#SBBC Day 15, Eye Candy

 

This blog post does not require words. We just all need to sit back and enjoy the beauty of the male form.

As my mother would say "This is a job for mama"

 


Ok...back to work ladies!!!

Kel x

#SBBC Day 14, A post you are proudest of

I'm such a cheat! I'm totally flunked on keeping up with the September blog challenge. I've missed at least a week now but here I am desperately trying to catch up. I really do want to finish this spurt of blogging on the high that I started with. So listen to Bryan Adam s and 'Please forgive me'

As I have not been blogging for that long I don't have 1 post yet that I am most proud of. Its work in progress Ladies and Gentlemen.

Kel x

#SBBC Day 13, A Craft Project

Good morning,

I'm over the worst of the flu. It seriously took me 3 weeks. But I'm here, I'm alive bla bla bla
As I'm not an artsy fartsy kind of person who knocks up little craft projects at the weekend I thought I would find this post really difficult to write. Then I thought, ok, what have I ever created, maybe a college assignment or something. Eureka! My thesis, I 'crafted' that so to speak and it is something I am very proud of. So I started writing a post about my thesis but something was missing.

Nah. I decided... it just wasn't good enough....something else I've created, something really really special. Bang!
What could be more special then the fact that I have 'crafted' one of the most beautiful little people in this world.

So Saian, SBBC Day 13, A craft project, goes to you.

Kel x

#SBBC Day 12, Life Advice

*Sourced from poemhunter.com

Advice for Life
-Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
-In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
-A place for everything, everything in its place.
-A small leak can sink a great ship.
-All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
-An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
-Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
-Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
-Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
-By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
-Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
-Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
-Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
-Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
-Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
-Energy and persistence conquer all things.
-Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
-Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
-Fatigue is the best pillow.
-God helps those who help themselves.
-Half a truth is often a great lie.
-He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
-He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
-Honesty is the best policy.
-How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
-I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
-I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
-If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
-If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
-If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
-If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
-If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
-It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
-It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
-Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
-Lost time is never found again.

-Benjamin Franklin-

#SBBC Day11, How Did You Get Your Blog Name

Hump day....and I'm struggling to get over it. I have the flu and everything seems like the pits! Im going keep this one short and sweet.

Where did I get my blog name from?

Simples.... Its a play on words. A play on my surname to be exact. My name is Kelly Petit. Petit meaning 'small' in French. This is just a little blog that I started so it seemed apt to name it, my little blog. MON petit BLOG. Clever eh!!

Kel x

#SBBC Day 10, Beauty Pet Peeves

Day 10 options for #SBBC were Beauty pet peeves and Favorite item of clothing. Luckily, there are not many things that annoy me, beauty wise. Well, not enough to write a blog post about anyway. When I think of it, the only things I can actually think of is when the bristles of my foundation brush come off on my face. It's like little spider legs...euh, not such a nice thought. The other thing is when you open an eye shadow pallet to find that some of the individual shadows are smashed or broken.... Disaster!
Oh one more thing...This is not a beauty problem but is related to a beauty product. It is when I find my 6 year old dusting down the tables with my makeup brushes.

OK OK, Scrap what I said about not having enough things to rite about in the pet peeves area, the longer I spend writing, the more that come to mind.
It does my head in when people wear lipstick outside of their lips, it looks ridiculous!

EXHIBIT A:








I also think it looks terrible when people who have otherwise perfect makeup, go way to far with the highlighter/translucent powder.
EXHIBIT B:

EXHIBIT C:

I'm perfect of course, no bronze lines, no questionable make up looks...yeh right..

What are your beauty pet peeves?

Kel x

#SBBC Day 9, How to incorporate color into your look

In the words of the Script "If you could see me now", you would probably chuckle at the blog title and what I am wearing today. Black and grey. Where is the colour??!!
What I should have done to add a little colour into my look was to try one of the following:

• A colourful handbag
• Nice earrings
• A bright watch
• Shoes with a wow factor
• Through hair colour or lipstick
• Nail varnish or design which compliments and makes my outfit more vibrant
• I normally try to grab a colourful scarf as I run out the door.

I'd love some tips, What do you guys do to bring more colour into your wardrobe?

Kel x

#SBBC Day 8, Letter to someone from your Past

I had thought about writing a letter to my younger self but I'm not sure I will ever be qualified to give advice to anyone, especially myself.  When I thought about what I would put in the letter, it didn't seem right to write to myself with words of wisdom and advice. I don't know everything and I probably never will. You live and learn as they say!

Instead I found this great website with letters from the past. http://letter.ie/0029/0032.html#.Ui2dKB1OPmQ

In particular, I found Irish postcards from the 1900. It's a really interesting website, where you can read love letters, civil war letters etc.

Here is one that I thought was sweet . . .

 

 

Kel x



#SBBC Day 7, Fantasy Dinner Party

I'm a little bit cheeky. I've missed #SBBC two weekends in a row and have been catching up on a Monday. I have a valid excuse though, we've been moving house and we had no internet installed. Alas, its up an running now so there will be no excuses next weekend. Just thinking, next weekend will be the 14th of September and there will only be 2 more of them before the end of September and the end of #SBBC.

Back to the topic in hand, Fantasy dinner party. For me, an amazing dinner party would not be down to the food or the décor but the quality of the guests. My friends and family make perfect guests but seen as this is a fantasy dinner party, and I can invite whom ever I like, I would like to have the following people on my guest list.

1. Oprah Winfrey
2. President Obama
3. Beyoncé
4. Nelson Mandela
5. Freud
6. Rosa Parks
7. Bob Marley
8. Martin Luther King
9. Stevie Wonder
10. And little old me!


Who would you invite to your fantasy dinner party?


Kel x

#SBBC Day 6, Travel Dreams

When I started blogging, I wrote in my first blogging post,  that you could read all sorts of posts on my blog from nail varnish to the Masai Mara. I didn't just pluck this place out of thin air, I have a massive fascination/obsession with Africa. Don't ask me where this came from but I've been in love with the place since I was a child. The f
unny thing is I have never been. I dream of going...Africa is what MY dreams are made of. A friend of mine recently returned from Safari in Kenya and I was uber jealous to say the least.

There is a great series on RTE, Sunday evening's at the moment, aptly named 'Africa'. David Attenborough does the voice over and it just makes me fall in love with the place even more. The wildlife and scenery is breath taking.

Kel x





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#SBBC Day 5, A Recipe

Girl Friday has left this one open to interpretation. So, seen as I am not the best cook in the world, here is one that was prepared earlier...

And on the flip side . . .

 



Kel x

#SBBC Day 4, Favourite Handcream

I will be completely honest with you, I only put hand cream on out of boredom and habit. I don't have a hand cream, that makes me say "oh wow my hands are so soft". I have cream in my drawer at work and I only ever think to put it on when I see someone else in the office put on their hand cream. The one I have in the drawer is the Soap and Glory Hand Food. I'm sure it does the job, it smells like you could eat it straight from the tube....and hopefully..My hands wont look 80 when I'm only 50!

Maybe someone could suggest a good hand cream for me?

Kel x 

#SBBC Day 3, Sentimental Item

 

 

I think this note sums up sentimental value really well.  When you think of a cherished item or one which has 'sentimental value' , it rarely has any significance to anyone else but you. That is what makes it all the more precious, for me anyway. When I think of a sentimental item, the one that comes to mind is a silver chain I now own. I bought it for my mam for her birthday and when she died I started wearing it. I wore it everyday for weeks. It was like a comfort thing. I havnt continued to wear it everyday but when I do wear it gives me a sense of peace or calmness. I know these are traits that I have attributed to it but it doesn't take away from its sentimental value.

 

Do you have an item or possession that holds sentimental value for you, or are you a 'thrower outer' ?

 

Kel x 

#SBBC Day 2, Favourite Jewellery

I'm on a roll!

I can be very girly at times so I love anything with a bit if sparkle or the word diamond in the title. For my birthday, my husband bought me some really pretty jewellery. These are definitely my favourite pieces at the moment. They have just enough sparkle and I can still wear them everyday withough looking too bling.

 

 

Kel x

 

Good morning September

 
 

# SBBC

I needed a kick up the bum as far as my blogging is concerned and I found the perfect boot to do that with. www.girlfridaysbeautyblog.wordpress.com came up with this great idea to help people like me to get their blogging mojo back. *Sings, I',m bringing blogging back to the tune of Justin Timerberlakes, 'I'm bringing sexy back'. Apologies, if you're singing that for the day...not!
The idea behind this is that I will be blogging every day for the month of September. I chose this challenge over other ones as Girl Friday came up with some really lovely blog topics to inspire, for each day.

Here are the daily topics, if you would like to join in.

Happy Blogging Everyone,

Kel x



The Schedule:

	Beauty	Lifestyle
Sunday 1st	Recent purchases	Introduction to #SBBC: Why are you doing it? What do you hope to achieve during the month?
Monday 2nd	Favourite eyeshadow palette	Favourite jewellery
Tuesday 3rd	What you bring when travelling	A sentimental item
Wednesday 4th	Favourite handcream	Positives about blogging
Thursday 5th	Faves and fails: makeup removers	A recipe – one you love, would like to learn, something from a family tradition… Whatever your take on this is!
Friday 6th	Staple items – the bits you use that you never normally think about. Can be brand of cotton pads, nail varnish remover, cotton buds… What do you use? Have you favourites? What can you never allow yourself to run out of?	Travel dreams – where would you go? What would you do? Is it somewhere you have been before and would go back to? Why this place?
Saturday 7th	A makeup look: eyes, lips, cheeks, full face – your choice!	Fantasy dinner party – can be the guests, the food, the décor, the setting – your party, your choice!
Sunday 8th	Maintaining healthy hair	Letter to someone from your past
Monday 9th	Ways to incorporate colour into your look	Collecting
Tuesday 10th	Beauty Pet Peeves	Favourite clothing item – what is it? How does it make you feel? What do you love about it?
Wednesday 11th	Biggest beauty fails/disasters	How did you get your blog name?
Thursday 12th	Comparison: Compare two or more similar items	Life advice you would pass on to a younger person in your family…
Friday 13th	DIY Beauty	A craft project – it can be something you have done or seen someone else do, something you would like to do…
Saturday 14th	Where do you get inspiration?	Post you are proudest of on your blog
Sunday 15th	Beauty things I suck at Tag	Eye candy
Monday 16th	Wishlist – makeup, skincare, fashion	Things you love
Tuesday 17th	A product you don’t get the hype about	A photo from your day
Wednesday 18th	10 desert island items – if all your makeup was taken and you could only repurchase 10 things what would they be and why?	Who/What inspires you?
Thursday 19th	Storage – show how you store your makeup, skincare, nail varnish, brushes (all or just some!). Perhaps you’d like to show storage that someone else has that you lust after?	You have €250 to spend on yourself  – what would you buy?
Friday 20th	10 products under €10	What’s in your handbag /shower /bath /dressing table?
Saturday 21st	Shop your stash – do a post on an item you haven’t used recently or had forgotten about. You can do a  review of it, use it for a look  – whatever you want!	Advice you would pass on to others about blogging
Sunday 22nd	Perfume post – what is your signature scent? Is there a perfume that brings back particular memories for you?	A quote you love or that applies to you or a situation…
Monday 23rd	Hints and tips	A hot topic – can be something controversial, something currently in the media – or just something you think is hot!
Tuesday 24th	Brand highlight -  choose one brand. What do they do well? What do they not do quite so well? Is there something you are looking forward to getting of theirs? When did you first some across this brand? How have your views on it changed over the years?	Resolutions: do you have any? Do you keep them?
Wednesday 25th	Shopping habits: Do you shop online or instore? Where do you shop? What do you make a bee-line for?	Who is your icon/idol? Why?
Thursday 26th	Beauty History: Hair, makeup, fashion – what have been your good and bad experiences? What have been your successes and fails?	A happy memory and what reminds you of it
Friday 27th	What is your most expensive item of makeup?	A song/piece of music you love
Saturday 28th	“What was I thinking?”	Where do you see yourself in 5/10/15 years time?
Sunday 29th	My earliest makeup memories.	An era you would love to have lived in – and why? What attracts you to that time?
Monday 30th	Favourites for the month of September	Reflection: how did you find #SBBC? Did you achieve your goals? What were the best/worst bits?