around Salisbury Cathedral
87. Learn to knit
88. Bake a Giant Cookie
89. Buy someone my favourite book
90. Bake a Christmas Cake
91. Restore a piece of furniture
92. Have a picnic in the park
93. Go on the London Eye at night
94. Make a Baked Alaska
95. Host a dinner party

Charity:
96. Raise money for Mind Charity
97. Do Race For Life
98. Send a care package to my sisters
99. Donate some clothes to charity
100. Start a yearly donation

101. Write a new list for the next 1001 days

What do you think of all this?

And again, here's to the new year, there's no looking back now...

Christmas

Can you believe it’s Christmas in FIVE days?

Here’s how the day normally pans out for my family. It starts early, very early, about 8am these days. There used to be years where we would be opening presents at 6am. We were a lot younger then and we value our sleep a lot more now!

The really embarrassing part is that i’m the one who still wakes everyone up, yes I’m a little child inside and there’s no shame!

I still have a stocking but I have a feeling that this will be the last year! Followed by a chocolate croissant breakfast with bucks fizz of course. Then we get ready for our family dog walk, this is the only time of the year that this happens!

This year we are having “elevenses” so we can have a later Christmas dinner. This is all part of my Dads plan to delay our last present a bit longer, I'm sure. 

Obviously after being stuffed from all the food we ate from Christmas dinner, we all collapse on the sofas to watch some classic christmas TV, I mean it would be rude not to right?

Then we normally get our last present that I mentioned earlier. This is called out “tree present”, it’s something unexpected that we haven’t asked for so it’s a huge surprise! it’s pretty exciting! By this time, everyones exhausted from all the excitement. 

Tea is obviously leftover sandwiches followed by more TV.

The best part? All being together of course! Unfortunately this year, I’m working on Boxing Day but that’s fine by me. All the exciting bits are over by then.

How does your Christmas go?