The Three Men I Plan on Spending my Weekend with

... Besides my Boyfriend, obviously

Saturday:

This not-so-little guy will be running around and wrestling with other pups at a DSPCA King of Paws Play Date.

Great socialisation for them, all the dogs are within the same age bracket, they learn about play and proper behaviour and you can practice some of your training too. The play dates are free, but you have to register so they know how many dogs will be there. You are asked to make a small donation if you can.

Play dates or indoors, well supervised and the single best way to spend an hour on a Saturday! Honestly, it's a happiest place on Earth. Let me spell it out for you - it's a room full of puppies!!! It's impossible not to fall in love with them all and pretend your's isn't the one humping the chair ...

Bargain Alert! Siopaella - Back with their €4 Fundraiser

Hallelujah, my skin is saved - La Roche Posay Nutritic Intense Riche

I often hint at the state my skin is in - and I realise I never really explained what I was talking about. To be honest, it was embarrassingly bad. Very dry and flakey - hardly lasting a day with any moisturiser I tried and I was also starting to break out (and only in one or two very specific areas too). Anyone who has seen me recently was probably too polite to note the flakey concealer drying out my easily-dried out skin (I'm looking at you Collection 2000) or how my foundation was okay from a distance, but not that great up close. I only posed for pictures from a certain angle, and I've even avoided going out because I was having "a bad skin day" - but of course I'd never admit that.

So my skincare regime was undergoing an overhaul. While it was going well I had yet to find a moisturiser. Then Beaut.ie were looking for participants for a trial of a new La Roche Posay product for people dry skin. I signed up, forgot all about it and then somehow made the cut! So I was sent out a pot of La Roche Posay NUTRITIC INTENSE RICHE and then something magical happened.

It worked.

My new love affair, lighting up my life with Chanel

First of all. This is not a review. Attempting to catch up on over a week's worth of blogs has left me weary of glowing reviews and endless swatches. Oh the swatches. Also new job (yay!) requires me to write almost constantly, checking myself, word counts, structure - so I would much prefer to just ... write for the moment. If that's alright with you of course.

I blame Kelly Hope Murphy for this. She got her hands on the limited edition Poudre Signee de Chanel Illuminating Powder. I missed my chance to have someone pick it up duty free but I chanced my arm and cautiously approached the Chanel counter.

Pre-Spring cleaning

Do I love it? Do I wear it? Is it flattering?

Fine One One - What's your Emergency?

I was arrested last Thursday. 

There I was drinking champagne, as ya' do on a work night, and all of a sudden I hear a loud siren and a mega-phone voice informed me I was under arrest. Apparently I was just too damn gorgeous; who knew that was a felony? Tough life, I know.

Then a makeup artist, who was wearing a police hat and handcuffs, hit me with a night stick. Also somebody thought it would be great idea to give Mark Rogers a megaphone ... This is all in a day's work when you're at a Benefit event. But what doesn't happen every day is the launch of something really, really special.

What's a Liebster Award?

My thoughts exactly! It seems a Liebster Award is something you're generally unaware of until you're "nominated" for one. After a run of bad luck and high-anxiety a few things have been coming up Milhouse lately - and the latest thing to bring a smile to my face, one that's still hanging around, was when the very lovely Sarah tweeted me so say she nominated me for one! Apparently it started on a German blog about 2 years ago, leibster meaning "dearest" in German. It started out where you nominated 3-5 bloggers, but it has of course snowballed to include a whopping 11 nominations!

It's like a tag but it's also a little way to give budding bloggers a boost of encouragement, that's what made me smile so much. You pass on a nomination to 11 fellow bloggers with less than 200 followers (oh triple figures, that's the dream right there), spill 11 facts about yourself, answer the questions posed by the person who nominated you and then leave you're own 11 questions for your nominees to answer!

So, deep breaths - here it goes!

11 Random Facts About Me

1. My Boyfriend and I lived around the corner from each other for 20 years and never knew each other.

2. I take singing lessons, but refuse to let anyone hear me sing

3. I've been a vegetarian for almost 8 years

4. I have a terrible fear of heights

5. I nearly got thrown off a horse once, but stayed on. I'm a cowboy.

6. I used to be able to say I had been to every Disneyland/World until they built one in Hong Kong

7. My favourite country, besides Ireland, is New Zealand

8. I have 3 tattoos

9. I have 13 piercings (all in my ears)

10. I love Asian films with subtitles

11. I wish I had hair like a Disney princess

A-Z of Me

I saw this list on The Freckled Fox and thought it was too sweet to pass up! So here it goes:

A-Z of Me

Addictions: Internet, food, shopping

Bed size: Single :( (I'd love a king size though...)

Chore you hate: Loading the dishwasher (food on dishes grosses me out...)

Dogs or cats: BOTH! But I love my doggie

Essential start of your day: Checking my phone...

Favourite colour: Purple. Hand down

Gold or silver: Ooooh ... that's tough. Silvre

Height: 5' 4"

Instruments you play (or have played): Piano, guitar very briefly

Jobs titles you've had: Sales assistant, waitress, floor girl, bartender, media spy

Kids: Does my dog count?

Live: Ireland

Mom’s name: Denise

Nickname: Iga, Bubu ... eh ... ???

Overnight hospital stays: None

Pet peeve: Arrogance ... loud noises

Quote from a movie: "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return..."

Right or left handed: Right handed

Siblings: 1 sister and 1 brother, both younger

Time you wake up: 07:10 ... ish

Underwear: Dunnes! Always Dunnes

Vegetables you dislike: Tomatoes? Oh wait ... they're a fruit. Aubergines!

What makes you run late: Getting distracted looking for socks or washing my face...

X-rays you’ve had done: None!

Yummy food you make: Stir-fry, believe me it's gooood

Zoo animal: Too many to choose from! Em, red panda or snow leopard or ELEPHANTS! Yeah, elephants win

xXx

Lisa

Looking back on and looking forward to J W Anderson

It started in many places, but for a lot of people - myself included, it stared with a jumper:

This jumper, to be exact:

Word of the day - Elegance

Word of the day today is elegance.