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Goals For 2016

31/12/2015

Hello Everyone!
Sorry I've been so absent recently, I've had a lot going on.
It is New Year's Eve; the end of 2015, so it's only right to set some goals for the upcoming year.
This year has been a tough one for me, reading back last year's post I had achieved quite a lot. This year has just been a struggle and I'm looking forward to saying goodbye to 2015!

This is going to be a lengthy 'talky' post so if that's not your thing, feel free to skip out on this one and have a browse through my categories! I'm sure you'll find something that's to your liking.

As you may know if you read my last two New Year's posts (2014/2015), I'm not good at resolutions so I prefer to think of them as 'goals'.

These are my list of goals that I hoped to achieve this year:

1) Learn To Drive
2) Work Hard (both at work and on myself)
3) Be More Confident
4) Learn To Cook
5) Blog More
6) Do More Nail Art
7) Read More

I'm going to be honest, I've failed nearly all of these goals.

1) I am definitely going to start learning to drive in 2016, I am feeling much more determined and motivated to actually do it this year.

2) I always try to work hard but I haven't worked that hard to better myself this year.

3) I do think I'm more confident though! I think working in a job where you are constantly talking to new people and to strangers has really helped. Being left in charge, even if it's just while my Supervisor is on break, has helped too.

4) I haven't really progressed with this one, I bought two little cookbooks earlier this year and I don't think I've looked at them since!

5) I would love to be able to blog ALL THE TIME but I physically do not have the time. I need to start organising myself better and even if I feel really down, try not to let that stop me from blogging as blogging is something I really enjoy.

Although I haven't blogged as much as I would have liked to this year, I do think the quality of my blog posts and photos have improved.

6) Again, I'd love to spend all day doing nail art but I just don't have the time and when I do, I'd rather spend it with my family than sat in my room on my own.

7) As for reading more, I have a book that I've wanted to read for about 15 months and have yet to get to. I read the first 25 pages while on holiday and enjoyed what little I've read so I would like to continue it.

So I have not done well this year with my goals. It's been a really tough year this year and I've really struggled so I'm hoping 2016 has more ups than downs!

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Right then, let's get to my goals for 2016, there are only a few for this coming year but they'll be more achievable this way (I hope).

1) Book driving lessons and start learning to drive
2) Improve my blog
3) Be healthier, even if it's just cutting out all the extra snacks

I'm currently working on a new blog completely, it's on a different site, it has much better features and I'm really pleased with it. The tricky part is transferring all my posts to the new site and making it live etc. Hopefully by this time next year you'll be reading my posts on a lovely new site!
I promise it's on its way!

Have you made any goals for the new year? Did you complete any you set for this year?
Leave me a comment!

Have a wonderful new year and thank you for the continued support!
I'll speak to you in 2016.

Thanks for reading,

Abi xxx

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Building a Gingerbread House

16/12/2015

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Hello Everyone!
Little mid-week blog post for you today.
I built a gingerbread house (from a kit) with my sister.
We bought the kit from Tesco for £4!
Here we go...

Building A Gingerbread House | abibailey.co.uk

In the kit, you get:
- the building tray
- the walls and roof pieces
- the squeezy icing
- different sweets for decoration

On the back of the box you get easy to follow instructions with pictures too.

You squidge a lot of the icing into the grooves in the tray and ice the back sides of the front and back walls and pop them into the tray. After that you slide the smaller walls in between, gently pressing to help them stick.

Once you've let the walls set, ice along the top of the front and back walls and gently place the roof pieces on. Hold them in place for a minute to let them adhere and then let the whole house set for half an hour (You could catch up on Big Bang Theory like we did).

Once your house has set, you can get to decorating! We mimicked the design on the box with a few of our own little twists.

I'm really pleased with how it turned out and it was made much easier with the tray.
It was lovely to spend time with my sister too.

Have you ever made a gingerbread house? Have you ever been really brave and built one from scratch? Leave me a comment!

Thanks for reading, I'll speak to you soon!

Abi xxx

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Winchester Christmas Market

13/12/2015

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Hello everyone!
Happy Sunday!

On Wednesday afternoon, my mum, my sister and I took the train to Winchester so that we could mooch around the Winchester Christmas Market. Winchester is always lovely anyway and we had a really wonderful day out. Here are a few of the photos I took.

Let's start with an OOTD.

My jumper is from New Look and is classed as a 'jumper dress', I wouldn't wear it as a dress because it would be too short on me! It had 25% off when I bought it too.
My jeans are from Sainsbury's.
My boots are old and from Primark, despite the block heel they are so comfy and because I knew we'd be doing a lot of walking, these were perfect.
My lipstick is Make Up Revolution in the colour "Rebel With A Cause" and is a lovely berry tone.

This was the first stall and it was beautiful, filled with scented dried fruit and peel wreathes and decorations. My mum bought a 'fruit circle' and as lovely as it was, it smelled SO strongly of orange and spices, it got too much! When we got home we had to put it in the cupboard under the stairs because it was giving us a headache, haha.

There were over 100 stalls and there was such a variety.

These were called "Smoothie Candles"

There were lots of yummy snack stalls and I love how traditional they make them look, really makes it feel festive.

One stall was filled with festive decorations and that made me feel very Christmassy.

This was one of my favourite stalls, it wasn't selling anything but people could leave notes about what/who/where makes them happy or what they're thankful for. It's such a lovely idea and the gold really stood out in the sun.

After we'd seen all there was to see we wandered about the shops and stopped for something to eat becuase we were all freezing by this point and very peckish.

(excuse the iPhone quality and poor lighting)
We stopped at the West Cornish Pasty Co as we've eaten there before and the wedges are delish! I also had a sausage roll. It was very tasty and warmed me right up.

It was getting dark by this point so we got to see the tree all lit up as well as the other lights which was magical.
I had such a nice day with my family and it was nice to go somewhere and do something different.

I'm going to my work Christmas meal tonight so my next post will be my OOTN.

Thanks for reading and speak to you soon!

Abi xxx

P.s. Emma, if you're reading, I got your message but because you didn't leave your email I can't reply! Thank you for the lovely comments and if you wanted to leave your message as a comment on either this post or another I'd love to be able to reply to you. xxx

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Blog Update

6/12/2015

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Hello everyone!
Hope you're enjoying your Sunday, leave me a comment telling me if you've been up to anything nice.
Just a quick update today but quite an exciting one!

I just want to explain why I've been so absent recently and what's to come in the near future.
This is going to be a really quick talky post so if that's not your thing feel free to browse through one of my categories in the side bar. There's lots to choose from!

Firstly, you may have noticed, I now have my own domain! This blog now lives at 'abibailey.co.uk' whereas it used to be abibailey.weebly.com. I feel so much more professional now.

Secondly, I've been so absent on here because a) I work in retail and it's nearing Christmas so my hours are INSANE and any spare minutes I get, I spend with my family (or catching up on sleep) and b) I really haven't had anything to post about! I have a few make up deliveries on the way and a couple of OOTD posts planned along with some festive bits and pieces too.

Lastly, I'm planning to move blogging sites soon (when I have more than an hour of spare time) so this'll be a much better, more professional blog (but still fun) with better features. I'm so excited!

So I hope that brings you up to speed!
Lots of good things coming to this blog so keep an eye out!

Also don't forget to follow me on twitter and bloglovin so you're in the loop.
Thank you for all the support, it means the world to me <3

Thanks for reading and I'll speak to you soon!

Abi xxx

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