Baby vs Blogging

Hi, my lovelies!

I bet you've all forgotten about me by now. I mean, let's face it, I've kind of fallen off the face of the planet when it comes to blogging regularly.
I've noticed my views plummeting and it's really made me upset that I haven't been able to put more effort into what I love. But since becoming a Mummy, it's sooooo much harder than I thought it would be.

Scout is brilliant. He's fourteen weeks old today and I hope to get our three month postpartum update done this week. (I've said that for the past two weeks.) Thankfully as he's getting bigger, I'm finding more time in the day to do little, and I mean little, bits around the house. I no longer have to hold or nurse him for what seems like every hour of the day; and the washing up is finally done when it should be.
That being said, I do not have time to write during the day. Unfortunately, he's not yet napping in his cot, and this means that I can't to my desk to do so. He also has some kind of super power in which he wakes up the second I can pick up my laptop.

I'm currently trying really hard to find a blog/baby balance, but I'm finding it extremely hard. Liam works during the week and we don't live near any family or friends who could watch Scout for a while. My free time is either ridiculously early in the morning, before Scout wakes up. I'm talking five am, a time I cannot seem to get myself out of bed at, or in the evening after he's gone down.
Now, here's my issue.
Because I have both the blog and my two youtube channels, I have to decided what I can get done and when. For the past few weeks youtube has kind of taken that time. I find filming a video and editing takes far less time than taking photos, cropping and sorting through them, and writing a blog post.

I'm thinking I may drop one of my three weekly videos down to two at some point in the near future, but I'm really hoping I can sort out some kind of schedule so I don't have to do that.
I really do hope that I can get back to the WFF blog on a more regular basis. I have so many ideas for posts, and I just want to share them with you.

If you're ready this and are yourself a blogging/youtubing parent who has very little time, please do let me know what your magic secret is. I miss it so much and if I'm honest, I'm getting a little jealous seeing so many peoples blogs grow, yet mine is just festering in it's old posts.

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Well, howdy doo my little beauties. 

I'm so sorry for the lack of posts and videos etc. Especially when I kept saying that it would be back to normal. 

I've spent a lot of time since turning 23 feeling pretty pants if I'm honest. Without trying to sound dramatic, I had a bit of a mini breakdown a few days ago. I was very much struggling with keeping my mood high, and after visiting family in the past couple of weeks, I felt I knew what I was really missing. 

At the end of the day, I know a lot of my low moods and 'feeling bad' days are down to my depression/anxiety, so I know that things will always be getting better. 

I'm at a stage now that I feel like I'm finally feeling somewhat 'normal', in a sense that I can now leave the house on my own, go to the shop, go to meet-ups etc. All things I wouldn't even have thought about this time two years ago. But, the biggest issue for me is still work. After being out of work for these past two years, I'm now feeling really frustrated that this is my only problem that hasn't really been helped by the medication I have been taking. I would love to get back to work, but deep down, in the pits of my stomach I know that I would still have huge issues to get up and go, that's if I did manage to get through interviews etc first. 

I've been looking online recently and I feel sick doing it, but I'm hoping that one day a job will pop up and my head will finally shout loud enough to be heard over the beating of my heart. If I'm going to push myself to get through this, I want it to be for a job that I'm passionate about, something that I know I will enjoy doing. Which, if I'm completely honest, I haven't had for a very long time. All jobs I've applied for before have been because I felt like I had to. Money pressures and such like. Those pressures are still very much there, but now the understanding of my issues is there too, it seems a lot easier to focus on what's important. 

So, after that very long winded catch up on me, I now want to get myself back to feeling good. I've spent these past couple of weeks feeling really cruddy and I've just let it happen. This week I am bringing back Friday Fitness, a new diet (I've fit my highest weight :S ), and hopefully regular videos. 

Blogging and Youtube is something that I love with all my heart and if it bought in pennies, I would make it my job, but that's really a longterm goal. Not exactly something that can happen over night. So, I'm now going to throw myself back into it, stop rambling and get on with today's actual post!

Well done to you if you managed to get through that lot! 

Please excuse the grainy iPad photo, the Mr stole my camera this weekend and it needs charging. 

I chose to keep today's face light, only using Benefit's Fakeup in Light and Medium as my base. If you're having a good skin day, it's amazing. 

On my eyes, I'm wearing maybelline colour tattoo in 'Light in purple' and 'Turquoise forever' on my top lid, and MUA single shadow in Shade 10 smudged on my lower lash line. I'm wearing Benefit Bad Gal Lash mascara and 'Guipure' from my Sleek blush by 3 palette on my cheeks. 

On my lips is just The Body Shop lipgloss in watermelon. 

As you can probably see, my eyebrows are in a somewhat appalling state at the minute and you will see a post on them coming up within the next week. 

I hope you've all been really well!

Sam

xoxo

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Helloooo Lovelies!

Just another quick post to share my newest video. 

And please, please subscribe to my channel. I've got the filming bug again and will be filming a lot more tutorials soon! 

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Hi Lovelies!

    You should know me well enough by now to know that I am obsessed with Yankee Candles, so I'm pretty sure these pleasantly scented hauls will become a regular thing. 

I had to try the two Christmas scents that ever blogger/vlogger on the earth had mentioned this year, and I completely understand whey they were such a big hit. They smell amazing, although I have to say I do prefer the Christmas cookie. 

I also purchased 8 more of the wax tarts. I had bought 4 previously and didn't expect much from them. But using them in my burner proved me wrong. The smell literally fills the room!! I've decided now that I need a large pink sands and black cherry jar in my life. They're incredible! 

I decided that I should buy another burner to use as well, seeing as I had bought so many tarts. This one only cost me £5 and comes in several colours. The only downside to this one is the shape. The flat base makes it very difficult to removed the wax once it has been melted and solidified. My other one has a rounded bottom so the was just pops right out when I want to change scents. 

These glasses were the remains of my old Ikea candles. Once they had burned down, I placed them in a saucepan with boiling water, just full enough to reach the level of the wax inside. (Try not to get the water in the glass.) Once the wax had melted completely, I then poured it out into an old chinese takeaway pot, washed of course, and threw it away. To make sure there was no wax left of the glasses I then washed them in very hot water and left to dry. 

They are perfect for the sample size candles that I bought!

This is how I store my wax tarts. I never melt a whole one so they're going to last me a good while. I make sure the bags are labelled and then I keep them in a box with my tealights and a spare lighter. 

Are there any Yankee scents I should try?

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Hi Lovelies!!!
    Sorry I've been a bit absent from the blogging scene this week, I've been trying to get myself out of the holiday funk I got myself into and getting my self motivated for the new year!
   One thing I can say I've definitely been loving to do right now though, is recording more videos for my Youtube channel! If you have already subscribed then thank you so much, but if not then please go check it out here! Some of my very first videos, which I recorded on my mobile phone about 3 months ago, are make-up tutorials and I have only one word for them. Hideous! I'm tempted to even take them down, they are just that awful.
    I talked myself out of doing more tutorials at that point because 1. I didn't have a decent set up and 2. I didn't realise I could record on my camera (hence using the mobile.) But recently I've been missing it and now I'm super happy with my set up, my trusty camera is being used pretty much every day.
   Today I recorded this classic look with winged eye liner and red lips, please let me know what you think about it and if you can suggest anything to make my videos better. Remember, I'm still pretty new to this!

Products used

Rimmel Lasting Finish lasting 25 hour foundation

ELF Translucent Matte Powder

MUA Immaculate Collection Palette

Colour Couture Highlighting Powder

W7 Africa Box Blush/Bronzer

MUA Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner

Rimmel Glam Eyes Mascara

ELF Matte Lip Colour in Natural

MUA Lipstick Shade 13

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Hi Lovelies!
    What a day it's been! Firstly I found out that due to horrid online bullying and haters, that my favourite youtube couple Sam & Jay Schuerman have deleted all existence. Their vlog channel, Sams make up channel, both their twitters and facebooks, have all gone! My last hope of ever having any contact with then was Sams blog, which has also now been deleted. I wish they could read this  because I wish them all the luck in the future. Hopefully we will see them again sometime in the future. I know the thousands of people who followed them would love a comeback some day. It's a massive shame that vile people have to ruin what plenty of others enjoy!!
    On another note, I myself recorded two new videos today. Check them out below! I plan on doing a few more this week leading up to Christmas. I'm also trying to persuade Liam into doing some vlogs with me, but you know how men can be! I'll certainly get him on Christmas day!

Hope you are all well in this festive season!

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...well not really.

    But I thought it would be handy to have some business cards. I'm always telling people about my blog but it gets a bit tedious, repeating myself over and over, and with the help of these little babies it would be so much easier.
    I ordered them a couple of weeks ago via Vistaprint, for 250 cards I only payed £2.00 so I added a card holder to my order as well. With VAT and delivery my order totalled a little over £10 which I was quite impressed with.
    Another good company to order business cards from is Moo.com, I used them throughout college and the quality of their stuff is amazing.

Do you guys use business cards at all and who do you give them to?