Secret Blogger Swap - Reveal

I am so excited to show you my Secret Blogger Swap organised by Danielle at Famed Frosting. I loved choosing things for my blogger swappette who unfortunately has decided to take a break from blogging, hope to see you back soon Nicole i loved reading your blog! I hope it got to you safely :)

*Update* I have now got in touch with Nicole she has created a new blog! She has done a beautiful post on our swap which you can read here. Please pop over and visit her because she is such a cutie and takes the most beautiful pictures. So glad i found you Nicole!

I received my swap from the beautiful Katie, you can check out her wonderful blog here.

It was packaged beautifully and i tried so hard not to damage it when i opened it as i will re use it for a gift for somebody else (gotta love a bit of recycling).

The most yummy smelling candle

My first Essie Polish - Ole Caliente

So Beautiful

Yikes, how lucky am i to have received such amazing gifts! I am so excited to try the burts bees foot ream, it smells so pepperminty and it still has the seal on! I am going to give my feet a treat this week (im a poet and i did not know it). I am so truly thankful to Katie for everything she chose i love every single item. I am pretty poorly today, full of a cold and have a terrible cough so i am going to run myself a bath and light my new candle and relax.

Please Check out Katie's blog because she has fabulous crafty posts, house tips and tons of other good stuff to read and is such a nice person, Lovely to meet you x

Thank you again

Kerri

xxxxx

Rainy Day trip to the garden centre

Hello Chickens,
James finally put up my washing line and i planned to get all my washing done today - but the rain put a stop to that. So we decided to go out for dinner at the local garden centre (Sunday Carvery £5.99 Yummy!). The garden centre is massive and sells all sorts of things. James get very impatient shopping but he surprised me by getting rather excited about a stand in there, more about that later.

The food was yummy and the garden centre was packed on the way out we both were drawn to two stands. I saw a craft isle - why have i never seen this before? Then on the card stock i was presented with a challenge, "As much as you can fill for £2.99" on a plastic wallet. I obviously took to the challenge and squeezed as much card into the wallet as possible, James got rather mad waiting around. I also got some A6 card blanks (£2.99), some glue dots (99p) and a glue stick (99p).

Walking out James stopped at the candle stand. I adore candles and have rather a large collection. A few weeks ago James bought himself a candle and has burnt it every night as soon as he got in from work. He was rather upset and said "Why does this not smell good like your ones?" That's because dear, it cost £1.99. I then spent 20 minutes waiting for him to smell all the candles (I did not as i had spent up for the day and would just depress myself)  and he eventually appeared with this beauty;

http://www.woodwickcandleshop.co.uk/WoodWick_22oz_Candles_Woodwick_Applewood_22oz_Candle.asp

I had seen these candles before and have really wanted to try them. He chose the Apple wood scent. These candles are cool because they have a wood wick - hence the name - which makes a crackling sound when it burns, plus they smell divine! This cost £18.99 for a large jar which lasts 180 burn hours. This made me happy. You can find these candles here: http://www.woodwickcandleshop.co.uk/WoodWick_22oz_Candles_Woodwick_Applewood_22oz_Candle.asp

On the way out we bought a cupcake there were millions of flavours but i decided on the Mint choc chip.  It was very nice but unbelievably sickly so i only managed half of it (don't be fooled it was massive!)

The rest of the day will include putting curtain rails up, trying to get through my washing and doing some painting and hanging a door. When did my life become so... grown up?

I will be posting some beauty reviews over the next few days so stay tuned :)

xxxx