I'm sorry but it's happened. I went home for the weekend and I caught the festive bug! As soon as I arrived at the station my mum whisked me off to a cute cafe which had a little shop with loads of Christmas decorations and I felt like I was coming home for Christmas, not just the short stay I was actually there for. I even started my Christmas shopping on Sunday...you know, have to avoid those queues in December :) It is still very early but here's some of the festive pictures taken from the weekend. Don't look if you're not ready for Christmas excitement yet!!

Anything that looks like it's made of gingerbread is a winner in my eyes!

This little fella' reminded me of Monty off the John Lewis advert, he's so cute with his little basket!

This is probably one of the nicest bears I've ever seen!

We like to play dress up haha :)

I'd love to have a big extravagant ball to wear something like this to!

Fireworks and Toffee Apples

Pumpkin Spice Latte...mmm

What I love about this time of year is being able to wrap up in the cosiest of clothes with a mug of something delicious in hand to warm up your tummy! Coffee shops bring out all their seasonal flavoured hot drinks and I can't help but spend all my money trying them all!

Another thing I love is bonfire night! I actually get fed up of watching displays after about five minutes..what I really enjoy is the excited atmosphere, that smoky smell in the air and tasty bonfire treats.

We actually missed the display we'd planned to go to thanks to our taxi not showing up so we decided to go out and walk towards any fireworks in hope of finding another display...and we did :)!!! After running through the streets, me practically tripping over my long scarf, we managed to catch the last five or ten minutes of some fireworks in a park I had no idea was even near my house! We quickly poured ourselves some mulled wine and enjoyed the moment :) 

I literally spent the entire day waiting to eat my toffee apple! You don't even want to know how much toffee there is stuck in my teeth and hair on this photo, they really are quite a challenge to eat but definitely worth it!

Another challenge was trying to get a decent photo of the fireworks! I have so many photos of an empty night sky! All of you who have taken clear photos capturing the fireworks going off, I applaud you! These were the best I had of a bad bunch I'm afraid...although I do love the silhouette of the crowd against the glow of the sky :)

Sooooo Halloween and Bonfire night are over...lets get excited for CHRISTMAS!!!

That Place

That place where you can clear your head and completely de-stress. That place where you find something beautiful each time you go. That place you don't get tired of, no matter how many times you visit. That place you want to show to all your friends. This is my place. 

I've been a bit homesick recently so I was looking through all the photos I have of my favourite place back at home. It's basically a walk around a reservoir and there's always geese bobbing on the water and happy dogs running around proudly with a stick in their mouth, tails wagging. About a 20 minutes walk away is the sweetest little village with cute tea rooms and cosy pubs with log fires. There have been so many heart to hearts at this place, it's very special :) !

There's something a bit 'Notebooky' about this picture!! If you've seen the film, you'll get...if you haven't then I highly recommend you watch it soon with a box of tissues at the ready..and maybe some chocolate.

But be warned..if you go here to have a Picnic the Geese will want in on it too! They have been known to sit on my leg!

Halloween Make up

Hope everybody had a great Halloween, whether it was a night in watching scary films, a house party or a wild night in town! I love seeing all the photos of people's costumes the next day. This was mine, I was a ....spider web? Not really sure but I just wanted to wear these amazing eyelashes! I'd love to see people's costumes so post any halloweeny post links in the comments below!!!