Hens Weekend

It's my cousins hens party this weekend in Waterford, soooooo excited! Looking forward to a little roadtrip with my mommy! Bring on the madness!



Have my nails all ready to party, OPI 'Eiffel For this Color'

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!

Strawberry Smoothie Nails

Yesterday I got to try out my newest Shellac colour, Strawberry Smoothie. My friend was off on holiday and was looking for a neutral colour that would suit all her outfits, so I suggested Strawberry Smoothie!

Heres how they turned out:

I also tried out some layering over the weekend with my new colours, Swatches Below:

Starwberry Smoothie layered with Coral, Hollywood layered with Strawberry Smoothie,  Masquerade layered with Strawberry Smoothie, Rock Royalty layered with Strawberry Smoothie, Blackpool layered with Strawberry Smoothie

Masquerade layered with Coral, Rock Royalty layered with Coral, Blackpool layered with Coral

Sunny Sunday!

This weekend we had some fabulous weather in Ireland! We decided to head to the beach to enjoy the beautiful sunshine. My sister bought a new car this week so we decided to take it out for a spin. We packed a picnic and headed off!

We drove out to Greystones Harbour in Co. Wicklow. we enjoyed our food, walked on the beach and took some nice photos.

I hope the nice weather sticks around!

Friday Feeling!

Looking forward to this weekend, spending the weekend with all the girls!

Eight of us girlies are heading to the cinema on Friday to see the Hunger Games! A few of us have read the books, I read the books last year, so i have forgotten a good bit, but I hear the movie is great.

Saturday Im going to try out a Zumba class in the gym with Hayley. Zumba is a Latin inspired dance class. It is supposed to help you burn calories fast while also dancing around making a complete fool of yourself!:D Should be interesting!

Saturday night a few of us are heading to a friend’s going away party, all in all it looks to be a great weekend!

Whatever you're doing I hope it’s fun-filled!! xxx

Gym and Mini Marathon!

My friend Hayley and I decided to join the gym last month, we both felt we were carrying a little extra holiday weight! We joined a gym near work so it would be harder for us to avoid going! We've been doing reasonably well, managing to work out about 4 times a week!

My sister came up with the idea that a few of us might like to run the Flora Women’s Mini Marathon this year. The Flora Women's Mini Marathon is the biggest all women's event of its kind in the world. It is held in Dublin City Centre every year since its beginnings in 1983!

So a few of us have now signed up for the event. We’ll have to get really into our training now, we want to be fit as fiddles for our big run!

Signed up for the marathon:

Hayley
Fundraising for The Kare4Kasey charity ( http://www.mycharity.ie/event/hayley_mccurtins_event/ )

Grace

Michelle

Roisin

and myself ( http://www.mycharity.ie/event/amy_richardsons333_event/ )

New Shellac!!

My new shellac polish arrived yesterday! Strawberry Smoothie! 
I am trying to just buy one new one at a time!

CND Shellac brought out 6 new colours this month, I can't wait to start ordering them, payday is just around the corner!

New CND Shellac colours:

St. Patrick's Day

Here's what this weekend looked like:

Shellac

I had heard a lot about this product and decided to splash out and buy it for myself this christmas. I have to say it is an amazing product. There is so many advantages to using shellac rather then normal polish, It lasts for 2 weeks, has absolutely no dry time and has a beautiful shiny finish.

There is numerous colours to choose from, I only have 8 at the moment, hopefully il get some more soon! you can layer the products to create new unique colours too, which is fantastic!

Swatches of colours i have so far:

Manicures:

Blackpool

French Manicure with Cream Puff

Rock Royalty

Hollywood

Watch the Shellac Creative Nail Design video on YouTube:

Happy Birthday Hayley!

My lovely friend Hayley is 26 today! I hope she really enjoys her day and her weekend away! Hope Kill and Noah are good to you!

Happy Birthday!! xxx

Happy Birthday Dad!

Yesterday was my Dad's 51st Birthday! He's had a tough year with being sick last April, so we were all thrilled to be celebrating him being happy, healthy and 51st this year.

We had a lovely homemade shephards pie for dins, then we made some pancakes for dessert, it was a bit of a disaster without my mom there to help us! We burnt a few and half fried some others but it was all good fun!

Sarah and I got him a new tree for the garden with bird seeding for the birdies! I hope he liked it.

We also had some cake and sang him Happy Birthday! I hope he really enjoyed his day, we're all heading to TGI's (his fav restaurant) on Friday night for more Celebrations!

Love you Dad!

Happy Birthday!

xoxo

Homemade Bath Salts

On Sunday evening I helped my mom with one of her College projects. We made some homemade bath salts, its very easy to do and we had great fun!

Ingredients:

• Salts - we used Lavender
• Milk powder
• Baking soda
• Flower petals or buds (e.g. chamomile, lavender)
• Oats

Preparation:
1. Pour milk, oats and baking soda into a large bowl

2. Mix in salts

3. Use a spoon to scoop a measure of the salts onto a piece of fabric

4. Tie Fabric with string or piping

5. Enjoy a nice relaxing Bath!



As St. Patricks day is just around the corner we decorated some in green white and orange!

Day trip to Powerscourt House

On Sunday my sister Sarah, and i took a trip to Powerscourt House & Gradens, Enniskerry. It was a beautiful sunny day! Although it was a bit cold, we made sure to wrap up nice and warm so we could take our time walking around the gardens, it really was beautiful!

After our walk, we had Lunch in the Avoca tearooms in Powerscourt House, they have the most amazing food.

We walked off a bit of lunch strolling around the shops and brought home some Avoca treats for Sunday afternoon.

We also took a quick peek into the Ritz on the way in, the Hotel looks amazing!

All in all, it was a fantastic Sunny Sunday!