New Challenges & Fun Things

Hi guys! Happy Sunday!

Usually I write these posts of a Friday or Saturday and have them go out on a Sunday, chatting all about my week and what's going on. I bloody love these posts!

However as you know this week was The Girl Gang event, and since Thursday I've been totally exhausted to be honest! So I didn't really have time to write the past few days. However I'm here today, and I finally feel like I'm getting some of my energy back - and I wanted to check in! After all, I do love our Sunday chats.

I've started my new art journal, which was something I swore I'd do as soon as the event was over with, and I'm SO happy. I've decided I'll work on it every single day, however I feel. I might paint something (like above), collage, sketch, or just write in it. Either way, having a daily creative outlet again is lovely; I thoroughly recommend it.

My First Time Organising An Event - #GGEvent

I finally did it, I got through it; organising my first blog event has been HARD and kept me extremely busy - but my gosh it's been fun!

(Photo by Caitlin)

On Thursday, as many of you already know (and are probably tired of hearing about!) I held the very first event celebrating The Girl Gang - and it was amazing! No thanks to me, but to everyone else who made it a wonderful day!

My biggest worry by far was that people wouldn't have a good time, they would think I'm a horrible hostess or I would embarrass myself a lot. I probably DID do that last one, but oh well! I had Gary by my side all day and he was a huuuge help! From the moment we got there at Dive Bar in Manchester, he helped unpack everything, set up the raffle prizes, get photographs and basically calm me down haha. He's a babe.

Last Saturday Gary and I popped into Liverpool city center (only a few minutes walk from we live really) for the exciting Carex #ShareTheLove event happening at Mr Simms sweet shop - YAY! Not only did we get adorable photos (perfect for my Instagram haha), we got to visit one of the best sweet shops in town, and find out all about the new Carex Lovehearts products which launched June this year.

If there's one thing I want to be known for, it's that I'm a collector of fine stationery. Some people have wines, some people collect pins, stamps or dolls. Me? I'm all about those paper good. Gimme all the stickers (this is why I sell my own too haha!), give me more notecards, and I want more notebooks that I could ever realistically need. That's just who I am.

So when I heard that Ohh Deer do a stationery subscription box 'Papergang*' I was all over that shiz like a moth to a flame. I tried out July's box and it was hella effing cute!

I always seem to have an endless wishlist of things I want for our home, and there are definitely things which are more important than others. By more important I simply mean I WANT them so badly I fawn over these things regularly.

Even though I consider myself a very colourful person, I always seem to be drawn to white, clean products and hints of copper for homeware. It's something about the clean, stylish look which draws me in and makes me want to be a grown up, haha.

The six biggest things on my wishlist right now are (L to R, T to B);

1. The beautiful birdcages shown above, from Joy The Store. I don't even know why. But look at them! Beautiful.

Today I wanted to give a huge thank you to some of the brands involved with the #GGEvent I've been planning - and which happens this week!

There are a whole host of brands involved, and today I thought it might be nice to feature the guys who helped put together the goodybags. I'll be doing another post just for the raffle stuff too this week, so keep an eye out for that!

There are some really amazing brands involved, and the great thing is that there is a range of big and small brands who took the time and care to make this special for us. I am so, so grateful.

First up we have one of my favourite brands ever - GOSH. The lovely team over there sent over a lovely bunch of products for everyone's goodybag, including; lipsticks, lip liners, foundation drops, nail polish, powder, eye pencils and much more! So I'll be putting something in everyone's goodybag and each person will have something different. I can't tell you how excited I am that they're supporting The Girl Gang!

Another Sunday has crept up on us, and that means I get the chance to kick back and share with you guys my tales of the week, woo!

It's officially FOUR DAYS until #GGEvent which means I am in full panic mode, checking over goody bags, checking raffle prizes, making notes on all the brands involved so I can thank them all, etc. And basically just not sleeping haha. I'm sure it's going to be a great day though, I'm SO excited to meet everyone!

Also in the past week, as you can tell from the above photo; I've been playing with makeup again.