2016 plans!

I haven’t been blogging this past week! Things have been really quiet for myself the last couple of weeks. I am excited though as spring approaches we have some nice plan ahead of ourselves soon!

In the New Year I made a few resolutions again one including:

Making sure I enjoy my free time and get out and do more 

This year I haven't done much, and my social life has been next to non due to moving and saving. Next year I want to make sure I get out more. Enjoy trips to London and go to see some live shows have some lovely date days and nights with Matt as well as some more wild nights out with friends! 

Matt and I have some time booked off in March to celebrate his birthday, although we have no plans I think some time off and just time to relax will be nice!

However on the 20^th March we are off to see Video Games live which I am super excited about. I think we will head up there and have some dinner. It is also our 10^th Year anniversary together on Matt birthday (14^th March) so it’s a night out to celebrate his birthday and our anniversary. It is a good excuse to get dressed up nicely and head up to town for dinner and a show.

Then in April we are seeing Macklemore live, I booked tickets a few nights ago on a whim and I am SO EXCITED. I cannot wait to go. They are seated tickets but I don’t mind and then just 2 days later on the 29^th April we have the day booked off and we are off to Nottingham for the bank holiday weekend to stay with Laura and Sammi and Matt and I will be attending EM Con and I have a joint photo shoot with some of the Stargate Atlantis cast.

I started this year without a single plan and I am excited to say that I actually have some bits to look forward to now! The summer I plan on attending a few conventions and the NFL again in October which should be fun.

Hopefully we will make further plans during the year I think I am making a good start on my plan to do more this year. I hope we can attend a few more live shows be that music or theater or conventions. Fingers crossed for a beautiful summer and days down at the seaside or just wondering around in the sunshine.

Has anyone made any plans for the rest of the year yet?

February POP! in a box!

So just to recap in case you have missed my previous review or you have no idea what POP! in a box is:

A monthly subscription where you receive POP! Funkos to your door. The great thing about this is you will never get something that you do not want. You update your list of what you currently own and thumbs up and thumbs down all the POPS! you like and dislike. You can save 20% when you sign up!

I am now in procession of Febrary's POP! Funko and I got DRUM ROLL PLEASE......

MICHONNE from the walking dead.

The box was in much better condition this time with no visible damage and also arrived quicker than January's one. I am really pleased with her, and although I think I would of preferred one of her not in a police uniform I am still happy.

I really like her hair the detailing is nice and the paint is neatly done too. My only complaint is that she doesn't stand up very well at all and doesn't come with a stand! Luckily I can prop her up against a box. 

I am glad to add to my walking dead collection as I only had two and Michonne is one of my favoruite characters so I am super happy to have her!

Have you had any February POP!s? If so let me know what ones!

Don't forget you can save 20% using this link on your first month!

New Sofa excitements!

When we moved into our flat last year we bought pretty much everything second hand, had some bits given to us or bought bits from Matt's room with us. The only new piece of furniture we bought was the dinning room table. We also had some hand me down bits including our sofa. My friend Lisa gave it to us and we were really grateful to have a quality leather sofa.

It has done us well, but over Christmas with lots of sofa lounging it became apparent that it was too small for the both of us. We aren't particularly small people and with Matt being almost 6ft6" he takes up much more room than the average person. We did buy some footstools to go with it to get more room, but they are more like bean bags and aren't great to sit on and also have gone quite saggy so aren't brilliant anymore for putting your feet up.

I think generally its beginning to get a little annoying while we eat or are on the laptop to constantly bashing elbows and as much as I love cuddling up in the evening to watch a film, there are times when I want my own space. I also get the impression Matt isn't so fond of my using him as a foot rest every evening too haha!

We know the flat is too small for a second sofa or chair so I've been thinking for a while perhaps to get a bigger sofa.

So on Saturday we went over to Croydon to look at sofas. We needed a 3 seater with narrow arms so it takes up the least amount of room but with the most seating area. It was a tricky to find ones that were right size and that we liked, but we walked into Sofa World and fell in love straight away with this Collage Graceland Silver Mix Sofa!

It is the exact size in width that we needed and was soft but firm to sit on. The little coloured buttons and cushions really added a pop of colour and personality to the sofa while the colours were still nice and neutral. We also decided to go for the footstool that comes with storage inside too to add more seating in the living room or make more sofa space for us when it is just the two of us!

We went and looked in all the sofa shops around but we couldn't find ones we liked as much as this one or ones that were the right size! After a little chat about it and an Ikea hot dog later we went and bought it with the matching footstool! 

Having items that have a little bit of quirkiness to them has always been important to us and this is a perfect balance of quirk and sensible! 

I was pretty excited to find out that we didn't even have to wait long for it to arrive and we could have it on Wednesday, so a nice excuse to get a day off of work! 

It arrived and after a slight panic  it wouldn't fit through the doors we had it inside within an hour and I was exceptionally pleased with it!

I am so happy with how it fits into the flat. It is the perfect size and I am really pleased it doesn't over whelm the front room! It also fits in perfectly along the wall and there is enough room for the sofa and the table!

Even though it is much larger than the previous sofa I think because of the light colours it actually makes the room feel more airy!

So far we have really been enjoying having more room to stretch out and relax. We have enough room now to have our own space and when we want to lots of room to snuggle up!

I really couldn't be happy with this sofa and footstool and so far my experience with Sofa Works has been great!

Heres to happy sitting to all!

New converse glasses, SHINY!

So while in town a few weekends ago I popped into the Spec Savers to have a wee browse. I came across quite a few frames that I fell in love with and as I have found it so difficult in the past to find pairs I like it got me thinking maybe it would be nice to have another pair or two to change between.

As my current ones are approaching 3 years old now I didn't think it was unreasonable to consider a new pair. I needed my eyes testing before anyone would give me new ones anyway and I thought, i'll do that I doubt much will have changed and I'll get another pair in a few months.

However my prescription had changed quite a bit (almost doubled ahhhh) and I need much stronger lenses much to my dismay. That blew my plan, so I pushed forward buying new ones and I took advantage of Spec Savers buy one get one free and got myself a regular pair which I ADORE and a new pair of sunglasses that are a little more tougher than my current ones.

I absolutely adore the shape of these as they are slightly cat eyed and I love the little bit of sandy colour on the edges. I really think this softens the black and makes it less harsh on my paler skin tone. I think they work really well with my hair colour too. The arms are a nice touch with the animal stripes. They have a spring hinge too which is preferable as I am rather heavy handed.

I much prefer the big frames now, I like not having the edge of the frames in my sight all the time although a tad annoying for finger prints.

I am super happy with the sun glasses also, they are lovely and over sized with a retro shape. They are quite plain and neutral with just a bit of colour and character for the summer which I really like as they will go with lots of outfits. The arms are also on hinges and are thicker and sturdy which I really like as I snapped my sunnies last year as the arms are so thin and weak.

It is taking a wile to get used to the strong lenses especially as they are both the same in each eye now (I had one weaker eye) but I am really happy with my choices! Now we just need some sunshine so I can get the sunnies out!

POP! in a box newbie review

After debating for some time I have decided to sign up for POP IN A BOX! If you are unaware of what this is, it is a monthly subscription where you receive POP! Funkos to your door.

To sum it up quickly in case you missed my previous post:

The great thing about this is you will never get something that you do not want. You update your list of what you currently own and thumbs up and thumbs down all the POPS! you like and dislike. POP! in a box will then try and pick something off your wish list or if that is unavailable it will pick a pop that you haven’t said if you like or dislike any and if none are available they will just refund your money.

So it is win win you can’t get one you don’t like as long as you thumbs up or thumbs down the pops on the list. You also have the possibility to get limited pops or large ones all for the price of £8.49 a month plus p&p. And once you have signed up any pops you order separately you get free p&p WOO!

If you fancy giving this ago you can save 20% on your first order by clicking here

So I joined at the end of January and made it in time to get my first POP in a box in Jan! EXCITING!

I have to say it did take quite a while to come (apparently sent on the 25th Jan and arrived on the 4th Feb) but it arrived on Thursday and I excitably opened it!

AND I GOT! *drum roll please* BB-8 WOO YEAH!

I am super happy with this! I don't have any Star Wars POP!s yet so I am super happy to start my collection and what better way than with BB-8!! This was a great first POP! in a box!

I was actually really excited to open the box and I really enjoyed waiting for my POP! to come. I have to say the box was fairly damaged, and that something I have seen in a lot of reviews. Luckily I am not interested in the boxes so I am happy for it not to be pristine but I could see how people might be unhappy as there was a few dents and a small rip.

BB-8 is a lovely POP! and I am really happy with him. He has a little bobble head which I am usually not a fab of but on BB-8 it's adorable! He is a little small compared to the rest of my POP!s but I guess that adds to his adorableness! 

I really really enjoyed getting this surprise box and I cannot wait to get Februarys box!

So YAY POP! Funko you can sign up here

Kaylee Firefly POP! Funko and 2016 wishlist.

I ADORE POP! Funkos and I am a keen collector. I was so excited back in June when we moved that I would be able to FINALLY unbox and display my POP! Funkos. My collection has sort of exploded going from around 20 to over 40... oops.... So it made sense that I join POP! in a box! 

The great thing about this is you will never get something that you do not want. You update your list of what you currently own and thumbs up and thumbs down all the POPS! you like and dislike. POP! in a box will then try and pick something off your wish list or if that is unavailable it will pick a pop that you haven’t said if you like or dislike any and if none are available they will just refund your money.

I am currently waiting for January's to arrive so fingers crossed it will be here soon and I will do a review of it!

However I have recently added to the collection as I ordered myself a special edition Kaylee POP! Funko from Forbidden Planet International, when I was off sick. She was a good price at £10.99 and I needed Kaylee for my Firefly collection. I have to say the service wasn’t great there. Although it is free p&p for POP! Funkos they took a whole week to despatch it and I’m not sure if it was because I called up to enquire where my POP! was that they sent it that day.

The reviews in general for their shipping and despatching of items is pretty terrible and I only read this after I ordered from them. I was worried as a lot of reviews said that they would order only to find out weeks later that it was actually out of stock. As this was a special edition one I was worried that, that would happen and I would be without. But my fear wasn’t necessary and Kaylee arrived a week and 2 days after I ordered her. I think perhaps if they say when you are buying POPS! that you need allow for extra despatch time it would be better, I wouldn’t mind that so much as it is free p&p and great prices.

I am so happy with her, her paint work is great and the dirty face really adds to her character. I have seen some reviews of this POP! not being painted very well and the hairline being a bit wonky and messy, but I am happy to report mine is almost perfect minus a little defect on the right eye.

I JUST LOVE POP! Funkos, I get to collect figures from my favourite shows and they are all ADORABLE! Can’t get better than cute and geeky. My wishlist is ever growing and 2016 have bought some awesome new ones out and ones I am PARTICUALLY excited to get my hands on are the new Futurama ones, new Harry Potter and the new Doctor Who ones!

Do you collect POPS! which ones are you excited for in 2016?