What's In My School Bag? | Back To School

Hello everyone!

Although the thought of returning back to school and school uniform shopping is very stressful, there are a few things I enjoy about starting the new year. For example, buying new stationery, new shoes, and also a new school bag. Therefore today I decided to do a "what's in my school bag". Hope you enjoy...

This bag was out of Primark in the sale for just £5 which I think is an absolute bargain for such a cute, stylish and decent quality satchel! However, at first I picked up the same satchel but in plain brown, and then discovered this one later on in the store. So after ten minutes of looking at the two satchels, attempting to decide which one I would be taking home with me, the monochrome satchel won! These are the main things I would carry with me on an everyday basis around school, and becuase I don't like to carry a lot in my bag I have cut it down to the bare minimum.

Humble Vintage Pocket Tissues ~ Home Bargains ~ 12p

MUA Pressed Powder ~ Superdrug ~ £1.00

Glossy Box Matchbox Nail Files ~ Glossy Box

Body Shop Born Lippy ~ Body Shop ~ £2.00

Maybeline Baby Lips ~ Poundworld ~ £1.00

Cath Kidston Pocket Mirror ~ Cath Kidston ~ £4.00

Benefit Bad Gal Lash ~ Benefit ~ £7.50

Hand Sanitiser ~ Home Bargains ~ 3 for £1

Mini Powder Brush from an unbranded brush set 

I would also usually carry a concealer and a sample of perfume with me but I have ran out of my current ones.

The next thing I have in my school bag is my earphones, for when i'm walking to school or doing my paper round after school. I then have my keys attached to some rather big key rings so I can find them easily in my bag, my iPhone, and my glasses. I would also carry some Nurofen with me in case I got a headache.

I also like to carry a notebook around with me along with a reading book. I had already started reading Looking for Alaska a while ago but then completely forgot about it, however, i'm going to give it another try and re-read it.

I picked up the pink portfolio file in a pound shop becuase I thought it would fit nicely in my satchel (which it did) so I could put all of my school books into it. I thought this was a good idea because when it rains my books always get wet on the way home, but becuase the file is mainly plastic, it should hopefully keep my books dry. It also means I can quickly and easily remove my books from my bag.

Next is my make-up case pencil case, which was just £2 from Primark which was really cheap compared to an actual pencil case. This was exactly the right size to fit all of my stationary some of which you can read about it my stationary haul. 

What is/was your favourite part of  going back to school ?

Sarah x

Huge Stationery Haul | Back To School

Hello everyone!

One of my favourite things to do at the start of a new school year is to go stationery shopping, some of you may think this sounds extremely weird where as the rest of you will share this excitement with me and will know all to well the joy of buying new stationery. So today I am going to share with you some of my recent purchases...

I paid around £5 for these Stabilo fine liners which was very cheap for a pack of 18. I absolutely love to use coloured fine liners in my school books or for revision notes as I find that I remember my notes better if they are in colour and also becuase they look alot better than felts or gel pens.

 I bought these Berol fibre tipped pens from Wilkinson's at half price for just £3 which was an absolute bargain becuase these are the honestly the best felts i've ever used.

I bought these Staedtler pencil crayons from Rymans for £2. I like these becuase they are minis so I can easily fit them in my pencil case.

This is the make-up case I bought from Primark for £2. I really liked the design of this 'pencil case' and it is the perfect size for all of my pens and pencils.

I bought these notebooks from Home Bargains, which i've been loving recently, for just 50p each. I didn't really need more notebooks but I just really liked how cute the patterns were and how pretty they looked together.

My mom bought me this notebook for £1.50 to replace my old one which got soaked in the rain when I was walking back from school, she also bought these cute little vintage style pencils to match which were just £1.

.This super cute vintage  style clip board was just 99p from Home Bargains which will come in really handy when I need to write little memos or reminders for homework and things. 

I bought 3 ring binders from Home Bargains for 80p each, 2 of which were plain pink and the third was a cute vintage one with a cat on which I thought was really cute. I also bought a lot of plastic wallets and subject dividers so I could be super organised when I go back to school.

These have to be my favourite purchase. I had been searching for magazine files for months but everywhere I looked they were really expensive just for plain cardboard ones (I even attempted to make my own out of a cereal box which didn't turn out to great). However on yet another trip into Home Bargains I found these for just £1.50 each! I love the patterns on them as they go nicely with my room which I have recently re-decorated. I am currently using these to store all of my school books, revision books and worksheets. I added the little labels on them so I can write which subjects are in each box.

So this was only half of the stationery/office supplies I have bought recently becuase if I had shown you everything this would have been an extremely long post.

Have you had any bargains recently? 

Sarah x

Book Review | John Green ~ Paper Towns

"Quentin Jacobson has always loved Margo from afar, so when she climbs through his window to summon him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot help but follow. But the next morning, Q turns up at school and Margo doesn't. She's left clues to her disappearance, like a trail of breadcrumbs for Q to follow, and everything leads to one unavoidable question: 

who is the real Margo?"

So Paper Towns was the second book of John Green's that i have read and i must say it is now one of my most favourite books EVER! It was just so inspiring. I literally couldn't put the book down, i started reading it one night and maybe read the first few chapters but then literally read the entire book the next night! I remember finishing the book at like 4 in the morning and realised that i had been reading the book for 7 hours straight! I just became completely lost in the story and the characters lives.Every page created more and more questions that just made me keep reading.

I really don't want to give anything away with this book which is why i'm not saying much about it other than if you haven't read it then you need to! Every page is full of pure brilliance and adventure, mystery and emotion. There is not one bad thing i can say about this book, if you only read one of John Green's books i would strongly recommend it to be this one!

Have you read any of John Green's books? Which is your favourite?

Sarah x

Review | *Custom Phone Case From Mr Nutcase & 10% Off!

I'm the type of person who is constantly changing their phones case becuase i can never quite find one that i really like or that fits perfectly. However, the other day i came across Mr Nutcase which was mentioned to me by my sister Laura over at Laura's All Made Up who has also reviewed one of these cases.

I chose for the *custom iphone case to fit my Iphone 4. The case that i chose was the ultra lightweight slimline case which costs just £14.95. However, you can select cases to fit pretty much every device or manufacturer. With the many different designs and layouts to chose from you can really make this case your own. You can choose a ready made design or select a pre-made photo collage layout where you simply just drag your selected photos into the spaces. This was very simple to do and wasn't time consuming. After i was happy with the design of my case i checked out and filled in my details, also i liked the Mr Nutcase Facebook Page at the checkout stage and received a free screen protector to fit my phone. The cases are dispatched the next day and mine was delivered to me in just 2 working days. 

The case fits perfectly around my phone and allows all of the buttons to function properly. The case itself is good quality and sturdy and the printing quality is very good, however the reason why it doesn't look as good as it could is my own fault because the photos I chose were originally very pixely. 

I absolutely love the idea of a personalised phone case and overall i am extremely happy with it! I would definitely recommend Mr Nutcase if you would like to order one for yourself or maybe even as a gift for fathers day. Also the Mr Nutcase team have very kindly supplied me with a 10% discount code to share with you. All you have to do is head over to their website, choose the design of your phone, select the case you would like, select or create a design then fill in your details and enter "Thanku10" at the checkout to get 10% knocked off the price.

Sarah x