Down where the walls start shaking, I'm waiting for you to find out

I can never resist a cheeky wander around the home section of Primark, and so when I was back at home over half term I fully made the most of having the huge Liverpool store on my doorstep. A while ago I'd spent ages on a hunt for some fairy lights to match the blue and red theme I've accidentally ended up with in my bedroom. I found some really pretty lanterns from Sass and Belle in Oklahoma in Manchester (anyone else bloomin' love that shop?!) but the colours just weren't quite right so I resigned myself to the fact I was going to have to continue living a lantern free lifestyle. 

Anyway, whilst having a wander about in Primark with one of my buddies, I stumbled upon these little beauts. Plus they were only £6... as if I needed any more incentive to march myself straight to the tills with them. They're absolutely perfect for evenings like today when quality time in my pjs nestled up amongst my millions of cushions is just what the doctor ordered. There's normally nothing more I love than spending as much time out and about as possible, but when you've had the longest week in existence (the inevitable consequence of having a laughably short working week last week) sometimes you just need to snuggle up in bed surrounded by pretty lights.

Fairy Light Lanterns: Primark, cushions: Primark/ Cath Kidston/ Sass and Belle/ homemade, bedding: Ikea

Lunar- Bombay Bicycle Club

Smiles of the week: I'm a human elevator

Today, all of the teachers I work with were gushing about how good their week off over half term was. All well and good for them but I'm not lucky enough to get school holidays off like they do. Last week it was just little old me and my partner in crime who works with the younger kids in the hospital spending a week in our eerily quiet office. To make up for the lack of human contact, we turned to youtube and spent the week dancing around the office (which actually did wonders for our motivation... not sure how our co-workers would feel if we made this a daily occurrence  but quite frankly a daily boogie on the way to the wards would do us all the world of good!). 

Unconventional working weeks aside, I've had a very lazy relaxing week. For all you nosy people out there, here's a bit of what I've been enjoying over the last seven days.

My Mum's astounding technological abilities via Facetime. She was all set to write her iPad off as broken and send it back to the shop because the camera on the back of it wasn't working. After about five minutes of my Mum getting concerned about how it had broken my Dad pointed out that she had the cover over the camera. Whoops.

Taking every possible moment to sit out in the sun. I fully believe in making the most of the sun whilst we can... you can never guarantee how long its going to last for! Plus its a great opportunity to actually spend some quality time with a good book (or three) and my iPod.

Finally downloading the A Beautiful Mess app (about a month after the rest of the world) and spending hours prettying up all my photos.

Having a barbecue with my bestie and eating my own body weight in grilled aubergine and halloumi after already having eaten two burgers. 

Smelling somebody's takeaway pizza in the lift on my way home from work and deciding that we NEEDED to order pizza the next day. This was an exciting decision in Kazland. I can probably count the amount of takeaways I eat in a year on one hand.

Rewarding myself with an afternoon off work (see, my week at work really wasn't that traumatic...) and ending up at the opening of the new Joy in Leeds (which I whittered on about a few days ago here).

Sampling the delights of the Leeds Farmers Market in town on Sunday. Stall owners cower in fear when they see me approaching to eat my body weight in their samples of cheese/brownies/chocolate/olives.

What's made you smile this week?

 Human Elevator- The Cast of Cheers