Friday Favourites - Flowers

Flowers are a cheap and easy way of adding colour to you home, They are pretty and bright and can add a sense of fun to a room. Flowers always make me feel better, depending on my mood is dependent on what colours I will buy. The one thing I always love though are tulips. A lot of people and even florist don't like tulips but I do, I love the colours and the shape and I love that as they get older the tips get whiter. With the exception of roses and lilies flowers can last almost 2 weeks and I've even had bunches that just refuse to wilt. Tulips are my number one choice and then I like roses but as I just said they don't really last as long. I'm a strong believer in getting value for money so the longer they last the happier I am.


If they are bought for me as a gift, as a surprise from my husband or if I just buy them myself as a little treat, they are one of my loved in my home. I've even bought plants on occasion, I just have no green thumb so they die pretty quickly. Supermarkets offer a wide choice of flowers now and though they are still seasonal there are a lot that you get all year round. a £5 bunch now and then is a worth expenditure too add the smell and colour and life to my home.

Thankful Thursday

There are lots of little and big thing to be thankful. The smallest things can make a dreadful day into a good one. Stopping on occasions and appreciating the things that make you happy is a good way to lift your mood more. So I'm going to share a few things with you.

• Bright Flowers
• Starbucks with Friends
• A Clean Home
• Listening to music
• Being Silly
• Watching the Sunset
• A Working Car
• Burning a Yankee Candle
• Laughing Hard
• Sound of the Early Morning Silence
• Options Butterscotch Hot Chocolate
• Soap and Glory Hand Food
• The Smell of Freshly Cut grass
• Checking Mail for Deliveries
• Dancing to that one song that makes you move like an idiot.

Whatever you are doing this Thursday, I hope that you are having or have had a lovely day and that you have taken the time to stop and look and enjoy it.

My Birthday

My Birthday may have been almost two weeks ago, but I thought I would share some of the things I had

• Money
• Sherlock season 3 dvd
• Mama dvd
• Thor the Dark Wold dvd
• Chocolate
• Bath bits
• A dog toy
• Wine
• Flowers
• More Wine and Flower
• Malibu
• The little Mermaid Shoes
• A purple Star Balloon (yes this needed its own bullet point)
• A beautiful Swarovski necklace

Needless to say that I was spoilt, but for my birthday not only did I get gifts galore I was also made a meal by my husband who just happens to be a chef, In fact not just one two, as I also had American pancakes made for my breakfast.

While he was making the meal, I disappeared for a few hour and appeared at my best friends house where she treated me to a coffee, flowers and a balloon.

he made me my favourite meal of corn fed chicken breast, fondant potatoes and creamed cabbage with a ju made of chicken stock. For desert which was a surprise he made me profiteroles on a bed of caramel. It was stunning and I was thoroughly full after it.

Thursdays Choice: Ikea - Living Room

Can all be found on the Ikea website in Home Decoration - here

Can all be found on the Ikea Website in Living Room - here

I seem to be on more of a home kick than a beauty one this week, I have just been spending my time eyeing up all the shiny new things I could have, If I had the space, money and an eye for interior design. However, though I don't actually have any decoration sense - I can pretend. Thinking on it neither did Linda Barker or Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen, but they seemed to do alright, Changing Rooms anyone? no? ah the 90s home makeover shows were so bad!

I generally like to keep to neutral and add colour with accessories like candles, throws and cushions. I think things are more interchangable that way. Ikea, the famous flat pack company. It's not always top notch quality, but it is pretty. Going to a store is a much better experience than going online, they have beautiful displays that are set up in a way you dream was your home.

What do you think?

Friday Flowers

With some bad news this week and a health scare with my very first Asthma attack, I felt that I needed some cheering up. I don't have enough money to get myself a bunch of flowers so I resorted to looking at some pictures on the internet. I find that flowers have a great ability to cheer most me up so I have also decided to share them to cheer anyone else up that may need to look at some pretty pieces of nature.

I love daisy's there is just something about them that makes me think of summer and freshness. Tulips have always been my favorite flowers, I love the shape, the range of colors, sitting in the middle of a tulip field would be my ideal relaxation location. I also like roses and this purple one just seemed extra pretty and bright and finally some lilies, with such a variety in of lilies, I settled on the plain and simple white easter lily.

If anyone else has had a bad week I hope that these few pictures will make you smile, even if its just for a moment.