Coco the Birthday girl

Today is Coco's birthday and we have spent all day together. We started the day with some visits to pet shops to get her favourite treats and to see some bunny rabbits and then headed over to grannies.

Late afternoon we cuddled up and watched movies and I had on my new hotel style slippers from The White Company. 

In the evening we headed out for her birthday meal where myself, Liam, my mum and dad enjoyed some lovely food at The Kino Lounge which is a very dog friendly place and gave her a bowl of her own water as soon as we sat down with some biscuits. 

Now it's safe to say at this exact moment I write this Coco and Liam are fast asleep curled up together after her birthday celebrations. Being the birthday girl is tiring work :)

Happy birthday my darling Coco

My outfit

T shirt dress- Moshino farfetch.com

Coat- ebay.co.uk

Boots- zara

Bag- MCQ- netaporter.com

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All things festive

It's safe to say I'm a little bit excited for Christmas, I'm currently buying so much for the tree my boyfriend thinks I'm crazy, every day I'm coming home with more things to add. 

If I'm not making festive hot chocolate, hanging baubles on the tree, making Liam watch Christmas movies then I'm either at work :) or online Christmas shopping. One reason I'm super excited this year is because its the first one spent with Liam. 

Here are some photos of mine from my Instagram account, please check it out at @katywatts8 to see even more Christmas inspiration. 

Chrismas count down board- Poundland

Kilner jars- The Range 

Macaroons- Selfridges

Candy canes- Marks and Spencer's

Gingerbread candle- Adsa 

Baubles- Asda

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My own Kilner creation.

After being inspired by pictures of Kilner jars on Instagram and how people have creatively used them, I decided to make my own little festive gifts for my friends children. 

I used the Christmas MilkyBar Snowy the Snow Owl with some sparkly fake christmas snow to create a little winter scene. The children can eat the chocolate and my friends are left with the jar to use and store things in so its kind of a two in one present. I purchased the jars from The Range store and the chocolate snow owls from Tesco. The fake snow is from Poundland and that's the the items you need to create this. I also added a few mini eggs on top of the snow to bring a little colour and to look like bird eggs.

And there you have it, Snowy will be off to their new owners very soon for Christmas. 

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Favourite ways to use a Kilner jar

So I've seen plenty of Kilner jars around and I have some myself and the candy cane red and white straws to drink out of, but these are my favourite ways people have creatively used the jars on Instagram. 

Being inspired by the Easter rabbits in the jars I'm going to create the same but with chocolate reindeers for my friends children. So cute and once eaten your left with a Kilner jar to use as a vase, light or ways to create your favourite ice cream Sunday. So many ways to use a Kilner jar.

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Out and about

At the weekend I was out and about with my boyfriend, seeing my nan, taking Coco for long walks and shopping. I love weekends where nothing is really planned, just going from one place to the next enjoying each other's company. 

I was probably a little too excited by our first purchase which was our serving boards. I love when you go to restaurants and instead of plates you get thick wooden serving boards or sometimes slate. Below is the picture of the two Jamie Oliver serving boards we purchased from TKmaxx. I'm a huge lover of a wine and cheese night and love a bread board so we are now all set for our own tapas nights. 

The outfit I wore for the day was based around my beautiful new Alexander McQueen bag. I felt the red and white print really should stand out so I went for an all black look.

Hat- asos.com

T shirt- Zara

Bomber jacket- dollskill.com

Sleeveless leather jacket- Mango

Jeans- asos.com

Boots- asos.com

Bag- netaporter.com

Katy

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Weekends spent with him <3

This weekend was perfect, I took Liam away to say thank you for helping me with my show. He done such an amazing job and I was so appreciative of him being there and doing what he done that I thought it was only right to treat him :). 

I took him to one of my favourite little get away spots and that's the Mailbox in Birmingham. We stayed in the Malmaison Hotel in a lovely suite and went for dinner at The Oriental which is a new resturant within the Mailbox. The food was delicious and the surroundings were beautiful we really did have an amazing time. 

To finish the night after going to a few bars we headed back to the hotel to enjoy the bar and it's tasty cocktails, as you can see in the pictures they are pretty impressive. 

The next day we done a spot of shopping and headed home for a cosy night together plus Coco, finishing the weekend in the most perfect way.

I wore a Laden showroom duster coat with matching top and a zara fluted skirt in a gorgeous texture and my trustee Marc Jacobs Lavender bag.

Coat- asos.com

Top- asos.com

Skirt- Zara

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Halloween fun

Last night we celebrated Halloween a day early because of having plans tonight. I always like to make big of any occasion and instead of just sitting in watching scary movies I like to create a little fun filled night with Liam, even if he isn't quite as excited as me ha. 

I went on a little Halloween shopping spree buying the obvious pumpkin, tea lights, chocolate skulls, apples for Apple bobbing, toffee apples, chocolate apples, fizzy fangs, limeade and lemon sorbet for my IceScream juice :) and face paint even if it was just me and Liam lol.

So, we started with carving the pumkin and then went onto face paint which I can 100% say that Liam's batman facepaint was a lot better than my cat woman ha. 

I made our IceScream juice which is so simple and really effective especially for kids but seen as I don't have any, Coco, Liam and I just enjoyed them :). 

The limeade worked really well for this occasion as it gave it a green colour and then mixing it with lemon sorbet gave it the throffy effect. 

We then sat down and watched movies and enjoyed lots of Halloween treats.

Katy

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