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Christmas TAG!

By Heather Rowe 12:00 BLOGMAS, tag, Tag Posts, tags

It's currently December 19th which means that there is only 5 days to go until Christmas Day! For today's Blogmas Post I d...

It's currently December 19th which means that there is only 5 days to go until Christmas Day!

For today's Blogmas Post I decided to take part in the Christmas TAG. I posted a Christmas TAG as part of Blogmas 2015 and wanted to do something similar this year.

For this year instead of just taking one TAG and answering the questions I decided to search though most of the different Christmas and Winter TAGs and make up a combination of all of them as well as including some of my own questions.

Do you like to stay in your PJ's or dress up for Christmas?

I think as a family we have always dressed up as for Christmas as it has always been a special event for us

Do you open your presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning?

This is always a hard question to answer as sometimes it's both, if we are spending Christmas with my dad then we will either have a '2nd Christmas' at home on either Christmas Eve or Boxing Day as we aren't spending Christmas Day there.

Have you ever built a gingerbread house?

Surprising, no never. Who knows, maybe this year could be the first!

What's your favourite Christmas meal or treat?

Unlike a lot of families, unless we go out for a meal we don't have a roast every Sunday so events such as Christmas and Easter are like a one off for us so my favourite Christmas food is definitely the roast!

What's your favourite holiday movie?

Again this is a fairly hard question to answer as there are so many to chose from! For me its between the Home Alone series and The Holiday

Have you ever made a snowman?

I've made a few! None of them even close to Christmas though

White lights or coloured lights?

I like both, in my room I have a white tree so I prefer white lights however in the living room we have a green tree so we use coloured lights.

When do you put up your Christmas decorations?

For as long as I can remember we've always put our Christmas decorations up on December 1st (or as close as is possible)

Favourite Christmas Song?

Tomorrow's post will be my ultimate Christmas playlist, but my all time favourite Christmas song is definitely 'Fairytale of New York - The Pogues & Kirsty McColl'

Favourite Christmas Throwbacks

What's your favourite thing about Christmas?

Winter Post Ideas

By Heather Rowe 12:00 BLOGMAS

Gossip Girl Thoughts

By Heather Rowe 16:00 entertainment

If you saw my Netflix Favourites post a few weeks ago you will know that I had just finished watching Gossip Girl and to be honest I am q...

If you saw my Netflix Favourites post a few weeks ago you will know that I had just finished watching Gossip Girl and to be honest I am quite sad I've finished it. So in order to make the hype of it last longer today's blog post is going to be about some of the thoughts I had during the course of the show.

If you haven't seen any of Gossip Girl and are wanting to please beware that there are going to be some MAJOR spoilers included within this post!

Blair & Chuck's Love

As much as I loved how everything turned out for Blair and Chuck in the end, I can't help but think that their relationship and their apparent 'hold' over each other was a seemingly obsessive one and I wasn't a major fan of them being together for most of the show. Given the choice between him and Louis however I am 100% happy with how their family situation ended.

Serena & Drugs

I can't help but feel like they dragged out the whole 'Serena on drugs' idea. She originally left the Upper East Side because of an incident relating to drugs, she ended up in hospital a few seasons later because of something drug related again. Then in Season 6 she is seen on a bus, passed out because of a drug issue again.

I understand that sometimes when someone is in that world once they often return to it in times of hardship but when she is supposedly portrayed as this 'perfect' Upper East Sider that everything great just happens to by everyone close to her. The whole drug idea just didn't seem to fit with this image. Maybe that was the idea? I'm not sure I just wasn't a fan as it felt repeated.

Jenny

Jenny was essentially the sweet innocent sister of Dan for the first season or so, this quickly changed when she entered the world of the Upper East Side and really found a love for not just Fashion but also power. She craved the feeling of being liked and adored. The further into the show we got it seemed more like we'd lost Jenny and had actually been given Taylor (the actress who played her). I felt like this style change was a bit odd considering how into Fashion she was and how Gothic this change felt. I do however feel the change to a darker style also represented her change to a more darker personality. This rang even more true to me when she was part of the group that led to Serena being in hospital.

Bart Bass
What was with the whole 'faking death' thing I still don't honestly see the relevance to the story line.. Lilly and Rufus's marriage was clearly coming to an end but did they really need Bart to be the end of it? I still don't know how I feel about that.

Who is Gossip Girl?
DAN HUMPHREY IS NOT GOSSIP GIRL! I'm sorry but that just doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever! He's posting about things he has no way of knowing (yes GG has her spies but not MI5 level!) And everyone happily forgives him after 10 seconds of knowing even though Gossip Girl supposedly ruined everyone's lives at the time.

I was inpatient and decided to find out during the 1st/2nd season and knowing her identity literally made no difference to the show at all in my opinion just because the revelation made zero sense. WHY WAS IT NOT DOROTA!?

Current Favourite Apps

By Heather Rowe 16:00

I've been posting quite a few of these 'favourite' style posts and I'm actually really enjoying writing them! So I thought...

I've been posting quite a few of these 'favourite' style posts and I'm actually really enjoying writing them! So I thought I'd share an updated version of what's currently on my iPhone.

At the end of September, my contract with my old phone company ended and anyone who knows me will know that I honestly didn't even know if my phone would last that long! It was in a very bad way! These two events lead to me starting a new contract with a new phone so as of right now I am a proud owner of an iPhone 7 plus and honestly I don't know how I ever lived with a smaller phone!

If you're interested you can check out my previous 'What's on my iPhone' posts here.

February 2016

November 2016

Instagram - wunderlust95

I've recently been really getting into Instagram and I'm loving posting images ranging from what I've been up to to new blog post photos and of course the odd selfie. I really enjoyed creating a new theme for Autumn and editing photos to suit the Autumnal theme I had chosen.

UNUM

This app is quite a recent favourite of mine. Before I purchased my current phone I will admit I spent quite a lot of time watching 'What's on my iPhone' videos on YouTube. This was party to get an idea of how the phone worked and people's opinions on it but also to find some new app inspiration as I always find myself on the same apps. Among the apps talked about was this one, the app allows you to plan out your Instagram feed as you would if you were posting the photos directly, this is very useful when it comes to creating an Instagram theme.

Best Fiends

In my 'What's on my iPhone' post I wrote about how I was loving this game and even though it has been almost a year since the last post was written my feelings about this game still haven't changed. If you haven't heard of the game, the aim is to match up icons of the same colour in order to add up points which help to defeat the slugs and complete other requirements.

Wunderlist

The last app I have been loving recently is Wunderlist, this app is basically a to-do-list app, however, I have been using it as a way of planning out any blog post ideas I want to write about and checking them off using the checklist feature once I have written them/taken the photographs for them. Although I am not necessarily sticking to a blogging schedule (more on that soon) I do have certain dates that I want some posts to be written by, for example, Halloween posts probably shouldn't be going up in December/January so this app has been great for helping me to organise my blogging life.

Taking Time Out & Not keeping to a Schedule

By Heather Rowe 16:00 personal

Autumn Essentials

By Heather Rowe 16:00 personal

Today's post is another Autumn inspired post and it's all about my Autumn essentials and everything I will be using/wearing this ...

Today's post is another Autumn inspired post and it's all about my Autumn essentials and everything I will be using/wearing this Autumn.

Fashion

Now were getting into the colder months it's important to stay warm so my 2 main essentials for keeping warm are jumpers or hoodies (I would honestly live in hoodies if I could!) and scarfs! I've built up a good collection of scarves over the past few years that I absolutely love but my all time favourites are my New Look scarf I purchased a few years ago (you may have seen it in a few of my previous Instagram photos!) and a grey H&M scarf that I included in my End Of Summer Haul.

Another Autumn fashion essential is ankle boots, my favourite pair have been worn pretty much to death and although I can't currently remember where I bought them from I know that they have lasted almost a year which for me is very important when it comes to purchasing shoes! I also have a dark red pair which I bought from Primark in Spain last year which I absolutely love wearing during the Autumn and Winter months as the colour goes well with most items I own.

Lifestyle

As you will know if you read my last post about the new Autumn fall Collection from Yankee Candle candles are definitely one of my top favourite things so of course they were going to be included in this post. I have recently been burning the Spiced Orange votive that I mentioned in the post and I have been absolutely loving it! Every time I leave the room and come back the whole room smells of oranges and it is the most refreshing yet Autumnal scent I've smelt recently.

Beauty

In terms of beauty essentials I always reach for in the Autumn months, I am always more drawn to orange & darker shades, this relates both to eye shadows and lip colours (although I don't tend to wear lip products very often as I don't feel the need to). I will be writing a more in depth post about my current Autumn everyday makeup soon so keep your eyes open for that post soon!

Blogger Recognition Award

By Heather Rowe 16:00 personal

A few weeks ago I was nominated for the Blogger Recognition Award by Esther from Things I Hear so thank you very much! You should defini...

A few weeks ago I was nominated for the Blogger Recognition Award by Esther from Things I Hear so thank you very much! You should definitely check out her blog!

Wunderlustblog was originally created in late 2014 where it consisted of mainly photo posts where I could share my love of photography. Almost a year later in June 2015 I decided to take a year out of education and it was then that I wrote my first ever post which can still be found here.

If I could give any advice to someone who is thinking of starting a blog it would be -

Be consistent

The biggest piece of advice I would give anyone would be to try and be as consistent as you can, I will be the first to admit I'm not the most consistent blogger ever and believe me it sometimes shows

Engage!

The next most important piece of advice I would give is to engage with your audience, whether that's on Twitter, Instagram or through your blog directly.

My Nominations

Normally idea is to tag 15 blogs and I want to tag blogs who aren't necessarily considered larger blogs but that I feel 100% deserve ALOT more recognition!

All too often with these posts I always feel like a lot of blogs get tagged and people just ignore the TAG completely or people feel there's too many blogs to go through so I wanted to kinda change the rules a bit (not sure if this is allowed but it's definetly worth a try) So I've decided to tag the top 4 bloggers that in my opinion don't get half the recognition they deserve for the effort they constantly put into their blogs.

Tay - Taylor is a fairly new blogger in terms of the blogging world, having been only blogging since the end of 2015 however I love literally love every one of her posts! She posts about everything from beauty to lifestyle to mental health and you should definitely check out her blog! Seriously you won't regret it!

Rosie - absolutely love Rosie, her posts are always so amazingly written! (mostly mental health related but so so incredibly important!) Did I mention how much I love love her posts? No? Well maybe I should say it again?

Kathleen - Kathleen has been blogging since 2014 and the main thing I want to say is that I absolutely love her blog header! I have been absolutely loving her #MUSICMONDAY posts as they remind me of songs I used to love!

Lauren - I know this about blogging and trust me I'll get there, but if you're not following Lauren's Instagram then I'm sorry but where have you been? Lauren has been blogging since 2014 and although I've only recently found her blog and each one of her posts is so well thought out and her photography is actually incredible! I'm actually getting kinda jealous just thinking about it so I'm gonna stop! Just check out her blog is all I'm going to say!

If you've made it this far then well done to you!

To those who I've nominated it's now over to you! (If you wish to participate that is!)

The rules are as follows -

- Write a post showing that you've accepted the award and thank the blogger who nominated you providing a link to their blog

- give a brief story on how your blog started

- give 2 pieces of advice to new bloggers

- choose some other bloggers who you feel deserve more recognition and you want to give this award to

- comment or message each blogger to let them know you have nominated them and provide a link to the post created

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