NEW INK!!!

Really I should have posted this weeks ago. When I was down south me and the Fiancé decided to go and get new tattoos. Fiancé's sister V had been to a local place near a few times so she said we could go there with her.

Turned out fiancé's cousins partner M also a new tattoo so his cousin O said he would drive us all. The place we went Camberly Tattoo is a walk in only shop so we went for it opening. Fiancé and me knew what we wanted M and V were a little less sure, in the end the 4 of us all came out with new ink hehe O didnt but then hes not a fan. Safe to say it was an odd family day out, but fun.

Originally I wanted the design I got on my ribs but the lad pointed out that with it being round and having straight lines if I moved at all it would look awful. So I swapped to having it on my ankle opposite my cat. I can still cover it up if anyone says anything with either dark tights or trousers.

Fiancé went in first as he wanted his arm piece all re-done, in the end it took an hour and a half but it looks awesome.

Before - looks a lot darker in this pic it was actually a bit patchy

NEW INK! you can see its a lot more complete and coloured in much better. 

Here is my new mandala inspired ink!

I love my new mandala inspired tattoo. Took the guy barely any time at all. The middle is interlocking S's for me and the fiancé. 

This was us post tattooing, Fiancé looks like he was mauled by an animal, V went to give blood I got  sprained ankle and M well I'll let you decide on that one. 

So I finally got my new ink and I am thrilled. The only bad part was that we bought bepanthen cream to help with healing and it would seem that I am allergic because my ankle swelled up and hurt like hell. I had to keep cooling it down with cold water, in the end I washed all the cream off and just used a unscented lotion till I got home and could use some lavender oil. It was quite red for ages and took ages to heal which was a bit worrying as all my other ones healed much faster  but now its all fine.

When I looked it up it turns out allergies to bepanthen are quite common after tattoos so I would advise any reader to stick to either savlon or good old lavender oil.

I still want more tattoos but will have to save up big time for my back piece and any others ... well I think I am running out of coverable places to have them so they woul involve a bit of logistics.

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A day out with the boy!

So the other day I was home from work early to spend some time with my boy, see he works in retail so can end up working all weekend then having two days off in the week. This can get a little frustrating when you want to do stuff and when I work mon to fri. So the other day we decided to make the most of the sunshine, on went the shorts and off we went ... well almost. First we had to decide on something cheap and cheerful we could do in the local area, unfortunately we dont have a garden or we would just spend time out there. 

Anyway after a little bit of googling we found a local 18 hole mini golf course 5 minutes drive away and off we went. It was a lot of fun, a bit easy most of them par 2 but oh well we had a good time and took some funny pics. I know this selection are a bit small but meh. 

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A wonderful weekend in Didsbury

So myself and the fiancé spent the recent bank holiday weekend in Manchester with our friends. We went to stay at their new apartment with some other friends from Southampton. We dont get to see these friends that often so it was really nice to get together for the whole weekend and chill out. We were also celebrating the fact that Saturday was exactly a year to the day of our wedding!! So it would be exactly a year until we were all celebrating again, but in a more formal setting and with different outfits.

Our friends apartment is amazing, its in an old converted hospital so all the ceilings are very high and the exterior is amazing to look at. The surrounding flat  blocks were also really nice all finished to a high standard so they made the area look really cute. Anyway aside from a beautiful exterior the interior has been done really well, its like visiting an expensive hotel with plush carpet and close up artistic canvases of the building.

Their flat is really nice too, rectangular space with the bedroom and lounge on the exterior wall and a second bedroom almost like a mezzanine level over the kitchen dining part of the lounge. Its hard to explain but very cool as the little second bedroom has little slat shutters you can open and look down on the lounge from.

Anyway after we had arrived and caught up on life we went into the city centre to visit an art gallery. It was really nice, the three girls went on a fashions of the 17th century tour while the lads had a wander round. There were some really amazing paintings on display and some very peculiar ones. The gallery had an exibit on that was really odd, all the pieces were exquisit compositions but the subject matter was a bit unusual at times. I will let you decide, the artists name is Raqib Shaw.

After a few hours in the gallery we went back to Didsbury to get ready for dinner. Fiancé had decided to try out a new outfit he found on Pinterest. Casual shirt, black waist coat, burgundy casual dicky bow,  blue jeans then tan shoes and belt. He looked very cute, totally rocked it.

                                             

Our meal was amazing, we went to a local restaurant called Alberts (http://albertsdidsbury.com/) the staff were really friendly and the atmosphere was cool. My main was  a little bit late and our waiters looked distraught, kept looking over from the pass where they were hurrying the kitchen along, then profusely apologised for my wait. After our lovely meal we went for a walk to a local pub, which was huge, for a drink then decided to call it a night. 

Right to left, Groom, Bestman, Groomsman.

On Sunday we went back to the Trafford centre to play mini golf. Having never been to the Trafford centre it was definitely an experience. A bit like the Metrocentre or Meadowhall  but with more decoration. The mini golf was really good, well maintained, clean and actually a lot of fun. We played 18 holes but had to go round as two groups so it was girls followed by the boys. Strangely enough the boys were a little bit more competitive then us girls hehe

The couple that mini golfs together...

I love the fiancé and the groomsman in this one!

Well hello ... 

A baker, an engineer and a med student walked into a bar ...  heheh After mini golf we decided to have a look in Selfridges. The med student had no idea what this was so fiancé (baker) explained, I knew making him watch Mr Selfridge would come in handy. The food court was amazing! I could have spent a small fortune, and thats just on American candy hehe we kept it under a small fortune and just got some Hersheys kisses, a pot of Lucky Charms and I treated the fiancé to a pot of Reeses peanut butter, he was very happy about this.

After running round the food court we decided to go for a wander into the main clothing area. Did you know there is a Primark inside Sefridges?? well I didn't. It's the tidiest Primark I have ever been in, no clothes on the floor they were hanging on rails and there was a really nice capsule collection to choose from. I bought a cute long sleeve light grey crop top and a little blue and cream handbag. Then was presented with a giant yellow Sefridges bag! it was awesome much nicer then the plain brown Primark ones hehe 

After we got back from the Trafford centre the lads cooked us an amazing dinner, we drank lots of wine and fizz. Then played a rather hilarious game of Balderdash until 2 am!! On the monday 2 of our group went home and the rest of us went decided it was such a nice day we would go to a local park and have a picnic style lunch. Then we went for a stroll round the park and got home just in time to pack up and head for the train. 

Overall it was an amazing weekend. 

Good Food, Good Friends, Good Fun!!  

xXx

Wedding fairs and Husky Trekking ....

So these past two weekends have been full ones.

On Saturday I went to a wedding fair in Harrogate with my two friends, both of whom are engaged and getting married in the next few months. It was rather amusing, all the vendors were asking who the bride was and looking rather stupefied when we responded ... "all of us". I think they thought we were having them on but it honestly just happens to be a coincidence that all three of us will be married in just over a year. 

We had a rather hilarious trip in the end, the fair had a catwalk show which involved choreographed walking and twirling for the girls (pagent style) and co-ordinated boyband style dancing for the three male models. We were in hysterics at the lads, two of whom were more father of the bride and the third well his performance was more queeny then prince charming hehe The whole thing was set to loud pop music with strobe lighting and a voice over announcer. Whilst it was hilarious as an actual catwalk show to show you potential dresses at the different local shops it didn't do very well, they were all ill fitting and the models didn't suit them at all making us rather disinclined to visit the shops.

Whilst we were there I got to try on a really amazing dress, its a maggie sottero one and looked absolutely stunning. Which means I will now be taking a trip down to Harrogate with my mum to have another look at it and see what else they have at that particular shop. Dress shopping is so much fun I love getting to look through all the different dresses they have, some are hideous some hilarious and other simply divine. I would post some pictures but then that would be telling hehe 

On the Sunday we went husky trekking, it was amazing!! My brother bought us it as a christmas gift and I would highly recommend it to anyone. We had an amazing day and I really want to go back and do it again, even if it was just to meet the huskies again hehe They were the cutest things ever and the actual trekking on the scooter was beyond fun. We got to meet all the ladies huskies who were thrilled to meet us and we even got to see some 12 day old pups who has only just started to open there eyes then meet the charming little lady below who was the cutest fluffiest puppy ever. She's only 4 weeks old and already strong as an ox. There were also three 4 month old pups who were just the bounciest little things in the world, two were entirely white and the other was red. One of the white ones is what they call a fluffy because they have thick long hair, he looked like a sheep all fluff funning around like a loon. 

Is this not the cutest little girly in the world!!

Here are the adorable huskies who pulled my scooter for the trek. 

Biscuit

 

After the trek we went to have a look at the ruins at Whitby but they had just closed so this was as close as we got. It was absolutely freezing and windy as hell, hence the fly away hair and fact I am wearing like four layers hehe 

Cuddling up to the boy in the cold. 

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