Gifts for the Gardener/ DIY-er

Mini Succulents and a Terrarium are great gifts for people who like plants but don't necessarily have any outdoor space to plant lots of flowers etc, plus they are easy to look after. However for a more intense gardener, Tools or a Potting bench would be a great gift. A pretty Garden Sign to decorate an outdoor wall would be a nice present for anyone who takes pride in their garden as would the obvious choice of Seeds to brighten up the garden with flowers. A Seed Box is also a very useful idea as my mum always has envelopes of seeds all around the house getting lost. A nice Hand Scrub or Hand Cream such as this one from the Body Shop is also a great idea to help keep the recipients hand soft and smelling lovely after a gardening session as wearing Gardening gloves and frequent washing can dry them out. A cute Punny Mug is also a lovely idea as they can drink their tea or coffee from it whilst outside and it will remind them of you every time they do. A Personalised Hammer off Etsy or Ebay is a great gift for a family member who does DIY, me and my sister brought my dad one for Fathers Day this year.

I hope this Gift Guide helps you out, particularly with parents or grandparents!

17th Birthday Present Idea

So firstly, I take absolutely 0% credit for this idea as it was a present that I recieved for my 17th birthday from 6 of my amazing friends Katie, Eilis, Rose, Liz, Niamh and Sandra. They came up with the theme perfect night in and perfect night out for this gift basket. 

So for the Perfect Night in theme they got me Strawberry Buttercream, Black Cherry and Summer Scoop Yankee Candles, a candle votive, a lush bath bomb, some reed diffusers, 4 maltesers hot chocolate sachets,a mug and some lucky charms.

And for the Perfect Night Out theme they got me the Urban Decay Naked Palette (I'm such a lucky girl!), some plastic shot glasses, Tequila Mockingbird which is a cocktail recipe book themed around books and 2 Bourjois Rouge Edition velvets in Hot Pepper and Nude-ist.

They also got me some hand sanitiser because all of them are always using mine as I always carry it cus I'm a bit of a clean freak, plus I love the smell of them.

I think it was such a clever idea to combine the two ideas and I'm so so grateful to each of them for this amazing present. I know they won't mind me sharing their idea with you, but if you do recreate it, I'm sure they'd love to see so tweet me a pic @KatieCorbebett98 ... 

Day 14: Christmas Inspiration

My christmas inspiration post is all about wrapping presents, I love a good scroll through We Heart It looking at all the gorgeous sparkly Christmassy pictures, so this post was the perfect excuse! My present's never look anywhere near as cute as any of these, but I can hope.

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Day 8: Photo Diary

 New Christmas candles

 First present wrapped

 Group photo with a giant polar bear. Average friday night.

 Warm Mulled Cider is just beautiful.

Hot chocolate and homework is basically a daily thing 

 Rocky road house that me and my sister made.

Egg Nog Lattes, Mince pies and Christmas Cookie Candles. Could it be more festive?

My 16th Birthday! What I Got & Celebrations

Sorry this post took me so long to get up, It was actually mine and my twin sister Megan's birthday on March 6th! I thought about splitting this into two posts-What I Got and the Celebrations- but in the end I have decided to keep it as one. Just a warning though, this a very long and photo heavy post but alas, let us begin... 

Originally Me and Meg had been just planning to have a party for our 16th, but it turned out 3 of my 5 best friends couldn't come. In the end I decided to go out for a cheeky nandos with them on the friday before my party on the Saturday. Here are some of the photos below. They even surprised with a mini chocolate cake (candles and all!) as you can see in the bottom right photo. I don't know why i look so scared though? I'd also like to point out that I have a confetti star stuck to my right cheek that was in my birthday card :)

 It was here that my gorgeous, amazing, beautiful, fantastic, brilliant best friends presented me with my INCREDIBLE gift! They all decided to club together and got me the gifts you see below, as soon as I saw the gift bags I was super excited! They brought me a GORGEOUS Pandora ring, Lush Twilight Bath Bomb (Review coming soon), a whole bunch of American Sweets (they know me so well!) and the money for a MAC lipstick because they didn't know which colour to get me. I simply cannot thank them enough so if they are reading this, thank you a million times to Rose, Liz, Eilis, Katie and Liv!

These things below are what I received off my brother, sister and parents. My brother got me a game of thrones hand of the king badge and a game of thrones cushion with isn't shown in this photo because it hasn't yet been released in the UK. My sister brought me the James Blunt CD and then the poster, bag, phone and silver cuff were off my parents. So thank you to all of them!

Now onto the party...

My AMAZING(!!) friend Elizabeth did my hair for me for my party, seriously how good is she! I curled my hair before she came round and then she just did my hair with no picture references or video tutorials or anything...I just don't know how she did it?! So thank you very much Liz! I also thought it looked especially good because of my ombred hair :D

And here are the photos from the party. We spent the night dancing, eating cake (Rainbow cake specifically, as you can see below), chatting and playing snooker (Or is it pool? I have no idea of the difference). I really enjoyed it and I hope that all my guests did too :)

My friends also brought me all of this amazing stuff and I can't thank them enough for how lovely and generous they've all been so thank you sooooo much!

I also got this amazing giant cookie off a bunch of my friends. Lessons I have learnt whilst eating this 1) all cookies should be iced 2) do not try and eat it all yourself...

And finally I'd like to say a huge thank you to Bronagh (She clearly reads the blog!) Not only for the brilliant present of Maybelline Colour Tattoos, but also for the adorable little quote that I found in the card! I have wanted the colour tattoos for what seems like forever but you know when you just never get round to buying something even though you really want them, well thats what happened with me. And well done to Bronagh for picking such gorgeous colours! I'll hopefully be writing a review on those soon!

So all in all I'd like to say a huge thank you to all my family and friends who made my 16th so brilliant! I'm also quite happy that the image on my side bar is finally accurate now I've turned 16 :)

My Week in Pictures #01

I have seen this type of post popping up on a few blogs recently so I thought I'd give it a try. Most weeks my life isn't really interesting enough to do this but I took loads of photos over the last few weeks so I thought I'd share...

1. Christmas tunes and yummy candles 2. Hot chocolate with the little costa chocolate dust sachets which I keep taking Shhh 3. We finally put up the christmas tree 4. Starbucks Signature Caramel Hot Chocolate, yes please 5. Wrapping up my sisters christmas presents 6. Trying Peppermint tea for the first time (No thank you) 7. Company magazine w. all my fave youtubers :D 8. Dip dying my hair green with Bleach London Washed Up mermaid (Was not impressed) 9. My first ever Ed's diner milkshake butterscotch flavoured which was heavenly.

Festive Favourites: Activites

I meant to post this on thursday, sorry! I've been so busy...

Here is the third in my festive favourites series...activities! It sounds a bit random but I thought I'd share with you my favourite things to do to get me in the festive mood.

Our Christmas tree in the lounge 

1. Decorate the tree- An obvious but necessary addition to the list.
2. Visit the German market-I went yesterday and had my first ever German sausage which  was absolutely gorgeous! We were going to go on the ferris wheel too but we all chickened out ;)
3. Have a Christmas movie marathon-I've hardly watched any movies yet and I only have 4 days to go :( that will probably be what I do tomorrow in fact.
4. Christmas present shopping-I LOVE buying presents for all my friends and family, its so great when you find something that you know they're gonna love.
5. Spend an evening wrapping everyones presents-This ones linked to the previous one really but when you have the perfect present its important to make it look its best
6. Go to a carol service or similar- Its pretty fun, this year I went down to one in my local park with my mum which was quite fun.
7. Make a gingerbread house-I am yet to make a free standing one that stands up on its own but hey, its the thought that counts right?
8. Have or attend a Christmas party-Our annual Christmas Party is tonight, I have made 56 brownies and 30 gingerbread biscuits today plus I have added jam and cream to about 50 mini victoria sponges...
9. Christmassy Journaling/December Daily Challenge-I love love love my smash journal which I brought in the summer, its perfect for writing down all those festive little tidbits which you don't want to forget. Let me know if you'd like a post on that ;)
10. Bake some christmas treats-As I mentioned I baked loads of gingerbread today which is my personal fave festive treat but there's loads of other stuff you could try too like christmas cupcakes, DIY mince pies or chocolate fudge.

Some of my Christmas pages

Remember to spread the festive cheer...