Me posting late is probably gonna become a thing now because of working until late so sorry in advance..
Speaking of work, I had a 6 and a half hour shift on Sunday (30 minute break of course) and wow I feel like I have so much respect for people who do this 24/7 for their job! Like I'm always that person who is constantly forgiving if people on the till are slow and now even more now because for example when that person maybe gets stuck trying to do a transaction and you got stressy with them you don't realise the impact it has! Like I'm sure you've been in their shoes once and it was the nice and patient customers who helped the till people learn. I'm happy to say I've progressed so much with working in the till as I used to be terrified of it but now I can do normal sales, retail returns, directory returns, putting money on gift cards and ordering from the store. Also checking if an item has any more sizes in stock and now I feel much better and definitely more confident. I usually am on ladieswear which does get a bit hectic but normally people are very understanding. So yeah..if you wanna buy something in Next then come to the one in Harrogate and I'll serve you! (Even if Harrogate is like 10 hours away I mean come on guys that's nothing;)
As I had a day off on Saturday me and my mum decided to go Christmas shopping in York as we haven't been for about 2 years. It probably was the worst day to go as York was flooded and it was constantly raining throughout the day (it didn't even stop for 1 minute..whoever controls the weather needs to sort their life out). After claiming my free chocolate coins from M&S as they are doing this competition where you get 5 tries at unwrapping a present and you can win stuff ranging from a bag of Percy pigs to £100 so it is pretty good. I won some chocolate coins which were worth £1 so I'm pretty happy with that, chocolate is just so damn good, don't you agree?!
Anyway, back to York! I want to show you some of the decorations I bought. I've been to York several times now and I love this glass shop selling baubles and glass jewellery. Let me tell you a story about the pink Christmas tree though! The woman dropped it and I was devastated, clearly I get too attached to Christmas decorations but let's move past that..luckily there was 1 left in the back but imagine if there wasn't I would have been gutted. For lunch, we went to Little Betty's as a treat as you will all know (if you don't then it's just a super expensive cafe with lots of history) that the food there is extortionate. I got the nicest hot chocolate, still trying to decide whether it beats the Costa fudge hot chocolate that I got on Friday because that was amazing too! (Another thing I highly recommend!) Then I got a smoked salmon sandwich because it's fair to say I'm obsessed with smoked salmon and I needed to crave my addiction. (I sound like I take drugs but nope rest assured I don't & never will). To finish off the already amazing meal I got a vanilla slice with berries and a berry sauce, I was incredibly stuffed after as of course I ate some of my mum's caramelised onion roste with chicken & cheese.
To the left is the cutest Christmas tree decoration just to stand on its own on my desk by my fake pink christmas tree, see I've already got it planned out where it'll go!
To the right I got a pink Christmas tree with a gold star on top which as pink is my favourite colour I thought that was a must have buy.
These are 2 angels that I just loved!
Of course the one with gold polka dots on is my favourite, I also love the gold heart as well. They were fairly cheap well I mean they were good for their price, about £4.50 each so I guess it depends if you think they're worth it or not.. (they are)
This is another glass bauble( you can see my theme now) although this was from the German Market in Leeds. It's absolutely huge and more pricy because it is glass but you fill it with oil so it makes the room smell amazing!
Above is a snowman I got a couple of years ago from the same glass shop in York when I last went, isn't it just the cutest.
I just thought I'd show you the ice sculptures I took pictures of as there were loads but I only took a picture of two as by the time I'd taken the picture my hands had started to freeze again..yes it was that cold. The first one is this cute dog ice sculpture:
So I had a teapot ice sculpture as well but the picture is just blurry so I can't upload that so have an angel one instead.
Also bought the most amazing dried orange smelling bauble which is what scent I want to fill my huge glass bauble because that will just be amazing (it's heart shaped as well what a bonus)..I'm all about that heart shaped aesthetic;)
So overall I had a good day in York but when I got home I had lots of photography to do which I needed to finish as last weekends main focus was photography as we had a group crit yesterday. I do look forward to them (ok I'm toning down my sarcasm I promise) but it is awful because you don't just have to show it in front of your teacher you also have to show and describe what/why you've done it to my other class mates. So you can see why I have a strong dislike for them..so I'm trying to prepare myself for it!Although I had it today and sir was happy with all our work which was a big shock to all of us, we were all prepared for the worst. Saying that I was so happy he liked my work because on the Monday night I stayed up until 2 in the morning to finish it (quick story for you...fell asleep for the first time on the bus so missed my stop and ended going all the way to the centre of Leeds from Harrogate..)
On Friday I finally went to see Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 2 with my friend and I don't even have enough words to express how amazing it was. There were a few sad moment in it, not gonna spoil anything in case any of you haven't seen it yet but also I was so happy with the ending it was just perfect! A perfect ending to the best film series which I'm seriously gonna miss. I also need to recommend toffee bonbons to you guys because I've only just recently been introduced to them and now I'm obsessed so yeah go to your local poundworld and grab a bag! Another thing I had while watching the film was the new tango ice blast which had bubbles at the bottom filled with the juice which was a strange experience but definitely enjoyable.
So now it's only 1 week left until freedom! (no exaggeration here)
I am so excited it is unbelievable, it's gonna be so good to get a 2 week rest from school even with work and school work but in between all that I'll get lie ins which I never get at school and just get to laze around in onesies all the time which is one of my favourite hobbies! So good luck with the final week but hopefully it'll be easier as teachers are normally more lenient.
Talk soon!
Sophie
♥♥
(PS sorry I didn't post last sunday but lets just pretend I planned to do a mid week blog post..yep)
(PPS I swear it'll be back to normal this week)
(PPPS I like you guys a lot)
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