Gossip Girl

I know, I'm really late get into this, but now I'm hooked.

I was in the local second hand entertainment shop last week and came across the first season of Gossip Girl for £3.59 - so I though it was well worth a go...and I was right.

If you'e never seen it, it's an American drama about privileged kids in New York and what they get up to - no more, no less. The actors won't win Oscars and the plot is pretty obvious but they're a bitchy bunch of characters in pretty dresses - exactly what you need for an hour after work don't you think? My new guilty pleasure!



Picture from Entertainment Weekly

Summer shoes

Hello everyone!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend, shame it's Monday already ay?

I had a wonderful time at my friend's wedding, and went for the strapless black and white number in the end, even though I quickly found out that it was a little too big. Dancing in a strapless dress that doesn't quite fit isn't the easiest thing to do!

I also had the chance to pop to the shops and came across these little beauties...that were way comfier than my wedding heels.

 

 

 

Nothing particularly special but they do look cute with leggings and jeans - especially now that summer is on its way - 16C tomorrow - woo! Little things...

 

 



 

 

 

I can't wait for summer when I can wear shorts or cute skirts with these. The Other Half always moans that I have inappropriate footwear - he can't really complain about these, can he?

 

 



Happy Friday!

Happy Friday everyone!

So I decided not to decide on the dress for the wedding and have packed the blue one and the black and white one - as indecisive as ever!

I hope you all have lovely plans for the weekend - enjoy!

 

 

 

Wedding outfit

Hello all you lovely people!

So, this weekend I have a wedding on Anglesey - a friend from my previous job is getting married!

And tonight I've been trawling through my wardrobe trying to find something nice, ahem, decent, to wear. To be honest, I'm not a very dressy person - there's no better feeling than finding a cute dress that I can wear with tights and boots, but I'm just not a frilly dress and heels kind of girl.

However, I had three options. And buying anything new was not an option thanks to the failed survey and paying for our oh so lovely solicitors!

So, dress number one is a black and gold number from Peacocks. A dress I wore a lot of over the Christmas and New Year period as it's a little glitzy and I could wear some cool black tights and gold accessories with it.

But, it's also a tight dress. And as I've put on a bit of weight (oops!) since Christmas, it just doesn't feel quite as nice anymore.

Dress number two is a loose blue dress I bought in Tesco last year for a summer wedding.It was a lovely dress to wear during the heat wave we had and was bright for a change, instead of the usual blacks and greys.

And dress number three is my favourite, and might be the one for this weekend. I bought this dress years ago in Bay Trading (does it still exist?). I needed a fancy dress for a university ball and this seemed to fit the brief.

It makes you feel all girly and pretty and even though I'm not a frilly dress and heels girl really, this one sure does make you feel like a lady - especially when you're dancing and the layers swirl around you. Could this be the winner?

Right, one more trial run with tights and accessories before I have to pack. It's getting late and I need some sleep.

The stresses of buying a house

So I think I mentioned in another post that me and the Other Half recently had an offer accepted on a house - our first house.

Unfortunately, after waiting a couple of months for the mortgage to be accepted (everything takes sooo long), signing a million forms, and getting a date for the survey. We've had to walk away.

It's all over the internet that moving house can be one of the most stressful things you can do, along with getting married and getting divorced. But I though the actual stress came from arranging all the viewings and actually moving - you know, packing everything up and then unpacking all that stuff. How naïve was I?

I'd been very calm for the last few months and trying not to get too excited about the house as we hadn't actually 'bought' it yet. But it's hard not to look at bathroom tiles and kitchen units and picturing yourself living in the house you want.

But the survey didn't go well. We'd seen some damp and a couple of small cracks and family members who are in the building trade had assured us they needed sorting but were not the end of the world. But we missed one vital crack, the important crack.

The surveyor has sent us the report full of expensive recommendations and so that's that - back to square one.

Unfortunately, the prices in our ideal area have flown up over the last few weeks and properties don't even get a chance to go online before they're snapped up. So, we're considering different parts of the city (did I mention I live in Cardiff? So yeah, I live in Cardiff). 

I'm devastated that our 'home' will no longer be ours but also a little excited at the prospect of looking at bigger houses for less money...even if it does mean looking in different areas. You never know, this might be the best thing that's happened to us.

Pink Owl Cushion

And the randomness continues...

A few weekends ago I went to Ikea - not needing anything, but of course, coming out having bought armfuls of frames, tealights and this awesome cushion cover.

 

I just love that it's so bright and doesn't go with any of the furniture in our living room - why not ay!
 



The Other Half was less than enthusiastic about my purchase but I think secretly he likes it now - the two birds look like they've lived there for years.

Custard and White Chocolate Cookies

Ready for some more baking peeps?

I had a bad day in work and so decided that cookies would solve all my problems. And you know what? They did. Well, more or less, I still have too many things to do and am still waiting for the survey to be completed on our new house (Ooh, I should have a post on this shouldn’t I?) but for half an hour I was pretty damn happy.

Ah, the little things in life.

So I trawled through the Good Food website (can you tell by now that this is my go-to website for recipes?) and, ignoring all nutritional information, came across Custard and White Chocolate Cookies – well, I wasn’t going to say no to them now was I? Especially as the description was “A chocolate chip cookie and custard cream in one - super-simple and they'll keep in the biscuit tin for a fortnight” – ha, really? They won’t last more than a few hours in our house!

And this is why...

They’re super simple to make and don’t need many ingredients, although I might put a few extra chunks of chocolate in the mix next time.

And the result? Really delicious custard cream type cookies, as promised. The best cookies I’ve made in a while. Shame I’ve scoffed most of them.

Anyone have any cookie recipes they’d like to share?