A 2016 Reflection - What Did I Achieve?

Last year I wrote a post on whether I achieved my 2015 goals and I thought I'd do the very same this year. Back in January 2016, I made a list of goals to achieve within the year so I'm writing this post now to see whether or not these goals were met.

In 2016 I hoped to...

♥  Travel more and go to at least one place that I haven't been before - Success! In 2016 we went to London, Barcelona (which was a new city for me), Florida and Paris. 

 

♥  Eat healthier - I'm just gonna be honest here and say this was a huge fail! Like why did I even think I could achieve this?! I'm a pizza gal at heart what can I say! There was also peppers in this rice - does that count as healthy eating?!

♥  Exercise more - nope! FAIL!

♥  Move out - success! Ok so I did cheat with this goal as when I wrote the post last January we had already bought our house :P but in saying that, things could have fallen through! This was by far the best thing about 2016 and I'm so looking forward to seeing what home DIY and decor projects 2017 has for us.

♥  Get a driving licence and start driving - success-ish! I got my provisional licence and did one driving lesson :P does that count?!

♥  Reach 1000 YouTube subscribers - success! We're now on 1200 and excited to seeing how far we can go in 2017.

♥  Start making more videos on my own YouTube channel - FAIL!!!! Didn't even consider this one :P

♥  Reach 5000 Facebook likes - NOPE! Far from it at 1600! Facebook has been a BITCH for business pages this year so how many people see your post has significantly reduced and they just want you to start paying to advertise! I don't tend to post on Facebook much so I've decided to mainly focus on my Instagram and Snapchat (rfairydustblog).

♥  Be more consistent with blog posts - Ya not so much! To be fair it has been a very busy year for us especially at the beginning of the year with all the house stuff! This year I'll be better (ya I know I say this every year :P)

I'll be doing another blog post soon on my 2017 resolutions as it's always fun to come back to at the end of the year and see what I have accomplished. 

Cold Shoulders, Chunky Heels, Summer Nights

Hey guys!

Cannot believe we're already in August!!!! Where has the year gone! August makes me happy though coz it means we only have 3 more weeks till we head to Florida ahhh! I'll be writing out a few blog posts in the next week or so to go up when I'm away so let me know if there's certain posts you wanna see :)

For today's post, I'm gonna talk about my outfit that I wore to Prodijig in Cork Opera House last weekend. I'm loving the cold shoulder trend at the moment and when I spotted this top in Penneys two weeks ago, I knew I had to have it! It's very Zara-esque! It was only €11 and they still have some in Patrick's St. My jeans are from Aeropostale about a year or two ago. They come to my ankle and are a really nice fit. My shoes are also Penneys but I got them a few months back. I absolutely love them but the top strap cut all my toes :( any advice on how I can prevent this next time would be greatly appreciated! I posted them on my Facebook page and it was quite a popular post which was good for me but not good for all the people that were hoping to be able to get them :P

We also logged this day so you can see more of my outfit here!

Laya City Spectacular - Cork

A couple of weekends ago, myself and Kevin went to Fitzgerald's Park to watch some street performers. This was our third year going and it just keeps on getting better. It's a fun and free family summer festival with lots of performers and food stalls. The sun was shining so we enjoyed it even more!

We got to see various performers perform including the Lizard Man who put a corkscrew through his nose, down his throat and through his mouth, Seb Whipits who juggled burning whips on a unicycle, Kamikaze Fireflies who did a lot of hoola-hooping and lots more amazing acts.

Thanks to Paul McLauchlan for taking these fab pics of myself and Kevin during Seb Whipits performance. Make sure to follow Paul on instagram here - he has some fab photography!

We vlogged the day too which you can watch here! We already can't wait for next year!

Nautical Stripes

Hey guys!

Today's post is an outfit post - something I haven't done in a while. A few of you that watch our YouTube channel have commented and snapchatted me looking for outfit details on what I'm wearing in the vlogs so I thought that I'd start posting them more often on my blog.

This outfit is kinda nautical inspired and something that's very easy to throw on and can be dressed up or dressed down by adding different accessories / shoes etc. The dress is super comfortable and fits quite well - I'm about 5 foot 3 so midi length dresses usually don't tend to suit me as they're too long but this one seems to fit ok.

Let me know if you want more outfit posts in the comments below :)

Everything shown below is from Penneys / Primark! The dress, shoes and necklace are current stock and the cardigan and bag were from last year.

Valentine's Day Hair, Make Up and Outfit Ideas

So as Valentine's Day is coming up, I thought I'd put together a quick post on some ideas for hair, make up and outfits. I've done similar posts before where I did separate posts on hairstyles, make up and outfits but this year I thought I'd make it easier for people and combine everything into one post. Hope you like it - let me know your favs in the comments! Enjoy your Valentine's Day :)