Christmas has arrived in our home!

Christmas is now just over a week away and I am getting totally excited. This is the first Christmas that will be spent in our first house. We've had to buy all our Christmas decorations in to ensure it could be as festive as possible. I've put little bits of Christmas throughout the downstairs of our house. As you would imagine, there is a lot of gingerbread! I've bought a couple of decorations in the run-up to Christmas but had a few from last year that friends and family bought as presents. The one with our names on was given to us last year by my Mum, it is so cute and such a special, unique decoration. When I pulled them all out to put on the tree, I couldn't believe how much gingerbread there was! I'm so pleased with how my tree came together. Mum was always into white and silver decorations, whereas I have gone all out traditional red, green and gold. I love it, it's so festive!

As well as the Christmas tree I've added festive tea lights holders, gingerbread houses on the fuse box, a cuddly Santa on our phone table, tinsel to the bannister and some twinkly lights in the front window. There are lots of little bits to ensure our house looks festive! I'm so pleased with how everything looks and I don't think I could fit another Christmas themed item in the house, well except stockings and Santa sacks on Christmas day! Do you like our decorations? Have you posted about yours? Link me!

New Zoya polishes - Tickled and Bubbly Collection (Tilda and Jesy)

I love Zoya nail polishes. The bottles are so cute and sleek, whilst the formula is easy to work with and the colour selection is brilliant. I always see these as an American brand that I can't get my hands on so when I had the chance to try these out I was very excited! The colours I recieved were from the Spring/Summer 2014 collection. From the Zoya Tickled collection was Tilda (green) and the Zoya Bubbly collection was Jesy (orange).

Tilda is quite a murky green pastel colour with a great finish. I've used Seche Vite over my swatch but Tilda is more of a subtle finish, not too shiny. The colour stayed on well and would look great in nail art.

Jesy is an amazing glitter bomb that brushes on an almost gold colour with tonnes of holographic pieces of glitter. Although full of glitter this polish does not feel too rough to the touch and goes on well with two coats (as pictured). This would be great worn over polish or by itself.

I can't wait to try the rest of the collections!

Manicure Monday - Tara's Talons!

I was so pleased that Tara from The Tara's Emporium could attend my #BakerStMeet in Middlesbrough last month as I adore indie nail polish and the fact that she is UK based makes it all the better! When she came down she brought us all one of her gorgeous polishes but as some people didn't turn up we got more than one!

After my week of nail polish, the first polish I turned to was one of Tara's polishes. This one was my first pick and it is called Embankment. It is a gorgeous shimmery green filled with differently shaped glitter!

Tara's business recently turned one, so to celebrate she has brought out a birthday collection of nail polishes! As well as this Tara has recently expanded her business to include much more than nail polish. If you haven't already had a nosy at her shop then you must.

Nail Art Weekly Project - Week 4

Week 4 of the Nail Art Weekly Project already! Where have the weeks gone? This week's theme is the month you were born. As I was born in August I was going to try and do a summer theme manicure with lots of cute nail art but again I was super busy and had no patience. So I have followed suit of what a lot of the other girlies are doing and based my manicure on my birthstone, peridot.

In essence all I've done is found all the green polishes I have and stuck them in one manicure! I know that peridot is more of a yellowy green colour but I don't have anything like that so have gone with a light and dark green with some glitters.

It is the last week of the project next week so I hope you've enjoyed everyone's manicures!

What do you think?