Abigale xo

Get To Know Me: 21 Questions

Just a quick post I found online so I thought I'd give it a go.

1. Are you named after anyone?

Abigail isn't after anyone, although my mum always says that it's the goose from aristocrats! My middle name Marie is after my dad's childhood friend apparently. I still say it was an ex of my dad's!

2. When was the last time you cried?

I'm quite a man when it comes to crying, it's a rare thing I do haha. Although I did cry at a sad film but I can't remember what it was called.

3. Do you have kids?

Nope.

4. If you were another person, would you be a friend of yourself?

Of course! Otherwise I wouldn't act the way I do.

5. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Too much!

6. Will you ever bungee-jump?

Never, although I would sky dive

7. What’s your favorite cereal?

This is my current problem, I need a new favourite! At the moment it's weetabix.

8. What’s the first thing you notice about people?

Their face shapes. I love a jawline and cheek bones, on boys and girls.

9. What is your eye colour?

Blue.

10. Scary movie or happy endings?

Happy endings, I can't even watch paranormal activity.

11. Favorite smells?

Mint, fresh bed sheets & rain.

12. Summer or winter?

Can I say autumn? I like the in the middle.

13. Computer or television?

Probably neither, I get bored of both soon enough.

14. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from home?

Not very far.

15. Do you have any special talents?

Unfortunately not. :(

16. Where were you born?

The Isle of Wight, in England.

17. What are your hobbies?

Blogging!!

18. Do you have any pets?

A cute little hamster, I have horses and chickens but are they really pets?!

19. Favorite movie?

Shrek!!!

20. Do you have any siblings?

Yup, 2 sisters - one older, one younger. I also have an older brother.

21. What do you want to be when you grow up?

Successful!

Now copy these questions and do it yourself! :)

Abigale xo

My week in pictures | 17th August 2014

Feels good being back doing this! With my return I've made sure I took as many photos as possible this week.

I found this amazing matte black nail varnish by Barry M. I live a very sheltered life and have never seen this before so of course I had to get it. I am in LOVE!

First of all, my sister and I went for gorgeous cocktails at a lovely place near where I live.

I found this challenging workout which I thought I'd share, I love trying new things.

I'm not sure how and why this song is on my phone? But I thought it was funny that I must have actually paid for it somehow hahah!

Work's quiet so I was able to enjoy this baby.

New purchases! Might review if they're any good. (St Tropez is obviously my favourite!)

Am I literally obsessed with Sweet and Sour Chicken with rice! I've had it twice in the past 3 days.

Here's me blogging! (I'm actually being organised for once and scheduling posts!)

Sergei finally came! For all you who don't know, it's a toy you can get if you buy insurance. Google compare the meerkat.

That's pretty much all I did with my week really! What did you guys get up to?

Abigale xo

Ps. My laptop screen broke today so I'm not sure what future post will be like. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon or I'll just buy a new one.

Boots Soltan Beautiful Bronze | FAKE TAN REVIEW

AFFORDABLE FAKE TAN

I'd just like to apologise for the bad photo, everywhere I put it the light shone off it!

Anyway, I'm all for finding a good quality cheap product and I think I've found it in fake tan! Soltan Beautiful Bronze, Self Tan Dry Mist Spray in the colour light/medium. Works perfectly for me, I had a friend that said they didn't like it at all - personal choice I suppose.

Application for this is so easy! You literally just spray it onto whatever you want to tan, just make sure you get it all otherwise you'll end up with streaks. That's the only way it streaks you'll be glad to hear! I just make sure I spray the area (eg, my legs) twice or slowly as it doesn't matter if you put more on one area than another. Once its developed you don't even notice.

It appears within 2-3 hours so don't get wet or sweat until that time is up!

Here's another shockingly bad photo of what it looked like on one leg compared to the other. It gave me such a natural tan that wasn't really orange like most fake tans. I find sprays so much better and easier to apply, especially if you're like me and hate how long mousse takes. You don't even need a mitt.

The only bad thing about it is that you have to look after it (moisturise everyday) because if you let it start coming off it goes all dirty looking. I found that moisturising regularly prevented this.

At £5.99 how can you go wrong?! Give it a try, buy it here.

Abigale xo

The Fault in Our Stars | BOOK REVIEW

Now I know this book is old news but I thought since everyone's been talking about it for ages, it was time to read it for myself before the film came out. I know the films already out now but I'm useless and forgot to post the review after I read it back in May! (I know - worst blogger ever.)

Anyway, just a quick review because I don't want to bore you with a book you've probably already read.

I'm going to be honest and say that I thought a lot of it was really predictable and to start with I found it to be very cringe worthy. I found myself saying 'as if' a lot of the time. Maybe its just me but I felt a bit like I was reading a 15 year old girls imagination? Not all the time may I add.

This book actually took me a few weeks to read; I found myself uninterested throughout the first two thirds of the book. Having said that! I really did enjoy the last 100 pages or so, literally, I ended up reading the end all in one night because I was hooked. Maybe it just wasn't my sort of book?

I don't want to ruin it for anyone who hasn't read it yet so I won't say anything. But the end definitely makes up for the rest, so if you're in the same position as I was - FINISH IT. It's worth it.

Anyway, that's all I'm going to say about this book because I'm sure we're all getting tired of hearing about it now!

Please recommend me some books to read!

Abigale xo

Where I've been

I am so sorry I have been completely rubbish recently! So much has changed and I've had such little time to blog - no excuse, I know. Ah well, these things happen and the least I can do is explain what's been happening.

First things first, I passed my driving test!

Then I was lucky enough to get a new car, but it's not been cleaned so I have no photos of it - yet!

Then I got a new job and I love it. It's so nice to work somewhere that you are actually respected. We make these amazing apple martinis, which are delicious if I do say so myself.

That's been the main reasons for not blogging, everything's just been all over the place.

I then got a new phone (upgraded to the iPhone 5s) which allows me to great beautiful photos like this:

I gave in and got Netflix, now I'm stuck watching Orange is The New Black. Goodbye social life.

I've been drinking alcohol, a lot. It's been birthdays and celebrations so that makes it ok?!

And recently, the best thing of all. I went to the Jay Miller Circus! I've never been to a circus so I was so excited, I really want to go again!!

It's a shame there's no animals in it anymore but it was still cool.

So yeah, that's been my life, I don't think I forgot anything. I promise I'm back now!

Thanks for reading :)

Abigale xo

I'm coming back!!

Sorry I've been away for a while. I've had so much on, I started a new job and was working all day everyday for a few weeks. Then I had my driving to do and then some personal stuff to sort out. But now I'm back and ready to go!

Thanks for waiting :)

Abigale xo

ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL 2014 | Sunday

Sorry its been a while, I completely forgot I never finished the weekend!

Here we are, Sunday, the final day. It was such a good weekend and I would do anything just to go back there. I'm definitely going again next year, its just such a lovely place. I didn't get many photos on the Sunday because my phone decided it didn't have any storage!! How annoying.

Here's Lucy, Becky and me with our finger tashes.

Then we watched Ella Eyre, So so beautiful!!

One of the best acts all weekend - Passenger. Go check him out if you haven't heard him already.

The Red Arrows did a show, I'm not 100% sure but I think these are only in Britain? If they are then for all you who don't know what they do, basically they just do cool stuff in planes haha, YouTube them if you are even interested.

Fall Out Boy! So glad I watched these, I love them so much.

Quick family photo (minus my older sister and I'm midway through talking).

Kings of Leon, definitely weren't as good as I'd hoped.

Then it was the fireworks at the end of the night. I thought the photo looked pretty cool.

So yeah, hope you enjoyed vaguely seeing my weekend.

Click here to see Friday.

Click here to see Saturday.

Thanks for reading/looking! :)

Abbie xx

5 things I've learnt in the past year

1. You can't trust friends.

The amount of friends that have said or done stuff is ridiculous. I don't deserved to be treated like that from a 'friend'.

2. You can't rely on anyone - if you want something, do it/get it.

My problem has always been I'm too nice, so I find it really hard to let people down. I've no idea how people can do it so often!

3. A lot of people have more than 1 personality. I'll just elaborate on this a little, people change when they're with different people. They turn fake just to please the other person.

We all have at least one of those friends right? Makes you wonder if they're faking it with you too.

4. Never stop working towards your dreams.

Even if things don't work out, there are always other routes. It's working for me and I didn't even finish A levels.

5. Don't openly express your emotions.

This is really important, especially when people try to make you angry. I love it because it makes people more angry that they can't piss me off.

So there we have it, 5 things I learnt in the past year. What have you learnt about life, friends, school, work, anything in the past year?

Let me know here

Thanks for reading! :)

Abbie xx

My week in pictures | 29th June 2014

This weeks been a crazy week. Unfortunately most of it I couldn't actually photograph, which is really annoying! I did get a few photos though, some of them are rubbish but it's literally what's on my camera roll from this week, haha enjoy.

Monday I only went and got sunburnt! Its so annoying because its just the top of my legs.

Didn't stop me from working out in the sun though.

I had my favourite dinner ever this week - had to share! Spaghetti Bolognese, with grated cheese of course.

Screenshotted this, must have been relevant at the time.

GoPro fun with my brother (click here for the blog post)

I had an incident with the shower as I went to turn it on, you can't really see because I had a black jumper on but water went all down my front and flooded my bathroom.

I think everyone need to read this, people complain about the past too much.

Fake tan review coming!

Gross vain, I know, its not usually there..

Good quality photo Abbie! But I ended the week with my beautiful sister and other people who I can't be bothered to name as I don't have any photos of them.

This is what I wore that night. Please ignore all my nieces toys in the background, although it adds character to the picture right?

Sorry its really boring, unfortunately its real life and not everyone does amazing things all week.

Anyway, thanks for reading!

Abbie xx

Evening at the beach | 26th June 2014

Evening guys! I thought I would do a quick post on some photos I took from the beach near me. It's nothing special and I am definitely one of the worst photographers out there, but I thought it looked pretty. My brothers just got a Go Pro so we went to go and try it out, meanwhile I just took a few photos on my phone :)

Enjoy.