Air Mail & Good Karma

Hello lovelies! Happy sunday 🙂 I am currently sitting typing this in my new kitchen, at the breakfast bar with the radio on waiting for David’s mum and dad to arrive to see us for the day. The sun is beaming through the window – it’s absolutely gorgeous. I think today is going to be a lovely little day.

Hope the weather is nice where you are too. Yesterday I went for lunch and cocktails with Jenn (strawberry daiquiri’s FTW!) and then onto Luisa’s house at night for an awesome 3 course dinner. Man, Italians can cook! I went into a bit of a food coma straight afterwards, but it was worth it. Her home made oreo chocolate brownies and rocky road will be getting demolished today 🙂 Walking home to the train station later it felt like a proper summer night. I could def get used to this – bring on summer!

Some pretty awesome parcels arrived at our house during the week. Both the morning after the night of Katy Perry, so my candy land filled night turned into a candy land filled morning too! You’ll see why in a second. My first parcel is from a wonderful canadian blogger called Christine.

I sent Christine some British goodies (you can see exactly what I sent her here) In return, I asked her if she could get her paws on some Hello Kitty nail varnish and the Kat Von D Tattoo Chronicles makeup collection for me (both from Sephora) That’s what the big book looking thing is there! Would you like to have a closer nosy at this in an upcoming post? The inside is beautiful, and it contains a mix of eyeshadows, primers, some fake eyelashes and a rollerball perfume. As a tattooed gal myself, I really wanted to try out something from Kat’s range (plus Sj’s amazing reviews on the lipstick and eyeshadow palletes had me hooked!) She also sent me a Covergirl lashblast fusion mascara, and a Tarina Tarantino pearl glow primer.

Thank you so much Christine, your email chats have made me smile, and your card has brightened up my kitchen window – and of course I can’t wait to try out all my new goodies ♥

My second parcel is from a lovely american lass called Kasey. I wasn’t sure at this stage what other american makeup I would like to try, so I asked her if I could be a total pig and just get her to send me all sweets instead. I sent her a package similar to Christines, with sweets, chocolate, and some makeup brands that you can only get here in the UK. This is what Kasey sent me in return:

Absolute madness! Hahaha, I love it. I really don’t know what else to say, apart from that I have had lucky charms for breakfast every morning and twinkies with my cup of tea before bed every night. Uh oh, buh bye bikini body for summer. Kasey also sent me a cute Vera Bradley coin purse and made me an awesome pop punk mix cd. I think I will be locking myself in the house for the next month, eating my goodies with a full face of dramatic makeup and Forever The Sickest Kids on repeat. Soooo, see ya later! 😉

On a slightly less sugar infused note, I had a really shit start to the year (mostly to do with a job I was on, but I won’t go into it) but my friends and family are a brilliant bunch and helped me to ‘just keep trucking’ through it. I am a firm believer in good karma, and I tend not to complain about things unless I plan on getting out there are doing something about it. I’m impulsive and determined, and just as I have been feeling a bit more relaxed recently, a few good things have started to trickle my way. Let me share them with you, because it’s proof that there is always some sort of calm after the storm:

1. Possibly landing my 2nd big Art Director role on a job later this year (mustn’t jinx it though, please just keep your fingers and toes crossed for me)

2. Winning Zoe’s Sleek giveaway, by tweeting this picture and telling her how amazing Croatia and Slovenia were. Thank you Zoe, I never bloody win anything, ever!

3. Haha uh oh, that was until I won Emma’s mac giveaway. Thank you Emma – they say good luck comes in 3’s so I guess thats me had my share now 😉

Also, here’s a little update on my complaints in the last post. I have sent my tights back to Pretty Polly, along with another letter so fingers crossed they will be able to replace them. I also went into mac about my blusher, and it turns out this isn’t the first time they’ve seen it happen! So they took it back with my reciept no bother, but unfortunately didn’y have any blushes left to replace it with 🙁 Sad times, so instead I took the £21 back and treated myself to some bubble bars from Lush and a massive lunch at Yo Sushi.

I’ll end this wordy post with some things I’ve got to look forward to over the next week:

1. Having brunch with a friend in Edinburgh tomorrow, then David coming to meet me for a wee wander and some shopping.

2. My cupcake making class at Cupcake on tuesday night.

3. My day at the Blythswood Square Spa on thursday, thanks to my wonderful boyfriend. Afternoon tea and cake, the thermal experience and a turus body wrap (it better take some inches off my waist after all those cakes!)

4. The Blythswood Square Hotel again on saturday, at the Scottish Ballet Blogger meet up. We will be attending a Mad Hatters-ish tea party, and then going to see Alice by the Scottish Ballet, and perhaps some sort of eating, drinking and dancing afterwards. Can’t wait to meet some fellow bloggers ♥

Ayden x