Youtube#5 What's in my handbag?

 

I finally got around to making another video for you guys, sorry it's been so long! Yes, it's the ever famous 'What's in my handbag' tag. I am always so late to jump on the bandwagon aren't I?! I did rant on for a while, sorry folks. Also, sorry about the hangover face and 3 day old hair. Yes, I am a skank. It's been one of those days wear the PJs haven't come off yet. Hence the last shot in my video, spotty PJ alert! Don't judge me.

What have you beautiful people been up to this weekend? 
On Saturday Stef and I had a private tennis coach for an hour. I felt kind of sorry for him because my  skills are laughable, so he had his hands full, but that means I can only get better, right? After tennis I had a lovely catch up with a few of my uni buddies, we went to Gordans' Wine Bar (the oldest wine bar in London) on the Embankment. It's like a little underground cave, definitely recommend it if you like that kind of thing.
On Saturday night, Stef and I went to our favourite local pub in Clapham, where we gorged on hotdogs, pizza and red wine. We stayed up until 2am geeking out over this snowboarding movie. It's pretty crazy stuff, most of the shots don't even look real to me. It's absolutely stunning though, and makes me so excited go go snowboarding in the new year. Do any of you snowboard or ski? 

Today all I've done is organise my wardrobe (yes, I like it to be in order) and film this video. I'm pretty nervous about my make-up artist course tomorrow, I'm just going to try and soak up as much as possible, wish me luck! 

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the video. Have you done this tag? Leave your links below if you have :)

TAG: Blogging Love

The Quilt is from Urban Outfitters :)

Hey there gals, I'm going a little tag crazy at the moment. This is another from the gorgeous Kayleigh.
It's pretty self explanatory:  list 5 things you love about blogging, tell us your blogging aim, your top blogging tip, and a blogger who inspired you along the way. Grab yourself a cuppa and enjoy!

5 reasons I love blogging
This is so easy. the hard part was picking 5 of the best things. I never expected blogging to become such a big part of my life, or that I would love it nearly half as much as I do. I actually look forward to logging into blogger in the morning and seeing all the shiny new posts for me to read.

#1 Friends- I have met so many gorgeous new friends through blogging. I can't even tell you how much I love you ladies (naaaww <3 ). I don't know why, but before I got involved with blogging, I thought making 'internet friends' was a little strange. It just goes to prove how wrong I was, I totally take it all back now though, the girls that I've 'met' and got to know through blogging are genuinely some of the nicest girls I know. I can't wait to eventually meet you all. I'm not going to mention names, there are far too many of you, but you all really make my day, and I love speaking to you every day. When I first started blogging a while ago, I was really reserved, never got involved or commented really, I've been so overwhelmed at the fact that I'd made internet blogger pals, I dedicated a whole post to it here. It's definitely got to be the best thing that has come out of blogging. 

#2 Logging life  I love the fact that I have a whole part of my life logged on the internet. I'll be able to go back and check what I was doing on certain weekends, which products I liked, and just be able to see what was going on in my life. It's kind of like an online diary in a way. That's pretty cool in itself, isn't it?

#3 Inspiration My main inspiration has got to be from you guys. Reading your posts and seeing your photos, chatting to you. You make me want to blog. I love going to sites like Tumblr, We Heart it, and Pinterest. I see everything differently. I love those moments when I'm just going about your daily life and suddenly I think 'Oh that'd be great to blog about'. Everything can be an inspiration. It makes you appreciate the little things.

#4 Creativity  Lots of  people don't realise, but a lot of work goes into each post before we hit the publish button. Being a 'blogger' makes you constantly think about how you can make something look pretty, or capture a moment in a photo. It forces you to become creative. It makes you look for the beauty in every day situations. (Cheeeesey). It makes you constantly look for inspiration around you.

#5 Trying New Things There are so many products that I never would have even thought about using if I hadn't started 'beauty blogging'. So many brands that I would never have looked to (I'll admit this is partly from being a make up snob). It's been great to be able to go to blogs to read reviews that I know are genuinely honest. 

My blogging aims
#1 I guess my main blogging aim is to just keep keep enjoying it. I never want it to feel like something I have to do, or feel bad for not doing. 
#2 I would absolutely love to get to 1000 followers. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not all about the followers at all, but this would be such a massive achievement for me.
#3 Go to and help arrange a blogger meet up. 
#4 Lastly, be brave enough to actually attend some events on my lonesome! I'm a little too shy for this at the moment!

My top blogging tip
Get chatting! Join in the twitter community, it's the best way to meet other girls and find new blogs that you love. If you really want to be involved, don't be shy, leave comments, get to know people. Remember we all have one thing in common, we love blogging! Oh, and don't be intimidated by 'bigger bloggers', they really are lovely girls too. We all started out the same way after all. 

A blogger who has inspired me along the way
I'm cheating here and telling you about 2.
You all know and love Zoella. Well, Zoes was the first blog I ever found. I remember I was on a coach to London at the time and googling some kind of lipstick, and I came across a review on Zoes blog. That was it. I was hooked. I literally read every single one of her posts. She's such an inspiration. I still look up to her now, absolutely love her youtube channel, if only I had the confidence on camera like she does!
I'm also going to cheat and mention Kayleigh, who I actually found through a tweet of Zoes. Kayleighs' blog is probably my all time fav. She's gorgeous, wrights like she's chatting to you as a friend, and is such a lovely girl when you get to know her too. One of the things I love most about Kayleigh is that she really cares about her readers, and makes such an effort with them. She's an absolute beaut.

So there we have it, I officially love being a blogger :) Have you done the blogging love tag? Send me your link! What are your favourite things about blogging?

TAG: Get to know me...

I know you've seen this snap before, but I'm recycling it 'cos it's one of the only ones of me that I semi-like!

Heeeey ladies,
I've been having a lovely chat with a few of my blogger buddies over the past few days, and the ever so beautiful Kayleigh from Couture Girl suggested we do this 'Get to know me' tag, thanks honey :)
I'm sure you all know her blog already, but if not, go and check it out, it's amazing!
So, here goes...

Are you named after anyone?
Not that I know of. I do happen to know that if I had been a boy, I would have been called Teddy. Thank god I wasn’t a boy then, huh?! 

When was the last time you cried?
This sounds really lame (and vacuous), but last Saturday morning I cried because I had no fake tan left and I felt pale :( I know this seems super vein but I think it stems from being completely poor at the moment and not being able to buy anything or treat myself. I know it shouldn't but it's kind of getting me down.

Do you have children?
No, not yet, but I'd love to in the near future. I always worry people will look at me funny when im pregnant because I look so young. I'm nearly 24 though and I think that's perfectly old enough! Being a Mum is the one thing that I've always known I wanted to do.

If you were another person, would you be a friend of yourself?
Hehe I love this question. I think I would, I'm pretty easy to approach and talk to, and I like to think I'm  a loyal friend too. Although I'd like to think of myself as being pretty fun, I do tend to keep people at arms length for a while though, while I'm figuring them out!

Do you use sarcasm a lot?
Mmmm, not really...

What's your favourite cereal?
I LOVE cereal. I'm weird; I could eat cereal for every meal every day. At the moment I'm obsessed with rice crispies, but I have to have them when they are soggy. With warm milk, mmm.

Whats the first thing you notice about people?
Erm, I suppose someone's face would be the first thing I'd look at. That's normal right?!

What's you eye colour?
Greeny, Greyish, Bluey. A random colour basically.

Scary movies or happy endings?
I love scary movies, I have a kind of sick, inappropriate sense of humour. They don’t actually ever scare me though... But then I guess, like any girl, I'm a total sucker for a love story. (vom).

Favourite smells?
At the moment Laura Mercier body soufflé in Creme Broulee. OH MY GOD. I just want to bath in the stuff, like, every night.
Mac Turquatic. That really crisp fresh smell on an early autumn morning, like this morning when I walked to work it had been raining through the night and it smelt incredible out. The smell of the sea. Ooo and toast toasting... there's just too many good smells in this world aaahhh!

Summer or Winter?
Oh I love both. I love winter fashion and being all cosey, but I do enjoy a nice little bask in the sun, and a tan, and Pinot in the hammock.

Computer or television?
Computer 100%. Theres so much more you can do, blog, chat, music, photos (and watch tv?!)etc.

What's the furthest you’ve been away from home?
I went to the Bahamas this year which is about 9 hours away. Oh, I blogged about that here if you'd like to nosey at the photos :) It was the most incredible holiday ever.

Do you have any special talents?
Erm not really, a kid I would never stick to one hobby, so I never really got good at anything!

Where were you born?
The lovely Torquay, in Devon (the English South-West Countryside) for those of you who don't know. I lived there with my Mum until I was 18 and moved to Bath for university. Now I live in London and absolutely love it here. Kinda wish I'd just come to Uni here in fact!

What are your hobbies?
I like reading, blogging, yoga, running and I’ve recently started tennis. I'm shocking at it, but it's fun anyway (when I'm not stropping about losing).

Favourite movies?

I have looooads, but the last movie I saw that I particularly liked was Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson). I seriously just wanted to be Suzy’s pal.

So there you have it, a little bit about me. I love these kinds of  tags, we're all such a nosey bunch! Have you done the get to know me tag? If so, feel free to leave me the link.

If you'd like to know anything else about me feel free to leave a question or tweet me :)