Happy New Year| My Year In Pictures

Happy New Year to all my lovely followers and readers, I hope you all had  a great night, however you spent it. I myself spent it with my boyfriend and his best friend and girlfriend, we had a little couples night in. We ordered a takeaway and played Pictionary and toasted the New Year in with a lovely bottle of Laurent Perrier…yum yum! So all in all it was very civilised, especially considering I can’t even remember last New Years Eve…. I must be maturing.

2011 for me was a year of dreams coming true, due to my amazing 5 months spent living and studying in France. Since I was a little girl I have always wanted to live in France, so to actually accomplish this has made me a very happy lady. I had the best time of my life, visiting some amazing places, meeting great new friends and making perfect memories. At times it was hard, especially leaving my boyfriend and family behind, but I think it has made me grow as a person.

During the summer of 2011 I got the chance to backpack around areas of Europe with my boyfriend, I especially loved Italy.

One major high point of 2011 was my mother overcoming her battle with breast cancer. She had been fighting it for 18 months prior, so this year she has been announced as being cancer free and is in remission, she also got engaged to her boyfriend, so my mum’s health and happiness has been a great blessing to me.

My best friend also got married in the summer to her lovely fella, and I had the honour of being Bridesmaid. We had a great time planning the wedding, a fun filled Hen Weekend, and a perfect wedding day.

I also celebrated 4 amazing years together with my boyfriend. We went to Edinburgh for a romantic weekend, and stayed at an amazing 5 star hotel and spa, and had dinner at a 3 Rosette restaurant, it was perfect.

For 2012 I have a lot going on; graduation, finding a job, perhaps relocating, my mothers wedding, hopefully passing my driving test.

At the moment I feel quite daunted by the prospect of this year, as come this time next year, I could be in a whole new location working at a new job that I hopefully love, but it’s my life so I have to live it!

What are your main goals for the year? What will you cherish from 2011?

Victoria Secrets Model Diet| Miranda Kerr Diet when she is at home

For those of you want to start your health kick right away, here's a little show of what a Victoria Secrets model eats. It may give you some inspiration.

Breakfast

Yoghurt and muesli with a fresh fruit salad.

Boiled eggs with rye toast and avocado

Lemon and Ginger water

A cup of green tea

Lunch

Spelt crispbreads together with fresh tuna salad

Lemon water

Dandelion tea

Dinner

Either fish or lamb chops, or salmon steak or steak with salad or vegetables.

Eat heaps of greens and sweet potato and pumpkin roasted.

Cup of green tea. 

Are you going to have a health kick start this year? What are your ambitions?

Presents and more Presents

So this Christmas I was a very lucky girl and many lovely things for Christmas. I do truly love gifts. Not just receiving but also buying, wrapping and giving, I have actually been buying and planning my family’s gifts since October. I always insist on people opening them in front of me as well, as there is no greater pleasure than giving someone a gift and them truly loving it!

 I got the usual smellies, perfume, beauty products, and many vouchers to buy clothes. I also received the lovely snowman charm for my bracelet, and from my boyfriend an organised trip to Edinburgh Zoo to go and see the Panda Bears… which I am hugely excited for.

What was everyone else's favourite present?

Christmas Time In Pictures

This is the past week for me in pictures.  I have had an extremely busy Christmas week. I only had 3 days off work, and still managed to clock up 360 miles travelling to see all mine and my boyfriends family. When I arrived back in Newcastle my father and his girlfriend visited for a few days, so it has only been till today that I have had a day to myself. Not that I am complaining I have had a great Christmas.

I hope you all had a lovely week.

JWoww indeed! JWoww Jersey Shore Bikini Line

Jenni "JWoww" Farley from The Jersey Shore is known for her tan, and for always being brown. Her love of tan comes from, sunbathing, sunbeds and fake tan (so she probably looks very dark in real life!)

Now she has released a line of bikinis that will help her maintain her tan without the dreaded tan lines. She has teamed up with Perfect Tan Bikini to create these quite gravity defying bikinis.

The bikinis use a adhesive to help the cups stay in place once the straps have been removed. The adhesive is activated by body temperature, however there is no mention on whether it is waterproof, so that would be pretty pointless in my opinion. The adhesive is reusable, and can be reactivated up to 20 times by heat through hairdryer or hair straighteners.

My opinion-

JWoww looks amazing! Living up to her name in these photos!

I can understand the logic in this endorsement and think it works well, as I think we would all want to look this sexy on the beach. However the designs of the bikini are not to my liking, a little bit trashy I think (but then again Jersey Shore is not known for it's class). The adhesive bikini is a good idea if you don't do anything but sunbathe while on the beach, no activities such as volleyball or swimming would be suitable while wearing this. I have also tried adhesive strapless bras in the past and as a girl with naturally large boobs, then do not support me and just hang off me, so I believe this bikini would have the same effect.

What do you all have to think about this bikini line? Would you wear it?