Happy 2013

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aloha Sprinklerinos,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Another year, another fresh start, another clean slate. I'm excited. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I hope that 2012 has been all that you hoped it to be this time last year and that 2013 will be even better.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TgUxX9MN0roXcmqlTQtE6yB9NAolQ0qMfjH4eCaoFq94z-LXNJ7LTzSvN_WzE5VVSjKKYGJm_2sTsfEKfzbEVopEkFZtu9zfeGcCmG5h65v6C6QA0AzgyG34IS-4A9mThs7DVz_HA6nO/s1600/Happy+New+Year+2013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TgUxX9MN0roXcmqlTQtE6yB9NAolQ0qMfjH4eCaoFq94z-LXNJ7LTzSvN_WzE5VVSjKKYGJm_2sTsfEKfzbEVopEkFZtu9zfeGcCmG5h65v6C6QA0AzgyG34IS-4A9mThs7DVz_HA6nO/s640/Happy+New+Year+2013.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you read <b><span style="color: magenta;"><a href="http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/a-new-year-new-me.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">THIS</a></span></b> post, you will see I have a lot of things I want to do and achieve this year and I'm really looking forward to sharing a lot of them with you.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm so glad I have you lovely lot in my life. I really am.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy New Year to each and every one of you.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">xx</div>

Happy 2013

Aloha Sprinklerinos, Another year, another fresh start, another clean slate. I'm excited.  I hope that 2012 has been all that you hoped ...

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A New Year, A New Me?

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aloha Sprinklerinos,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">As 2012 draws to a close, I find myself thinking about 2013. What I want to achieve, what changes I want to make and what I want to amend.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you follow me on twitter, you may have heard, but this week has been pretty poopsicles. I've been suffering with a severe kidney infection which involved a hospital visit, days of bed rest and a LOT of drinking water! Yikes! Slowly but surely I'm feeling on the mend again so I thought I might take this opportunity to talk about New Years Resolutions.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I make them every single year. I feel excited for them every single year. I break them every single year. And yet, for some reason, here I am excitedly making more.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr_mfslisfmxb1rb1a60o1_500_large" class="full-size" height="640" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/47532470/tumblr_mfslisFMXB1rb1a60o1_500_large.jpg" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Image :: weheartit.com)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: center;">In 2013 I Will ::</h3><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Stress Less</b>. As 2012 ticked by, I found myself becoming increasingly anxious about things I didn't need to be worrying over. Little things like having absolutely perfect lighting for videos or replying to as many facebook comments as possible were really weighing on me. When I first realised I could making blogging/vlogging my 'job', I thought it was perfect for 2 reasons. The first being that I could spend 100% of my time with Baby Glitter and the second being the freedom it allowed me. By stressing about every tiny thing, I realise I was removing any of that freedom and making it a really unpleasant experience for myself. In 2013, I'm not going to allow that to happen. If I don't manage to do things, so be it. If my lighting, editing, spelling etc is a little off, then oh well. I never began this journey being perfect and I certainly won't end it that way so I may as well enjoy the happy medium of things. It's going to be a little more old school from now on and I for one can't wait! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Write more beauty reviews on my lovely little blog</b>. I went off writing them last year because I think I had a bit of a crisis of confidence, but 2013 will be the year I spring back with beauty posts galore, just like the golden olden days.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Drink more water</b>. Given the fact that I was hospitalised this week with a water related issue, I think that indicated I need to hydrate myself a LOT more! As well as fending off kidney infections, drinking plenty of water makes you skin, nails and hair happy too. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Make quality Mummy-Darcy time</b>. With life getting as busy as it is, I feel like I don't ever just down tools and play. In 2013 I want to spend proper one on one time with Baby Glitter every single day. Her tiny childhood years won't last forever and I want to cherish every moment of them. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Loose a stone</b>. It's a classic. No NYR is complete without the old 'loose some weight' one. If I do, hurrah! If I don't, meh. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Edit Less</b>. Since I learnt how to edit this summer, I've got a bit cut and snip happy! I used to quite enjoy rambling on to the camera for ages about nothing in particular but after a while I thought people might find that quite boring and maybe I should be a bit more like other girls and make shorter more to the point videos. I've decided to find a happy medium. I'm going to do some concise, swishly edited videos and some like ye olden days. That way, you're happy, I'm happy, everyone's happy! Good plan?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Travel</b>. As you may have seen from my three years of blogging, we don't really go on holidays. This year, in October, Matt, Darcy and I plan on going on the holiday of a lifetime to Florida!!! I can't even tell you how much this THRILLS me!! Matt and Darcy have never been to any of the theme parks out there so half the fun for me will be seeing them enjoy it all. We'll hopefully be going with my Dad, his Partner (who is a woman- I said 'partner' in a video recently and had 'good on him for being gay' comments! haha), her 2 children and my sister, so it will be a big family affair and should be amazing!! I'm also hoping to go away with <a href="http://www.zoella.co.uk/" target="_blank">Zoe</a> at some point this year too (maybe Vidcon woop woop) so I best start saving my pennies!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Decorate</b>. You know when you have six hundred and fifty three frames and ornaments and clocks and things to hang up but you just never do? Well I'm going to!! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Thrift</b>. I'm taking a leaf out of <a href="http://www.athriftymrs.com/" target="_blank">Mrs Thrifty's</a> book and I'm going to hit the charity shops, car boot sales and jumbles to see what treasures I can find. I'm on the hunt for decorative mirrors (that I promise myself I will hang up immediately), coloured glassware, good condition toys & clothes, books and jewels. Keep your eyes peeled for charity shop hauls!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Well, that's quite a lot to do there, but all positives and all achievable. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Do you have any resolutions? Have you ever stuck to them for the entire year? If you have, well done!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let me know in the comments and we can jolly each other along a bit!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Toodlepip!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">xx</div>

A New Year, A New Me?

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Happy Holidays Sprinklerinos

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aloha Sprinklerinos,</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is a little post from me to say a huge and happy MERRY CHRISTMAS!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="<3 never to many ornaments for a tree" class="PinImageImg" data-componenttype="MODAL_PIN" height="640" src="http://media-cache-ec5.pinterest.com/upload/208995238929106507_D61fHTMJ_c.jpg" style="height: 774px; width: 600px;" width="496" /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/211387776231112791/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(Image Credit)</a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I won't stay long because I have dinner in the oven but I wanted to let you know that I will be taking a little bit of time off from blogging. Not very long, a week or so, but I need a rest and want to more spend time looking at my gorgeous family and less time at my laptop screen.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Considering it's Christmas, I don't think you'll miss me- not whilst there are turkeys to be eaten, gifts to be unwrapped and TV to be watched.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'll be back in the New Year with fresh motivation, tonnes of beauty reviews and a bit more structure to this little slice of the web- hooray!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Until then, Seasons Greetings oh lovely and wonderful Sprinklerinos! May all your festive wishes come true and may you have a wonderful, magical Christmas.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Lots of Love,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Louise</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">xxxxxxxx</div>

Happy Holidays Sprinklerinos

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Happy Birthday Mrs Thrifty!!

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aloha Sprinklerinos,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Following on from yesterday's somewhat sombre blog post, I thought it would be nice to put a little pep back in our step and CELEBRATE!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Today, my dear friend El (aka AThriftyMrs) is having a very special birthday- a brand new number! I won't say which one because a lady never tells, but it's a good'un none the less.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="406223_420485114660661_1373085350_n_large" class="full-size" height="478" src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/46512185/406223_420485114660661_1373085350_n_large.jpg" width="640" /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(Image :: weheartit.com)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thrifty is a good egg. She has battled through more than most and still has the time of day for my piffling phone calls and ridiculous heytell messages. She has the driest sense of humour I've ever come across, an open mind to explore so many fun things in life and a good kind heart. I love her a lotta bit.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I know the term 'internet friend' has a seedy sigma attached, but I am glad every day that I found this amazing lady through the internet and that she allowed me into her life. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So my thrifty little chum, I hope today is brilliant. I hope this year of your life brings you all the good things your strive for, that Mr Thrifty spoils you rotten and that you have a windfall of utility china in your local charity shop for a mere seven pence!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">HAPPY BIRTHDAY!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you would like to find out more about my internet friend, or even better, wish her Happy Birthday yourselves, you can find her places (ooer) below (ooer again).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.athriftymrs.com/" target="_blank">Blog</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/AThriftyMrsUK" target="_blank">Twitter</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">xxxxxxx</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Toodlepip!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This month my Ultimate Advertiser is <a href="http://21standserendipity.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">21st Serendipity</a> . If you would like to find out more about advertising on this blog, click <a href="http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk/p/sponsor.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.  </div><br /><br />

Happy Birthday Mrs Thrifty!!

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Twenty on the Twentieth

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aloha Sprinklerinos,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Yes, it's that day again. The anniversary of my Mum's death. The 20th to be precise. Twenty whole years. Two decades. Almost 3/4 of my entire life. Woah that's a lot.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I want it to be known that I'm not writing this to gain your sympathy or to be all woe is me. I'm writing this because I like to mark these things. Being a bit weird and anal and not missing these sorts of days brings me an odd sense of calm. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJOYY67xYq2qsf8hHZlEr-W7UXNAFx6F4GcLw6IcpBXvQF7ByymeTgAqgHvp6efQLaEVE_gU_zHonjyscs9HjHn7UIGlfpV5myfSffDF-BH4Yk4I8xLInp7EG7nlW3yAVt0aRcMcBpgHnp/s1600/mum.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJOYY67xYq2qsf8hHZlEr-W7UXNAFx6F4GcLw6IcpBXvQF7ByymeTgAqgHvp6efQLaEVE_gU_zHonjyscs9HjHn7UIGlfpV5myfSffDF-BH4Yk4I8xLInp7EG7nlW3yAVt0aRcMcBpgHnp/s640/mum.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Twenty years is such a long time, a long enough time to get over something. It's long enough for my Dad to re-marry, my Aunties to form better bonds with their other sisters and for my Mum's friend's to loose touch. Occasionally one of them will bring her up in a conversation or make reference to her, but I feel like if I encourage this and really think properly about the loss I feel on a day to day basis, that I'll spiral into a terribly dark hole and not climb out again. I suppose you could call that normal grief but I'm not prepared to wallow in it or spend vasts amount of time feeling it, so back under the rug it goes. How very healthy.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">On days like this I always talk about the lovely woman my Mum was. I always try and portray that even though people always say passed away relatives were special, <i>she really was</i>. She was the type that would lend a hand whenever it was needed (seriously, once a bus crashed by our house and before the emergency services arrived, mum had gotten most the passengers off the bus and laid them in our house. Our carpets were ruined with blood but she was given an award from the regional police), laugh when everyone needed a pick-me-up and make even the lowest people feel up again.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She had a steely determination and a wicked sense of humour. When we moved to Northampton, my Mum wanted an older house with character and era appropriate features. My Dad wanted a modern new build full of gadgets and mod-cons. As usual, my Dad won, but just to make her point, Mum filled it to the new build rafters with victorian-esque furniture and dark wood. It was rather a strange mix but demonstrated her, 'Ha! Take That'-ness to a tee.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I miss her everyday. Twenty years is such a long time to think about someone every single day. Sometimes I just see something that reminds me of her, or hear someone shout, 'Jane' and I look round. Other times I feel overwhelmed with heavy sadness, like a cloud passing over a mountain top until it's invisible and feel like I can't take another step forward. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I was in Euston station a few weeks ago, standing on the forcourt waiting for my train's platform to be announced. I was standing there after a really productive day and I thought to myself, 'I would love to ring Mum and tell her the things I have accomplished today and tell her how proud of myself I am'. And then it hit me. It doesn't matter that I did something really well or clever that day. The last time we had contact I was a child. I was in lower school and my biggest worry was having my bookbag ready for the next day. She would never know that I grew up, started doing things on my own, take myself off to big cities, having meetings with interesting people and sustain my little life. She never saw me pack my own bookbag.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There will always be the people who say, 'I'm sure she's looking down on you'. I'm sure she is too but to be very brutal, it brings me little to no comfort and I think the people who say it feel obliged to say something comforting- I do it myself to people in the same positions! One day I'll say to them, 'Yeah, it's really shitty and I feel for you. I wish I could take the ache away but I can't. I'm sorry' and be done with it. Seems a little harsh though doesn't it?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It's raining today and I told myself I would go to the cemetery to say Hello and lay some flowers. I say this every year and never manage it. It makes me so angry to have to go to a florist to choose the nicest flowers I can find, knowing all I'm going to do is lay them on a bit of grass that has my own mother's bones beneath it. It shouldn't be. Flowers should be in vases, being adored or cherished or photographed (that's the blogger in me). I hate that my flowers have to say, 'I'm sad you're dead but to show how much I care I spent the most I could on flowers that I'll put by your headstone and leave there until the grave keeper comes and removes them and chucks them in a skip, but I love you'. It's not right.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">When I get to the cemetery I freak out. I have a phobia of ghosts (don't laugh), so for me, a graveyard is horrific. I get there, park and think, 'Just get out the car and go'. The problem is, to get to her site I have to walk past about 70 other headstones. It's always eerily quiet. You might call it peaceful but I find it unnerving. On top of that, I have this fear that when I get there, I'll cry. Obviously, crying is fine and good for you and a release, but I fear that if I cry there I'll never stop. I'll just sit on the ground feeling angry that rather than looking at my Mum's lovely healthy face, I'm looking at a piece of marble with her name etched into it. It reminds me of her in hospital looking grey and with a turban on to hide the fact that her beautiful hair had all gone. It reminds me that she had hoped so desperately to have a private nurse look after her at home for just one day at Christmas so we could have those memories and that it never happened. It reminds me that I never got to say a proper goodbye and that now I'm sat, 20 years older with a Daughter of my own and I'm starring at a piece of cold marble and wondering how I will ever overcome this. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I wont. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I will just learn to live with a Mum shaped hole in my life and will get on. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm going to mark today, acknowledge it and accept it as being totally shit. Then tomorrow, I will get up, put on nice makeup and be glad it's nearly Christmas and that I'm healthy and that I have a great Husband and Daughter and family and amazing friends. Two of my friends actually offered to come with me to the grave (knowing my fear of ghosts) and I was incredibly touched. If you're reading, 'tang'. :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you have a Mum, go and tell her what she means to you, or just give her the hug I'd like to give mine.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">x</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Diana Jane Pentland 1955-1992</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />x</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">PS- This post has not been re-read through or spell checked. I just wrote it as I thought it and that will do. I may well take it down in a few days, but it was therapeutic to pour it all out onto paper (screen).  </span></i></div><br />

Twenty on the Twentieth

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Amazing Advertisers & SALE || December

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aloha Sprinklerinos, </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Oohhhh, it's Christmas! Since it is the time of festive joy and jingle bells, I'm having my first ever Advertiser Sale!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I am offering 20% off ALL advertising packages from now until Christmas Day. All you need to do is enter the promo code FESTIVEGLITTER20 at the til when you book. Hurrah for sales!! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9O7C9l452VJEHhCj6hl05UlS5SH18zG8G1CRdgjd7kDZGHwTBFoLR-19nVH62c4CfuuWEIQf-DKho98kOuxQLJmy1g4JXcHsd0n2QnLm4B0cU_OBt1I3xQEeDyXThHth6bkiv4MzUlMYn/s1600/decads.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9O7C9l452VJEHhCj6hl05UlS5SH18zG8G1CRdgjd7kDZGHwTBFoLR-19nVH62c4CfuuWEIQf-DKho98kOuxQLJmy1g4JXcHsd0n2QnLm4B0cU_OBt1I3xQEeDyXThHth6bkiv4MzUlMYn/s640/decads.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you would like to advertise on this blog (you can feature your blog, handmade business or youtube channel), click<a href="http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk/p/sponsor.html" target="_blank"> <span style="color: magenta;"><b>HERE</b></span></a> for more information and details. Spaces are filling up fast and there are only limited spots. Sorry!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.madeupoflittlethings.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Made Up Of Little Things</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you love all things gorgeous and homey, then I think you'll like this blog. Racheal shares lovely posts and fantastic pictures (often starring the most beautiful woofy friend) about her life, thoughts and day to days. It's like cosying up by a warm fire in blog form. Go and roast your totsies!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://21standserendipity.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">21st & Serendipity</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You know when something just tickles you and you can't help but smile? That's how I felt about Alexandra's 'Life Reciepe'. It is very witty and realistic (I certainly felt I could relate to it) and definitely something you should have a read of.  There are also giveaways, chats and pinterest festivities. Everyone's a winner! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.stephaniedreams.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stephanie Dreams</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've known Stephanie for years (thanks to a rather smashing blog event where I was billy-no-mates and she very kindly chatted to me!) and have loved watching her blog grow and develop. Primarily a fashion/OOTD style site, Stephanie Dreams is also sprinkled with lifey posts, beautiful photos and blog event write-ups. Why this blog doesn't have more followers I do not know. Let's get her to 2000. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.krystalklearlooks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Krystal Klear Looks</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tasha writes a blog reviewing beauty products, providing really cool nail tutorials (like cupcakes?) and also featuring some of her 'get ready with me' style videos. What I have enjoyed most about Tasha's blog though is the 'and that's who I am feature', which she is running every weekend. The idea is to give us a little more insight into who she is but it's the imagery that pleases me the most- I too am a 'night blogger' with a penchant for twinkle lights. :) .</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://emilyhearts.com/?utm_source=sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=200x100&utm_campaign=medium_glitter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Emily Hearts</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Emilly has advertised on Sprinkle of Glitter for quite some time now and it has been lovely to have her. Her blog is professional, uncluttered and full of posts from a variety of genres. As the name would suggest, this blog is about everything that Emily Hearts, with a few guest posts thrown in for good measure. Also, Emily has just been proposed to. Can we all say, 'Awwee'? :) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://talkffashion.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://talkffashion.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Katie Evans , Talk Ffashion</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Katie's blog is a lovely site documenting her outfits of the day (OOTD in case you're unfamiliar) and a little bit about her life, thoughts and moods to accompany it. All the photos are clear, unflustered (so you can very clearly see the clothing pieces), well lit so the colours look correct and we are also provided with close ups. A very, very good fashion blog. You'll feel inspired. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.charlotteswebblog.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Charlotte's Web</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've said it before and I'll say it again. I bloomin' well love this blog. Don't sit here listening to me tell you about it, just go and look at it now!! To summarise (in case you are still reading) : Amazing tips, ideas, beautiful photos, well written, cosy, happy, GO AND READ IT.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.daydreaminblue.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Daydream in Blue</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Brace yourselves, we have a boy blogger! A Sprinkle of Glitter first! Tom writes about all that interests him, as well as having a YouTube Channel too. Despite being poorly this month (I know that feeling far too well), Tom has put up some lovely posts with gorgeous photos to boot. If you would like to read a well written blog that is different to the usual girlie kinds (although fabulous too), then you'll really love Daydream in Blue.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://stacie-lifeisworththefight.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://stacie-lifeisworththefight.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Life Is Worth The Fight</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Stacie is currently waiting for a heart and lung transplant due to suffering from Pulmonary Hypertension. Her blog is a documentation of her highs and lows, thoughts and feelings. I love having a window into Stacie's life and seeing all the fun things she does. Also, I was really glad she went to her Christmas Do. You go girlfriend! *Clicks fingers about with sass*</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://productjunkiesjunk.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://productjunkiesjunk.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Product Junkie's Junk</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ellen has a small deer in her banner. Do I need to go further than that? Really? OK. This blog is oh so pretty, oh so helpful and oh so addictive. Please go and look immediately! Also, Ellen has launched a new site to sell her blog design services so that might be of interest to you too.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/mugwump05/videos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/mugwump05/videos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mugwump's Makeup</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Laura is our only YouTuber this month and is advertising her channel. Laura makes beauty and fashion videos galore! There are hauls, OOTD's, storage ideas and tags. If you are a watcher rather than a reader, you may well enjoy her chatty little slice of the web. Yay! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://paigeypumpkin.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paigey Pumpkin </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Paige's blog is a very pink, very girlie place that she can share her love of all things beauty with us. Just like me, Paige is a total Lush-aholic and has shared with us her thoughts on the products she has tried. Paige also has a YouTube channel which you can find linked in her perfectly pink blog. :) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And that's all folks.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I hope you feel that you have learnt a little more about the gals and guys down the sidebar and I look forward to another month of fabulous new reads.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Toodlepip!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">xx</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This month my Ultimate Advertiser is <a href="http://21standserendipity.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">21st Serendipity</a> . 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Amazing Advertisers & SALE || December

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Winter Mini Happies 2012

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aloha Sprinklerinos,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It has been a running theme throughout the lifetime of this blog, but something I like to talk about are my Mini Happies. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mini Happies are the little tiny things that make you smile and put a bit of pep in your step, and I like to make a big thing out of them. It is natural that we crave huge, enormous, crazy amazing things in our lives, but I truly believe that it is the little things that make life special and feel it would be a shame not to give them the honour they deserve.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Photo: Jack Frost has been again ❄⛄❄ Ohhhhh I do love this instagram malarky! Follow me @Sprinkleofglitr" class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="640" src="http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/532372_570812272945391_95976840_n.jpg" width="640" /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(Taken from my Instagram album on <b><span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sprinkleofglitter?ref=hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a></span></b>)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My Winter Mini Happies</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">* Good TV. I don't know about you but I think TV has picked up a bit recently. I'm not usually a tele watcher (what with my terrible internet addiction), but with programmes like An Idiot Abroad 3, Kirsty's Vintage Home and Supersize Earth, I've been quite enjoying what's on the box.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">* Frost Mornings. It really pleases me to go downstairs in the mornings and see the garden and fence and shed and washing line covered in sparkling white frost. It's nature's glitter.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">* Veggies. Yep, I did just say vegetables. I made a conscious effort a few weeks ago to eat more of them and now I have found if I don't have some every day that I crave them. Hooray for nutrition!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">* London. I have been to London for various things a few times lately and really enjoyed every trip. I'm not sure if it's because I was with good friends or because I was doing exciting things, but either way, it made me really happy. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">* Skype. The online communication software (fancy) is my portal to the world sometimes. It allows me to chat away to friends and family for free and gives my brain a bit of a break from real life. Lovely.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">* Decorations. Nothing makes me smile more than seeing people's Christmas lights in their front windows or opening freshly delivered Christmas cards. I'm so looking forward to Christmas (although, still not as hyped up as usual. Very odd!). </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">* Good News. A couple of my friends who so desperately needed it have had good news this month. Whether it's improved finances, new arrivals or being in good relationships, I'm happy their world's are oh-so-bright for them. Warm fuzzies all round. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Photo: Poorly but loving (and insisting on her accessories haha) x Ohhhhh I do love this instagram malarky! Follow me @Sprinkleofglitr" class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="640" src="http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/301208_570255163001102_670625138_n.jpg" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(Taken from my Instagram album on <b><span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sprinkleofglitter?ref=hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a></span></b>)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">* Darcy. Saving the best til last, my little lovebug, Baby Glitter. She does far too many cute things to put in a list without making you all sick, but, the baby babble in particular has melted my heart. "Spish spash' for bath and 'Haaaart' for heart (when pointing to body parts) and 'Nortnortey' for naughty, are all words I never tire of hearing in her sweet voice. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I would love to hear what your Mini Happies are because they spread the joy and make the world a better place. Power to the people and all that jazz haha!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Toodlepip!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">xx</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">This month my Ultimate Advertiser is <a href="http://21standserendipity.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">21st Serendipity</a> . If you would like to find out more about advertising on this blog, click <a href="http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk/p/sponsor.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </div>

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Creative Christmas Wrapping

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aloha Sprinklerinos,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you follow me on YouTube then this might not be news to you but I know some of you are strictly the reading sort, so I'm sharing here too. Sharing's caring after all!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I recently made a couple of videos about Christmas wrapping - things I used, styles I make, bits and bobs I like etc. I was really pleased at how well they were received and have been having a lorra lorra messages asking where certain things were bought from. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A great deal of my wrapping products were either pieces I had floating about already or from Marks and Spencer. I must say, I bought from M&S because I was there and I was in a rush. It definitely was not the most purse friendly option!!  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zMxhycXQjOw?list=UUfAEEhKikW1676DCa_0OWLA&hl=en_US" width="640"></iframe> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I decided it might be a good idea to source some wrapping essentials and luxuries for you and for most of this, I turned to my old pal, ebay! Ebay is a treasure trove of everything you could ever need to make your gifts beautiful this year.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b>Christmas Craft Supplies :</b></u></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A Christmas staple for me is <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10-METRES-STRONG-BROWN-KRAFT-WRAPPING-PARCEL-PAPER-10M-/360524861767?pt=UK_Tissues_Parcel_Paper&hash=item53f0f4d147" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">10 Metres of Brown Parcel Paper for £2.95 and FREE postage. </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Divine-Bakers-Twine-10m-DIY-Crafts-Wedding-Party-Choice-of-11-Colours-/190719175007?pt=UK_Crafts_Cardmaking_Scrapbooking_Ribbons_Fibres_EH&var=&hash=item2c67bfa95f" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">10 Metres of Baking Twine for £1.00. This seller also stocks TONNES of colours! Yippee!</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Christmas-Double-Satin-Ribbon-3-METRES-10mm-Snowflake-Holly-Gingerbread-Merry-/321010095052?pt=UK_Crafts_Cardmaking_Scrapbooking_Ribbons_Fibres_EH&var=510085626030&hash=item4abdb153cc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christmas Double Satin Ribbon for 99p</a> to wrap round your paper. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You could attach some of these little <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jingle-Bells-Silver-70-Pcs-Assorted-10mm-15mm-Embellishments-Musical-Charms-/320895701701?pt=UK_Crafts_JewelleryMaking_GL&hash=item4ab6dfd2c5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Silver Jingle Bells</a> (£2.30 for 70) to your ribbon to add a bit of festive glamour.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Making pompoms like I did? <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Robin-Double-Knit-Yarn-Wool-100g-balls-100-acrylic-NEW-various-colours-/160877295845?pt=UK_Crafts_Knitting_Crochet_EH&var=&hash=item257508b8e5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">This seller has balls of every colour </a>(tehe) for only £1.49.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cotton-Lace-Self-Adhesive-Ribbon-Trim-Double-Edged-Scrapbooking-Card-Making-etc-/180933254367?pt=UK_Crafts_Cardmaking_Scrapbooking_Ribbons_Fibres_EH&var=&hash=item2a20765cdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lace (99p)</a> is perfect for little girls or ladies gifts.<br /><br />If you want to add something a little cute, why not try this <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Mini-Reindeer-Pattern-Christmas-Craft-Paper-Punch-18mm-3-4-Easy-2-Use-/251173438940?pt=UK_Crafts_Cardmaking_Scrapbooking_DieCutting_Punches_EH&hash=item3a7b1a85dc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mini Reindeer Stamp Cutter</a> for £2.25? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And of course, <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1311&_nkw=sellotape&_sacat=0&_from=R40" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SELLOTAPE</a> and <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Multi-Coloured-Table-Star-Confetti-26g-Wedding-Party-/110943063831?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Celebrations_Occasions_ET&hash=item19d4b8cf17" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rainbow Star Confetti</a>! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">--------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I hope this post was helpful to those of you who have asked or for you crafty Sprinklerinos that are going all out this holiday season!<br /><br />If you are on Pinterest and have a <a href="http://pinterest.com/babyglitter/christmas-glitter/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christmas board like mine</a>, feel free to use the image below to pin. Pinning is winning! Haha! Feel free to leave your Pinterest name in the comments so that we can all follow each other too. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhls5x-SJLisI1XYLl4I5htmUL0wH7IFbrGqcze0HKwPvY1sPAvOos1ct0Yh52Y2x1plqNbyjDOFH6pb1Y7FQ9OJA-ejAwv9YU8yV6EColMCnCkvIzi4S864K2o3nGJd0_Q6Y9Idb8nGokK/s1600/supplies.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhls5x-SJLisI1XYLl4I5htmUL0wH7IFbrGqcze0HKwPvY1sPAvOos1ct0Yh52Y2x1plqNbyjDOFH6pb1Y7FQ9OJA-ejAwv9YU8yV6EColMCnCkvIzi4S864K2o3nGJd0_Q6Y9Idb8nGokK/s640/supplies.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you would like more of these 'Source my supplies' style posts, let me know!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Toodlepip!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">xx</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">This month my Ultimate Advertiser is <a href="http://21standserendipity.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">21st Serendipity</a> . 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Winter Beauty Treats

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aloha Sprinklerinos,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You may have noticed that over the last few weeks there haven't been a great deal of beauty related posts on this blog. The reason for this is fairly simple- I haven't been trying a lot of new products or buying tonnes of new things. I've declined quite a few pr samples on the basis that I have so much makeup that it would be a waste for me to accept more and I have felt that to force myself to write a review would be a little fake.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It's not that I'll never do beauty things again (I've still enjoyed making quite a few beauty related videos on my <a href="http://www.youtube.com/sprinkleofglitter" target="_blank">YouTube Channe</a>l) but I've just found that over the last few weeks I have been focusing on a lot more family and lifestyle type of things. I hope you don't mind. This blog is sort of like an extension of my mind and feelings, so if you see a lot of reviews, you know I'm going beauty crazy, and if you see a lot of family posts, you can tell I've been watching too much '19 Kids and Counting' hahaha. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Saying all that, last week whilst I was running some errands, I popped into Boots and treated myself.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQlu4eqItC6qFM3T9YVb7QGwoEcie36nN1EmhtEsig1mNT0g6e5UIjmonARn8WM8KZgY1IMIGY7zo_LfSwGVjoTFoFA4YeCEslmEjMSknVNj9NxYlYpvz68Qert6cKxAeheYTx9SpSQJoy/s1600/Winter+treats.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQlu4eqItC6qFM3T9YVb7QGwoEcie36nN1EmhtEsig1mNT0g6e5UIjmonARn8WM8KZgY1IMIGY7zo_LfSwGVjoTFoFA4YeCEslmEjMSknVNj9NxYlYpvz68Qert6cKxAeheYTx9SpSQJoy/s640/Winter+treats.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Like a moth to a flame I simply could not let these two beautiful bottles of glittering nail polish stay on the shelf. They had to be mine.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I bought '<a href="http://www.modelsownit.com/products/nails/wonderland-polishes.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jack Frost</a>' from the Wonderland collection '<a href="http://www.modelsownit.com/products/nails/mirrorball.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Freak Out</a>' from the Mirror Ball collection, both £5 each. I suppose you could say that £10 is quite a splurge for 2 nail polishes but have you seen the sparkle?! Oh my oh my!! I adore the mermaidy blue, purple and green colours in Freak Out and the iridescent blue in Jack Frost was far too wintery and lovely for me to walk away from. They are like liquid magic. Beautiful. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have worn both of these over a muted grey tone and quite enjoyed the wintery effect. I think I'd like to try them over a black or navy and when that happens, I'll take a sneaky picture and give you a NOTD post- it's been a while since one of those. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have also been absolutely loving scented candles this month. I am incredibly fussy when it comes to scent because I am prone to headaches but I have now burnt several Neom candles and have always been so impressed with them. I have particularly loved Invigorate from <a href="http://www.neomorganics.com/scent-with-love-travel-candle-gift-set.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">THIS</a> set. The scent is strong but not overpowering and it leaves a lovely lingering fragrance long after it has been blown out. Also, since they come in such lovely little glass jars, when the candle has burnt down, I save and wash them and use them to hold hair accessories. Upcycling at it's best!  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This year I am struggling to feel as festive as usual so over the next few days you are going to see a lot of CHRISTMASNESS (real word there) from me to evoke my yuletide joy, so prepare yourself for that!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What have you been treating yourself to this winter? Do you have any hollyjolly blog post requests? I'm all ears!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Toodlepip!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">xx</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This month my Ultimate Advertiser is <a href="http://21standserendipity.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">21st Serendipity</a> . 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Feel Good Friday

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aloha Sprinklerinos,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It's Frrriiiddaaayy!! The start of a weekend, the end of early starts (for some!) and one day closer to Christmas! Ooohh yyeaaahhhh!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In order to help you unwind, clear your head and reflect on the weeks you've had, I picked out a few of my favourite inspirational typography images for you to enjoy. I really enjoyed searching through Pinterest to find these and think I might make a bit of a feature of it.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Don't forget :)" class="PinImageImg" data-componenttype="MODAL_PIN" src="http://media-cache-lt0.pinterest.com/upload/139119075959452278_BJn4r8W5_c.jpg" style="height: 570px; width: 570px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />I am definitely guilty of this one. All too easily I see what other people have and get grabbygreedyguts for it. This has reminded me to look at what I do have and be jolly well glad for it. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="comparison" class="PinImageImg" data-componenttype="MODAL_PIN" src="http://media-cache-ec6.pinterest.com/upload/139119075959280848_kXdPEnyu_c.jpg" style="height: 500px; width: 400px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In keeping with the first image, this has become something of a mantra to me ever since I saw it. Clever old Roosevelt. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Steve Martin" class="PinImageImg" data-componenttype="MODAL_PIN" src="http://media-cache-ec5.pinterest.com/upload/113786328055042819_VSL8dwQ3_c.jpg" style="height: 500px; width: 500px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I liked this. I like the idea of being excessively good and shining. Let's all try it. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What mantras make you happy? Share them in the comments below.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Toodlepip!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">xx</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This month my Ultimate Advertiser is <a href="http://21standserendipity.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">21st Serendipity</a> . If you would like to find out more about advertising on this blog, click <a href="http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk/p/sponsor.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.   </div><br />

Feel Good Friday

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Tips for My Teenage Self

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aloha Sprinklerinos,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Luckily, my teenage years are firmly in the past, but every now and then I look back on them and think about things I would have done differently or the mistakes I made or the bad judgement calls I took.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My darling sister is now walking down adolescent alley and I find myself offering advice (wanted or unwanted haha) at every opportunity.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="632" src="http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/61465_10151227758494294_1999788941_n.jpg" style="height: 526px; width: 532px;" width="640" /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(My lovely little sister)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If I could board a time machine and visit 16 year old Louise, there are a few things I'd tell her.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: center;">Advice To My 16 Year Old Self</h3><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">1. <i>It's OK not to be liked by every single person</i>. Obviously, there were girls in my school that didn't like me. Throughout my entire school life this upset me. I felt like I had failed in some way. It never occured to me that nobody can please everybody and that there will always be someone who doesn't take to you. You're not a bad person, you haven't failed, the people that don't like you aren't bad people. It's just life and it's normal and it's fine. Relax.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">2. <i>GHDs will soon be invented so hang on in there</i>. Naturally, my hair is a frizzy triangle mop. We have a love hate relationship. Throughout my teen years I had to tame my locks with a babyliss steam straightener (remember those?!) OR do that oh-so-sexy slicked back to all buggery style. Thankfully, at 17-18, GHD's came in and my hair was saved!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">3. <i>Take the good and ignore the bad</i>. I had a very turbulent relationship with my Father as I grew up and often our house would be a very unpleasant place to live. I would feel angry and upset about this for the majority of the time but I wish I had let a lot of those negative emotions go. I wish I had had the maturity to enjoy my Father's good moods and ignore his bad ones. If I could go back, I would take a 'that's your problem, not mine' stance.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">4. <i>Work hard at school</i>. Although my job has little to do with the things I studied, I definitely didn't reach my full potential and it's entirely my own fault. I was far too preoccupied with socialising and messing about to do my homework or take a real interest. I'd say to teen Louise, 'Stop shillyshallying around and focus on your books, if you don't, you'll regret it when you're in your mid twenties and have no idea what the difference between hard and soft water is or struggle to work out with the price of something with 20% off!!".</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">5.<i> Enjoy being young</i>. I'm not old now but I certainly didn't appreciate my early youth whilst I was in it. I was always in a rush to do the next thing (driving lessons, dancing in bars, going to uni, having a boyfriend, moving out etc) that I don't think I stopped to relish what I was doing enough. If I were able to go back I would just enjoy a time of cinema trips with pals, long lay ins and pocket money!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The more I think about it, the more I would change (those boot cut stretchy black trousers with a pale pink angora jumper for one) but a) you have lives to lead and b) I have a feeling that you're supposed to make those mistakes in your teens to allow you to grow into adulthood. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'll check back in ten years and let you know what I would have done better in my twenties!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What advice would you give your teenage self?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Toodlepip!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">xx</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This month my Ultimate Advertiser is <a href="http://21standserendipity.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">21st Serendipity</a> . 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