What I Got For My Birthday

One of the topics I love reading about on blogs is birthdays, specifically the 'What I Got For My Birthday' posts. It's one of those brilliant ways to nose around other peoples' lives (something I take great pleasure in doing) and soak up some of that birthday joy!

Therefore, here I am, showing you the lovely presents I got off my family and one friend. 

DISCLAIMER

I am not writing this to brag about what I was given- I'm writing it because I love reading these posts and I know there are many other people who do as well. Also, I'm so thankful for the lovely things I was given- I'm mainly grateful I get to spend birthdays with my family and friends, present are an added bonus ;)

  

Soap and Glory 'Best of All'

• 'Hand Food Hand Cream'
• 'Peaches and Clean Wash Off Deep Cleansing Milk'
• 'Clean on Me Creamy Clarifying Shower Gel'
• 'Smoothie Star Body Lotion'
• 'Heel Genius Foot Cream'
• 'The Righteous Butter Body Butter'
• 'Sugar Crush Body Scrub'
• 'Sexy Mother Pucker Lip Gloss' in the shade 'Punchbowl'
• 'Thick and Fast Super Volume Mascara'

For me, Soap and Glory is one of my favourite (if not my absolute favourite) bath and body brands. I'm a huge fan of their body washes and moisturisers in particular so was thrilled when I ripped off the wrapping paper to find this underneath with 9 amazing looking products inside it. Plus- you get the enormous zip up case that they come in!

'So You Want To Be In Musicals' by Ruthie Henshall

This present was off my big brother, Sam. He knows me so well obviously! It's my dream to be in musical theatre on the west end (I go on about it a lot, I bet you've noticed if you read my blog frequently). I started reading this on the plane home from America and it's incredible! It has pages of helpful advice for people like me who want nothing more than (like the title says) to be in musicals.

Musicals- The Premier Collection

This gift is one of my favourites (one guess why!). It contains 3 CDs with about 60 songs from musicals. This will come in so handy when learning various songs and will give me hours of ear enjoyment!

Wonderstruck Perfume by Taylor Swift

Wonderstruck is my favourite perfume I've ever smelt.. that sounds odd. It's a very fruity, floral and girly fragrance which is quite sweet smelling. It's perfect for summer especially but I can't get enough of it. I'd just ran out of the bottle I got last year before we went on holiday, so I was sooo overjoyed to receive this! Also Taylor Swift has been one of my obsessions for years now. Love that woman.

Beauticology Strawberry Cupcake Shower Creme

 My friend Izzi got me this and oh my goodness. THE SMELL! It literally smells like summer in a bottle as I eat tubs and tubs of strawberries over summer. It's such a refreshing and fruity scent and I can't wait to use this.

Fiorelli Blue/ Green Bracelet

I apologise that you can't see it very clearly in this picture, but Izzi also got me this gorgeous bracelet. It's a lovely deep turquoise colour (one of my favourite colours) and even the bag it came in is really cute!

Real Techniques Starter Kit

Since I have a blog where I discuss beauty, it's pretty much a given that this present is going to be more than exciting! It contains 5 eye brushes that look brilliant. Surprisingly my 13 year old brother got me this (I think my mum mentioned it.. he's not that observant with this kind of thing I don't think). I can't wait to get some serious use out of these brushes as I have the expert face brush from real techniques and it's the best brush I own. They'd better live up to their reputation as I've heard good things about this set!

Thomas Sabo- Masks Charm

I'm sure you're more than aware of my love of theatre by this point, so this one's pretty self explanatory. Now I have a charm for each performing art: a music note, ballet shoes and the 'comedy and tragedy' masks.

I feel like a very lucky girl to have been given such great presents! If you've enjoyed this, are as nosy as me (hello to any fellow nosy ones out there!) and you'd like to know what I did for my birthday, there's a link to that post here.

P.S! My big brother Sam has just started a youtube channel! If you have a free moment please give it a look, I'm sure he'd be ever so grateful.

Thanks for reading and have a lovely day whatever you're up to :)

Charlie x

16th Birthday!

Bonjour!

So as I mentioned in my last post, I celebrated my 16th birthday when I went to America with my family and it was the best birthday I've ever had! My birthday was the 1st of August and on the 31st of July, I carried out my yearly tradition of staying up till at least midnight. My friend in America, Hannah, had been to see Justin Bieber that night and ran into my room and pounced on me to wish me happy birthday at 12.30 when she got home... that was the first of many lovely moments.

In the morning, I woke early and facetimed my two best friends Ellen and Laura (HEY GUYS) and had a good chat and laugh with them. When I got up, happy birthday was sung to me and we all had breakfast together- waffles, eggs and bacon. MMM! I then opened some cards and presents off my family (putting up a post after this one about a few things I got). We then all spent most of the early afternoon getting ready to go into New York which was entertaining enough in itself (3 teenage girls trying to decide what to wear etc).

Shirley Temples at the view with Reagan and Hannah.

 All of us then hopped into the cars and drove into NYC, parked up and walked to 'The View'; a restaurant near times square, 48 floors up, that slowly revolves, giving you a 360 degree view of the city. The food was amazing, the waiter we had was hilarious and asked if he could be adopted by us and the experience was so worth it. I'd definitely recommend it, 100%. 

Once we'd finished eating (and had gained about two inches around our bellies), it was absolutely pouring it down with rain outside. Literally, POURING! We were off to the theatre to see Wicked (my favourite ever musical) which was just round the corner. But, one of our friends (Judy) had just had foot surgery and was being pushed in a wheelchair by David (another friend... I HAVE FRIENDS). It was quite entertaining actually looking back, except for the fact I was in sandals!

We soon arrived at the theatre and got to our seats. The show began and I was transported into this heavenly musical land that felt like a dream *sighs*. If you read my first bucket list post, you'll know how I feel about musical theatre and wicked especially. If not, it's basically my dream to be Elphaba (the wicked witch) in wicked. I cried.. quite a lot.

If that wasn't enough, everyone agreed that we could go to the stage door atferwards and look what flippin well happened....

 

Fiyero- Derek Klena

Glinda (the good witch)- Katie Rose Clarke

Elphaba- Lindsay Mendez. Such a talented woman.

 Finally we had a wander through times square and before I knew it, it was no longer my birthday.

We then drove back to the house and ate ice cream cake (which was INCREDIBLE). I then curled up on the sofa with Hannah and Reagan watching something American- and quite forgettable to be quite honest- until 3 in the morning, at which point I strolled off to bed for my last night's sleep in the US of A. 

So that was my birthday! Quite a long winded story but I wanted to blog about it as it was such an amazing and lovely day with people who I love ever so much! We all love birthdays don't we?! (I hope you do!)

Thanks for reading and have a lovely day whatever you're up to :)

Charlie x