Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…

Hello lovelies. Just a quick one today (well, loads of pictures, but I’ll try to keep the text to a minimum…) as I was having a bit of a pj day, chilling with the piggies and watching daytime tv when my aunty called to tell me she had got me a ticket for Take That tonight! My Aunty, her best friend, and my cousin Emma came up from Leeds yesterday and were taking my gran along with them to the gig tonight. They got me a ticket on ebay yesterday and literally told me 5 minutes ago so time to get myself into gear 🙂 I am so excited, The Circus Tour was breathtaking and I know this one is going to be just as good. A couple of people I know in London worked on the set, it’s going to be EPIC! 🙂

Anyways, this leads on to a rather self indulgent wee post showing you some of the goodies I got for my birthday. Biggest love ever to the wonderful people in my life, who really do know me better than I know myself ♥ you know who you are.

I am so bad for clearing pressies away after Christmas or a Birthday. I am a bit of a magpie in that sense – I just want to keep it all out infront of me and look at it. Haha.

Some baking/kitchen-y related goodies.

Pretty jewels I received. Thomas Sabo, Tatty Devine, Papayrus, and Me & Zena.

A couple of beauty bits and bobs. The manicure set is just too pretty, I don’t want to use it! And I have been dreaming about the Dermalogica Clean Start range since I got my hands on a moisturiser from the collection. I have no skincare routine whatsoever, so hopefully this will whip me into shape and give my skin a bit more TLC.

A beautiful Rik Lee print from Leah – cannot wait to get this baby framed 🙂

I also got some vouchers, so I bought my first pair of Toms with an Office voucher from my grandparents. Apparently there’s a bit of a love/hate situation going on with people and Toms? Well, I love them, they are insanely comfy (road tested them on monday after a 14 hour day working and filming) and for every pair we buy, a pair gets given to a child in need. Now what’s not awesome about that?

New laptop sleeve and bag with my Cath Kidston voucher from my Aunty (said Aunty that got me the Take That ticket, SHE RULES!)

Cute dungarees, tshirt and a cross ring (giving into the fads here… but David was a typical boy and was all ‘eww are you religious or something?!’) with my Urban Outfitters voucher from Jenn 🙂

Scrub and body lotion from Origins with my Frasers voucher from my mumma’s best friend Adele. I have been lusting after some of the ginger scented products after buying them for my step mum and David’s mum. Smells too good – I wish I had smellyvision through the blog to show you! Really impressed with the samples I was given as well. All very ‘natural’ feeling, think I will certainly be paying Origins another visit.

Lovely pressies aside I am also a bit of a card fiend. I love a good card, I love the thought behind someone picking a card for you, and taking the time to write something in it. I’m just a big mush, okay?

The cards I received this year made me laugh, cry, and get that warm fuzzy feeling inside. My family and friends were all so generous and I could not be more grateful for how special they made me feel on my birthday ♥ (and every day, jeez, I need to stop before I well up here)

Things have been pretty busy lately, with working a few jobs at once, looking after the piggies again, and David being away with his work for a few days (miss him terribly, and have also discovered I cannot cook for the life of me without him!) I had a wonderful lunch with David’s mum and sister just before my birthday,  an awesome time with Gem yesterday (that girl seriously is my long lost twin) and a romantic little trip away to North Berwick with David at the weekend ♥ So lots of pictures and updates to share with you all over the next coming weeks, and hopefully a bit more time to sit down, chill out and post about it all 🙂 Anyone going to Take That in Glasgow tonight? Maybe – amongst the 50,000 people – I’ll see you there!

Ayden x