As mentioned, yesterday after work my Mum and I made the two hour journey up to London to attend the Laura Ashley Blog Birthday party where I FINALLY got to put the face to the names of some of my oldest blogging friends, and had a sneak preview of what is to come this festive season from Laura Ashley! There was sweet treats and special tea galore and live music by the gorgeous and talented Liz Lawrence.
The generous Laura Ashley team also laid on a wishing tree where you won a (gorgeous) prize to take home. I am treasuring my leaf necklace!

The event was wonderful, perfect hostessing and Mum and I were made to feel so very welcome. Everything was set out beautifully and I pretty much just want to buy Laura Ashley in general but if I had to pick three things then it would be those shown above; the beautiful round mirrored jewellery box, a bottle of the newly re-launched Laura Ashley perfume and these adorable little woodland creatures (especially the owl!)

Sorry for the super brief post, full coverage of the event + all my photos will be going on my blog facebook page by the weekend and I have a post planned ALL about the perfume too…it’s truly special.

A huge thank you to Laura Ashley for been so wonderfully kind, and a big HELLO to everyone I met.

xxx

I might be better known for my tweets about sweets and biscuits, but I do have a healthy eating side to me too and when the folks at Nim’s offered to send me some of their range of fruit crisps I was pretty darn excited.

• Nim’s are a unique range of innovative, delicious, crispy snacks. They are not to be confused with dried fruit, freeze-dried fruit or chewy baked fruit
• Nim’s are made from only the freshest fruit with no additives or preservatives of any kind. They are simply sliced and dried into delicious, crunchy crisps to enhance their natural flavour
• Each 22g – 24g bag of Nim’s has only 62 – 78 calories
• Nim’s are so healthy each bag counts as one of your five a day!
• Nim’s are thinner, which gives them a different texture and better flavour
• Nim’s have a large variety – kiwi, strawberry, melon, orange, pineapple, mango & pear and many more are being trialled all the time
• Each bag of Nim’s has 2 different fruits, carefully balanced to complement each other
• All fruits in Nim’s (except pineapple) have skin, core and pips left in, making them a far more wholesome and natural product 
• Nim’s are high in fibre, high in Vitamin C, fat and gluten free and are suitable for vegans, vegetarians and coeliacs. They can be eaten anytime and anywhere!
• Nim’s are packed in transparent bags so you can see for yourself how beautiful they are!

I was sent four flavours; the three you can see above plus the Melon and Orange variety. On the whole I LOVED these. The Melon and Orange I couldn’t handle, my sweet too likes sweet, which the Orange wasn’t (apparently these are the darkest dark chocolate of the fruit snack world!)
Pineapple and Mango were my overall favourite, two of my favourite fruits in portable snacking form? SOLD!

You can buy Nim’s products direct from the website or search for a local stockist. If you are looking for an alternative snack for work, or fancy trying something new/going on a health drive then give these a shot! Marvelously more-ish it’s just as well these are so good for you….
those three bags at the top of this post lasted me less than three hours. Oops.

Have you tried these? What did you think?

xxx

It might seem odd for someone who lacks in the bust department to be writing about lingerie for those more well endowed but I’ve suffered many a shopping trip with friends (and I mean suffered in the nicest possible way) where all I hear about is the lack of availability of cheap bras that are pretty as well as practical (I’ve also suffered the same sort of troubles finding smaller sizes). And it’s something that irks me, that things are still quite backwards in the lingerie department. Clothes now come to cater for all shapes and sizes, mostly at the same price and looking very similar so why can’t undergarmets follow suit? Some shops do it well; the simply change the wiring to suit the sizes, but others…well. Let’s not go there! I swear there is nothing more frustrating than spying a set you really want to buy only to find it stops after size X, or doesn’t start until size Y… I’d like to think I’m not alone in this, perhaps us bloggers should spread the world and cater for bras for all boobs?! I’d be really interested in hearing opinions on this; where do you rate and where do you hate? Got any tales to tell or rants to rave about? I would like to say, having done some shopping in Holland over the weekend that they seem to have it sorted out there; fabulous underwear shops that start at the smallest of sizes and go up to the larger ones without compromising on value or style, next time I go I’m taking a seperate case just for my small! So yeah. Rant and rave ladies. Rant and rave. xxx *sponsored post but something I do care about*

I seriously can’t get those red, sparkly Miu Miu sunglasses I posted yesterday out of my head as part of my Sunglasses Shop wishlist,

They are currently running a competition where bloggers can try their luck at winning a pair; I certainly can’t afford them so I can’t come to any harm trying! I decided to focus on how I’d style these shades up, they aren’t for a shrinking violet that’s for sure. Grabbing their OTT nature I decided to go for something so far out of my usual style that is may as well reside in another country…

What do we think? I don’t think I’d have the balls to ever wear this outfit, those glasses alone however…

How would you style them?

xxx