Blogmas: Christmas Day

So its pretty safe to say attempting to do blogmas while working 35 hours a week as well as doing all your uni work is pretty hard to do. So I apologise - On Christmas Eve I finished work and drove the hour and a half drive to home. But I did manage to take photos of the majority of the day on Christmas day.

Here are the photos from the day, hope you all had a wonderful day too filled with love and laughter. 

 Coming down to mountains of presents in the morning!

 Traditional breakfast in the Sedgwick household - Strawberries and chocolate

 All my presents - Me being totally spoilt.

 The Swallows dancing around the house, it was beautiful.

 Dinner is served

 Grandpa not knowing what to do with the Turkey

 Mum's boyfriend taking control!

 Santa races!

 I won!

 My two little babies

We had a lovely day playing games and doing all sorts, we didn't even turn on the TV once which is actually a first I think, but we were far too busy having fun. I will do a Christmas Haul post soon, and that will be an extra long one as I got SO much.
Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas

Help With Secret Santa

Hello lovelies, my gosh I am so sorry at how rubbish i've been at blogmas. I work in retail and I have been so busy, its been crazy. so this time of year - there is a lot of present buying going around, and one common thing that a lot of groups of friends or work colleagues do, is Secret Santa. So I thought (as i've had to do it myself) is find some great gifts under 10 pounds that will hopefully help you find some inspiration to find yours.

One thing that will never really disappoint is a candle, especially a Yankee one! No matter what age the person you are buying for is, they will still love a good Yankee candle and especially with there amazing Christmas scents out. The small jars are only £7.99 and you still have a few pounds left to buy some chocolates or something else small.










The next one is the books, you can get so many amazing little books that people will actually really love! Urban Outfitters is great for little books like these, or WHSmith & Waterstones. Or have a look online on sites like notonthehighstreet.com.

As we are all bloggers here, we all have an obsession with makeup.. so why not buy something you've been dying to try out for a friend! There are tons of makeup that can be affordable and you might just discover something you want to buy too and show us all. 

Another thing that has been a godsend for me is boots! they have some amazing deals on brands like Ted Baker, Jack Wills, Laura Ashley.. all amazing gifts that are all 3 for 2! I got my grandma, dad and mum all in one there - So go check stuff out! 

Sorry this post has been short and sweet, I promise things will calm down for me soon as I enjoy blogging so much and its been missing in my life for the past week. Tell me what you guys got in your secret santa!

Blogmas: Day 10!

As if it is the 10th of December already! Time is flying by, and I am not too far behind on my Christmas shopping this year, but this post is about my Christmas wishlist for this year.

First, and I know I am pushing my luck a bit here - but it is a Michael Kors watch. I got a bag for my birthday and I just think everything about the brand is beautiful.

Next is a gel nail kit, basically instead of spending about 20 pounds every time I want to get my nails done, I get this and it will work out so much cheaper. Now for my job we have to have our nails painted and looking nice but if I just used normal nail varnish it would chip it about 10 minutes, so this will be perfect and will save me sooo much money!

I am also in desperate need of some new winter boots, my trusty chelsea boots have recently failed me and have started to have a little hole in the bottom so I really need some flat (ish) chelsea boots of some kind! Boohoo is somewhere that never disappoints.











And just for some little stocking filler kind of things, I've been wanting a yankee candle car jar for my car since i've got him now so hopefully Christmas will be good to me.





I also really enjoy just getting little wintery bits and bobs that can be useful, like hats and scarfs and stuff. My mum is usually quite good at getting those little bits so thats about it really for this year!

Let me know what you guys have been pining for over the Christmas season and what is on your wishlists!

Blogmas: Day 9!

Pictures of where you live

I've done this day a little earlier because I was home for a few days from University and when the post did pop up I would still be at Universtiy. I went on a little walk with my dogs and this is just a little bit of the village I live in up in the Lake District, I promise if it snows there will be loads more! 

View from my front door

If you look extra close, you can see my little car parked.

 My two perfect little pups

 I tried really hard to get the snowy fells in the background, and kind of failed.. but look close and you may see them!

Just a snippet into my tiny little village that I call home, I can't wait for it to snow and look even more magical! (fingers crossed it does this year!!)