The Lavender Barn

Hi Darlins, just wanted to share a lil bit of Christmas at mine with you, I do believe the kids call this photo bomb lol. What ever you are doing This Christmas, have the VERY best one. Love N Hugs Lyn x Read more

Hiya Darlins, I don't know about you but I am rubbish at drinking enough fluid unless it's endless cups of tea, which we all know dehydrate rather than hydrate, it's all very well and fine moisturising like crazy on the outside, but rather than end up like a shrivelled old piece of fruit, we all need to moisturise the inside ! The problem with drinking plain water, tap or bottled is while of course it hydrates you, it wont necessarily hydrate the inner cells only the outside… Read more

Hiya Darlins, Now don't laugh, I was out this evening, thinking I would beat the crowds to pick up the Christmas sweets and Chocs from Aldi, I Love Aldi Chocolate !  Well we now have an Ikea bag full of C**P, good job I have a fitness plan for January ha ha.  I digress, while I was there I was looking along the " Tat" isles as you do, and I spotted a stand of Mirror Shine Nail Polishes, WELL, Shiny shiny shiny, I am like a magpie; they came in Silver, Gold and Bronze, I wen… Read more

Hiya Gorgeous reader, This really is an offer you can't refuse.......said in my best Mafia style accent. If you are a user of Gold Collagen then you are in for a real treat this is the first topical product from the Company, and I am here to tell you it's fabulous, as you all know I am a massive fan of *sheet* type face masks, and this one really hits the spot. Different to a lot of standard sheet masks in that it comes in 2 parts for easy application, and has a "second skin… Read more

Hi Darlins You would have see be blog about Nailed London Fabulous nail polishes in a previous post  Nailed London by Rosie Fortescue   This Gel polish will see you right through Christmas and the New Year, the wear time is phenomenal. Rosie has designed a YouTube video showing you how to do a super cute Christmas mani at home in three easy steps. Check out this link Rosie on YouTube Nailed London Gel Polish is available at  Feel Unique Hope you and your mani have a fab Crimbo Love N Hugz Lyn x Read more

Cleaning the house to within an inch of it's life just in case Santa is a producer for "How clean is your house " and of course it will still be immaculate after an hour of being up ! Clean sheets  and towels on Christmas eve in case Santa notices. New jammies on Christmas eve, don't even ask me why ? when the kids were little everyone had them ;) Buying food items that no one on the planet ever eats, you buy it because your Mum did, and well.........because it's Ch… Read more

Hiya gorgeous reader, thanks for stopping by. I really hope this post can help you on your way to a better looking blog, as a total techno dummy, and by dummy I mean I am the woman who would find a dummies guide hard to follow, I am here to tell you that you need no technical knowledge what so ever to have a shiny groovy looking blog. I took to serious ( ok, stop laughing, semi serious ) blogging back in June this year 6 months ago, and whilst I do have a Wordpress blog, I never use it … Read more

Hi Darlins I was thinking today after sending what I thought was an amusing tweet, well it amused me anyway :) Christmas, love it or loathe it there is no way of ignoring it, we are bombarded from as early as September when the sun is shining and we are still thinking about late summer holidays, the seasons are now going freaky, 14 degrees in the UK in December.....crazy. I know it's boring to some people to reminisce especially if you are of the younger generation and get sick of he… Read more

Hiya Gorgeous reader,  please don't think that this post is going to preach to you about health and fitness, firstly I am no fitness guru, far from it, I am however, the world expert on yo yo dieting, and have done them all from the uber sensible to the extremely bizarre, each with varying results. Of course I will join the rest of the world and "start again in January" lol.  My relationship with Protein powders has been a very long one, in my younger years I was obsessive… Read more

Hiya Darlins, How often are you asked ......."what do you want for Christmas ? " I don't know about you, but there is something about that question that really makes me uncomfortable, maybe it's because growing up I was taught that greed was desperately unattractive, or is it a British thing where we don't want to put anyone out ?  As a child I could have produced a list as long as an Andrex roll with puppies, of the thing's I wanted, a Post Office Set, a cash r… Read more

Let's talk about Skin.....and there was you thinking, oh right, another face cream; wrong :) This post is about skin the 22 yards of it that the average sized body has. I think we tend to hear the "beauty starts on the inside" saying and think it's about personality rather than what we put into our bodies, I for one know that if I eat c**p I feel and look c**p, you know the feeling when you are off your game, and maybe have too many take- aways or holiday over indulgin… Read more