AD - My Birthday + Gift Ideas From Moonpig

Hey beaut's!

Yesterday it was my BIRTHDAY!!! Yay!!! I must admit my birthday felt a little bit strange this year, firstly because it was on a Bank Holiday and secondly theres still a global pandemic going on which still scares the life out of me and I have to admit it's put me off going out a lot still, I'll get there though I'm sure! 

Get The Lowdown On Design Bundles - How They Can Help You

Hey beaut's!

When it comes to being a blogger designs and visuals are super important, you want your readers to get a feel of your style and of course you want to make a good, lasting impression. A huge part of blogging is of course your socials, it's the way we spread our work and content as far as we can on the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Tumblr plus more. All of this sharing and creating wicked edits can be such a time consuming thing for us bloggers and I for one am all about finding something that's going to save me a lot of time and faffing about with image re-sizing, creating designs and what not, that's where Design Bundles come in.

If your new to Design Bundles their an affordable site that sells digital products such as graphics, templates, mock ups, patterns, illustrations and craft files. Its basically a blogger or social media lovers dream, you can browse over 150,000 marketplace products so your literally spoilt for choice but the social media mockup design bundles are where the party's at for me, there a brilliant solution to the time consuming and creativity draining issue of social media that's for sure.

The mock up designs are so amazing as you don't have to worry about sizing and cropping. All you have to do is just add in your own image and text and then you are able to create your showcase really easily and it so professional looking too. Personally I love this for Pinterest, I love Pinterest and always have love hearts in my eyes at some peoples gorgeous mock-ups on there, so now I'm very happy I can now do my own easily! I had a play around and came up with a couple of images myself, little testers shall we say and I love them! I just love how the designs are personal to you because you get to edit them how you like and add the text of your choice but the designs are all taken care of, yay!

Other useful things for us bloggers to use the mock-ups for are things like business cards - if your really wanting to promote your blog and get yourself out there these can be quite the essential, you can also do t-shirt mock-ups if your looking to do merchandise. The mock-ups are great for personal use to, t-shirts for occasions like hen-do's, birthday party's and stags! You can personalise cups, you can even create your own wall art mock-ups which is great if you have any funny family phrases that you use as you'd never find those sort of quotes or jokes on wall art in a shop! 

Another fab thing to note is that Design Bundles also offer 24/7 technical support online so you don't have to worry if you don't feel confident or if your struggling to begin with as there is always someone there that can help you tackle any problems that you may occur. I think this is a great feature because when I'm new to anything I could always use a little help so knowing there will be help available at anytime is a godsend!

Have you used Design Bundles before beaut's? I'd love to know!



* This is a collaborative post. All writing and opinions are my own!

50 Autumnal Blog Post Ideas!

Hey beaut's!

I just adore this time of the year, the cold crisp days, autumn leaves, hot chocolates, knitwear, boots, spicy/warming candles, pumpkin carving and of course the build up to Christmas! I also love to blog more around this time of the year too, and I seem to get more creative on my instagram feed, so after sharing 30 autumnal blog post ideas last year I thought I'd up the ante and throw a few more ideas into the autumnal pot, so heres 50 more if your looking for a bit of of inspo.

1. Share Some Autumnal/Halloween Recipes.

2. Favourite Dark Lippies.

3. Share Your Pumpkin Patch Visit.

4. Autumn Makeup Favourites.

5. DIY Autumn Decor.

6. Sharing Your Perfect Cosy Night In.

7. Autumn Nail Polish Picks.

8. Favourite Autumn Candles.

9. Your Favourite Halloween Movies.

10. What's In Your Autumn Makeup Bag.

11. Share How You Decorated Your House For Halloween.

12. Do The Autumn Tag.

13. Pumpkin Carving Tips.

14. How To Create The Perfect Autumnal Flatlay For Your Instagram Pics.

15. Favourite Autumnal Outfit.

16. Slow-Cooker Recipes.

17. Autumn OOTD.

18. Autumn Skincare Routine.

19. Autumnal Drinks Recipes

20. Favourite Knitwear.

21. Autumn Homeware Wish List.

22. TV Favourites - Autumn Edition.

23. Share A Pumpkin Recipe.

24. Autumn Look Book.

25. Share Your Favourite Autumn Props.

26. Things You Can Do On A Rainy Day.

27. Autumnal Haul.

28. Autumn Boots Collection.

29. Create An Autumnal To Do List/Bucket List

30. Halloween Outfit Ideas.

31. Share Your Coat Wish List.

32. What You Eat In A Day.

33. Autumn Evening Routine.

34. How To Style A New Autumnal Piece You've Added To Your Wardrobe.

35. Favourite Autumnal Eye Look.

36. Netflix Favourites.

37. Get Crafty And Share Your Painted Pumpkins.

38. Share Your Autumn Essentials.

39. Best Books To Read During Autumn.

40. Cosy Night In Essentials.

41. Share Your Halloween Look.

42. What You Bought This Month - Autumnal Edition.

43. Share The Things You Like To During The Autumn Season.

44. Halloween On A Budget.

45. Share Your Autumnal Finds In Poundland/B&M/Home Bargains.

46. Share Your Favourite Autumn Bloggers.

47. Share Your Favourite Autumnal Instagram Accounts.

48. Let Us In On Your Favourite Soup Recipe.

49. How To Host An Epic Halloween Party.

50. Where To Buy The Best Seasonal Blog/Instagram Props.

I hope this gave you a few ideas if your planning on doing lots more autumnal blog posts and Instagrams this year like me! I'd love to hear some of your ideas to beaut's!

Cosy Autumn Date Idea's That Don't Cost A Penny!*

Hey beaut's!

With - dare I say it - Christmas creeping ever closer the autumn months seem to be the perfect time to reign it in a bit and start saving those pennies for crimbo shopping however, we still want to enjoy autumn with our loved ones and of course indulge in some dates don't we! So I've put together a few date idea's - some of which are indoors -  that are sure to save you some money and of course have you feeling all cosy and loved!  

But firstly, finding time to find someone to go on these fun dates with can be a struggle, right? Well fear not because their are so many free dating sites out there to suit everyone such as over 50's dates, gay dates, casual dating and dating sites in south africa just to name a few! Once you've nabbed your amazing self a date why not give one my ideas a whirl!

An Autumn Walk - Theres nothing better than wrapping yourselves up and going for a lovely autumn walk, I absolutely love it when all the leaves are falling from trees and their all crunchy and crisp underfoot. It's also the perfect scene for a little autumnal photo shoot, which you can then pop in a memory book or on the gram of course! 

Get Crafty - Whilst on your autumn walk collect some fallen leaves, pine cones and conkers and make an autumn garland/wreath together. Knowing me I'd make this a little competition between the two of us to see who can make the best one!

Movie Night - One of my favourites, a night in front of the TV either catching up on your favourite TV shows or watching a few movies together! I love getting all the blankets out, whacking the fairy lights on and lighting some candles to give it a real cosy feel, theres honestly nothing better! Some essential autumn movie picks for me are...Hocus Pocus, You've Got Mail, any Harry Potter movie, Sleepless In Seattle, When Harry Met Sally and Moulin Rouge! 

Bake/Cook Together - Why not raid the cupboards and bake/cook something together, it's so much fun seeing what you can come up with and best of all you get to scoff yourselves silly afterwards! 

Visit A Pumpkin Patch - The whole vibe of going to the pumpkin patch makes me feel so much more autumnal (if that was even possible) and really gets me excited for Halloween and pumpkin carving! Theres also the opportunity of doing some pumpkin carving together whilst your there or of course you can get pumpkin carving at home together if your bring some home!

Smores In front Of The Fire - If you have an open fire this is such a lovely thing to do together, get your marshmallows at the ready, not forgetting your digestives and chocolate of course and get toasting! It's a such a cute, cosy idea!

Watch An Autumn Sunset - Grab your blankets and hot chocolate and snuggle up together and watch an autumn sunset, I always find autumn sunsets look pretty epic! 

Theres soooo many fun things you can do during the Autumn months, it's one of the many reasons why I love Autumn so much. What are your favourite things to do in Autumn beaut's? I'd love to know!



* This is a collaborative post. All writing and opioions are my own!

Whiffy Wax Candle & Wax Melts Review!

Hey beaut's!

If you've read my blog for a while then you'll know that I love to scent my home and recently I gave some wax melts from Whiffy Wax a whirl and couldn't believe how good they where, the scent throw was amazing, they don't break the bank and the amount of scents they have to choose from in phenomenal, even my boyfriends been loving them! Whilst browsing on the Whiffy Wax website I noticed they actually sell designer wax melts that smell like your favourite perfumes, say what!!! Obviously I had to try these ASAP along with one of their jar candles! 

Their are so many perfume inspired wax melts to choose from, I opted for..... 
Daisy - Marc Jacob's Daisy perfume is one of my all time favourites so I just had to try this one, its fresh and super floral and honestly it smells EXACTLY like the perfume!
Ghost - This one is inspired by Ghost The Fragrance and again smells just like perfume, it's fresh and floral with hints of vanilla and apricot which give it a slight sweet kick which I love! 
Decadence - This one is inspired by Marc Jacobs Decadence perfume and having never tried that scent before I didn't know what to expect, it's quite musky and woody and I could see a lot of men liking this one!
Narcisse - Inspired by Chloe Narcisse this one is dominated by daffodils. This scent is super  feminine, sweet, and slightly fruity, I absolutely love it!.

Whiffy Wax also sell candles which come in little glass jar's which are so cute and kitch, they have five different scents to choose from within the candle range and obviously my sweet, sugar loving self got the better of me and I picked out Warm Vanilla & Demerara to try! Warm Vanilla & Demerara is made up of notes of sweet brown sugar, vanilla and musk so as you can imagine it smells good enough to eat and the scent throw is great, it fills my entire house within minutes without being overpowering or sickly, I'm obsessed! The candles are available in two sizes, 60ml which is the smallest candle and has an approximate burn time of 13 hours, and theres a larger 120ml candle which has an approximate burn time of 25 hours. The smaller candle comes in at £5.00 and the larger one is £8.00 so again these are super affordable yet amazing quality!

I seriously cant wait for the Autumn/Winter scents to be released, as you know I'm a huge Autumn/Winter lover and my candle and wax melt addiction gets even bigger then, arhh I actually cant wait!

Check out the Whiffy Wax website HERE beaut's and use my code HAYLEY20 to grab yourself 20% off all products!


*This post contains gifted items, all opinions are my own.

4 Ways To Update Your Home!

Hey beaut's!

I've really been into decorating mine and my boyfriends house recently, freshening things up with a lick of paint and having a new bathroom put in have been the main things we've done but it got me thinking of how changing some simple things in your home can make a huge difference, so I thought I'd share them today! 

Add Some New Decor
A simple way to update your home is with some new decor or adding a new colour scheme with things like pillows and throws, it freshens things up and can give a whole new feel to your home! Even if you don't really want to splash out on anything new then have a little switch around of the decor you already have, maybe use something you had in your lounge and move it into your bedroom or vice-versa!  

A Lick Of Paint
A new paint job can drastically change the vibe of any room in your house, whether it means painting the entire room or just adding a new colour on one wall as a feature wall, it really makes a difference! We recently painted all the way from my downstairs entrance, up my stairs and onto my landing and I honestly cant believe how amazing it looks, I went for grey and it looks so fresh, clean and modern, I love it! 

New Flooring

Now onto flooring, obviously this can be a big job but new flooring can make a big in pact on how you home looks and feels, it really adds that wow factor and flooring just completes any room your decorating really doesn't it! I don't know about you but I love the look of Engineered Wood Flooring. Engineered wood flooring is a fantastic alternative to solid wood, it has the same high quality finish and beautiful look as solid wood, but is lower maintenance and more durable in the face of moisture or heat. Flooring 365 actually provide high quality engineered wood flooring to people in the UK, with so many different options to choose from at competitive prices, personally I'm swooning over their grey oak style, oh I can just imagine it in all it's glory with a fluffy white rug on top, lush! Engineered wood flooring is also a lot easier to keep clean and maintain, meaning its perfect if you have children or pets as you don't have the worry of staining, and any spillages whether its food or drink are so easy to completely clean up!

Adding Some Art
You honestly don't realise how popping some art or even a family photo on the wall can really switch things up in your home, it can turn that boring blank space on your wall into something quite magical! If you wanted to go the whole hog then a fancy feature wall would really make an in pact!

Are you thinking of giving your a home a little update? What are you wanting to change? I'd love to know!



*This post is in collaboration with Flooring 365 , all opioions are my own!

My 2019 Holiday Wishlist!

Hey beaut's!

After a seriously crappy year this year it's definitely made me realise that you have to live life to the fullest and do all those things you really want to do in life! This got me thinking of places I've always wanted to travel to and holiday's I've always wanted to take but never gone, well those day's are over for me now and I'm going to take life by my lady balls and I'm already planning out things I want to do in 2019 and places I want to visit!

I've been having a peek on www.markwarner.co.uk to get some inspiration and ideas and theres so much choice from ski holidays to your sunny beach holiday! Greece is somewhere I've always wanted to visit for as long as I can remember, theres actually so many places in Greece I'd like to visit but I think the first place on my Greek list would be Kos! My best friend Kate has gone to Kos over the last couple of years now and loves it so I'd love to go there, as well as Mykonos which is actually on my 'lifetime' bucket list so finally going there would be insane!

Paris is definitely somewhere I'd like to visit next year, again its somewhere I've always wanted to visit because of how beautiful it looks and how much there actually is to see there, and of course I'd love to visit some french bakery's. It would be pretty epic to combine the trip of exploring Paris and go to Disney Land Paris too, the Disney lover inside me has always want to go here and Paris seems much more of a realistic option for me, unlike pricey Florida! Sticking with France I've always wanted to go on a snowy ski trip there or to Austria during the autumn/winter time, everything from learning to ski or snowboard to the epic cosy lodges, wood fires, the snow and the endless hot chocolates, it all lures me in, I mean whats not to love!

Next on the destination wish list would have to be Amsterdam, known for its artistic heritage, elaborate canal system and narrow houses it's definitely a place I want to explore for a few days next year! I would love to go to the Anne Frank House whilst I was there too, and I 100% want to add a padlock on the Love Locks bridge! 

What's places are on your 2019 holiday wish list beaut's! I'd love to know!



* This is a collaborative post.

Reasons Why I Love Visiting A Pumpkin Patch!

 Hey beaut's!

I bloody love autumn, theres something about the cosy vibes, the colours, the scents, the hearty meals and the all important pumpkin that just gets me all fuzzy inside. This year I'm visiting two pumpkin patches, one of which I have already been too with my girlie Kate - that particular patch was quite small and quite chilled and relaxed and then I'm actually off to a much larger pumpkin patch today (Saturday), I actually visit this one every year, it's a little tradition me and the boyfriend have now. So today I thought I'd share the reasons why I much prefer going pumpkin picking than buying your standard ole pumpkin from Tesco! 

* The Variety - Yes you can get Pumpkins in the supermarket but 1 - wheres the fun in that and 2 - the variety just isn't the same. Visiting a pumpkin patch means you can get your classic pumpkins in all shapes and sizes, theres also white pumpkins, spooky pumpkins with warts all over them which are a personal favourite of mine, theres loads of different squashes and munchkin pumpkins to choose from and one of the patches I go too also do glow in the dark pumpkins, it's fab!

* The Photo Op's - Come on, we are always thinking about the gram opportunities and theres nothing more autumnal than getting some cute shots in a field full of pumpkins, their actually some of my personal favourite pictures to browse through on Instagram at this time of the year. 

* The Food - The larger pumpkin patch I visit every year has quite a few food and drink stalls which are so nice, I got some amazing Halloween cupcakes last year and the best pumpkin soup I've ever tasted, aswell as the hot chocolates which are divine and warm you right up if it's a cold day! 

* The Experience - The whole vibe of going to the pumpkin patch makes me feel so much more autumnal (if that was even possible) and really gets me excited for Halloween and pumpkin carving! Theres always a corn maze to try out, hay stacks to climb and the best pumpkin carvers ever carving the most amazing things I've ever seen into a pumpkin, I love it!

Will you be going pumpkin picking this year beaut's? I'd love to know!

10 Cheap and Cheerful Blog Props I Swear By!

Hey beaut's!

Over the last couple of years photography has been something I've really gotten into, I love capturing all sorts of shots from food, lifestyle, a teeny bit of fashion but I'm actually quite scared of fashion shoots - I really need to work on that body confidence hun's - but my main love is obviously beauty and makeup photography, I just love it! After going through a really crappy time last Christmas I decided to treat myself to the Nikon D3400 in the New Year and it's honestly upped my love for photography so much. I really switched things up with my blog photography adding in lots of props which is something I had never really done before, all of my props are either super duper cheap or where just what I had in my home already, so the morel of the story here is blog props don't have to cost a fortune so I thought I'd share my favourite things to use at the moment! 

Trinkets - Arh the good ole trinket, this is a blogger favourite and looks so pretty in flatlays, I actually got my 'isn't she lovely' trinket from Poundland and I love it! I also recently picked up an oval mirror from Poundland and instead of using it as a mirror I use it as a perfume tray, this also looks fabulous in blog photo's! 

Ornaments From Your Home - So many of my props are actually ornaments that are already in my home, I'm a magpie for anything rose gold or copper for my home so these come in to useful when I need to fill a blank area in a shot.

Makeup Brushes - This is such an easy way to fill in small area's of a flatlay and let's face it all of us girl's will have a makeup brush or two to hand that we can use in our photo's! 

Flowers - I bloody love using flowers in photo's, I do buy a lot of fresh flowers from the supermarket for my home so sometimes I just pick a couple out of my bunch when I need one for a photo, I also have a fake pink hydrangea that I got from...you guessed it...Poundland!

Jewellery - Again another super easy prop to use is jewellery or watches you may have in your jewellery box or that you could be wearing, I think jewellery looks so pretty delicately placed in pictures.

Magazines - Magazines are so useful for blog props, your can stack them up at an angle, use pages within the magazine for a pop of colour, scatter products on top of them, the things you can do with your magazine's are endless.

Tea Lights/Candles - Tea lights and candles are great to pop in small blank areas that need filling and they also give a real cosy, inviting vibe to your pictures, I do use tea lights a lot I must admit! 

Wallpaper Samples - This is less of a prop but more of a great hack for your backgrounds, just pop to your local DIY store and stock up on wallpaper samples (which are totally free by the way), I like to use bright grey wood or brick effect samples but theres literally hundreds to choose from.

Your Phone - If you love your phone case that you have on your phone then just whack your phone in shot, why not hey! 

Fairy Lights - I love the look of fairy light's in pictures, especially during Autumn/Winter! I always get the little battery operated lights which you can often find super cheap for a pound or two from Poundland, Amazon or Primark! You can literally weave them through your flatlay or have them blurred in the background of your shots, they look so pretty!

As you can see most of these idea's will already be in your home or will only cost you a couple of pounds in Poundland which I think is amazing! There are so many props you can use such as notebooks, food, ribbons, faux fur rugs, the list really could go on but the ones above are my favourites at the moment!

Gingerbread Cupcakes Recipe

Hey beaut's!

After going though an extremely crappy time over the last month and a half I decided to get back in the kitchen and do some baking, my kitchen is my happy place and baking is something I absolutely love to do, not only do I get a tasty treat at the end of it but it's so therapeutic for me so it seemed fitting to whip up a batch of my yummy gingerbread cupcakes. I actually posted my recipe of these back in 2016 but it was a very Christmassy post and I've tweaked the recipe ever so slightly now so I thought I'd share my updated version!

What You Will Need For The Cupcakes
Half a cup of granulated sugar
Half a cup of Stork with Butter, softened
Half a cup of black treacle
2 eggs
2 cups of plain flour
1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
1 and a half teaspoons of ground ginger
Half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon
Half a teaspoon of ground allspice
Three quarters of a cup of water

What You Will Need For The Icing
240g Stork with Butter, softened
400g icing sugar, sifted
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
4 tablespoons of milk
Sprinkles/Mini Gingerbread Men to decorate (optional)

How To - Cupcakes
1. Firstly pre-heat your oven to gas mark 4 /180 and line a muffin tin with your cupcake cases.
2. In a large mixing bowl, beat the granulated sugar, butter, black treacle and eggs together with an electric whizzer until well combined.
3. Then add in your flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger, cinnamon and the allspice, the mixture will become super thick and then thats the time to add in your water, this loosens everything up and makes such a smooth batter.
4. Pop a heaped tablespoon of the cupcake batter into each cupcake case and bake in the oven for around 20 minutes or until the top of the cupcakes are springy to the touch, then transfer onto a wire rack to cool.

How To - Icing
1. In a large bowl, beat the butter with an electric whizzer for around 5 minutes or until the butter has turned super pale and smooth, then start adding the icing sugar slowly to avoid the dreaded icing sugar cloud and again mix for another 5 or so minutes until smooth. Then pop in the vanilla extract and a couple of tablespoons of milk if you feel your butter cream is a bit stiff.
2. Pipe or spoon the icing on top of the cupcakes and top with some sprinkle if you like, I found these cute little gingerbread sprinkles in the baking section in Home Bargains!

These cupcakes where so incredibly easy to make and they taste and look so good, the cupcake itself is super light and moist and the buttercream really levels out the amount of spice within the cupcake. If your a lover of gingerbread then you HAVE to make these bad boys!

Degustabox Review + £7 off Discount Code

Hi beaut's...

I have a subscription box review for you all today but it's a subscription box with a difference.... it contains yummy food and drink, so say hello to Degustabox*. Degustabox works very much like how beauty subscription boxes work, for £12.99 a month (postage included within the £12.99 price) you will receive 10 to 15 surprise food/drink products, many that are completely new to the market! So if your a bit of a foodie like myself and you love subscription boxes your going to love this beaut's! 

The items in this months box are.....
- Willies Cocao Black Pearls £6.59
- Candy Kittens Gourmet Sweets £3.00
- Ryvita Lightly Salted Rye Cakes £1.39
- Popchips Galactic Puffs £1.99
- Planters Nut-Rition Energy Mix £1.29
- Taking The Pea £1.50
- Mary Berry's Lemon and Mustard Seed Vinaigrette £2.99
- Lift Matcha Instant Green Tea
- Coldpress Golden Delicious Apple Juice £1.50
- Sleep Well Vanilla Milk Drink £1.75
- Robinson's Fruit Creations & Barley £1.99
- San Miguel 0.0% £3.00 

Degustabox have kindly given me a discount code for all of my beautiful readers, all you have to do is pop 039DB into the promotional code box and you'll receive a whopping £7.00 discount when registering making your first box just £5.99. And don't worry beaut's, theres no commitments with Degustabox meaning you can cancel your subscription free of charge before the 10th of any month, but I mean why would you cancel monthly surprise food treats ha ha!

What do you think of the Degustabox concept beaut's? I'd love to know your thoughts!

Festive Degustabox Review + £7 off Discount Code

Hi beaut's...

I have a subscription box review for you all today but it's a subscription box with a difference.... it contains yummy food and drink, so say hello to Degustabox*. Degustabox works very much like how beauty subscription boxes work, for £12.99 a month (postage included within the £12.99 price) you will receive 10 to 15 surprise food/drink products, many that are completely new to the market! So if your a bit of a foodie like myself and you love subscription boxes your going to love this beaut's! 

 This month we have 14 yummy snacks and drinks to sink are teeth into including a few festive inspired bits and pieces, firstly theres a bag of Cadbury Picnic Bites (£1.99) which are so yummy, I mean who doesn't like nibbling on bites of wafer, chewy caramel, raisins and peanuts, I know I do! Theres also a massive bag of Planters Fruity Chocolate Crunch (£2.00) which are the perfect festive table nibble, it's a mix of nuts, dried fruits and chocolate drops. Finally for sweet treats theres some Jelly Bean Super Sours (£1.79), these have the same yummy taste as normal jelly beans but these ones really tickle your taste buds he he!

Theres quite a lot of savoury foods in this months box starting with a jar of Filipo Berio Classic Pesto which is perfect to mix into pasta dishes! Then theres a jar of The English Provender Co.'s Caramelised Red Onion Chutney (£1.99), this will be used over Christmas in our house, it's perfect for adding on the side of a cheese board. I also got a packet of Kallo Organic Chicken Stock Pots (£1.80) which I'll probably use up pretty quickly as I go through so much stock when cooking. Something else from Filipo Berio is their Rio Mare Tuna in Olive Oil (£3.00), I adore tuna a sweetcorn sarnies or tuna salads so this will go down a treat with me.

Next up are more savoury bit's and pieces perfect for popping on the Boxing Day buffet table, theres some Ryvita Multigrain Rye Cakes (£1.39) which will be perfect with different cheeses and pickles. Then theres some Filipo Berio Crostini which can be used for really easy canapés, and theres some sweet Propercorn (89p) which will be perfect to snack on whilst watching a festive movie!

Finally this month we have a couple of drinks starting with the ALO Drink (£1.99), I've never tried anything like this before and it looks quite gloopy in the bottle so I'm really intrigued by this. Theres also a bottle of Dalston's Fizzy Apple (£1.89) which was super yummy, perfect for anyone who likes apple juice and fizzy combined. Lastly this month we have a bag of Taylors of Harrograte Ground Coffee (£4.49), my boyfriend is a huge coffee lover and hes really been enjoying this in the mornings!

Degustabox have kindly given me a discount code for all of my beautiful readers, all you have to do is pop 039DB into the promotional code box and you'll receive a whopping £7.00 discount when registering making your first box just £5.99. And don't worry beaut's, theres no commitments with Degustabox meaning you can cancel your subscription free of charge before the 10th of any month, but I mean why would you cancel monthly surprise food treats ha ha!

What do you think of the Degustabox concept beaut's? I'd love to know your thoughts!

20 Things To Do In Autumn

Hey beaut's!

It's finally my favourite time of the year... Autumn!! Yayyyyyy! As you can probably tell I get stupidly exciting for this time of year, I just love the cold crisp days, autumn leaves, hot chocolates, knitwear, boots, fairy lights, spicy/warming candles, pumpkin carving, I mean the list could go on and on but you get the gist he he! So today I thought I would share with you all a few must have things to do during this awesome season. I'm going to make sure I do every single thing on this list this year!

1. Bake some pumpkin spiced cupcakes!

2. Have a cosy movie night and watch Hocus Pocus, obvs!

3. Go to a pumpkin patch and pick your very own pumpkins.

4. Carve pumpkins.

5. Go for a forest walk and capture the beauty of autumn on your camera, such a blogger thing to do I know he he.

6. Pimp up your house with Autumnal decor. 

7. Hit the shops and stock up on cosy knits!

8. Collect fallen leaves, pine cones and conkers and make an autumn garland/wreath.

9. Start cooking huge pots of stew.

10. Make some toffee apples.

11. Go to a maize maze!

12. Run through crunchy leaves until your hearts content, this is one my favourites!

13. Go candle shopping and stock up on those spicy, warming scents!

14. Pull out your best berry lippies and nail polishes.

15. Get creative with your hot chocolate making skills adding in new cosy flavours.

16. Have lots of Lush baths.

17. Have a go at home made smores.

18. Go to a fireworks display.

19. Go ice skating.

20. Make LOADS of gingerbread men.

What are your favourite things to do in Autumn beaut's? I'd love to know!

Zoella Winter Wonderland Visit

Hey beaut's!

On Thursday me and my girlie Kate from Kates Closet got the chance to go down to London to visit Zoella's Winter Wonderland! We had an hour to explore and look at all of Zoella's new beauty and lifestyle Christmas collections as well as being able to tuck into hot chocolate in Zoella's new Cosy Vibes mug, get a hand and arm massage with the new Winter Wonder Hand Cream and dive into a huge snow globe and bath filled with snow, all whilst Christmas music was playing in the background. Me and Kate had the most magical time and I have to say after seeing all of Zoella's Christmas range in person it looks pretty epic, I mean don't get me wrong it all looks amazing online but being able to look, touch, feel and smell everything was just amazing!

Theres so much to choose from the beauty range this year and the scent is gorgeous, theres stunning notes of peony, refreshing mint and pink pepper throughout the range making it a super fresh, clean, snow like fragrance! The Winter Wonder Hand Cream and the Body Mist have to be my favourites, their so lovely and the packaging is super cute! 

The lifestyle range has such a cosy feel, theres everything from a cute mugs, gorgeous candles and reed defusers, stationary and theres even an advent calender this year. My favourites have to be the candles though, as you probably know I'm a sucker for a seasonal candle he he, Festive Cookie and Cosy Christmas smell amazing and I also spotted what I think will be an exclusive 'Christmas Clementine' which also smells incredibly festive!

 Me and Kate had such a fantastic time and even got goodies bag signed by Zoella containing the Snow'ella Body Mist, Winter Wonder Hand Cream, Cosy Vibes Mug and the Bento Station Stationary Set which was so generous of them!

You can find the Lifestyle range exclusively in Boots (it's on 3 for 2 yayyy) and the Beauty range is available on Superdrug and Feel Unique!

What have you got your eye on from the Christmas Collections beaut's? I'd love to know!