I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22.

You might have gathered from the photos and title of this post that I turned 22 last week! Well basically I just want to share my day with you tonight as it was rather perfect :) It started with the opening of my living room door to find super cute decorations made my my lovely flatmate and went up from there really! I decided not to take the day off as people actually go all out for birthdays at Benefit and I was instantly greeted by posters of me as Princess Tiaamii and Laura Whitmore (my supposed lookalikes...) and amazing presents as well as a big birthday cake. We went out for a yummy birthday lunch at Pizza Express too before I headed into London for dinner and drinks with about 15 of my best friends from home, work and uni as well as my amazing boyfriend Dave. I wore a pretty Primark cut out dress, the food was incredible, belly dancing occurred and I loved how pretty and festive Covent Garden looked too. And as if that day wasn't enough I also spent the next day in London to celebrate my 4 year anniversary with Dave who had only gone and got me the Cannon 600D (aka ultimate blogging camera!!), which was joined by proper softbox lighting from my parents when they came to visit me at the weekend. I got some brilliant beauty bits too so I'm going to take photos and film a full 'birthday haul' on my new all singing all dancing camera tonight. Just imagine the fun I'll have with proper blurry bloggy backgrounds...

The only sad thing is that I've been quite ill the past few days- probably too much excitement- but I've gone back to work properly now and I'm loving how full of Christmas spirit it is. Literally BeneTowers has become a grotto and we've got our Christmas party this Friday too! Roll on the 25th... 

I hope you're all having a lovely week as well!