{The Autumn Tag}

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Lauren over at Living in a Boxx has tagged me in 'The Autumn Tag' meme.  Happy to participate :-)

Favourite thing about Autumn...

Like Lauren, it's got to be the leaves changing colour. I love the crispness in the air, being outside wrapped up all snuggly warm (in my super cosy North Face parka!) and the little red cheeks that me and the kids get from being outside!

I'll be drinking...

Mulled wine for me please, or a hot Ribena! At the moment I have a mug of Belvoir Mulled Winter Punch in front of me which I warmed up in the microwave. It's delish!

Favourite scent...

I'm wearing Gucci Guilty Black right now and my other current fragrance is Jean Paul Gaultier Ma Dame, which was a gift from a certain gentleman! ;-)

Best lipstick...

I'm still wearing my M&S lipgloss - I love the coral one. I've also been using Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream on my lips. 

Go to moisturiser...

I'm awful I know, but I rarely moisturise my skin. For a while I was really good and I was using Dermalogica skin smoothing cream. I need to get back into good habits again... the disarray at the new house isn't helping matters as at the moment I have no idea where any of my creams are!!

Eye colour...

I have been using MAC Shroom, Satin Taupe and Black Tied for over a year now and I love the colours. Can highly recommend them. I'm all for a bit of sparkle & glitter regardless of the season!

Favourite singer/band...

My taste in music is pretty horrendous. I'd also quite happily start listening to Christmas music now if I could get away with it. You have permission to whack me over the head, lol!

Outfit of choice...

At the moment it's got to be my grey skinny jeans from Tu at Sainsburys. They fit well and can be dressed up or down. Love them!

The place to be...

In my new house!! Love it here so much, it already feels like home.

I am going to tag the following bloggers:

AnneeApple

Clare @ Its Ups and Downs

Ali & The Grey House

Laura @ Life as an Hourglass

You're welcome ;-)

{Christmas Printable}

Following on from my free Halloween printable, here is a Christmas printable that I've designed. It's available to download here.

Similar to the Halloween design, I'm going to be printing these onto thick card and using my Fiskars Seal of Approval Squeeze Punch (Extra Large) to make tags for Christmas gifts. I'll be wrapping my presents in brown parcel paper and making them look pretty with bright coloured ribbons & these tags. If you make a hole in the tags with a standard hole punch then you can easily feed through some ribbon for attaching them to gifts.

I've done most of my Christmas shopping and I'm looking forward to December when I can stick on the Christmas tunes and lovingly wrap all my gifts for putting under the Christmas tree.

{Halloween Printable}

This is my first free printable, so I hope it works ok!

I've created a design that I plan to print onto thick card and cut out into tags using a Fiskars Seal of Approval Squeeze Punch (Extra Large). I'm then going to tie the tags onto some halloween lollipops using orange ribbon for my son's nursery pals. I bought some chocolate lollipops at Dobbies Garden Centre yesterday and I'm hoping that I'll be able to make these into scary spiders as per my Halloween Ideas post. If the tags don't look good on the spiders, then they will be tied onto the lollipop ghosts.

You can download my free printable here.

I drew the pumpkin myself using Adobe Illustrator but I did follow a tutorial by n.design studio. I'm new to Illustrator though so please bare with me as I get to grips with it!

Please let me know if you have any issues with the file and I'd love to hear your feedback...good or bad.