Wednesday 21 March 2012

Shopping!

I am obsessed. Obsessed with a website, and that site is called buyapowa.com
I cannot rave about this website enough. I swear I spend a good amount of my day at work telling everyone how amazing it is, what co-buys are currently live and how they should be doing what I do and spending all of their wages on the site!
If you’re unaware of what it is basically buyapowa is a website that (mostly) sells beauty products at a reduced price. The way they do that is by having “co-buys” that you join – the more people who join, the lower the price goes until they sell out. It means that normally they have 4 products on sale at the same time and new co-buys don’t start until the others end. So far I’ve bought 7 products from there and I’ve always got the cheapest price. The most expensive one I did was the new GHD Air – GHD’s first ever hair dryer. It should have been £99 but I got it on buyapowa for £73... absolute bargain.
It is definitely my new favourite thing so get involved and sign up to their news letter... you won't regret it. OK so you might when you're broke from buying too much pretty stuff but never mind!

Friday 10 February 2012

Balls Brothers Minster Exchange review

So you're probably aware that I'm a bit of a Twitter addict (if not I have no clue how you're reading this blog!) and I love a good competition. Back in November last year the lovely people at Secsinthecity had a competition in conjunction with Balls Brothers at the Minster Exchange. The prize was a free lunch at Balls Brothers and I was lucky enough to be the winner.

My diary being what it is I actually only made it down there last Friday lunch time but it was worth the wait as they've recently just finished a complete refurbishment of their bar area and, most importantly, their conference and private dining rooms downstairs. Now granted I hadn't been to the venue before, so have nothing to compare it to, but after the refurb it looks absolutely gorgeous.

My first impression of the bar area was that is looked very stylish and smart but not too corporate. We were then shown round the three function rooms downstairs which are a great size with lovely brand new equipment and beautifully decorated. It's really a great space for away days or any event really. It's completely separate from the rest of the bar/restaurant so really feels like your own area. I also took a peek at the private dining rooms upstairs which are lovely and intimate, with some absolutely gorgeous furniture that I would quite like to nick for my flat!

After our guided tour we settled down for some lovely lunch in the restaurant. A very varied selection of choices on the menu which is always great, definitely something for everyone. We even managed a cheeky desert... which was scrumptious!

So if you're looking for a venue for away days, parties or corporate events I'd definitely recommend it. All of the people working there were lovely and helpful which to me is really important.

If you want to check it out yourself they're throwing a party to show off their new facilities - more details at Secsinthecity so definitely go and check it out.

Wednesday 4 January 2012

2012.

Happy New Year all! First blog of 2012. Take a moment to let it soak in. Apparently this year is going to be a big one.

All this talk of the Olympics and how this is going to be such an historic year for London is making me feel like I should try and achieve something this year and set some goals to work towards. So here goes...

1. Implement and co-ordinate the mentor scheme at work and make sure the momentum is kept up
2. Blog more often.
3. Continue with the digital elearning training at work and aim to get 100% in all the modules, therefore beating as many of the planners and buyers as possible. Competitive... moi?
4. Go to more PA networking events such as the next one SecsintheCity and Global PA Network are doing on the 19th (more details here)
5. Earn as much money as possible, because when it comes down to it, that’s the point of work. My big trip to Canada & the US isn’t going to pay for itself!

Fairly simple, not too ambitious and hopefully I'll actually be able to achieve these. I have my review in a few weeks so I'm sure we'll come up with even more PO's to work towards!

On a more personal level I'm going to try stop biting my lip and eat more fruit & veg but we'll see how those ones turns out!