Merry Christmas!

Hey guys, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to the new year! I'm currently typing this from my wonderful new iPad mini courtesy of my lovely parents this holiday because once again I am sick (I swear my immune system has decided to go on holiday over Christmas). That said though I'm probably going to have to format this from my laptop anyway because the blogger app is appalling, sort it out Apple! (...please?)

Grumbling and sickness aside I had a really wonderful Christmas period, from the 22nd up until Christmas Eve I was in London with my boyfriend forcing my Christmas pixie ways upon him and just having our own little Christmas from our hotel room. For those of you who don't know I'm in a long distance relationship so being able to see someone so special this time of year really meant a lot to me (cue the eye rolls) and besides all the couplely crap he brought me Moomins which is always a huge plus!

The original plan was to visit winter wonderland but due to the horrific storm that hit the UK it was canceled, so not to put a damper on our spirits we headed into Covent Garden for a nose about before walking over to Picadilly just lapping up the Christmas spirit and having a cheeky pit stop in M&M world, which may I add A. Smells divine and B. Is bloody massive! As the night went on the storm got worse and worse so we headed back to our hotel and ordered in a pizza and played vanguard until two in the morning, because you know that's clearly the mature thing to do! The following day I also had my very first Wagamama's! This is a huge thing for me because I'm such a picky eater and I don't like trying new things but I will say it was utterly delicious, our waiter was a darling and I was full for the rest of the day which was a Christmas miracle in and of itself!

 

After a battle getting home on Christmas Eve thanks to many canceled trains I woke up Christmas morning to a lovely present opening session with my family which is always lovely with everyone in that happy sleepy state and Tub's shredding the discarded wrapping paper on the floor. In true Christmas spirit me and my little brother then proceeded to take millions of Christmas selfies, he is definitely taking after me with the camera whoring! My nan then came over and we had Christmas dinner, my dad brought a XL turkey for five people...yes it is now two days later and we're still living off it and will continue to do so for the rest of the year by the looks of things! After putting ourselves into food coma we settled down in the living room for bad TV and a game of Cluedo, who did it you may ask? We will never know, Tub's kept taking off with the pieces, so much so that professor plum no longer has a face. My dog is a tyrant!

So there's my Christmas in a nutshell, I really hope you all had a great Christmas too by the looks of all the blog posts I've seen it sure looks like it! If you were one of the unfortunate families that lost power due to the storm over Christmas I really hope you still made the most of it and are celebrating hard now the power has returned. So if any of you guys have done a Christmas post link me in the comments so I can give it a nose, if not let me know how it was or even better write one! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Love & TubTubs

Lush Review - Mask of Magnaminty

Hey guys! So I'm not sure how many of you have drifted over from my old blog but I did indeed have a temporary blog whilst I was fighting blogger for the AMP domain. So only having a few posts on that site I decided to move the few I had back over! Just thought I'd explain to those of you thinking this sounded familiar or those of you wondering why the writing style is slightly different. So without further ado lets get into a good ol' fashioned Lush review!

Mask of Magnaminty is one of Lush's better known skincare products from the permanent line and with everyone raving about it I thought I'd try it out myself.
 

The first thing I noticed when I opened the lid was the scent of it. I knew it was going to smell minty but it wasn't what I was expecting at all, I don't know if I had to high expectations on the scent but I was expecting it to smell like a packet of Polos, or maybe even slightly like toothpaste, instead the scent just reminded me of mint chewing gum that's started to lose it's flavor, a bit of a disappointment. I really do like the color of this mask and the consistency was really good and it spread over the skin easily without losing any product drown the drain. I also found I didn't have to use a lot, after doing an application on my face, my mum's and even my brother's there was only a dent in the product. You can definitely feel it working as it has a slight tingly feeling on the skin but I found it's not uncomfortable or painful just a little odd if you're someone who doesn't use face masks much (such as my brother).

When it came to washing it off i found this mask didn't stick in my eyebrows and came off in a matter of minutes. I have combination and acne prone skin, and once I'd dried my face and moisturized I can say my face was noticeably softer, didn't worsen my dry patches like I feared and did tackle my oily patches well, but to be honest with you that's all I can say for it. I found it didn't really do anything in clearing up any spots on my face even the morning after they were still there with no change at all which was a disappointment as the product description claims it's for getting rid of spots and blemishes.

So my final thoughts on this are that this mask are that it's doesn't really do much for the skin visibly as far as sorting out blemishes goes, it does however improve the texture of the skin. Everyone seems to have a different opinion on which skin type this mask would suit and mine is that people with oily or combination skin would benefit most from this mask. I'm yet to try it on my chest or back but I feel like it may be better for that rather then the face due to how little of the product you use up, though I do wish I'd gotten the smaller tub but with the long shelf life I'm sure I'll find a use for it.

RRP - £4.95 - 125g / £8.75 - 315g

Overall Rating - 5/10

Love & TubTubs

Deck The Halls!

Hey guys! So about a week ago me and my family all got together to put the Christmas decorations up which was really lovely considering we're all really busy people and the holidays are the only time in the year we actually get to do things together. So I thought I'd get you in the festive spirit by showing you some of the fruits of our labor!

Of course there had to be a cheeky Moomin thrown in there, what else would you expect from me!? This year was also the first year we got a real tree rather than the slightly naff artificial one that's been in the attic for god knows how long. I can also assure you that we did put more decorations than lights on the tree but all the pictures of the fancy bits and bobs came out blurry. Major fail on my part!

Something I love doing at Christmas time to add a super cozy feel to my space is to wrap fairy lights around things like the headboard of my bed or my curtain rail. Another thing that is not only beautiful to look at but smell delicious are scented candles, my favorite two this year are both by Yankee Candle and are "Cranberrys Ice" and "Candy Apple Wreath". Anything with a spicy scent to it is also a huge winner in my books!

Let me know in the comments your favorite ways to decorate at Christmas time or if you've got any pictures of your decorations on your blog leave me a link I'd love to have a look! Winter is the perfect time to make your space cozy and comforting after all with the days getting shorter and a weather taking a turn for the worst chances are you'll be spending a lot of time indoors so lets all make the most of it!

Love & TubTubs

 

The Festive Season Best & Worst

Hey guys! So I'm having a bit of an issue with technology at the moment,my laptop is slowly but surely falling apart on me and a few days ago the USB drives gave out...yes all four of them. So with this predicament I can't upload pictures from my camera to my laptop and have to do it on a friends computer. Then stick them on Google drive to upload them, and it's all a bit of a hassle so here is my question for you lot! Would you prefer me to use stock pictures for the next couple of posts I have up or hang on the extra few days so I can use original pictures? Let me know in the comments!

So not wanting to leave you all post-less whilst I sort out my camera struggles I thought I would sum up my best and worst things about the festive season. I know it's not the most exciting of things in the world but I didn't want you all to think I'd abandoned you again and it also means I don't need any new pictures (see some great initiative going on there!) and for those wondering why I'm being so pessimistic with the worst side of it, I need to appease my scrooges who I know are still lurking ;).

The Best

• No matter where you go town centers are always covered in lights and look magical
• Snow makes your skin look so much better in pictures
• Students get time off so it's the perfect opertunity to catch up with friends
• Shops have really awesome novel things in them at really low prices
• Pugs in jumpers...need more be said
• There is a perfectly reasonable excuse to stop dieting and eat everything in sight
• Presents! ...Let's be honest I'd be a lier if I didn't put this on here
• The little Christmas markets that pop up everywhere
• Christmas songs in every shop (I know that one is debatable but I love it!)
• Working in retail and having to wear a santa hat as part of your uniform
  

Some cheeky snaps from last years snowfall

The Worst

• The total havoc the weather plays on your skin, chapped lips anyone?
• When public transport grinds to a halt because of the weather
• Mince pies...ew
• The ridiculous amount of stress that is caused from last minute shopping
• Bloating...god damn tins of sweets
• Looming January exams
• Children who think it's okay to lob balls of ice at you...Just no. 

Okay so there's my best and worst lists, do you agree with any of the above & if you were to add one more thing to each list what would they be? Let me know in the comments! I'm sorry this post is a bit of a naff one but I figured that's better then leaving you with nothing, i'll get the camera malarkey sorted soon pinky promise! And besides...cute pug pictures make up for all right?

Love & TubTubs

Head Full of Flowers Interview

Hey guys! Just to let you all know I recently did a collaboration with Lizzy from Head Full of Flowers and I'm really excited to share it with you all. For those of you who used to follow my old blog it's a similar principle of interviewing bloggers and it's really quite cool to be on the opposite side of it all, lets be honest who doesn't like talking about themselves...that's the reason tags exist!

So for all of you who are interested you can read the interview right here!

Click me!

For those of you who don't want to read any more of my ramblings she also does other little bits and bobs such as projects and the occasional fashion related thing. Definitely check her out for a good read!

This post looked a little bare so have a lovely pug pirate

I'm afraid that's it for this very brief blog post but don't worry I'm not going to fob this off and count it as a real post towards my "monthly post target" (Yep that's a thing now!). I do still want to force my festive ways upon you whilst it's still December and I have my last exam of the semester on Tuesday so after that I'm free to blog until my hearts content. I'm spending a chunk of Christmas break in London but I'm planning to pay the extortionate Travelodge WiFi prices just so I can keep you lovely lot updated. I'm just that dedicated ;)

Love & TubTubs

Old Friends New Beginings

Hey guys thought I'd give you a little weekly update of what's been going on in my world as of late. As some of you may know if you follow me on twitter I had a practical exam for biology on Thursday which I well and truly ballsed up (Fuck you plants, fuck you!). Not going to lie that really got me down. I knew the material and I just made one really stupid mistake that I knows cost me a few marks, I know it's only a couple but I have a bit of a perfectionist streak and I'd rather get something done well or not do it at all, guess that's another personality trait I need to work on (I'm gathering a fair few new years resolutions mind)!

Me trying to do practical science

On a lighter note I got to spend my weekend catching up with some old girlfriends that I haven't seen in a while which was much needed! Don't get me wrong I love having my guy friends about but you just can't drag them shopping and stick a face mask on them, but oh how I wish I could haha. On the Saturday I met up with Laura who I last saw on Halloween, we went into Reading to get some much needed Christmas shopping done, and bloody hell she is quite an enabler, don't think my bank balance will be forgiving me anytime this year. On a positive though I now have all my presents done and dusted and only the wrapping to go (Eeep I adore wrapping gifts, I'm a bit of an odd one really) which means I can spend the remains of my dwindling bank balance on having a good time over the Christmas break. After our shopping spree and enough KFC to induce week long food comas we went down to the riverside to have a few cocktails in a nice little pub called The Slug & Lettuce, it was only about six in the evening by this point so it was lovely to just have a few drinks somewhere really chilled out with no loud music and no one vomiting in the corner...nice.

Rumberry Mojitos!

On the Sunday I then met up with a lovely girly called Lily-Jasmine, who I haven't seen in about three and a half years now! It's crazy how time flies and I really need to have more catch up sessions like this because it's so nice to rekindle old friendships and it was like we'd never been apart! After a quick shop around town (yes more shopping *slaps wrist*) we went back to her house where I introduced her to the wonderful world of blogger and she showed me the wonderful ways of journal writing. I really think I'm going to start keeping a journal you know? As much as I love you guys I can't put my entire life onto the internet so I think it'll be a good way for me to keep a record of what's been happening in my life. As this year has proved, so much can change in a year!

So all in all this weekend has been a success! I really do think it's important to make time to catch up with old friends because you never know what may come of it and at the end of the day as Lily rightly said your friends are the ones who are always going to be there when all else fails. So guys that's enough of my ramblings for one evening as I'm clearly just writing this post to get out of writing my Chemistry Presentation (good old Arenes...Kill me). But seriously, pick up your phone and text a friend you haven't in a while, you never know where it could lead.

Love & TubTubs

Christmas Adverts of 2013

Hey m'lovlies, Just a quick post for you all before I head off to sixth form for the day and apologies to all you scrooges but it's another Christmas related one! I just wish to express my undying love for the Three Phone Networks Christmas advert, if you are yet to see it please put everything in your life on hold and take a minute to watch the video which is conveniently embedded below.

I'm sorry Coca-Cola but your festive advert has been well and truly trumped this year, it's a pug, in antlers, on a sled, being dramatic...I digress. I would also like to give an honorable mention to the KFC advert this winter, it's one of those adverts that doesn't match its product at all but it just works, unfortunately I can't find a video for you of that one but keep an ear out for it. It's half an ad break long, you can't miss it!

So are there any other Christmas adverts that you think should be in the running for "Best Christmas Advert of 2013"? Let me know in the comments! Or even better have you seen any adverts this year that have made you just want to switch off the TV? Sorry Argos but I can't stand your little blue aliens, they're irritating and all in all a bit weird.

Love & TubTubs

Tubby Turns Two!

Hey M'lovelies, so if it hasn't been made apparent yet I am a proud mother of a wonderful fur baby and today my special little girl turned two! So here is a post dedicated to my wonderful Tubs with some fun facts and an array of pictures from over the past two years bound to make you squeeze the nearest object to you in total cuteness overload.

1. She is a pug.

2. She is 80% blind in her right eye.

3. She acts more like a cat then a dog and adores cat toys.

4. She can get herself up the stairs but not down them.

5. Whenever we're putting the washing on the line she steals and hordes the green clothes pegs (only the green ones... Color blind my ass!).

6. She can't do hard flooring and will slide until something blocks her path (normally a cupboard of some description).

7. She has many nicknames; TubTub, Tubby Custard, Tubby Monster, Chubby Tubby and Mrs Toasty to name a few...I'm surprised she actually knows her own name!

8. She smells like toast, constantly, and we have no idea why.

9. Me and my family have taken to singing "I knew you were trouble" whenever she walks into a room, yes you read that right my dog has a theme tune!

10. She has a big brother called Ash who is a Golden Labrador and she like to hide under him when she's scared.

11. If you have toast and marmite she will indeed mug you for it.

12. She has had surgery on her nose to help her breathe more easily, my dog has had a nose job!

13. She is scared of space hoppers, gnomes & sponges

14. Once when we were cutting her nails she let out a human like scream whist we were trying to get her to stay still...we get it done professionally now.

15. She is total mischief but I love her to bits and would be lost without her!

And now I present, Tubby spam! Please excuse me young face and bad hair...we all make mistakes?

A fair few of these pictures were taken on my Cannon before I got the hang of using it hence the fuzzyness so you'll have to excuse my amateur photography!

Love & TubTubs

Filming A Music Video!?

Hey m'lovelies! This post is so overdue considering the events that I'm about to unfold happened back in October, however it was way to awesome of an experience to not share with you all. So on the 26th of October I ventured up to Piccadilly Circus to take part in the shooting of the new Wings of Pegasus music video!

So for those of you who don't know who WoP are, they're a band fronted by the fabulous man that is Fil Henley, more commonly known as "Fil with an F" from The X-Factor 2013. Before Fil made his way onto the X-Factor and into our hearts WoP filmed a music video to their song "That's Metal" which I will enable below for you all. However, after the attention he received after his ITV appearance the decision was made to reshoot the video and give the fans a chance to get involved. This opportunity is what lead to me sitting on a train to London at 7am brimming with excitement.

 

 So I arrived at Piccadilly Circus with my partner in crime and camera in hand where I saw Fil and the crew starting to set up for the shoot, this is where I had a problem, I'm awful at talking to people I don't know, even more so when they're well known. So after a few minutes of lurking I finally found the balls to say hi to people which resulted in me meeting a lovely girl who was soon to become my exercise buddy running laps of the plaza with me. So here's the basic set up of the shoot, Fil runs around Piccadilly shirtless playing guitar with crowds of fans around him going off the same theme as the original video. The shoot consisted of about six takes in total and god damn it I was determined to get in some shots!

After about the third shot me and Ann decided standing about smiling wasn't getting us anywhere and we decided to go full out. This of course involved making extensive plans of action for every shot and running around as fast as a pair of high heeled docs will allow, my old PE teacher would of been so proud of me! In the end it all paid off as we got a good headbanging session with Fil in and various other glimpses for us singing our hearts out, now all there is to do is wait until the video is realised in 2014 to see if we actually make an appearance exciting stuff! 

Picture By Terry Payman: Can you spot us?

After the shoot ended and the crew left we got to have a good talk with Fil and he signed our flyers and even gave us free t-shirts. Him and the crew were lovely and the whole experience was definitely worth the hours in the cold and the sore feet in the morning. I've always wanted to be part of a music video shoot regardless of how small a part I had and now I've finally done it and it's something to tick off the bucket list!

Are any of you guys fans of wings of pegasus? Is this is the first time you've heard of them, if so give them a listen and what do you think? I'll catch up with you guys very soon!

Love & TubTubs

Christmas is now Socially Acceptable!

Hey m'lovelies, So it's officially socially acceptable to start looking forward to Christmas at long last and nothing says Christmas quite like your head of year walking around the library singing festive songs. However, as I go to a sixth form full of (utterly wonderful) nutters, the Christmas cheer was more along the lines of "oh I wish it could be christmas everyday, then the shops would all be shut and everyone will starve"...Excuse me?

I'm such a Christmassy person so the second people start putting up trees and the markets are in town I'm all over it! For those of you that live in London I highly recommend going to the market taking place in Waterloo beside the London Eye, especially at night, nothing will get you in the spirit quicker then genius magicians, mulled wine and copious amounts of food. Alongside the festive markets and food there is something I like even more about Christmas and that is the excuse to do large amounts of shopping. Now I don't like to blow my own trumpet but I'm pretty damn good with finding Christmas presents for people and it's a great feeling getting to watch someone open something you'll know they'll love. However, this year trying to find a present for my boyfriend is proving to be a mammoth task made even harder by the fact we've put a budget on presents. So if anyone has any ideas on what to buy an aspiring Norse God for under £20 for Christmas let me know in the comments!

Carrying on with the shopping theme I was in the Oxford Street Primark the other week and I saw rails and rails of their really popular tartan dresses, we all know the ones I'm talking about right? However lack of funds and a comment that the dress looked like school uniform made me decide to leave it there on the rail...and god damn it's been following me ever since. Therefore the only logical explanation is that fate is working in magical ways and that me and that dress are meant to be together and I'm now setting out on a quest to find it and make it mine, perfect reasoning right?

The dress of Gods and School Girls alike

Aside from all the festive cheer going on in my life right now my one and only true love...Tubs, went in for her spay operation today and although it was a success she's been feeling a bit sorry for herself moping about the house. I'm hoping she'll perk up soon, I'm not going to lie I was having thoughts about her having puppies so I could fill my life with pugs, puggles, chugs and Pom-A-Pugs...okay maybe getting her spayed was the best decision for everyones sanity. Yet I still can't help but feel bad for my little ball of chub sulking in front of the fire. 

Bad quality of a picture of a disgruntled TubTub

So have you guys all been getting in the Christmas spirit lately or are you reading this post and rolling your eyes at my enthusiasm for gimmicky little things? If you're the former then great we can all get together in our Santa hats for a night of Christmassy fun, if you're the latter...well more yule logs for me you scrooges (I'm kidding I love you all really)

Love & TubTubs

Where on Earth Have You Been Missy!?

Hey m'lovelies, it's been a while hasn't it? Though my absence has all been in good reason which I will explain to you all in the next couple of paragraphs!

So recently I've been having a bit of a midlife crisis, quite sad considering that I'm yet to even turn twenty but I digress. As you all know from the post I put up just before my disappearance I got really sick, although it was nothing overly serious it completely wiped me out. I wasn't blogging, I wasn't going to sixth form I was simply existing, eating my body weight in mini rolls, playing the Sims and generally feeling a bit sorry for myself. Do to the large amounts of time I had on my hands I ended up doing a lot of thinking, a lot of over-thinking, and spent the fortnight contemplating every life decision I've made so far.

As I'm sure many of you are experiencing or have experienced at some point there comes a time in your life where you have to grow up, where you have to start making these huge life decisions. What do I want to do with my life? Am I studying the right things? Am I wasting my time? How do I work a washing machine? All these questions, and the reality is the only person that can truly answer these questions is you (minus the washing machine one, parents can be rather useful there). After a lot of thinking (and a lot more packets of mini-rolls) I came to some important conclusions about where I am in my life and I'm happy to report that I am indeed still very set on going to university and studying in my chosen profession and with all my university applications finalized I'm going full speed ahead with that.

Something I'd been forgetting lately

With all this going on I also gave my blog some serious thought, when I started blogging it was a hobby to help me get away from the intensity of my studies. But as people actually started to follow me and I realised people were reading my ramblings I suddenly felt obliged to keep on top of things and to do more reviews as that's where my main traffic comes from. As much as I love writing reviews for you guys they do take up a lot of time and buying products also can add up to be quite expensive and I realised I couldn't do this every single post. With me being such an all or nothing person this led to me avoiding my blog all together which makes me sad because this was such a release for me. So I made the decision to come back and just do things my way, old Alexi Metal Pirate style. I can't wait to update you guys on all the great plans I have ahead of me and maybe even share a snippet or two of my new found enlightenment with you (I'm clearly now going to become a great philosopher).

To long didn't read? In short I'm back! I want to carry on blogging but I feel like i haven't found my niche yet, and you know what? That's okay! So until I do this blog may be a chaotic mix of me going on about my life, the odd review and tutorial or maybe even things that are completely out of the ordinary! All I can say is that I love each and every one of you and I hope you'll sick with me while I try and figure this thing called life out, and hey, even if I don't you can read the chronicles of Alexi trying and failing to get her life in order and if nothing else may just make you feel a little bit better about yourselves haha!

Love & TubTubs

Fitness Fridays: A day in the life of my diet

Hey m'lovelies, so when I said I was going to start FF I received an email from a lovely girl who wanted to see what I was eating day to day on my calorie restricted diet. Now i'm no nutritionist and my diet is far from good but it's a damnsite better then it was when I was eating takeouts every other day, probably still a bit carb heavy but I'm taking in so much less saturated fat and my body's really thanking me for it!

Now I took the pictures for this blog three weeks ago and have only just gotten around to writing it (oops!) but a little bit of background is that on this particular day I wasn't at home and was looking at potential universities so this is in a scenario where I was eating lunch out but it still gives you the general idea of what kind of things i'm eating during the day.

Breakfast was a pot of golden syrup poridge, poridge is so good for you, syrup maybe not so much but personally I can't stand the taste of porridge unless it's sweetened. I was up at 6am and in for a long day so this was great for slow realise energy and did tide me over until my late lunch.

Lunch was a M&S duck and hosin sauce wrap, now I like to think these are really good for you because of the protein and salad, however the reality of the situation is duck does have a far amount of fat in it and white tortilla wraps aren't exactly a shining example of health but everything in moderation! Besides, these are probably in the list of my top five favorite foods ever because they are utterly delicious!

Dinner was a king prawn stir fry with rice, sweetcorn, onion and broccoli. If you want to make this healthier I would definitely recommend using brown rice rather then white because it's so much better for you however this is what I had in my cupboards and this is what I made do with. Stir frys are my favorite thing to cook at the moment because they're so quick and filling and you can put pretty much anything you want in there. Dinner was followed by a bowl of light vanilla ice-cream, at only 40kcals a scoop I highly recommend this to any dieters with a sweet-tooth.

So that makes up the bulk of my diet for the day, throughout the day I try to drink as many fluids as I can, if you're not a huge water lover like me I highly recommend supermarket own flavored water, just make sure it's the ones with only a couple of calories because some brands can sure pack a lot of extra crap into something that's seemingly healthy! If I get peckish throughout the day I tend to snack on sugar free jellys however if I need something a bit more subtancial I find something light like an apple will tide me over until my next meal.

So hope you guys enjoyed the first post of this series, I'm really looking forward to it because I've just started up my health kick again and I can't wait to share with you what i'm learning. Until next time!

Love & TubTubs

Being Sick Sucks!

Hey m'lovlies, so as you may have noticed I fell off the face of the blogging world for just over a week, which is such a pain considering I'd finally gotten myself into a routine. But for the first time in my blogging career I actually have a decent reason for not being active, I'm really really ill. Boo!

So just to fill you guys in a bit without going into any graphic details I've been feeling a bit ill for a little but and assumed it was a winter bug that was going around and didn't think anything of it. Now I'm a pro at convincing myself I'm dying and Googling my symptoms so it would be that the one time something was genuinely wrong that I dismiss it *sigh*. So I went into A&E last Sunday and they drugged me up on painkillers before sending me home so unfortunately I'm still waiting about on my local healthcare service to have some more tests done.

So due to this blogging isn't the only thing that's taken a hit, I'm really far behind on sixth form work and had to miss out on hours at my job. So today I've just been playing catch up trying to get everything back in order before Monday when I have to return to sixth form and just get on with things. Blogging should return to normal next week though so don't think I've abandoned you lovely lot because I've really missed seeing your comments! Side note this post was a lot longer and went into a lot more detail, then my web browser crashed and I lost it all so this will have to do for now, sorry!

I hope you're all well and I'll see you next week!

Love & TubTubs

OOTD - Glam Rockesqe

Hey Guys! Just a quick OOTD for you, I tried to find a grungy background but alas down the back of my garden shed is the best I could do. This is just a slightly goth rocker outfit with a little glamor coming in from the heels. Enjoy!

• Top - Kill Star (On ASOS)
• Leggings - Oasis
• Studded Wedges - New Look
• Lipstick - Revlon Black Cherry

 Love & TubTubs

Fitness Friday's!

Hey guys! So today I'm going to finally talk about something that people have been asking me to do ever since I entered the wonderful world of blogging, that being my weight loss! So if you follow me on twitter you'll know that at the start of this year I made a new years resolution to start losing weight. Over the years I've been on so many diets but inevitably I've always ended up back at square one, this time i was adamant I wasn't going to let that happen.

So today will be the first of my new "Fitness Friday" series, now this doesn't mean that every single Friday I'm going to upload a fitness blog post as that just wouldn't work out with my schedule and I don't want to make promises I can't keep, not to mention that coming up with something new and different every week on a single subject could prove to be pretty tricky! So i'll be uploading posts for this series as the ideas come and i'll keep a log of them in the sidebar so they'll all be in one place for you!

Quick background on my weight loss so far, I started the process on January first 2013 and it's been a slow steady process with me taking months out here and there due to personal reasons etc, however making sure that I maintained my current weight during those months out. I hit my first weightloss goal back in July of losing 20lbs and this is when the after picture shown below was taken.

After & Before

My ultimate goal is to of lost 42lbs by the end of this process, now unlike most dieters I haven't put a strict time on this goal and another key thing about this is that my emphasis is now on becoming a healthier person rather then about my weight (This wasn't the case at the start but that's probably a whole blog post in itself). So over this series I want to share with you the things I've picked up that actually work and the habits that I've found that can actually be reasons as to why the weight isn't shifting.

So let me know in the comments any particular posts you want to see in this series and I hope this is useful to some of you out there.

Love & TubTubs