My Christmas essentials for the new year

Hey my lovelies and a happy new year to each and every one. So, I thought I would kick off this year with a Christmas essentials post as in, what I thought would be essential to me this year. I have also included my awesome advent calendars in this as these contain such lovely mini make up and beauty product essentials some of which are an absolute must as a mummy.

You see before you in this picture right here,

a tiny selection which I thought would be mummy useful this year which includes a huge box of Foxes biscuits, and as most mums will know a trough of some glorious crunchies with a cuppa for brunch is an absolute must when all you’ve had in a morning is brush the teeth, brush the hair, dress the child, can’t find this and can’t find that, oh look it’s there, nope gone again, where’s my keys, have we got everything and let’s go! Phew! So sitting and chilling with a good bicci to dip in your cuppa is pure heaven. Then we have the perfume which after all that rushing around can keep you feeling just a little fresher than you would without it! This Ga Ga Fame is also a new scent for me and I find it very fresh and even a little fruity which serves great as a ‘day’ smell (that’s if like me you have separate day and night smells – it just makes sense!). Next, we have a cute little pin cushion, something which I have never owned before which is surprising since I love to sew. For the past 2 years, I have just been using my fingers! Yes an absolute must for sewing lovers and now I can safely pop my pins in this beauty without losing them all over the floor for my feet to find. Woop woop!!! Glasses are next and these are just divine. I actually already have them with a black and white frame and now I have this brown and beige frame too. They are to be worn watching TV, at night and working (computer style) including on the sewing machine so now I have better eyes too (no sewn fingers for me!). The fake eyelashes can help awaken my tired eyes on bad days, hangover days or if my eyebrows fail at least I can stick them on as replacements, right! (you’d get this is you’ve read the eyebrow post). The last three items including colouring book and pencils, quote cards and stress balls are all hopefully going to help LOWER my stress! Yep that’s right I’m going to be totally stress free from using all of these (yeah right), working a full-time job, being a mummy and a wife does not allow for stress free living yet I would not have it any other way.  These gifts however will provide me with outlets for relieving stress and focusing on positives which is what I am all about. Plus the emoji stress balls make me giggle just a bit!

Moving on now to the advent calendars which I got to open every day in the run up to Christmas,

which was soooooo exciting considering I NEVER (notice the accent) get calendars for Christmas. So day by day I loved the little treats in each one. The NYX products provide you with a range of colours from the Wanderlust eyeshadow and soft matte lip cream products (all of which add to my war paint efforts to looking younger). The colours and brilliantly accurate from the colours they show and the best bit is the ninja is such a tomboy, she’s just not interested in pinching it (result)!

The ASOS calendar includes such a massive range of different products from Batiste to Nip + Fab and Elemis to Tony and Guy. It covers moisturisers, to hair products, firming products (ha yes at last I will be firm again) and even a cute little mirror and nail art. The point of this is that if you want to be a little spoilt over the Christmas period then why not treat yourself, you totally deserve it!

I love the fact that I can have this stuff just for myself, well maybe not the biscuits but the ninja will have to get her fight on if she wants the chocolate one’s cos I’m fast! Other than that they are a top shelf job,

(mummy 1 ninja 0….oh wait she can climb! Oh crap!) sharing it is then, oh well.

Thanks for reading my beauties.

Make 2017 a positive

Big hugs xxxxxx