Showing posts with label stripes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stripes. Show all posts

Monday, 27 May 2013

ARGOS VOUCHER GIVEAWAY!

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I love the Argos home ware range- it always has on trend, good quality, affordable pieces. When we moved in to our house, we furnished most of it using Argos! It was just so useful being able to get the styles we want, at prices we could afford, and having branches nearby made it really convenient too. Therefore, you can imagine how thrilled I was when they very kindly offered to send me some of their items from their home ware range to review!

How amazing is the birdcage tea light holder?? The style and the detail is just gorgeous- I absolutely love it! In fact, I love it so much I am considering buying several more to use as table centre pieces for our wedding instead of traditional flowers! I can imagine draping strings of pearls through the bars, and perhaps adding some silk flowers or vintage brooches. I may use little wooden pegs to attach the table numbers written on luggage labels to the bars. I think it would be just beautiful! And at £19.99 it is an absolute bargain. I can't say enough good things about this product. I love it!

I think there is something really elegant about this little clock. It's actually an alarm clock, and I love the simplicity of it. It's a lovely soft grey and I love the style the numbers are written in- I think it's a beautiful font. I like quite minimalist, yet pretty and feminine items and I think this fits this style perfectly!

I think the crochet cushion is another item that could be described as minimalist yet feminine. I really love crochet items at the moment, and this cushion is a lovely shade of cream that will go with anything, with chunky buttons to stop it being too plain.Our bed has rather a lot of floral and pattern going on too (sorry, David!) so this cushion balances it out nicely!

I am in love with these beakers! How retro and lovely are they? The pastel tones are so pretty- I love the hint of mint on the inside of the large one (mine) and the soft pink of the small one (Lily's!). Argos now has a selection of ex Habitat stock at very reasonable prices and these are part of that range. They are just perfect to serve some milkshake in with some pretty paper straws! I know this sounds like such a gushy post, but I actually have nothing negative to say about any of the items, I am so happy with all of them!

Here's the exciting part! All of these gorgeous items totaled at just pennies off of £50- so Argos are very generously offering a £50 voucher to one of my readers!

You can enter using the Rafflecopter widget below. You must be a follower of my blog on Google friend connect and a resident of the UK (sorry! I will host a giveaway for my international readers soon!). You can earn extra entries by following me on twitter and tweeting about the giveaway. The giveaway will be running for two weeks. Be sure to leave me a comment below and include your email so I contact you if your the lucky winner!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Good luck everyone!

x ♥

Sunday, 10 March 2013

LILY'S FIRST BIRTHDAY


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Hello everyone! I have been really awful at updating my blog again, I know. Sorry about that. My laptop, for some reason, decided to stop connecting to my camera. I have a whole stack of photo's I have been taking ready for blog posts, so now the problem is fixed expect a few posts in the next week or so! 
It would have made sense to write my planned blog posts in chronological order, however it didn't feel right to let this weekend pass without blogging about a certain little madams birthday...

My baby girl had her first birthday on Friday. Lily is a whole year old, and I know it's such a typical mum thing to say, but I can't believe how fast this last year has gone! My baby is growing up way too fast! How do I have a one year old already?!

On her actual birthday I had to work which was pretty horrible, but David took half a day off work, so that when I finished he was there too and we had a whole afternoon to celebrate. Lily wore her pretty new dress with sequins and hundreds of layers in her skirt which looked adorable and she loved dancing in, making the skirt swish from side to side! We got up extra early in the morning to open her presents and then after work we all went to my parents house and had a quiet but lovely little tea party for her there with scones and cucumber sandwiches and a rather messy looking but yummy chocolate cake I made! We spent Saturday in a big soft play activity centre then had an evening with her cousins and aunties and uncles. She has been completely spoilt with so many presents and seems to have loved every minute of her birthday! 

I cant believe it has been a whole year since this and how much she has changed. I will do her proper 12 month update soon, but it really feels like I blinked and my baby was gone. I now have a completely funny, beautiful, sweet little girl who I love with all my heart and I can't wait to celebrate many more birthdays with her!

x ♥

p.s: I have been getting tons of spam comments recently so I'm turning off anonymous commenting for while.