Week 5: Christmas Accessory

Hola Dalimoo's,

So this is the fifth week of the #Thewinterproject and this week it is about favourite Christmas accessories.

When I think of accessories I think of Christmas hats and silly Christmas Jumpers.  I love the run up to Christmas and since having children the inner child in me makes an appearance each year.

This year I have two hats and two jumpers!

I have already worn my first Christmas jumper of the year and this was to get into character at work to pick the names for the secret Santa (apparently being vertically challenged has its benefits!) it was £18 from Peacocks but got it for £14 as they were having a 20% discount in store the day I bought it.

Excuse the lame pose...

I forgot to put the hat on when I took the picture so this is what the hat looks like:

Bought for £1 from poundland

The second jumper I have for this year I will also be wearing to work on Friday 13 December as it is National Christmas Jumper day for Save the Children and with this I have a sequin Santa hat! I got this jumper from Next for £28.

Again £1 from poundland

This is my favourite accessory for Christmas!  I decided for a not so serious post this week, I hope you enjoyed it.  I can't wait to read all your posts on what your Christmas Accessory is.

Until next time my lovelies...

Ciao for now xx

Week 4: Christmas Gift Guide

Hola Dalimoos,

Well this week on the #thewinterproject it is the countdown to Christmas and the first week of the countdown is a gift guide.

My personal life is really getting in the way at the moment and I just haven't had time to give my blog any love.  I know it is an excuse I give every week, but hands off to those that have busy lives and can still manage to blog every other day etc...

So as a consolation I will give you some links to a few of the other lovely ladies doing the #thewinterproject and go over and have a look at their blogs, please tell them I sent you over...

yummy2010mummy.blogspot.co.uk
bold95beauty.blogspot.co.uk
ohhval.blogspot.co.uk

Here are three that I enjoyed this week, when I get some more links I will of course come back and edit the post...

Until next week my lovelies...

Week 3: Favourite Winter Scent

Hola Dalimoos,

Sorry I am late with this week's post, work has been super busy and I have a sick little boy at the moment and I just haven't found the time to sit down and write this post until now!!!!

Anyway without further ado lets get on with what my favourite winter scent is...

When thinking about favourite scents, perfumes didn't actually come to mind.  I cannot wear very heavy scents as I am sensitive to smells so tend to have the same perfumes all year round...A perfume collection?  another blog post possibly?!

Anyway I digress...

However, there are a few scents that make me happy in winter:

My first one is the Cinnamon smell and other winter spices.  You cannot think of winter without thinking of these scents.  I love anything cinnamon, food or scents.  

I especially love burning candles with cinnamon spice scent.  

Home sweet Home by yankee candle is
one of my favourites

Airwick Purple Blackberry Fig scent is
a really nice warm/sweet smell

Recently I went to TK Maxx and bought two new candles both from the Sebnin range: 

1.  Christmas Trees.  This is a really spicy yummy scent.  it definitely has cinnamon and other spices, its a milder version of Home sweet Home and I cannot wait to burn this one. 

2.  Christmas Stocking.  This says it is a holly and berry smell.  it definitely is a outdoorsy smell and is musky with a sweetness to it...Since typing this my daughter smelt it and informed me she thought it smelt like snow...haha

 

Mint Chocolate is also a big favourite.  I went to Winter Wonderland the weekend just gone and had an After Eight crepe...O.M.G...it was so amazing and felt so warming especially as it was freezing.  The mint taste/smell is so comforting...

 

But my all time favourite winter smell has to be the smell of burning wood fire or coal fire, especially when you are outside walking on a crisp cold evening and you can smell the chimney smoke.  I live in London so I don't get to smell that smell often but when I visit family in Ireland or out of London then that is the smell I love the most.

There is nothing more winter than that.

I hope you enjoyed my take on the Favourite Scent week...until next week

Ciao for now xxx



*Note:  The two candles from TKMaxx are photographs I have taken personally.  The other images are images I found on google image and may be subject to copyright.

Week 2: Favourite Winter Accessories

Hola Dalimoo's 

So this is the second week of #theWinterProject and this week is favourite winter accessories.

This week is an easy one for me as there is only one accessory I look forward to when the weather turns cold and that is scarfs.  Ok so I am cheating a bit as I love scarfs in general and will wear them anytime of the year but the winter months it is a definite staple!!

shameless selfie

I have so many scarfs it borders obsessive!  So I will show you just a few of my favourites:

Espirit - given to me by my friend last year

I love the "old school" wrap around scarfs, the ones I like best are the really long ones as it wraps and wraps - the longer the better as these are just so cosey!

Snood I bought from New Look a couple of years ago

The inifinity scarf or as we in the UK call them a Snood. What can I say about these?  They are a never ending ring of scarf..!!

My two different size pashminas - L: Next last year
R: Orange pashmina from ebay

Pashminas.  Ok so my obsession are actually with these types of scarfs.  I have them in all sizes and colours.  You can get them extremely big where they look like a blanket or a "normal" size and you can wrap them round your shoulders or the outside of your coat or just like a normal scarf.  These are so versetile.

I have other types too, silk, sequin, mesh, square shaped....anyway I don't want to bore you to death about my scarf collection so I shall leave it here.

So this is my winter accessory what is yours?

Until next time my lovelies

Ciao for now xxx

Week 1: Favourite winter nail polish

Hola Dalimoos,

This is the first instalment of the #TheWinterProject and this week its nail polish.

As you know I love nail polish.  My favourite season is Autumn/Winter as I love the dark colours.  It was really hard to pick just one nail polish for this post so I have picked 4 and a bonus one from Glamour Magazine.

The following colours are my go to nail polishes and it is they epitomise winter to me:

Nail Polish 1:

Barry M Raspberry.  This is a lovely deep Raspberry colour and is a great colour for this season as wines and berries are the trend for AW13.

Nail Polish 2:

Another Barry M nail polish, this time it is in Red/Black.  I absolutely love this colour it is such a nice deep dark red.  It is a pretty vampy colour and a great colour for Halloween.

Nail Polish 3

This is Luxedo by Essie.  This an extremely dark purple that in some lights it looks almost black.

Nail Polish 4

A completely different colour considering the first three polishs.  This is Green Machine by elf.  I think it looks like a forest green colour a nice mix of not too dark or too light.

All the polishes mentioned  only take 2 coats of polish to become opaque.

As mentioned I am throwing in a bonus nail polish and it has to be the freebie nail polish that was in Glamour Magazine.  Kate Spade by Nails Inc in Big Apple Red.  It is the prettiest red.  When I look at this red I think of double decker buses or the Royal Mail post boxes.  It is definitely a Christmas colour.

Anyway my lovelies I hope you enjoyed my favourites and I look forward to hearing what your favourites are....

Until next time

Ciao for now xx

#TheWinterProject

Hola Dalimoo,

After the success of Steph's (Stephsinsidevoice) #theSOProject, Kellie from Bold95Beauty came up with the idea of #TheWinterProject.  This a series of blogposts with a winter theme, go check her original post about it *here*

I love these sort of posts as you will all have an idea of what I will be putting up on weekly basis.  It is going to cover 7 weeks, the first week starting Tuesday 12 November.  Below is what it will all cover.

Week 1:  12 November - Favourite Winter nail varnish
Week 2:  19 November - Favourite Winter accessory
Week 3:  26 November - Favourite Winter scent

Christmas is coming!

Week 4: 3 December - Christmas gift ideas: beauty/fashion theme for both him and her
Week 5: 10 December - Favourite Christmas accessory
Week 6: 17 December - Favourite products for a Christmas make up look

Christmas is HERE:

Week 7: 24 December - Christmas OOTD

I am looking forward to these posts and I hope you enjoy reading them.

Until next time my lovelies...

ciao for now xx