January Favourites

So this is a new thing huh? I thought that as it's a new year I should introduce something new to my blog and what better than a monthly favourites! I intend to do these on the last Monday of each month so yeah here we are! 

As it's January, a lot/most of the things I've loved were Christmas presents so yeah - just thought I'd let you know.

The first thing I've been loving this month is my Gavin and Stacey box set - I mentioned my love for Gavin and Stacey in my last post and for Christmas just gone Hollie (my best friend) got me the box set and I can tell you, it's barely left my DVD player! It's literally my favourite thing and I watch it so much I could almost recite it word for word (not an exaggeration at all). 

The next thing is a bag I bought from Primark. First off I'd like to say I bought it in December but I mean I have loved it throughout January so it still counts as a January favourite right? Any way I had been wanting a bag like this for a while and when I saw this one for £10 I couldn't resist, it's like a Mary Poppins bag, it fits everything in and goes with anything - except joggers of course!

This has probably been my most favourite thing ever this month - my portable charger! This was a Christmas present which was to go with my tablet but I've used it for my phone. It's so handy, you just charge it up and it gives you about 3 full charges from one charge. I keep it in my bag wherever I go and that way my phone is never dead. I seriously recommend you investing in one if you can't live without your phone or ipod or anything, its just amazing!

As it's been extremely cold, I have been loving moisturiser. Not just any moisturiser - the soap and glory 'hand food' moisturiser. I don't have much to say about the smell but when a product works as good as this.. who cares what it smells like? Well I actually do but it works wonders so it's cool!

On a similar note my lips have been getting extremely chapped whether it's from the gym (is that weird) or just the cold idk they've been bad. I got the carmex lip balm like the liquidy one in a squeezy tube (10/10 for description) and it's been so good like moisturising and helpful. I have the strawberry one and the cherry one and they taste so nice so yeah!

Another thing that I have been loving is Pretty Little Liars now you might be thinking but thats been on ages and you would be right in thinking that BUT it came back for the second half of the fifth season this month and I wont give anything away because spoilers but it has been AMAZING!

The last thing I know I loved is my new Oxford 'project book' I wanted to be more productive and organized with my blog so I bought this and usually I don't geek out about a notebook but I swear the paper is the best quality paper ever and it's just so nice to write on, if your revising for your exams and you don't have one of these, I disapprove severely!

So I think that's it this month for things I've loved, I hope you liked it.. thank you for reading - let me know in the comments if there's anything you've been loving this month :)

Hayl xo 

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My Favourite TV Shows!

So while deciding what to do for this weeks post I was flicking through the TV guide and couldn't find anything I wanted to watch, which got me thinking.. what even are my favourite shows? As I thought about it, I decided I'd do a post on it and share my favourite shows! I think most of them are shown worldwide too so I assume you'll have heard of most of them. 

     (These aren't in any order, just as they came up)

• Pretty little liars - Okay so this just had to come first! What isn't to love about a group of teenage girls being put through their paces by an anonymous texter with murders and secrets galore? I was both late and early to the PLL Party (bearing in mind it's not shown in britain) because I read the books when I'd first heard of the show in like 2011 and became obsessed, then I started watching the shows and got to the third season and stopped and then I didn't pick it back up until just before the 5th season ended for its break. I love how different it is to the books as well because having read them I thought I'd know who A was and everything else that happened but I don't have a clue like I still think it could be anyone! If you love this show let me know and we can have discussions in the comments on our theories, I only know one person who watches it and that's Hollie, and she's not caught up yet and I can't spoil it for her:')!

• Hollyoaks - This is a British soap and I absolutely love it! It's about a village in England called (would you believe it) Hollyoaks. It's such a diverse show and there are multiple story lines going on and because the cast is so big there is never a dull moment. I don't think I could live in Hollyoaks though cause I'd be to terrified of Trevor!

• Gavin and Stacey - This again is a British show but I believe there's an american version called 'us and them'. This is honestly one of the funniest shows ever, I'm so sad that there's only three seasons but it really does get you laughing. It's about a couple that are online dating and they meet up and have this huge whirlwind romance. There's more to it than that but if you haven't guessed I'm awful at descriptions.

• Made in Chelsea - Again sorry this is a British show. It's sort of a reality show but there is like 'set-up' scenes. It's about people from Chelsea which is an area of London. There's always some sort of drama going on which makes it hilarious to watch, not many people I know actually like this show though.

• American Horror Story - So I'm still not sure whether I like the show or if I'm just drawn to it cause I want to see what happens but either way I can't take my eyes off it. I'm only up to coven at the moment but I think its just a great show, I love the how the majority of the cast stays the same and are in each series. Up to now though 'Murder House' is my favourite series, I love evan peters' character 'Tate' and just the whole mystery of the house and how every episode it starts with something about the previous owners and their murder.. it's crazy!

• Total Divas - Oh my god, Hollie recently got me into this one. She has loved wrestling since she was tiny and she'd have it on every now and then and I used to just go to sleep but I started getting into it and then one night I was staying round hers and it was the night of wrestlemania and I was glued to the screen! Hollie was so happy I'd got into it and showed me total divas which is a reality show about the divas (female wrestlers) it's just so good I can't even describe it!!

I don't know if that was more or less than I expected but I think there's enough there.. If you like any of the shows tell me and we'll have discussions because yeah, why not.. (Especially with PLL though, I want to hear more theories). 

Before I end the post by the way, I hit 100 followers on bloglovin which I know is a small amount compared to other blogs and stuff but 100 people is 100 people, it's just a lot of people OKAY? But anyway thank you for helping me even get this far and for putting up with my ramblings whether you followed me yesterday or in September when I first started!

Hayl xo 

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