10 Things #1

I feel like I want to do a regular '10 Things' post so that I can show what is going on in my life and what has caught my eye in the past week that I think is worthy of sharing with everyone! So regularly every week I hope to be doing a post similar to this!

Found this quote the other day and it made me giggle!

1. I love this song right now! It makes me feel so happy when I am walking to my lectures or seminars and keeps me in an upbeat mood.

2. Cannot live without my old trusty pair of Converse that really are beginning to show that they are worn daily, (oops).

3. As it is winter and Christmas is just around the corner, I think we are all in need of a snuggly fur, (fake of course), blanket to drink wrap around us while we drink hot chocolate? 

4. I am seeing soo many pictures of people skiing right now and I am feeling jealous! I wish I was back on the slopes at this incredible place on the Alps!

5. I found a book that took my fancy. It is from Urban Outfitters - I swear they have the best books selling at that store! 

6. My skin is slowly suffering the the university diet of absolute rubbish, so thankfully this product is slowly fixing that - and it smells of fresh oranges!

7. Being further North for uni made me realise how thankful I am that my mum bought me a new coat for the winter. It's managed to keep out most of the cold wind! 

8. A creative video, because why not? 

9. Definitely needing this breakfast next week I think!

10. I was running a lot last week trying to get out of the rain and realised Spotify kept changing my song... did anyone else know about the 'running' feature? It is pretty cool! 

Jamie Oliver's Italian Restaurant

This place can never do wrong on its meals at the Bluewater branch!

The Italian nachos - basically fried ravioli with mozzarella stuffed inside it, (delicious)! Considering I didn't think you could really fry pasta with a tasty outcome, I was pretty impressed! 

The main reason I chose this dish is purely because the pasta looked like tentacles! I don't think you can ever really leave this restaurant feeling hungry after the massive portions handed to you of such amazing food. 

And to top of my meal, I ended it with raspberry frozen yoghurt!

Would highly recommend visiting this restaurant if you ever are near to one! The one I always go to is at Bluewater and it's always so welcoming and friendly and the food comes quickly so you're never left starving on the side! :) 

Health Kick

My attempt at being healthy after the shocking uni diet is going well so far! After living off daily meals consisting purely of pasta, cheese or chicken, I'm officially needing some fruit and vegetables!

I absolutely love smoothie bowls lately, and top it with berries and seeds! This one contains frozen mixed berries with passionfruit and mango yoghurt and some blackberry frozen yoghurt!

For lunch I've been mainly eating Covent Garden soups. This one is a lentil and smoked bacon soup with toasted pitta break on the side! 

I'm hoping it'll make me feel more awakened and healthy after living off the basics for the past 3 months - here's hoping! 

Study, Study, Study.

I am becoming more and more exhausted from education these days; spending copious amounts of time on just re-writing out essay after essay. So I decided to just take pictures of random moments within the past week or so that just relax me or make me happy, (and obviously food is going to be one image.)

Just relaxing in a bath can just relax me and allow me to take an hour just to forget about work and revision and focus on just me. I didn't realise that the troubles I would pay for relaxation was scrubbing a bath tub of a glitter afterwards for about 30 minutes. 

What would life be without Nandos. Extra Hot - I show no fear! 

Last image of the 3, a small town called Rye. It's so beautiful in areas and as there's hardly ever any service in some areas, it can be the most relaxing place to take a break. 

LUSH

With it being the season for warm baths and relaxation, I decided to invest heavily in LUSH products as so many people were raving about them! Of course I was only aiming to buy a maximum of 3 bath products… but that didn't end well as you can see above.

LUSH Melting Marshmallow

It turned the bath this beautiful rose colour and the smell was not too overpowering at all! It was amazing for my skin as it felt so soft afterwards and the smell of marshmallows stayed on my skin for a day!

LUSH Northern Lights

This was a Bonfire Night special LUSH product! It is a simple purple stick yet inside there were so many colours of blue and green with some glitter to represent the fireworks. My favourite out my massive bundle of festive treats and the originals so far would have to be the Northern Lights purely for how it looks when it has dissolved in the bath! BEAUTIFUL.

Christmas Houses in USA

For some strange reason I have an obsession with decorations within American homes. Yes it is a guilty pleasure of mine that when a friend is jetting off to the US, my first request is: "Please take a picture of the American homes/streets?" I just love them! They are considerably larger to any UK standard home and they just spurt out an essence of warmth and pumpkin pies. They are so simple but yet so beautiful. When Christmas arrives within our household, the basic decorations of lights are placed on trees or around banisters etc. Despite all these efforts, our house will never look like any of these entrances to a home. 

A dream of mine is to have a recreation of these scenes within my own home… crazy? Probably. The fact that I have found my dream front door for a future house is a bit odd! But don't we all plan and dream of these crazy minor details for a home? It cannot be just me that walks down a street during Halloween/Christmas and looks at the front of a house and thinks that they have decorated it perfectly with pumpkins or lights?

Even thought Christmas has passed, I am not going to let it go so soon! The plans I have for this upcoming year excite me but I am aiming to make the Christmas decorations outdo these below. (It won't happen but I can dream right?)

I was hoping that eventually one of my friends would have pictures of Christmassy American houses but sadly they didn't see as many as I thought there would be, so these were the only pictures sufficient enough to display the beauty of it! Good luck to anyone with the same dreams and crazy plans for their future house! :)

Disney Days ♡

I had a long summer due to study leave and decided to book a last minute holiday to somewhere that I've wanted to go to for so long! Disney. 

I loved every minute if this place, even if I did only go for 3 days :(! 

I really want to go back and I'm so jealous of people that go so regularly... I just need to start saving up! 

Disney village was just too cute with all the creme houses with lights scattered over them and little old fashioned shops placed within them! It's like a dream world in there and I didn't want to leave. 

I'm hoping to go back soon and maybe visit the American one as I haven't done that in so long! So Florida here I come! :)