My Week In Pictures #1

Hi Guys,

Tonight's post comes from a tired place. Sickness has taken hold of the Truly Polished family. My son has been ill for about a week and the last two days he's been chesty and coughing. And now it's my boyfriend's turn! Luckily I haven't caught it... Yet. I say yet because if you've been a long-term reader of my blog then you'll know I'm pretty much ill all the time! 

Anyway, I have a new feature to introduce today. It's been something I've been considering for quite some time so tonight is the night...

My Week In Pictures is my idea to keep my blog up to date with photos. If you follow me on Instagram, you'll probably have seen these already, but I know there are a lot of people who just read my blog, so I don't want people to miss out! I post so many photos to Instagram and it will be nice to share them here too.

This won't be a weekly thing, more of an "I've had an interesting week" kind of thing!

So here goes!

Valentine's Day, my boyfriend always knows the best cards to get me!
I loved this!

Some of my stash pre-organising

During the organising...
I CAN'T WAIT TO GET WOOD FLOORING!
GOODBYE TERRIBLE CARPET!

And then I found 5 more in my makeup bag...
And bought another 7...

Trying to eat healthily and get my Five A Day!

I got a lightbox, more of that soon

New Barry M textured polishes! 

Taping off areas to paint grass on my son's wall

After painting, we still have a couple of walls to do

Yesterday found out I won £250 to spend at ASOS in the eShores
Global Style Blogger Challenge, yay!
You can read my post here...

So that's that! My week in pictures! Let me know in the comments section or by email - trulypolishedblog@gmail.com - what you think of the new feature.

I'm hoping to get some swatching to do over the next two days because we're going away on Friday. I was dying for a holiday, but since my boyfriend got home, I have been having too much fun getting things done in the house. So instead of going abroad for a week or more, we're having a mini-break in Wales instead. We've rented a cottage for four days in Pembrokeshire. It's in a little complex of ten with an indoor pool and a soft play area for the kids. Sounds perfect for a change of scenery if nothing else. And we're going to stop in and see my boyfriend's sister in Swansea on the way home. It's over a seven hour drive but I just want a little break! 

See you in a couple of days! Don't forget you can see a lot more of what I'm up to on Instagram, find me at @truly_polished!

A big day and a little thank you to a fellow blogger!

Hi Everybody,

I hope you're having a good week so far. Today has been a pretty exciting day for me! It's my Mum's birthday, my boyfriend's step-sister had a baby girl this morning, my friend announced she's expecting baby number two, and I arranged for two sets of people to come and view my house. As I mentioned, we're moving soon, so the house we are renting needs new tenants. The sooner we get new people in, the less months of rent we have to pay because we're tied in until March! Fingers crossed the viewings go well, tomorrow I'll be frantically cleaning and tidying to make the house look as attractive as possible! 

Tonight I thought I'd do a bit of showing off, not bad showing off, but the good kind. I recently won a giveaway over at Confessions of a Small Town Girl. I never win anything, so to have my entry picked from over 600 was amazing. The funny thing is, Charlotte won my 30 follower giveaway a few months ago, our blogs love each other! 

I am amazed by Charlotte's generosity for her Autumn Pamper giveaway, it's things like this that make me love being a part of the blogging community.

Here is what I won, she put it all in the most beautiful box and included a card!

All packaged up so well!

Beautiful Prizes!

Included in this package was:

A card

A book

Perfume samples

Beauty Samples

Hair product samples

Full sized hair products

Kleenex blotting tissues

Body lotion

Face packs

Concealer

Lip gloss

Eye shadows

Nail polish (w7)

Tinted moisuriser

Rings

Isn't she lovely for giving all this away?! Thank you Charlotte for being so generous with your prizes, I love everything! I'm trying to think of what I can store in this pretty box, it's too nice for me to give away!

I started the book the day I got the package and it was perfect for me. I love this kind of "holiday read" because it's not hard to get through and this one was a real page turner, I was up until 3am reading it and finished it on Saturday night!

The main reason I did this post was to show you what you can expect to see on here over the next few weeks, as I'll be reviewing some of these products as I use them!

See you tomorrow! In the mean time, why not head over to Charlotte's blog and show her some love!

And the winner is...........

Hi lovelies!

Sorry I know I'm half an hour late with this post, but I've been out all day and the dentist and then visiting family.

Today is the day! The prize draw has been done, and here are the results:

CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH YOU ARE THE WINNER!!!

PLEASE CONTACT ME (trulypolishedblog@gmail.com) BEFORE WEDNESDAY EVENING WITH YOUR SHIPPING INFO.

Thank you everyone so much for joining to win this prize, I'm so pleased I finally got to do a giveaway. Your support for this blog is everything to me and I'm glad to be able to give something back.

If you're wondering when my next giveaway will be, I'm going to do it when I get to 75 followers. I think it'll be a Rafflecopter giveaway then, because it took me ages to type all of the entries into the list randomiser!

I'll be back tomorrow with a polish post, I'm not sure if it'll be a NOTD or not, it depends whether I can come up with something cool!

Giveaway Polishes!

Hi guys,

I've had such a busy day today, we had to go and get my son a new car seat, and I had to change a couple of tops, so of course that turned into a full shopping session! We went to IKEA as well, which takes a day in itself!

I announced my 30 follower giveaway yesterday and promised I'd have swatches of the polishes up tonight, so here they are! 

Catherine Arley 673

Catherine Arley 805

Hedys Ma.Nish.Ma Blaster and Way Out Fucsia

My full mani of these polishes

The holos are Catherine Arley 673 and 805. 673 is a gorgeous grape purple with a scattered holo effect and 805 is a black with scattered holo. The holo effect in these is very similar to in A England polishes, where sometimes it looks almost linear. The formula on both was really smooth, I used two coats for the black and three for the purple. 

The glass fleck polishes are Hedys Ma.Nish.Ma Blaster and Way Out Fuscia (their spelling, not mine...). Blaster is a purple/blue duochrome and Way Out Fuscia is a pink polish with a shift to blue, with orange at extreme angles. My photos show one coat of each layered over black. My index and ring fingers show Blaster, and I have Way Out Fuscia on my middle and little fingers. My thumb shows half and half.

I decided yesterday that seeing as I layered these polishes, that the prize would be incomplete without a black. So I will be adding a black to the prize! 

These means that the winner of this giveaway will win all four of the polishes shown above, with a black creme as well. It's worth mentioning that the polishes I swatched are my own, you'll be winning new, unused polishes!

It's definitely worth joining to win this prize! As I mentioned yesterday the draw will be on Sunday 10th June at 12pm GMT.

Home Sweet Home and 30 Follower Giveaway!!!!

Hello!

I'm so sorry I missed a day of posting without warning last night. My boyfriend got "the call" that he had to go away and work, so we had to pack up all our things and come home last night. We left the house at around 7.30, then stopped off at my friend's house on the way, and we didn't get home until 1am! So I had no time to write a post!

After such a long trip I was so glad to get home, there's nothing like coming home and getting into your own bed.

Anyway, I don't have a polish to show you tonight, but this is the official announcement of my 30 follower giveaway! I promised I'd do one and the prize got bigger and bigger while I was waiting, and this morning I gained follower number thirty and so the giveaway is going ahead.

Tomorrow I will be revealing the four polishes that make up the prize. There are two gorgeous scattered holos and two glass fleck duochrome top coats. I'll be swatching them tomorrow and then the photos will be up tomorrow evening. 

I've decided to throw another polish into the prize. The two holos can obviously be worn as they are. but the top coats need to be layered, so I'll be throwing in a black creme too! I'm too generous for my own good, but I'm so appreciative for the support you've given me that I want to give back! I'm giving myself a couple of extra days to make sure I've got the prize together

Here are some things you need to know:

1. There will be ONE winner who will win all five polishes

2. This giveaway is only open to those who follow via GFC. If you're already a follower on there you've done enough, but if you follow me on Twitter or Instagram then follow via GFC to be eligible to win.

3. This giveaway is open INTERNATIONALLY, but I can't be held responsible if your prize doesn't arrive in one piece, or at all. Customs is out of my hands...

4. The draw will be done by a random list by random.org and I'll post a screenshot of the results.

5. The draw will be on Sunday 10th of June at 12pm GMT.

6. When I post the results, the winner will have 72 hours to respond or I'll pick a new winner.

Any other questions, drop me an email at trulypolishedblog@gmail.com and I'll try my best to answer them.

All that's left to say is that I can't wait to do this giveaway! Stay tuned tomorrow to see what the prize contains!