Finds, Buys and Eyes

After feeling rather under the weather in the latter part of last week with this horrible cold that is going round the weekend got off to a quite boring start spending Saturday curled up on the sofa with my laptop and a husband nursing a hangover from Friday night.

Even though I'm not 100%, I'm feeling much better today and so this morning we got up early for one of my favourite Sunday passtimes - a trip to the local car boot. Having been brought up in a family that quite often visited car boot sales I've always enjoyed finding bargains and scouting for treasure. Admittedly a car boot is usually a mixed bag, stuff that you wouldn't look twice at, stuff that would be perfect but maybe needs a little TLC or is a fixer upper and sometimes you come accross a diamond in the rough.

We are very lucky in Milton Keynes that we have a massive car boot every weekend (even during the winter) at the Bowl a huge outdoor venue used for concerts. In the height of the summer when the weather is glorious it can take three or four hours just to walk around and thats without really even stopping that often - I love it!

Unfortunately, as is the case with a lot of winter weekends, the weather was against us this morning. It was a little drizzly when we left the house, I didn't think it would be worth going but as my husband said we were up and dressed and out now so we may as well go. As I thought by time we got there there the rain was coming down quite heavily and a lot of the stall holders had given in and were packing up. I did pick up a few things though....

Sunglasses £3 - Brand New with Tags (taken off for picture)

I think a girl can never have too many pairs of sunglasses. I love having a selection of different styles to wear when the sun is shining. They can totally transform an outfit and as any celebrity will tell you a pair of oversized sunnies is very stylish!

 

Goldey Coloured Bangle - 50p

I love car boots for adding to my accessories and when I spotted this gold coloured chunky bangle I thought it could work well with a few things in my wardrobe. At the bargain price of 50p it wasnt exactly going to break the bank.

Another great buy were some Clinique skin care items, all brand new at 50p each. I also brought a brown boho style belt which I will be offering as a giveaway prize when I reach 25 subscribers, so if there is anyone you know who might like my blog then feel to point them in the direction of it.

Also today I had a bit of a play around with my eye make up. After watching a tutorial on You Tube I picked up some hints on how to create a winged eye effect. I wanted to have a pratice for a wedding I am attending in a couple of weeks - although I used a totally different colour today to what I will be using for the wedding. This was the result......

 

It was only a very rough practice and annoyingly I couldn't find my black eyeliner so looks like I will need to buy a new one of them but I was quite pleased with how the look turned out. This look has two colours a silver in the inner eye and then a teal green on the outer section of the eye - I used MAC pigments for this but this could be achieved with any brand of eye make up.

 

Not such a great picture as it's quite hard to take a picture of your own eye with your eyes closed!

If anyone would like some step by step instructions on how to achieve this kind of look just leave me a message and I will try and do something during the week.Maybe even suggest a colour combination as I always like to try out new things.

Finally my last purchase for this weekend was down to my new found addiction to butterfly necklaces. This addiction started after my friend brought me a really pretty butterfly necklace for my birthday last year and I had a lot of compliments on it when I've worn it. Now I find myself drawn to similar necklaces and I spotted this one a few weeks ago in Asda and I gave in yesterday and brought it.

 

I wear a lot of black v neck tops (staple wardrobe favourite) and also have a green v necked jumper that I wear to work a lot which will go so well with this necklace, It was only £4 and it is actually quite large so I think it was worth the price, the black and green is kind of enamelled. I've learnt that if I see something at Asda I like I should buy it more or less straight away as they have a quick turnover of stock - many a time I have held off and then when I've gone to buy the item it has gone.

I have the next week off work so am looking forward to that. Have got various things planned - a trip to Manchester to do a photoshoot for my friends little boy and a birthday party on Friday. Tomorrow my husband has the day off work so we are having a nice day together. The other days I am going to try and have a good clear out, put some stuff on Ebay and possibly even paint the bathroom - lets see how much I actually get done!

Ooops what a long blog today! I'm such a chatterbox. I hope you've all had a good weekend with lots of bargain finds and fun for good measure.

Thanks for reading.

xSx