A night at the auctions

Oh my, it's been a heck of a few weeks my good friends. In a slightly sooner than anticipated step I have moved out of Belfast, out of the world of grotty shared accommodation, and into my own wee flat. It's bliss.

And with new digs comes new opportunity to put my own stamp on things. Something I've not been allowed to do outside of the bedroom before. Much excite!

Unfortunately after years living in glorified student digs I find myself with lots of stuff and nowhere to put it. So I decided to go to the auctions. I've never been to an auction before, I don't have a budget of hundreds of pounds and have no real plan but sure where's the fun in a plan, eh?

I walked in to Belfast Auctions and instantly knew I'd be back. It's like a giant jumble sale but organised and there's a funny man in the corner talking really fast!

I won 4 lots in my first outing and here they are.

Lot 1: Job Lot - £1

This was all shoved in a box and was quite hard to see everything but 2 things grabbed my attention: Christmassy things and a tea pot. And who could say no when it went down to a £1? I absolutely love the rest of box (SHOTS!) and plan to keep it all!

Lot 2: Wooden Job Lot - £1

Again I was sold on this item by a mere portion of its components. The Russian Dolls which I've had an obsession with since I was a child. Thanks to my mum's lack of sentimentality all my childhood collections have been binned so this is the start of a new one!

Bonus here is the jewellery box and charger plate. Not sure what the other 2 are but I'm pretty sure they're bin bound. And again £1!!

Lot 3: Chest of Drawers - £10

This was slightly spur of the moment as during our reccy round I had dismissed this as looking a bit... Cheap (also I had fallen in love with a Victorian Chess Board Topped Unit that eventually sold for £240... Echem... I did not bid). I grabbed this at £10 so it definitely was cheap, much more suited to my budget, and it was also my first bidding war! I won... Obviously.

Lot 4: Exercise Ball - £1

One of the final lots to be sold, I had spotted this on our way in and joked about buying it. For all those exercises I do.

Well apparently I'll need to learn a few because without even really thinking about it my hand was in the air as soon as it dropped to a £1. Oh well... New year new me and all that!

Total + VAT: £17.50

Quite proud of my first go at the auctions. If you're like me it's something that, if you had the money and the space, you could get quite addicted to.

Thankfully I have neither so this will do me for a while!

Oh and did you notice? I ended up with lots more stuff and only 1 extra surface to put it! I think this sums it up perfectly.

"Brand New Mint In Box"

Of the ways to describe the most premium of items in your makeup collection "Brand New Mint In Box" should not be one of them. One of my most awful habits is buying makeup and then not using it and to my even greater shame it is usually with my most expensive purchases. There is an Alan Carr joke about the extortionate price of a Spanish Onion, the punchline is "when do you save an Onion for best?" This is kind of how I feel about expensive makeup. It's so pretty and so precious that if I get up the courage to actually purchase it, I'm then usually too scared to use it. The pride and shame of this habit is these two items from Dior. The absolutely sublime Dior Skin Nude Tan highlighter which I purchased as a pre-release special edition from House Of Fraser TWO YEARS AGO has sat in box all tightly wrapped up only being shown the light to show off to my friends and family. Yes I do show off my prettiest of pretties to my friends and family...

No Halloween Costume Needed

It's become an accepted norm that once December 1st comes around the nations will don their snowflake print leggings and their novelty jumpers but so far the other seasons are lacking in their effort. Yes, Halloween is famous as being the single greatest costume day of the year but I need October to step and represent in the seasonal apparel game. Thankfully retailers have heard my inner goth cry and have come up with some seriously cute Halloween inspired items. For those who love a slogan tee you have every variation of saying that could possibly be made by rhyming witch with bitch and if you don't say every one of with Emma Roberts' attitude then you need to watch season 3 of American Horror Story immediately! Dressing with the seasons is clearly big money but it doesn't have to cost the world. Here are my choices of how to get into the Halloween spirit all under £30. Boohoo Starting with my favourites because I can! I actually bought the f

The super cuteness of Studio Ghibli nail art

These were done with various Gelish colours over a Hard Gel overlay with embedded glitter. Characters featured are Totoro - My Neighbour Totoro, Soot Sprites - Totoro & Spirited Away, No Face - Spirited Away, and Calcifer - Howls Moving Castle.

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