Home comforts

While I wish every day was full of lunch and dinner dates like in my last post, I’ve still been spending a lot of cosy time around the house while I’ve been off. Dying my hair, gutting out my wardrobe, lots of cuddles with the cat and doing my business accounts (the joys of being a limited company) Today I’m waiting on our new washing machine getting delivered and some other mail arriving so it’s a great excuse to stay in my pj’s! I can promise you that hanging upside down in my Hello Kitty dressing gown trying to disconnect a hard wired washing machine is a great look. Who said we need men around?!

I definitely don’t need any men around to get some beautiful flowers delivered through the door. These fresh beauties from Bloom & Wild come sort of ‘flat packed’, which means they can fit through your letterbox and then you arrange them yourself (see how it works here)

Here’s my beautiful autumnal bouquet! The flowers came with a handy advice guide of how to arrange them. I’m hoping I did okay… and I can’t wait for those lovely lillies to bloom.

What do you think about fresh flowers through your letterbox? I was worried about how intact the buds would be but they were all perfect. The larger flowers came wrapped up in a delicate netting, with a miniature tube of water at the end to keep them fed while they’re on their way to you. I got these on halloween and they’re lasting well. Bloom & Wild promote the fact that they cut out the middle man (and ultimately the time the flowers sit on the shelf) so we get longer lasting flowers. I’ll keep you posted on how long these ones stay good for. Doesn’t look like they will be wilting any time soon 🙂

As well as flowers, I also like alcohol (see how flawless my linking skills are?) Last week I took a jaunt to Malmaison Hotel and sipped cocktails (an amaretto sour is my favourite) while oogling over Paul Mitchell’s Christmas hair care range. As a new blonde they gave me some goodies to take home (to be honest I was kinda more intrigued by the range they do for Pets, a water-less shampoo would be amazing for Dexter!)

My roots are coming in already, but a couple of weeks ago I used the Bleach London bleach and toner to go all out blonde on what had previously been a gradual dying process (sorry Mum) I have been alternating between the Bleach London Silver Shampoo and Conditoner and the Paul Mitchell Blonde range above (shampoo, conditioner and dramatic repair spray) to keep my locks in check. The Bleach London products eliminate those brassy tones out of my hair and the Paul Mitchell products have been great for really nourishing my hair and keeping it soft and in good condition. It’s been a great wee combo so far, and the PM products smell AMAZING (sorry Bleach London, you make me smell like a man)

I’m actually laughing at my silly linking skills as I mention smelling like a man onto a lovely new perfume that is making me smell great! Orliflame My Red is a new fragrance my Demi Moore, which is said to be floral with notes of red jasmine and cranberry. It isn’t too sweet and once it settles down there is a long lasting red berry scent which I think is perfect for this time of year. The 50ml RRP’s at £30.95, which is pretty decent so I hope this one keeps me going for a while.

I ordered some personalised vinyl from Wrappz for my macbook and iphone, and despite having my macbook for around 4 years I still managed to order the wrong size 🙁 I’m a numpty! I applied my new Totoro vinyl anyways and I think it will do for now, but it would have been perfect if I’d just ordered the right size in the first place. Doh! The sticker is of great quality and a nice thick vinyl so you can remove it and reposition it easily without stretching or ripping. I have to work with vinyl a lot in work so you’d think I’d have a hang of it by now… but I’m still pretty rubbish.

Bit of a brave move removing the sturdy case Chloe got me and applying this vinyl sticker/skin (I’m a serial phone dropper) but I love it! Totoro definitely reminds me to keep smiling.

Upon spending a lot of time at home and partaking in many a hot beverage I have stumbled across something lovely called Fruitbroo. You know how herbal teas smell amazing but don’t really match up taste wise? Well Fruitbroo tastes the exact way it smells (which is lovely, by the way)

Greig came over to look after me one day I wasn’t feeling too well and we tried a few different flavours from the range. The instructions say you only need two teaspoons but I used rather large mugs so you can see from the photo above how much I used to get the taste right for us. It felt like quite a lot but in a normal sized mug it would be much less. The peach, pear and honey is my favourite so far! Only 15 calories per cup and no caffeine so definitely less of a guilty option when you’re used to drinking tea and coffee with two sugars all day.

This post has ended up being a lot bigger than what I initially intended, so as usual I’ll leave you with a few more eclectic insta pics from what else I’ve been upto…

New bodysuit from American Apparel and skirt from Forever 21.

Dermal is starting to heal (I’ve heard the horror stories… but I really like mines)

Night out with the boys in Glasgow last weekend.

Playing around with Kyles mini polaroid camera in his office before we went out 🙂

Come the Sunday morning I had a very sore head, but my new cat nap pj’s from David and Goliath soothed my soul all day. I expect no sympathy… totally self inflicted!