Life according to Instagram #1

 1. Wearing my ear muffs for the first time in many months 

2. Love my glasses

3. Yummy lasagne and salad courtesy of my wonderful fiance

4. Fluffy socks and penguin pjs

5. Cute cat slippers from Primarni 

 1. Delicious oreo chocolate from Asda

2. One Direction advent calendar

3. Spice Girls stocking from my childhood, miss those days!

4. New party dress from Matalan

5. Christmas tree is now up and glowing brightly!

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I had some lovely retail therapy today with my Mum, we had a nice lunch and then went for a browse in their big store in New Malden which is about 4 miles away. I had a good look at everything and bought these two beauties (with a 20% off voucher of course!). The blue dress is beautiful in real life and cost £24 down from £30. The cardigan is all blue and Christmassy and cost £14.40 down from £18. Do you like?

  Going to get a curry now and watch X Factor and I'm a Celebrity final, have a good weekend all and HAPPY DECEMBER!

xoxo 

  

Cheryl...loves her iPad!

So this is my first post from my brand new shiny iPad and I absolutely love it! I thought typing on it would be a nightmare but I am actually getting used to it. I have mostly spent the time taking silly photos, downloading tons of apps and watching videos. The main thing I love about it is the crispy clear screen, it is a joy to look it. Having used it for two days now here are some of the things I have noticed...

* The screen is exactly the right sensitivity

* The battery life so far is fantastic and has lasted a pretty long time with me using it looooots

* It is much heavier than I expected and not very comfortable to hold

* The apps are very fast to download and easy to use

* The camera isn't great especially with low light when it is awful and very grainy

* It was very quick and easy to set up

I haven't done much on it so far other than take silly pictures and join Instagram although I will probably mostly share my pictures on here! 

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I have been coming home every evening, getting in my onesie or comfy pjs and just playing it on all the time! Hopefully Michael doesn't feel like I am neglecting him at all haha ;) Other than that, I have just been working hard this week and this weekend I hope to get most of my Christmas shopping finished. I am going to make a visit to a favourite shop of mine...Matalan! I buy a lot of their stuff online but can never be bothered to go to their store, even though there is one only about 4 or 5 miles away! So lets hope I get some bargains!

Hope you're all having a fab week, I promise my next blog post will be slightly more interesting! x

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I can't believe it's nearly December and I have been writing my blog for 7 months now! Thank you to everyone who reads it, I don't have many followers but I do notice that from time to time I get a nice big surge of views on here which is lovely and even when I don't post quite a lot of people read it. I am hoping my lovely Ipad will arrive tomorrow and from then on I shall blog from there, I am so excited! I have lots of nice things planned for the next few weeks, I thought I would share with you what I am excited about...

Christmas Trip to Canterbury

Michael and I are going on a little weekend break on the 15th to Canterbury and I can't wait. We love the place and we will visit the market, do some shopping and visit the beautiful cathedral.

Holiday from work

I am off work from 21st December-7th Jan, whopeee! I love working in a school around Christmas time especially as our nativity is coming up soon and all the kids get excited. I can't wait to have the time off the finishing buying gifts, spending time with my loved one and eating in excess.

 

Going to see The Hobbit 

Michael and I have been waiting for this for a long time and it's nearly time! We are massive fans of LOTR and will be seeing this in the cinema. In an Imax. In 3D.

 

Spending Christmas with family at home

Can't wait <3

New Years Eve

Around New Year's I will be going down to see Michael's family which will be lovely and New Year's Eve will be my mum and me.

A few other things I love about December:

*Snuggling in my onesie

*The Christmas TV guide coming out

*Snowy evenings

*Cold crisp days

*Wearing funky coloured ear muffs

*Cuddling in the warm with Michael

*Christmas TV specials

* That Christmas Eve feeling

*Opening and giving pressies

*Boxing Day food overload

*Making new year's resolutions

xoxo 

Cheryl....treats herself!

Well I finally committed to buying an Ipad, how very exciting. I have been thinking about buying one all year but I was always concerned about the price and the fact that I already use my laptop a lot. I guess I feared it was all style over substance but I guess I shall see! At work we are lucky to have Ipads in the class for the kids and having played on them myself and looking at its features, I decided to get one of my own.

I work about 35 hours a week and earn what I would call a pretty minimal amount (I work damn hard for it though!) so I thought I would research options for buying the Ipad and paying it off in installments. A lot of people don't like the 'buy now pay later' option but this is what I went for. With Very, you are able to use their BNPL option and defer payement for 12 months without interest. What interested me was the fact you can pay off chunks within the time frame of whatever amount you want. I am very lucky that my Mum and Michael have given me a chunk towards it as an early Christmas gift but the rest I hope to have paid off by early next year. I don't feel like it's a debt hanging over me as I am confident I can pay off the rest soon. In the meantime, I shall enjoy the benefits of an Ipad, yipeeee! When I receive it, I shall post an honest review of it. I have already started to look at cute covers and accessories for it (no doubt they will be Hello Kitty themed!)

I have had a good week at work this week although feeling a little down the past few days and panicky. This has certainly picked me up though!I have spent the past few days coming home from work, getting in my pjs and watching my Downton Abbey boxset! Also I am seeing my lovely friends this weekend to celebrate a birthday and have lots of quiz related fun! I have bought myself a few bits and pieces since pay day but nothing major. I had to get a new purse and bought this one from Ebay for £12. I love the tapestry cat print and hope to get a bigger bag in the same material.

 Tonight Michael is making us one of his amazing curries, going to watch a film and get a decent sleep! 4 weeks until the Christmas holidays, time is flying past and I need to get busy wrapping pressies!

HOLIDAYS ARE COMING!

XOXO

Wearing glasses

I remember my first ever pair of glasses. I was 8 and they were red Mickey Mouse ones and I thought I was so cool. Back then, I didn't care about what I looked like or how I may appear to others. As I grew older and my sight began to get worse, I was very reluctant to even wear glasses even though I knew I should. As my teenage years approached, I wore my glasses on and off but hated how I look in them. I would hide them away and just put up with the fact that I couldn't see everything clearly. In hindsight, it didn't help at all and as time went by, my sight just got worse until I had to admit defeat, I had to wear them more. I got new glasses in my early 20's and began to feel a little more confident. A year or so ago, I bought myself some new brown glasses from Specsavers and I feel a lot more able to wear them out now-in fact I wear them all the time except for when I am sleeping obviously.

However I still always take them off for photos which is why some people may be surprised that I wear glasses all the time. There are probably only about 5 photos of me that exsist where I am wearing them! For so long it has been a reflex action for me to just whip them off when a camera comes out because I have always been so self conscious. I realise though that it is all in me, this feeling of looking ugly in my glasses and that other people see it differently. Wearing glasses is so 'in trend' now that it does annoy me when you see people wearing them without even any lenses in! People say well why don't you wear contact lenses but really, I cannot be bothered with the stress and discomfort of them. As I get older, I begin to care less and less about what others think and go with what feels best for me.

There are a few celebrities who have inspired me to keep wearing my glasses-particularly the beautiful Zooey Deschanel who just rocks a pair of specs like nobody's business. As well as celebrities such as Tina Fey who make me feel like it is sexy to wear glasses and the old 'geeky four eyed' cliche is long gone.

So I will do my best to wear glasses in my pictures sometimes. After all, they are attached to me for 75% of my day, so why not! 

xoxo

Wedding Planning: Stars and Moon Theme

I love all this wedding planning/researching lark. Michael and I aren't really comitting to any particular place or date right now but that doesn't stop me coming up with all these ideas and themes. I have mentioned Pinterest many a time (every other blog post haha) but I use it all the time to create boards for wedding planning and it's perfect for gathering ideas. I love anything with stars and moons on and I thought this would make a really great theme for a wedding and something maybe slightly different from your normal vintage theme which I am sure many couples are doing (still love it but you know what I mean). Here are some of my ideas, do you think it could work?

A giant moon and stars, posing for pictures underneath, very romantic!

Lovely stars and moon quotes everywhere like this

A cake with moon and stars, this is so unique!

Cute cupcakes

Adorable little moon sandwiches

Star lights everywhere!!

THESE SHOES!

And this ring!

 

XOXO

Christmas Party Dresses!

So I have been searching online for the past few weeks for some party dresses for the coming Christmas season! I only have one party to go to at the moment but hopefully I'll get invited to more. If not, it's never a bad thing to have new pretty dresses! I have a lot of casual, day dresses in my wardrobe but not many 'fancy' going out dresses and the ones I do have, I feel are a little outdated! I am really fussy when it comes to things like this and can spend hours online on websites like ASOS. I have bought this dress on there, reduced to £12 from £40 and it's a lovely fit. Plus you can never go wrong with florals! I have also seen these dresses I like on various websites...

ASOS Strapless Dress In Floral Print-£12

I couldn't resist this when I saw it on ASOS-you can't see it but it has a sweetheart neckline and I always find that quite flattering to my chest region as it's not particularly big lol. 

Matalan Be Beau Embroidered Neckline Dress-£30

This dress is so unique and pretty and not like many other typical party dresses for sale-the colour is gorgeous and the price is reasonable I think as it looks great quality and had some good reviews!

 

New Look Black Sparkle Velvet 1/2 Sleeve Skater Dress-£16.99

I just love skater dresses and velvet AND sparkly things, what a great combination! I am almost definitely going to buy this when I get paid tomorrow!

 

ASOS Pretty Lace Skater Dress-£24.50

When buying party dresses, I normally go for red as I think the colour suits brunettes. I love lace too so this dress is perfect for me!

Topshop Sequin Skater Dress-£65

This may be a little bit overloaded with sequins but if you can't get sparkly and spangly at Christmas then when can you?! It looks like it could be quite heavy but the style looks so flattering! 

 This week has been pretty quiet and just been busy working and counting the days until the weekend/Christmas holidays-only 5 weeks to go! I am currently loving I'm a Celebrity Get me Out of Here as well as X Factor. I LOVE James Arthur, what a talent and so original too. I sort of hope he doesn't win as the contestants who come 2nd/3rd always seem to do better. Tonight Michael is making us a fry-up and I have the suffer the awful burden that is ITV football. PANTS.

xoxo