Wearing: Zara dress, belt and cardigan, Accessorize tights, Primark brogues, Matalan bag, Mango ring
On: Thursday 30th December
For: My birthday!
Thursday was my birthday, also known as the most awkward day to be born, ever. The fug of Christmas is still hanging around and most people are resting in preparation for New Year’s Eve, so celebrating a birthday can be tricky, but my friends and family always make an effort. This year we went to OK Karaoke and sang ’til we were hoarse!
I got some lovely, lovely presents and some fantastic sale bargains – here are a few quick photos of my favourites. Happy New Year!
Joules wellies from my Mum and Stuart. They’re a gorgeous plummy colour that doesn’t quite come across in the photo – I adore them! My brother and sister unwrapped shiny Hunter wellies on Christmas Day and I was so jealous. My Mum obviously spotted my green eyes and bought me my own bow-tied beauties! Now, where’s that snow?
Amazon Kindle from my fiancé Rob. My New Year’s Resolution is to read more, so this is the perfect gift. I’ve already finished my first book and have a long list of Twitter-recommended tomes to plough through – got another for me?
I bought this ring in the Mango sale for £9.95, reduced from £25. I have a slight obsession with huge cocktail rings (I actually bought 5 in the sales!) and love the chunky green stone in this one. I’m so disappointed one of the side set stones has fallen out already, though! Still, it’s bound to become a wardrobe favourite.
Have you been utterly spoilt this Christmas too?
Aww you got some lovely pressies, super jealous of your shiny new kindle! Hope you had a fabulous birthday and New Year! <3 xo
Happy Belated Birthday!
Hope you’re enjoying your Kindle. I love that giant ring – I’m also loving statement rings at the moment. x
Hope you had a fab birthday!
I also got a kindle for Christmas and love it, makes me want to read all the time but I know as soon as it’s back to work time that will go out the window!
Belle
xx
Love the wellies…gorgeous. I want a kindle toooo! Happy Birthday (belated).
P.s. Only recently found your blog and am usually a lurker, but enjoying it very much 🙂
Happy Birthday and a Happy New Year, Jen! Those wellies look fab, such a funky colour. xxx
Great outfit hun 🙂 Glad you had a lovely Birthday- and happy new year to you
xxx
Belated birthday wishes to you Jen! xx
HPB to you. I share your love of huuuuuuge rings. And coloured tights.
The prettiest wellies ever, especially the bows. Hope you had a lovely birthday, and happy new year!x
Gorgeous presents, I’m super jealous of the wellies! Hope you had a wonderful birthday and Happy New Year as well. I want to read more this year too, ideally 1 book a week but I know it’ll be hard! I hope 2011 is a fantastic year for you and A Little Bird Told Me, all the best =)
Hannah xx
Happy Birthday honey!! You got some lovely finds, tip for the missing stone if you cant find it to glue back in a blob of nail polish usually disguises any gaps! xx
I got a Kindle for Christmas- I travel a lot and love to read so abolutely ideal. If you haven’t downloaded it alread- Sherlock Holmes. It’s free like lots of the Classics and they’re brilliant stories.
Love the cocktail ring, I have a ring set with a stone in a similar green, but I wish it was a big as this, it’s gorgeous.
Happy Birthday and Happy New Year.
Happy belated birthday! Love the wellies and your new ring.
Also that Zara dress is gorgeous xx
Happy belated birthday 🙂
Can’t believe that you’re younger than me! I don’t know why, but I always assumed you were older than me – & I don’t mean you look old or anything! You just seem so.. together. Unlike me. I don’t even really know what I mean, & I feel like I’m digging myself into an unintentional hole, so will go back to the point in hand – the outfit!
LOVE your outfit – that dress is amazing.
I have those brogues, they’ve become a staple part of my wardrobe recently! Good ol’ Primark 🙂
Your ring is really pretty – I’m also a big fan of random big cocktail rings – I’d take it back if the stones fallen out already though, that’s not on!
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Happy Birthday! I don’t think I’ve ever described wellies as ‘pretty’ before but it seems like a good word for yours!
Happy birthday!!! x
Glad you had a good birthday, it must be so difficult as like you say it’s a funny time of year.
I LOVE that Mango ring, how gorgeous. I to have an obsession with large cocktail rings, the bigger the better in my book. 🙂
xx
Happy Birthday and a Happy New Year! Love the Hunter wellies, have been admiring them on other people all winter, super practical but gorgeous….
Aww happy belated birthday! And I love that ring! You look lovely, as always x
Wow you got some lovely prezzies! Love that ring!
I know we spoke on Twitter about the Amazon Kindle and how i was lucky enough to get one for Christmas-you will LOVE it!! xxx
Lovely outfit and glad you had a great day regardless of the time of year. I really need to try out one of those karaoke places, they sound like so much fun! That ring is stunning too. Happy Belated Birthday!
Belated happy birthday Jen! You share it with my mum, she hates having it between Xmas and NY as it means less fuss and combo prezzies 😉
Hope you had a great NYE and wishing you much happiness in 2011
xxx
a belated but heart felt happy birthday jen x
That ring from Zara is beautiful! I love huge rings too, I have so many now it’s ridiculous! Hope you’re feeling better my lovely .xx
Happy Birthday! Glad you had a fab day!
I love your polka dot dress, Zara do some gorgeous dresses don’t they?
You got the wellies at just the right time! I invested in some Hunter wellies in August for when I went to Reading. It felt like I lived in them last month! It pays off to pay a little more on wellies as they are so confortable!
Sophie
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Aww happy belated birthday me dear 🙂 looking HAWT as always! Muahaha. You got some lovely pressies. My little bro’s bday is 28th dec and cause he’s only 4 its always just a mad present bonanza – I dont think he really knows the difference between his bday and christmas yet! Happy new year too, cant wait to see what 2011 brings you 🙂 xx
Happy birthday! Love that polka dot dress. I’m also impressed with how on track your blog, career etc are for 25. I still don’t know quite where I’m going! Many kudos to you… x
Happy Birthday! I love love love your look in this. I hope it’s a fabulous year for you!
Oooh happy birthday!
Happy Belated Birthday! Hope it was an amazing day, and happy new year!
Love your presents. So jealous of your kindle!
Ooo you got some lovely gifts. I’m so tempted by the kindle but I just love holding a book too much. Hope you had a lovely day
L x
Happy Belated Birthday, I had no idea your birthday was around Christmas time!
I adore Joules and I adore those wellies very much so, and there’s no denying every girl needs a pair of good wellies… be it for the snow or the muddy car boot fields.
I really am so envious of your kindle too xx
Happy birthday lovely lady!!
Love the Joules wellies and the Zara cocktail ring – beautiful!
xx
Happy belated birthday Jen!! I LOVE that ring. I never wore rings really apart from the one silver one my mum handed down, which I physically cannot remove, but lately I’ve started to get into big rings. I wore a huge one on NYE and I am in LOVE.
I hope you’ve had a fantastic 2010 and wish you an even better 2011. Happy New Year! x
hello from your 1000th follower! love the birthday outfit 🙂 x
wow I love that dress! it really suits you 🙂 have a wonderful 2011
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Oh I’m a bit late with this, but Happy Birthday!!
I love the birthday outfit! The dotty dress is so cute.
I hope you had lots of fun!
Haha yes deffinately been a spoilt christmas, presents and food-wise! xx
Happy Belated Birthday!!!
Ooh, how kind of your ma to get you those lovely wellies (: I’m unsure as to whether I’d like a Kindle but I’m sure I’d get used to it. I’m glad you’ve had a nice time – gotta love karaoke!
I LOVE THE BAG
AND THE RING
AND THE BOOTS
…
ok i love everything!
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happy belated bday my dear!! glad ur family and friends still make loads of effort even thou ur bday falls on awkward day. 🙂 ps love ur hair in these photos! xo
Happy Birthday Jen! Hope you had a truly lovely day. If your presents were anything to go by then it should have been! Am v. envious of the Kindle – I’m still hooked on proper books but am slowly realising how useful one could be for trips and so on.
Happy belated birthday & happy new year! I have some Joules wellies, they are very ace.
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Awwww, happy birthday!
Everyone appears to be getting Kindles apart from me. I’m going to have to invest in one myself, methinks.
Both of those rings are gorgeous! I’m sort of an awkward holiday birthday myself, so I can commiserate.
Happy belated birthday 🙂
Meri
The Joules wellies are gorrrrrgeous – especially with the bows. Too cute! Happy birthday again, my dear xx
Hapy belated Birthday!
Happy belated birthday Jen. Wishing you loads of amazing moments in 2011. xx PS Gorgeous wellies!
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Happy late birthday, Jen. True, it’s not the perfect date, but everybody should still be in party mood and there are cookies en masse… Plus, you can ask for the presis you didn’t get for Christmas AGAIN. xoxo
oh i adore your dress. it goes perfectly with the cardigan and bag! it sounds like you had a lovely day and some lovely presents! i’m hoping to save up to buy my mum a kindle for her birthday in april 🙂 xx
So lovely. Happy new years! x hivennn.
I get so annoyed when stones fall out on jewellery, so I’ve started brushing a layer of superglue over the stones or the whole thing before I wear it – it seems to work so far! Although I’d love to know where to get those small diamante stones from, they’d really come in handy.
Sorry for the lateness, still catching up with all my reading but had to say Happy Birthday – hope you had a lovely day x
Aww happy birthday!!
You got some lovely presents, I love Joules wellies 🙂
I adore your dark red tights too, I shall have to find some in store!
What lovely gifts – and I just love your polka dot dress too! Sally x