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It's time for another Project-B Box Review. Already?! I know.. Time is flying by!

This is the 'Month 6 / 20-24 Weeks' Box, which is the 3rd Box and the box theme is ENERGISE!
Let's just get straight to it!


This is what the box looks like. I like how everything is always so organised, instead of just being 'packed' into the box. Does that even make sense? Ha ha.

I was really happy with this month's box actually, I think it might actually be my favourite! :D
Anyway, let's look at the products.

*Teapigs Lemon & Ginger, Superfruit and Peppermint Tea

I have tried the Peppermint Tea and I absolutely loved it! I love peppermint tea in general but I always drink the same one so it was definitely nice to try something else! I was quite scared to try it, because the tea bag isn't like an ordinary tea bag. It's a biodegradable tea ''temple'' with tea leaves. 
Let me just tell you.. the leaves make such a difference to the usual stuff. I liked it that much, I checked their website out. I was expecting the tea to be a lot more pricey but it's around £3-4 for 15 tea bags and there are also many other cool things and gifts you can buy.

*APOTHEDERM Stretch Mark Cream

I don't think I have used a stretch mark cream yet? I think they have all been oils. There's one that could've been a cream. I don't know, ha ha. Anyway, I tried this out last night and it was okay. I'm not sure what else to say about this after one use. There wasn't really a scent, and a little bit of cream, definitely goes a long way. I was white, ha ha. The cost for a 160g bottle is £68 and I got two bottles (picture above), a bit smaller which is great!

*Urban Veda Purifying Facial Exfoliator and Wash

I already have a face product that I love but I wanted to try these out anyway! After I used my regular stuff last night, I then used the exfoliator. I like how the grains were so tiny but you could feel them on your skin! I don't like it when I have a face scrub but I can't feel it.. scrubbing, ha ha! This one definitely felt like a scrubber! In a good way, not a sore kind of way.
After that, I used the Facial Wash. It has a funny consistency and it's quite runny but I'm sure I could live with that, especially because of the way it leaves my skin. Both the products have something 'peppermint like' in them (it could actually be peppermint), and it leaves your face so refreshed and you can feel this nice, breezy, clean feel after you use these. I definitely like them.

* Femfresh Daily Intimate Wash
I haven't used this yet, but I will ASAP and then I'll post a review.

*Divine Chocolate

I was really excited to try this, because it had toffee and sea salt in it, which I thought was cool. After I filmed the YouTube video, my partner an I had a piece each. Unfortunately, neither of us liked it. The toffee bits were nice, the chocolate was nice also, but the sea salt.. bleh. I'm sure the other chocolates are nice though!

*What To Buy For Your Baby

This book is actually really cool. It's funny how thick it is, ha ha. It has a lot of thing in there that are easy to forget about, whether you're a first time mum or a ten time mum! 
I really recommend this book. AND it comes with a beautifully designed shopping list, as well as with list, that you can give out to family / friends (or not, ha ha).

The box also came with the usual cards:
*Eating Well
*Shopping Ideas
*Staying Active
and *Your Pregnancy This Month

I must say I was really impressed with Box 3. There was definitely a lot of useful products in it and for £14/month (£14 per box), you definitely get your money's worth.

I hope you enjoyed this post. Make sure you check out Project-B and let me know what you think!

Baby dust from Me to You,
Love, Daria xoxo

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It was William's 2nd birthday on 22nd March (2014). I cried that morning. I thought back to the times when he was just a baby and how much he has grew and became his own little person in the last two years just made me very emotional. It's amazing how he's something that Graeme and I made and now he's developing his own, little personality.


When I was looking through Facebook, months back, I saw a cake very similar to the one above and so I started searching for someone who could bake a personalised cake for William. I got Harriets Cakes, a lovely lady from Dalbeattie, to make William's cake and it was amazing! She made everything herself, including all the animals. I was really impressed, and so was William of course. He loves 'rah-rah' (lion) and all the other animals. Especially monkeys, ha ha.


We didn't really throw a party, it was more of a 'family get together'. Once William starts nursery and stuff, I'm sure he'll have birthday parties, but it was nice just to have family over.







William got a lot of things; toys, books, clothes, teddies. I have no idea what we're going to buy baby #2, because William seems to already have everything. My mum prefers gifts that last a lifetime. For his last birthday, she got a beautiful baby necklace, which was shaped like baby feet, had a little blue gem on it and it had William's name and date of birth written on it.



This year, my mum bought him a personalised blanket. It has his name on it, the date he turned two, and '2 latka', which means '2 years old' in Polish. It'll be nice for him to look back on all those things when he's bigger.

What are some gifts you would give to a toddler??

Birthday Cake from Me to You,
Love, Daria xoxo

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I took a sudden craving to writing a blog post.. or two.. okay, I actually have three blog posts lined up. Basically just things that happened in the month of March up until now. I got all the pictures together and categorized the posts (how organized, ha ha).

Let me just first say, I don't have anything prepared. Apart from pictures. I have pictures. I just thought it'd be interesting to tell you about our little few days away in Blackpool; what it's like to travel with a toddler, things we did, what it's like when you're pregnant.. stuff like that. I hope someone find this informative, ha ha.

The trip to Blackpool was William's Auntie Shona's (Graeme's sister's) idea and she paid for the majority off it. William already has loads of toys and stuff so she wanted to do something different for his birthday. How nice is that? :)
William's birthday was on the 22nd March. We set of on 16th March, Sunday morning and we were back William's birthday.

I'll just split everything into days. Might be easier, ha ha.

Sunday, 16th March

This is actually the day of my mum's birthday, but because we were leaving early that morning, I gave my mum her gift early. The reason we left early on the Sunday was because we wanted to go to the Sandcastle Waterpark, which was only opened on Sunday.
We were all so excited to go there because we honestly thought that was going to be William's favourite thing! He used to love water and flumes, but then we stopped taking him for a while and I guess he just got a little scare when we took him to such a big place. It was really noisy too!

We didn't stay in there for too long and then we headed out to find some food.

William enjoying his McDonald's

For food, we chose McDonald's. It's really quick and easy, especially if you have a child with you. It might not be the healthiest option, but the way we seen it was William was on holiday, so we let him do a few extra things he wouldn't usually be allowed to do, aka the cup of coke on his tray! Oh, he loved the coke! But like I said, it's only a treat to him, when he's home he gets juice or water. You'd be surprised how much he loves water actually, ha ha.

We then went to the hotel and dropped our swimming stuff off. It was really cool how our hotel had a tram station right outside!
Then we headed back out to Coral Island with William's previously saved up bags of 2p, 5p, 10p and more! He had a lot of money for the machines.

William sitting in a car at the back.

Oh gosh.. this was scary! William really wanted to go on the little cars on the picture above but we were really scared to let him go on because he's usually got someone next to him, otherwise he tries to.. leave.. basically. This car track actually went up the way and then back down and we were all scared in case William tried to get out the car whilst on top of the track.

The lady was nice enough to say that she would stop the whole thing if he tries to climb out. We put him in a car that was really safe and almost impossible for him to open. 
The ride was switched on and then the lady went away and a different lady came. 'Oh great' we thought, let's hope he doesn't climb out now. 
He was absolutely fine actually. He was fine until we all tried waving to him. I think when we waved to him, he thought we were going away, and so he started crying. You couldn't hear it due to noise and music but you could see it. He clearly wanted out of the car. I think he was debating climbing out the window, and, of course, we started panicking and asked the lady to stop the ride. She said she couldn't. I was not happy. William was clearly crying and wanted out. She eventually stopped it, thank god. 

Long story short.. it was scary, ha ha ha.



Then there were these really cool boats, pretty much at the ceiling and you just floated around the whole of Coral Island, it was really cool. Above, is what my view was like. I let Graeme and William sit at the front, and I sat at the back.

Play area at Burger King

Soon we were all hungry again. William's first day here wasn't as good as we thought it would be. We looked for somewhere to eat and ended up in Burger King, which I don't actually like that much but it was okay AND it had a play area inside too! That was really cool, and to be honest that must've been William's favourite part of the day, ha ha.

Our Hotel

We then got back to the hotel. We stayed at Norbreck Castle Hotel, which actually has so many bad reviews! I agree with the people saying that it's outdated but I truly believe that if the place got refurbished it would lose its' atmosphere, if you know what I mean. The staff were lovely and I think it was a great hotel for what Auntie Shona paid for it. Nothing luxurious but I would definitely recommend it.

Monday
We picked Tuesday to go to the Blackpool Zoo and I am so glad we did, because the weather was beautiful! I won't put up pics of the animals because I have that many.

William on a slide.

This was so much different compared to Belfast Zoo, and William was only about three months old when we went to Belfast. All the animals were active and walking about, and there were a lot of interactive activities and interesting information through out the park.

There was a little park outside, and obviously, William had to go on the 'weeeeee' (slide). He loved playing outside, and like I mentioned, the weather was great.

Mummy (me), Daddy and William.

We then went to the barn which was just outside the park. William didn't seem that bothered to be honest, ha ha. I was really surprised because he loves 'moo's' (cows), 'quack quacks' (ducks) and goats (yes, he can say goat, ha ha).


We only spent a few minutes in there and then we were back out again. We just walked around the Zoo and then William needed changed so we looked for the Cafe. We changed William then sat outside for a while and that's where we met our friend Peacock :)

Daddy, William and the Peacock.

Me and the Peacock.

I forgot to mention; I was actually scared of Peacocks after we went to Belfast Zoo and one chased us. Well.. we thought it chased us, but it must've just been running in our direction, ha ha. But I met the peacock above in Blackpool and it was cool. He's my friend now. Or she.

Auntie Shona, William and Daddy.

How cute's his little face in this? He's been pulling faces like mad since Blackpool. In fact, he's coming on far too quick! 

William in a 'choo choo'.

After a lovely day at the Zoo, we had some food and then William fell asleep, which gave us some time to do some shopping. It was really fun. Everything's so close by and within walking distance, we just had to get trams to the hotel.

We dropped all our shopping off at the hotel (and there was A LOT) and we went to Coral Island. Again. There's not much open at night and Coral Island was perfect for William. There was a lot of kids' games and stuff, so William and Daddy felt right at home.

William and Daddy 'driving a car'.

Tuesday
Tuesday was a completely different day, it was rainy and windy, but it's okay because we had a visit to Sea Life planned that day anyway, which is inside.

Peeking out his rain cover.

We put a rain cover on the buggy. That was useless, ha ha. William stuck his head out and then kicked it that hard he almost ripped it, so we just took it off and got on the tram.

Sea Life was really good. It was quite small compared to what I was expecting but it was definitely good. Once again, William preferred the little play area to anything else, ha ha.

Posing with a shark :)

We had a few McDonald's by that point, and I think it's fair to say we were getting sick of the sight of it. Soooo, that day we decided to go to Pizza Hut. I'm not that big of a fan of pizza but I love how they do unlimited salad AND it's kid friendly :)

William colouring in.

On way back to the hotel.

A little picture from Sea Life.

Wednesday
On Wednesday, we went to Madame Tussauds. William enjoyed it more than a lot of the other things we went to, which was surprising. We took a lot of pictures there.

Mummy (me), Lady Gaga, Daddy and William.

Mummy (me), Daddy, Bob The Builder and William.

Pizza Hut.

We did a lot of other things in between. We did a lot of walking, found the best freshly made doughnuts, ate a lot of candy floss and a lot more.

I recommend packing A LOT of clothes for your baby/toddler. We ended up having to buy some clothes for William because he went through them so fast. Auntie Shona was nice enough to buy them as part of his birthday present.

We all had a great time and I can't wait until our next holiday. I'm hoping to have a weekend away around July time, before baby #2 is here, hopefully. Once baby #2 is here, we can save up for a year or so and go on our first family holiday together.

Hugs from me to you,
Love, Daria xoxo
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