I'm a Disney Addict!

Hello Guys,

So as some of you may know I love Disney. A lot. If someone said something that's a line in a Disney song, usually accidentally, I will often burst out into song! Which is quite embarrassing sometimes! I of course love watching the movies and something fun is noticing the hidden Easter eggs (for those of you who don't know a Disney/Pixar Easter egg is something or someone from one film 'hidden' in another, but it doesn't affect the plot at all) for example Rapunzel and Eugene going to Elsa's coronation. 

Some clever people who notice these things have made theories online and share them with the rest of us Disney lovers! For example 'Where Elsa and Anna's parents on their way to Rapunzel and Eugene's Wedding on their boat trip?'

A while ago I found the very nerdy Disney website named 'The Disney Theory' and I got very excited! It has a lot of interesting additions to the Disney magic and is defiantly worth the read!

The link is: http://disneytheory.com/

Have a lovely week,

Abi

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New Years Resolutions

Hello Guys,

I hope that you are enjoying the new year and that if you have started work or school again it has been as enjoyable as it can be :) ! I know that it is a quite late but today I wanted to talk about New Years Resolutions! I have never really thought about making a New Years Resolution but this year I have decided I have so I wanted to share with you what I am aiming to do this year.

Blogging Once a Week
I have been quite inconsistent with my blogging since December so I am making myself a goal to blog just once a week! Ideas are always helpful so if you have any please let me know in the comments what you would like to see.

Exercise Once a Week 
As some of you may know I am playing the role of Penny Pingleton in my schools production of Hairspray! I used to do Trampoling, Netball and Nike Training after school but because of rehearsals that hasn't been possible. I started running about September last year and would run every Saturday but I became quite unmotivated when it got colder and wetter. So this year my aim is to run 5k every Saturday morning at the park nearest my house. This is organised by Parkrun and it's cool because it gives you your time, personal best, what others have done this week at your park etc so it's a great way to set yourselves goals and see if you have improved over time.

Read One Book a Month
I enjoy reading and it is great to do but I didn't find much time to read much last year so this year I am trying to read a minimum of one book per month. At the moment I am reading 'All I Know Now' by Carrie Hope Fletcher, one of my favourite Youtubers who has played various West End roles, including Eponine in Les Miserables, who she has played for the last few years so is leaving soon :(. Click on her name to check out her channel I'm sure you will enjoy it. Other books I may read are all the Harry Potter Series because I love them!

Do you have any resolutions? If so please let me know I always enjoy reading you comments.

Have a great week,

Abi
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Christmas Time!

Hello Guys,

I want to start this blog post by apologising about the lack of posts over December. I have been busy with a much bigger workload at school and also learning lines and going to rehearsals for Hairspray! I have really enjoyed December and the build up to Christmas but as always it has been very busy.

A Bare Christmas Tree...

One of my favourite things to do is to put up the Christmas tree with my family and play some fun Christmas music! My favourite Christmas album at the moment is one by Pentatonix who sing a Capella, which is perfect for Christmas songs and carols. Their most recent Christmas Album is called 'That's Christmas to Me' and it is amazing! You might notice in the pictures some string coming out of my Christmas tree, this is because of my cats. We got our cats Christmas 2010 and it was their first Christmas. My cat Beebo jumped into the tree and it crashed down! So to insure this doesn't happen again we tie the tree to the door with string!

Baking Mince Pies

I don't know about you guys but I love mince pies and baking so another of my favourite things to do is to bake mince pies. The recipe is very simple so it is a great way to relax and mince pies are delicious! I just feel so festive drinking a Hot Chocolate, eating a mince pie, in my onesie, with the fire burning and watching a Christmas film! My personal favourites are 'Elf' and 'It's a Wonderful Life' but let me know what you enjoy in the comments.

I also enjoy painting my nails and so I had to do something Christmasy. In the end I just went for some festive colours and a simple cross design on my ring finger because it was very simple and I didn't have much time!

Finally, the most relaxing thing to do at Christmas in my opinion is to have a long soak in the bath with a Lush Christmas Bath Bomb/ Bubble Bar or to snuggle up in blankets and watch YouTube videos with one of my cats on my lap.


Thank you for reading and I hope you have enjoyed this post. I have just realised that on December the 29th it will be 6 months since I started Raspberries and Ribbons. I have really enjoyed writing blog posts and coming up with ideas and I hope that you have enjoyed reading them. 

Have a Merry Christmas,

Abi

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Christmas Countdown!

Hello Guys,
I am very excited because Chritsmas is getting closer and closer and there just seems to be an excited buzz wherever I go. Anyway one creative thing I love to do is scrapbooking but on the computer. One of my lovely friends Nat showed me two sites with some really cute freescrapbooking resources. Those websites are Sweet Shoppe Designs and Shabby Princess Designs.

I have enjoyed making scrap book pages but I also have liked using them for other things. A couple of years ago I made a Christmas countdown and have recently found the document so I have made a few edits and decided to share them with you. To save it click the image, this will take you to a new page. Then right click the image and click save image as. Now save and print your image then cut out the dates and you are done.

Thanks for reading. If you would like more like this let me know in the comments. Have a lovely week,

Abi

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Christmas Phone Wallpapers!

Hello guys,
Sorry I didn't blog last week, I was having quite a bad day so didn't feel very creative and couldn't think of anything interesting to write so I decided just to do nothing at all. I didn't want to post something I wasn't proud of or happy with. Anyway this week I was on Pintrest and I saw some really cute Christmas wallpapers. I realised that because it's nearly December this would be a great time to share some of my favourite phone wallpapers for Christmas (although I've had mine since up October - Christmas is my favourite holiday by far!)

For me the days have been going quite quickly despite how busy I've been! I've had a much bigger workload and lines to learn for Hairspray! However this busyness excites me because the Christmas season is just around the corner. I really love this time of year despite the fact that it get's dark earlier, there's a lot of traffic and the weather is awful (unless it's snowing, which I hope it will!) because everybody just seems a little happier.

But anyway, here are my Top 5 Phone wallpapers for Christmas:

Christmas Wreath - Merry Christmas
In my opinion this will look better as a lock screen rather than home screen because of the words but I'm sure both will look lovely. Also it puts you in a Christmasy mood whenever you turn on your phone. Click the link to download from the website but also to take a look at the other designs because they are all so cute!





Purple Christmas Design
This is my current wallpaper because I love the colours used - it matches my phone case, and it's not too Christmasy - even though I love Christmas it isn't December yet! The designer has a version for computer desktops and iPad's too. This design is for iPhone but because it's a pattern it will work on any device.






String Lights Wallpaper
I saw this an immediately thought it was gorgeous! I love how the colours aren't traditional Christmas colours and it adds pops of pink to my wallpaper. This is what I will use next because it isn't extremely Christmasy so perfect for November. The other designs shared in the post I found this on (click the name) are really sweet too.

Christmas Gold Typography
I really like this wallpaper! The words are from one of my favourite Christmas songs and it's gold, with stars. Whenever I look at it I can almost hear Michael Bublé sing this in my head! Like the Christmas Wreath wallpaper at the top this is great for a lock screen. When December comes I will defiantly be using this..




Let it Snow
Again the words used in this wallpaper are ones from another of my favourite Christmas songs! I love the icy blue colour and all the pretty snowflakes surrounding the words. If you do use this and use the link in the title you have to scroll down quite a bit on the page to find this wallpaper but it is there I promise!




Earlier I mentioned Pintrest and wanted to say that I get a lot of inspiration from Pintrest and I would highly recommend making an account if you haven't already. If you want to, click here to take a look at my page.

Thank you for reading, let me know in the comments if you use any of these, have a suggestion for me to use or have a Pintrest account and I will take a look.

Abi
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Little Lush Haul

Hi Guys,

So at the beginning of October the Lush Christmas range came out and I had a teacher training day so  I was very happy! I bought quite a few things so I thought I would do a mini haul showing all the lovely items I have. A couple of these are from my birthday but I thought I would include them anyway.

Santa's Belly - Shower Jelly


I bought a Shower Jelly for my friend and I wanted to keep it! So I decided to treat myself to one when the Christmas range came out. As soon as I smelt this one I wanted it but the Snowman Shower Jelly wasn't in my local store yet so I decided to wait and compare the two. This one is by far my favourite, it smells of sharp apples which to me this is VERY autumnal because we have an apple tree in my Garden and in September we pick the apples. 



Candy Mountain - Bubble Bar

Last year the Snow Fairy shower gel was bought for me and I loved it! So I had to try the bubble bar. If you have had anything from the Snow Fairy range then you will know what this smells like; very sweet! It's a classic lush Christmas product that reminds me of the smell of sugary sweets. 

Pop in the Bath! - Bubble Bar

This was a Birthday present from my friend Charlotte. She has an amazing blog so click on her name to take a look. Anyway this is such a sweet little bubble bar. I wish I could describe the smell of this product but as soon as I'd taken the picture I was desperate to use it. It made my bath bright pink and very bubbly!



Dragons Egg - Bath Bomb

I know that this isn't a Christmas product but I wanted to buy this product because I love it so much! I have used this bath bomb before, it was the first lush product I'd ever tried; a birthday present from my cousins! It's so beautiful as there are petals inside and that makes the bath look so cute. This might be a very bad description of the smell but too me, this bath bomb smells like my local Lush store! I cannot describe how excited I am to use this!



Think Pink - Bath Bomb


I've had this one so many times before when I was much younger because when you're 7 what's more exciting then a pink bath, especially when the bath bomb has flowers on it! This isn't my favourite bath bomb but it's inexpensive and pretty!



Butter Bear - Bath Bomb

This is such a soothing bath bomb, as it's the Christmas version of Butterball. This was bought for me when by my friend as a 'Well Done' for getting Penny in my school show. It makes your skin so smooth and is really good for people with sensitive skin who may not be able to try lots of different products.


I hope you enjoyed my first (very little) haul. If you enjoyed this and want posts more like this let me know in the comments. Thank you for reading and enjoy your week.

Abi

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Raspberries and Ribbons Instagram Page

Hello guys,
Today's post is quite short but I just wanted to let you know about my Instagram page. I have made an Instagram for this blog so that you can know when I've posted and hopefully to attract more people. It is also a great way for me to find other blogs so if you have an Instagram page for your blog/or you regularly share about your blog on Instagram I will be happy to follow you.



My Instagram account name is: @raspberriesandribbons


If you have a blog related Instagram account please leave your account name in the comments and I will take a look.

Enjoy your week,

Abi

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