Blogmas Day Three - My top 10 Christmas songs

Hey guys,

Today I thought it would be a nice idea if I told you 10 of my favourite christmas songs so you can listen to them to help you prepare for christmas, maybe while wrapping christmas presents or having a good hot Christmas drink. I know that I love to listen to a good old christmas song to get me in the mood for the coming christmas days. So here we go I hope you like all these songs too...

1. Fairytale Of NewYork

2. All I Want For Christmas Is You

3. Last Christmas

4. Santa Baby

5. Winter Wonderland

6. The Christmas Song

7. Merry Xmas Everybody

8. Driving Home For Christmas

9. Jingle Bell Rock

10. I wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

Bonus:- My favourite christmas Album has to be Michael Buble's Christmas Album

I hope you like my list of christmas songs don't forget to listen to some and leave your favourite songs in the comments. Remember I will be posting everyday of this month so come back tomorrow for some more festive fun.

Question of the day- hats your favourite christmas song?

xoxo Lucy

Blogmas Day Two- The Christmas tag

Hey guys,

Today I decided to think about my favourite parts of Christmas by doing a Christmas tag

1.  Do you prefer a real Christmas tree or synthetic tree?

I prefer a real Christmas trees instead of synthetic but I have never had a chance to have one we always have had synthetic but once I get my own house I plan to get real Christmas trees every year as a new tradition. 

2.  You're in a coffee shop, it's December, what do you pick?

I would definitely choose a hot chocolate and if they did any special kinds then I would choose one of those Costa is usually my go to for the special hot chocolate.

3.  What's your favourite colour scheme for decorating the tree?

Well my colour scheme last year was red and silver so it will probably do that again this year with a few special decorations with it.

4.  Giving or receiving?

I would have to say I love receiving gifts but its a lot better giving gifts I love buying things for people and seeing how happy they are when giving them to people.

5.  To mince pie or not to?

Not to for sure I don't like them at all I prefer something chocolatey 

6.  What's your traditional Sunday lunch?

My traditional Sunday lunch has got to be chicken, vegetables, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, and gravy
  

7.  Christmas day fashion?
It has to be something cute and comfortable like a cosy jumper, leggings and cosy socks. 

8.  What's your favourite Christmas song?

I don't have one in particular but keep coming back over the Christmas season and you will see 10 of my favourite songs. 

9.  What's your favourite Christmas film?

It has to be Elf ! There will also be a top 10 christmas films blog post over the christmas season so keep your eyes out for that.

10.  Open presents before or after lunch?

My family have always opened our presents before we have christmas lunch preferably as early as possible.

I hope you like this tag and I want everyone who reads this blog post to do this tag if you have a blog. I hope you are all having a good day and don't forget to do your christmas challenge of the day if you are joining in on it.

Question of the day- What's your favourite christmas film?

xoxo Lucy 

Daily Blog One- It's BLOGMAS!!!!

Hey guys,

My background has changed and so has the season, which only means one thing its BLOGMAS! I don't know about you but I'm definitely ready for all the Christmas fun and to start it off I've decided to set all of you and myself a Christmas challenge. I am going to make a list of 25 festive things to do before Christmas day! My aim is to do one festive thing every day to maximise my Christmas spirit, I will be documenting some of the thing's I've done at the end of each daily blog post if I remember. Here is a list of 25 possible things you could do so feel free to use these and I'm going to use lots of these too.

My Christmas Bucket List

1.Make Mince Pies

2. Decorate Tree

3.Go To Bakewell

4. Drink Muled Wine

5. Make Hot Chocolate

6. Go Christmas Shopping

7. Read a Christmas Book

8. Make Cookies

9. Wrap Presents

10. Have a Cosy Day

11. Do Secret Santa

12. Make a Christmas Decoration

13. Go to the Christmas Market

14. See The Christmas Lights

15. Kiss Under The Mistletoe

16. Make Christmas Cards

17. Listen to Christmas Music

18. Drink a Festive Drink

19. Buy a New Decoration

20. Have a Festive Sandwich

21. Have a Movie Marathon

22. Make a Christmas List

23. Wear a Festive Piece of Clothing

24. Do Something New and Festive

25. Make a New Christmas Tradition

Feel free to write your own list and comment it or your own ideas bellow, I think this will be a good way to celebrate before Christmas has come and gone. I hope you guys like this idea and don't forget to come back tomorrow for even more festive fun.

Question of the day- What's your festive thing of the day? 

xoxo Lucy

Top 5 halloween nail varnishes

Hey guys,

So this Monday I'm going to be talking about five of my most favourite nail varnishes to wear in October to celebrate halloween. These aren't new or high end they are just your average nail varnishes which you can find in any beauty shop.

1. My first halloween favourite nail varnish has to be a black one because its just a basic halloween colour which can go with pretty much any halloween outfit also good for doing a funky halloween design over.

2. The second is a purple glittery one these are always good for the days surrounding halloween as its not too halloweenie but still has the colour purple in it.

3. This third one just screams halloween at me on orange nail varnish would be perfect for a pumpkin themed you could even use nail art pens to draw a pumpkin if you wanted to go all out.

4. These barry m special effects nail varnishes are perfect for around halloween time all you have to do is put a halloween nail varnish colour on say the orange essie one above and then put this one on top to give you a funky little patten and its effortless.

5. The last but not least nail varnish would be great if there is a lot of blood involved in your halloween costume or as another undercoat for a special effects nail varnish.

6. This is kind of a bonus because its not a nail varnish but its just as good its a nail wrap and these can be found in lots of places but i found mine in topshop and i would recommend you all to go look because they don't just do halloween ones i got all sorts of different ones too.

I hope you all like this post and dont forget to come back on friday for my monthly friday favourites with a hint of halloween added to it. This was your Halloween top 5 nail varnishes and i hope you will come back soon. Dont forget to go back and read more posts if you haven't already only 11 days till halloween! Also don't forget to come back on monday to see my spooky Halloween favourites for this month

xoxo Lucy

D.I.Y- Design it yourself Halloween Mug

Hey Guys,

So today I came up with a fun and easy D.I.Y that anyone can do and its to design your own Halloween mug. It doesn't matter if you cant draw, I cant and I think I did okay. All you will need is:-

A plain mug (I got white)
Sharpies
An Oven

1. The first thing you do is make sure that you wash your mug so that its nice and clean and ready to draw on.

2. Choose the colours of your Sharpies and a cool design and start drawing. If you do it wrong you can just simply wipe it off and start again.

3. Leave the mug a day or so to completely dry and make sure not to touch it.

4. Put the mug into a cold oven for 30 minutes at 170 degrees

There you have it some pretty cool mugs for your Halloween fun! I think these would be pretty cool gifts for your friends. Be careful when washing them if I was you i'd wash them by hands and be careful around the design. I hope you like this idea if you decide to make these don't forget to post them on Instagram and tag me.

xoxo Lucy

Fall Spice Tag!

Hi Guys,

Today i decided to do the Fall Spice Tag because I love to do a good tag and since most of my other posts are Halloween related I decided that I should do something different even if its still related to the time of year.

1. Favourite Fall lip product?
Well once its fall my lips tend to start getting more dry so I like to use lip balm more than lip gloss or lip stick so this year I'm going to be using body shops Born Lippy range.

2. Red or Pink lips?
I prefer pink lips I don't think I could pull off the red lips.

3. Winged eye liner or bold shadow? 
I don't really wear winged eye liner so I will have to go for bold eye shadow.

4.Natural/ Cold/ Light or Bold/ Warm/ Dark make up? 
I think i prefer Natural/ Cold/ Light make up as like I said not sure I can pull off dark bold colours.

5.Favourite Fall Nail Polish?
My favourite fall nail polish has to be essies Saturday disco fever 

6. Ugg or Moccasins? 
I love the look of moccasins and I've always wanted a pair so probably moccasins plus most people wear uggs nowadays.

7. Fuzzy Socks or Knee High Socks?
One of my most favourite things about fall is the fact that I can wear fuzzy socks so I will definitely go for Fuzzy socks.

8. Favourite Fall accessory?
My favourite fall accessory is basicly anything cosy such as boots, scarf's, socks, hats, gloves.

9. Favourite Fall Food?
My favourite fall food has got to be any kind of warm food maybe like a Sunday dinner with all of the trimmings. 

10. Favourite Halloween movie?
My favourite Halloween movie has to be any of the harry potter films there is a list of my favourite films as another blog post if you would like to go look at it.

11. Apple Pie or Brownies?
I would definitely choose any kind of chocolate dessert as my favourite so it has to be brownies.



12. Favourite Halloween Candy?
I love any kind of candy really so any candy I receive at Halloween time I would be happy about.

13. Halloween Costume this year? 
I don't think I am going to dress up as anything for Halloween but if I was I think it would be cool to be something scary like a zombie.

14. What is your Favourite thing about Fall?
I love the fact it starts to get a lot colder and cosier and that's why its my favourite time of the year apart from christmas.


I tag all the people who read this tag to do this tag, its a fun and quick thing to do on your blog so that people get to know what you like a bit more! Thank you for reading don't forget to come back on Monday to find out what my favourite Halloween movies are! Also leave a comment with your tag if you do it! 

xoxo Lucy 

Top 10 favourite halloween movies

Hi guys,

I said in my last blog post that you would me finding out more about my favourite halloween movies so here I am to tell you all about my top 10 favourite halloween movies! These movies are all childrens ones or ones which aren't that scary to make sure they are suitable for most people and i think these are just as good as scary movies. 

10. The nightmare before christmas

9. The witches 

8.Gremlins 

7. Wallace and Gromit: The curse of the were rabbit 

6.Paranorman

5. Beetle juice 

4. Monster house 

3. Casper 

2. Adam's Family 

1. All Harry Potter Movies 

If you have any halloween movies which you would like to suggest then leave them in the comments bellow! I hope you liked this post i tried to stay in the safe zone as a lot of these aren't scary don't forget to check out my Instagram. Come back on Monday for a colourful post with some pretty cute ideas in it.

xoxo Lucy 

Halloween tag

Hi guys, 

Today I thought I'd start off with a Halloween tag to get everyone into the Halloween mood since we are getting closer to halloween! I tag all of you that would like to do it. Just leave a comment if you do this tag so I can go check yours out :) 

1. Favorite Halloween movie?
There are loads but for now ill just tell you one which is hocus pocus but stay tuned for next week when there will be all my favourites!

2. What age did you stop trick-or-treating?
I stopped trick-or-treating at about 9 or 10 I'd say.

3. Favorite Halloween Costume you have ever been?
It has got to be the classic 90's binbag witch! Literally all of my friends and I used to have bin bags as costumes it was the thing to do in England!

4. What are you going to be this year?
I am not going to be anything this year I don't think I might put a mask on for when answering the door to children though.

5. Do you like haunted attractions?
Nope I do not like anything to do with ghosts I can't even watch most haunted without being scared for days!

6. Vampires or werewolves?
In deffinately like vampires more they are so much cooler.

7. Favorite Halloween Candy?
My favourite halloween candy has to be the gummy sweets which have juice inside them when you bite into them they are so cool.

8. Do you decorate your house?
Nope we do not decorate our house but we do answer the door and have treats ready for when people come to the door.

9. Least favorite halloween costume? 
My least favourite costumes are probably the shop baught ones because I feel like making your own is so much more fun and creative!

10. Have you ever repeated a costume and what was it?
Yeah I have like I said the binbag witch I was one of those quite a few times when I was younger.

11. Do you believe in ghosts?
I think I do believe in ghosts but I try to convince myself that they aren't real because I'm so scared of seeing one.

12. Scariest halloween?

I don't think I have had a really scary halloween everytime I've been trick or treating I've had quite a good experience. 

13. Who do you tag? 

I tag everyone who reads this post to answer the questions!

I hope you have a great lead up to halloween and do something creative for your costume even if it is a bin bag! If you do something creative don't forget to send me a picture or tag me on twitter or Instagram.

Lucy xoxo

University- Learning the ropes

Hey Guys,

I explained quite quickly on Friday that I had started university on Monday and I wanted to give not only you guys a sneak peek into what its like in your first week of university but also give myself something to look back on in the future and remember what fun I had on my first week of uni. I've decided to do a little series of posts maybe once or twice for the next few months about my life at university and also some cool and important things about uni so remember to check in on a Monday and Friday at 6 pm England time to see if there is a new post about university.

Saturday 20th September
Moving in, Meeting people and Making it feel like home

Today is the day I moved away to university and moved into halls again I started off my day by packing the car up and making sure that I have everything I need to take with me. Once I got to my halls I went to the reception where they gave me my key and card for my room and they were all very lovely. I then got all of my things from the car and took them to my room and started to unpack everything to make everything feel a little bit more like home. My uni room is pretty basic with a bed, desk, cork board, chair, shelves and an en suit so its important to make it as homely as you can. I then realised that there was no one else in the flat yet and I didn't have any kind of food to eat so had to go to asda to buy some. Once I got back one of my flat mates had moved in so I had a chat with him for a while and spent most of the day sorting out my room and getting to know the other two of my flat mates. It then got to around 9 o'clock and some people from the flat above invited us to a flat party so that was a good way to get to know some more of the people who are living around me.

Sunday 21st September
Getting to know people, Trying to cook and Buying a lamp

I've settled in now and I am starting to feel a little more comfortable with my flat mates as they are all very different but all seem very nice which is good. Today I decided to go see my sister for a few hours and do a little more shopping so that I can make my room feel more homely so I went to tesco and got myself a new lamp for my desk. Then I came back to the halls and tried to cook for the first time this year but it ended up being burnt so I just stuck with a ready meal. Later on we got invited up to the flat above again and this time tonight we decided to go out which wasn't a good idea considering I had uni at ten in the morning. But it was a very good night and i really enjoyed meeting all the new people and not getting home till 4 am.

Monday 22nd September
Starting uni, Going out and Feeling Hungover

Today I started the day off with a massive hangover I'm surprised I even managed to get up and ready in time for uni, I then met some of my friends from last year who were going to be on my course and we all walked to the uni. Its a new building this year so once we got there we were a bit confused about where to go but eventually found our way to a massive lecture theatre where we found out there were 190 people doing my course. They then gave us a talk about the next year and split us into 6 groups and thankfully I was put with my friends from my course last year. Once in our groups we were given lots of ice breaker tasks to do to get to know people which was good and that was about it for uni. Then I went back to my halls and went out again at night time.

Tuesday 23rd September
Enrolling, Peer Mentors and Feeling Sad

Today I went to uni and we had a 45 minute talk from some people who were in the year above us who are now our mentors about all the things surrounding our course and it was pretty boring as I already knew all of these things from doing the foundation course last year but I'm pretty sure that everyone else found it very useful for them. Then we had the chance to enrol into uni and we got our university card and our met card which had £20 free on it to use on anything from certain shops or the canteen. After that we got to go home and it seemed like a pretty pointless day.Once back to my halls i just felt sad and missed home a little bit so I decided that I was just too tired to go out so I stayed in.


Wednesday 24th September
Personal tutors, Freshers fair and Freshers flu

We started off our uni day again in a lecture theatre but this time for an hour and we had a talk about making a blog for university which I'm kind of looking forward to as I really do like this blog so making a university one should be fun. After that we all decided to go to the freshers fair where there were lots of freebies and societies to join and even free domino's pizza. I also discovered that I was getting freshers flu which is never fun this is the second year in a row which I have got it and so i just went back to asda to get some flu tablets and medicine to make me better. Then just got into bed and watched a load of youtube videos as i needed to catch up.

Thursday 25th September
Glass jars, Lectures and Seminars

Once again we were in a lecture theatre where this time i had a lecture for an hour and it was pretty interesting i'm not used to being in massive lecture theatres like that but it made me pretty excited about what was going to happen throughout the next year. Once we had our lecture we all split up into our little groups and had a seminar where we discussed the lecture and our general feelings of how we all felt the lecture went and for the other half of the seminar time did a fun task where we had to bring in a jar from home filled with things which represent childhood to us. I chose to put pictures of my family in it and sand to represent holidays i had with family when i was younger. Then i went out again with everyone bit i kinda wasn't feeling well or in the going out mood so i came back earlier with some other people.

Friday 26th September
Day off, Doing nothing and Free pizza

So today i woke up with the stamp from last nights club that was on my hand stamped twice on my face... guess i slept on my hand then, finally have a day off of uni thank god i am so happy about it, this week has been such a long week i feel i needed a good day or so to sort my room out, do some blog stuff and have a good sleep in. So i haven't really done much today i went to see my sister for a bit and then went shopping again for some food and things to make my room feel more like home.


I know this post probably isn't the most interesting thing in the world but i wanted to share my week with everyone on the internet and keep it for myself as a memory. Don't forget to come back on Wednesday for a sneak peak into what is going to be happening with my blog for the next month or so. I promise you it will be exciting.

Lucy xoxo

September Friday Favourites!

Hey Guys,

So its the fourth Friday of the month of September and I decided I needed to do my Friday favourites before September ended. So here I am telling you about five of my favourite things from the month of September. This month as you may know from my previous Blog post I moved out of my family home again into university halls and its been quite an experience and I decided to add some of my university favourites into my monthly favourites as this has been the main focus of my month.

1.Laptop

My first favourite of the month has to have been my laptop, this has saved my life over the past week or so because I am only able to connect this and my phone to the internet at the moment so I am so grateful that I have this until I get my Ipad and computer up and running.

2. Fairy Lights

So I decided that I wanted to make my uni halls feel a little more like home and decided to buy some fairy lights. I am now in love with fairy lights they are a different alternative to having a bright light on all the time and I feel they make things feel a little bit more chilled out when you are trying to relax.

3. Stationary

I was slightly unprepared for going back to uni this year so a few days before I moved into my halls I decided to go buy some new stationary and I was very happy when I found these notebooks. They were in my local supermarket and they were reduced to two pound each I also got some other things such as animal print pens, a notebook for Blog ideas and a diary so I know when I have things to do.

4. Love heart set of three drawers

I got this set of drawers for Christmas last year and have been saving them for when I move into halls but they definitely are a good purchase I like to keep things such as earrings and jewellery in them so that it doesn't get all muddled up. They are also a good centre piece for my windowsill as i dont have an amazing view from my halls window.

5. Deserts

Over the past week I have developed a bit of a taste for deserts after I have had my evening meal, I have no idea how or why this happened but it did and I'm happy about it. I especially like the gu cheesecake pots which come in little ramekins which you can keep after.

I hope you like my Friday monthly favourites I will be doing them every third Friday of the month as well as a blog post every Monday and Friday for the foreseeable future. Feel free to leave a list of your Friday September favourites below in the comments and don't forget to come back on Monday for a sneak peek into freshers week and what university life is like.

Lucy xoxo

D.I.Y Summer Candle Jar

Hey guys,

I know that summer has probably ended for most of you already but I thought I'd do a summer jar D.I.Y to keep summer going for a little bit longer! I think this jar diy can still look pretty even when its not summer anymore. Its also super simple only six steps needed and even gives you help on how to get the lable off of jars!  All your going to need is...

💋 A Jar (any size) 

💋 Washing up liquid 

💋 Small candle 

💋Things to decorate your jar with 

If you would like to make it exactly like mine extra things you will need.. 

💋Sand 

💋Shells 

💋Tea light

Step number one- Get the jar and remove the lid and any contents if it has any.

Step number two - Fill a sink with water out of the hot tap and place the jar into the water. You may need an adult to help you with that bit because i dont want you to burn yourself!

Step number three- Leave the jar in the water for around three to five minutes and then the label should come off pretty easily. If it doesnt then keep the jar in the water for a few minutes longer.

Step number four- Put some washing up liquid on the jar and rub the inside and outside untill it feels like theres nothing sticky left on the jar you may need to use a scrubbie to get any tough glue off of the jar. 

Step number five- Rinse off the water and soap and make sure that all of the glue is off of the jar and that it doesn't smell like food anymore then dry the jar out.

Step number six- Add sand, then shells and a candle to the jar and light the candle! 

I also added a wooden summery looking box onto my bedside table at i thought they went well together. 

I hope you liked this quick D.I.Y if you have any questions dont hesitate to leave them down bellow and remember to tag me in any pictures if you recreate this @LucyHainsworthx on twitter and Loofahdoofah on instagram :) also i would love your feedback and ideas! 

Lucy xoxo

My Week Away -Days 3, 4 & 5

 Hey Guys! 

This blog is a follow on from yesterday's blog showing you what I did on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of last week. I hope that yesterday's was interesting, I didn't want to make it too long so it wasn't too boring! 

Sunday 13th April 

On Sunday I went on a boat ride in Wroxham along the broads, it was a very beautiful trip with lots of beautiful houses and scenery to look at. This wasn't just any ordinary boat trip I got to drive the boat and go where I wanted on the river as we rented out a boat to drive, I was on the boat for about two hours but I wished we had paid for longer. It was a shame that I could only go up to 5 miles per hour and that's classed as speeding! This was one of my favourite parts of the trip as I got to do something I'd never done before... 

                               

             

                  

Monday 14th April 

On Monday I had a bit more of a relaxed day as I was still tired from the journey to caister on sea! So I went bowling in the morning and played two games, it was a good laugh and I won one of the games by one point and that's good for me I usually all lose all of the games. Later on in the day I went for a really yummy meal where I had a beef burger and chips. 

 

                               

Tuesday 15th April 

On Tuesday I went to the beach for the day in Great Yarmouth it was a very sunny beautiful day and very relaxing. I also got an amazing ice cream from a stand on the promenade and it had one scoop of kinder bueno ice cream and the other was cookie dough! It was so yummy and just what I needed on a warm day :) I also went to the arcades where I won lots of little things which I would never have got if I saw it in a shop, but had to have them from the two pence machine! 

                               

I hope you are enjoying my blogs feel free to give me tips :) 

Thanks for reading my blog :) 

Lucy xoxo

My Week Away -Days 1 & 2

Hey Guys!

So last week I went for a week away to the sea side resort of Caister on Sea near Great Yarmouth. I thought I would share some of the fun things I did and pictures with my blog so that I can always remember last week! 

Friday 11th April 

So on Friday the 11th of April I set off to Caister on Sea and it was a rather long journey that took about 6 hours... Not the highlight of my day. I just spent the day relaxing but I did get to go check out the cold and windy but never the less beautiful beach! 

                                 

              

       

Saturday 12th April 

On Saturday morning I went the the sealife centre in Great Yarmouth which was so much fun seeing all of the amazing sea creatures. I got to see penguins and turtles which are my favourite! Also lots of other things like sharks and different types of fish I even got the chance to touch a starfish :) I soon realised that some of the creatures were hard to take clear pictures of! 

            

     

     

     

Later that day I went to look around a model village which is a tiny man built version of houses, people and attractions. I didn't think it sounded that good but once I got there I saw how cute it was and I couldn't wait to see it all. My favourite was the circus, the rides and I thought the little houses looked so real! 

                                 

       

Tomorrow I will be uploading Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of last week :) 

Thankyou for reading my blog 

 Lucy xoxo