Silent Sunday

Organising my make-up collection

I'm very guilty of having no organisation for my make-up at all, I would either be given make-up or I'll buy it, then I'll chuck it all in a drawer.

This makes trying to find certain products and items very difficult, I could scream for the amount of times I've hunted high and low for my favourite black eye liner and not been able to find it, or a certain colour of eye shadow and I can never find it.

So this morning, I bit the bullet and decided to have a proper sort out of my make-up and organise it in a way that would give me easy access to all my items.

I'm very lucky that my Mum works in the offices at Avon and she gets tons of make-up for a silly fraction of the price they sell for, I'm talking 20p for a tube of mascara, just because the box is a little bashed, nothing wrong with the product, just the box it came in...it's ridiculous!!

You will see from my pictures that most of my items are from Avon, I like their products and my Mum buys then for me, so they're basically freebies and we all know how much I love a freebie!!

So, now for the pictures...

This is how I stored my make-up prior to this morning:

Now you can see my problem with locating certain products!!

I will be buying matching baskets to go with the colour of my room, but for now I used any basket or tub I could get my hands on, and this is after I organised:

 On the left is all my eyeshadows, I think I have pretty much every colour going. On the right is all my lipsticks and glosses.

 On the left is all my mascaras and on the right is all my brushes, some blushers and powder.

 On the bottom left, I've put all my face packs and sample products in a tub, in the middle are creams and on the right are nail polish, I'm not a big fan of nail polish.

On the bottom left are my eyeliners, in the middle are my tinted moisturisers and on the right are my foundations. Top left are all my watchers. next to that are hair products.

This is the top of my chest of drawers, I bought the silver tree ornament ages ago and I'm using it to hang all my earrings on, I think it looks fab and shows off all the earrings fantastically, then I have my bracelets, my face cream and a selection of perfumes.

So that's a wrap, I'm very pleased with how it all turned out, now I can locate my favourite eyeliner or certain colour of eyeshadow.

Now I just have to keep a certain little girl *cough*Erin*cough* out of my makeup!!

Do you organise your makeup for easier access, let me know and I can have a look.

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Word of the Week

It seems as though most days, I'm obsessed with losing weight. I look through magazines and immediately I'm bombarded with images of beautiful women with the perfect figure, articles about the latest diet-craze and fashion which is definitely not suited to the bigger woman.

So I tell myself that once I'm slim, I can wear the clothes I like, when I'm slim I will look fantastic, when I'm slim I will feel fabulous!!

But what about now?? I take no pride in my outfits as nothing I like fits me or what does fit me, I don't like. I've had the same haircut for as long as I can remember and I don't experiment with my make-up. Funnily enough, this is all reserved for when I lose weight!

I need to accept who I am at this precise moment and love the person I am, I need to stop telling myself I will do this and I'll do that once I'm slim. I need to start living and enjoying my life, as I am.

So here I am, completely make-up free and unfiltered.

I'm still on my quest to eat healthily and exercise, I still want to lose weight, but I have to stop letting it define me and taking over every decision I make.

This is my life whether I'm plus size or a perfect size 10 and I'm making a promise to myself to accept who I am at the present moment.

If I could have just 1 selfish wish.....

I would wish for a whole new wardrobe, complete with lots of different outfits for different occasions and copious amounts of shoes and accessories.

I would love to have one of the huge walk-in closets that you only see in programmes like MTV Cribs, or looking through Pinterest.

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Oh my!! It's my idea of Heaven.

Maybe once the kids have moved out, I can turn their bedrooms into something like this.

Or maybe I'll win the Lottery and be able to build a mega-mansion just to house my brand new walk-in wardrobe.

Or maybe it'll be nothing but a daydream...this seems like the likeliest outcome.

But a girl can still wish.

My mission to be slim

I've struggled with my weight all of my adult life, the last time I remember being slim was when I was 19, I was clothes shopping with my boyfriend at the time and I remember complaining because I the size 12 skirt that I was trying on was tight and I had to go up to a size 14!!

Good Lord!! How I would love to be a size 14, I think I would give my right arm to be that size again.

After that, the weight just piled on, I blame settling down and contentment. Instead of going out, we stayed in, eating take-aways and enjoying loved-up coupledom.

Now I'm 34, I find myself single and grossly overweight. I really need to get myself in order and lose the weight for good. After reading Katie's blog over at Mummy Daddy and Me Makes Three I was uber-inspired by her my-fitness-mission-february post. So much so I have come up with my own Fitness Mission which I will start on March 1st, new month, new start. I've also come up with some goals that I want to meet and will update my results at the end of March.

1. Drink 8 glasses of water every day.
2. Drink at least 3 cups of Green Tea every day.
3. Incorporate at least 30 minutes of exercise every day.
4. Aim to lose 8lbs

I'm keeping my goals short for this month to ease myself in gently.

Tune in at the end of March when I will post my results.

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