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My favourite beauty products, books, jewellery, television etc from January 2024 #favouriteproducts #januaryfavorites #handmadejewellery
Carrie Elspeth Jewellery
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The Body Shop Shea Shampoo & Conditioner: https://c8.is/4b7ZBEw
E.L.F Eye Palette in Rose Water:
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The Cat Who Caught a Killer: (available in HB, PB, Kindle & Audible)
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Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: (available in HB, PB & Kindle)
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Monopoly Deal Card Game:
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Hi everyone, it's Karen from the Georgie Grandma. Welcome back to my channel. I hope everybody's doing well
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Today I've got a favourites and fail video for you. I've got quite a selection of stuff. I've got some beauty products, some books, some TV programmes, some jewelry and a couple of other things
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So I'm just going to get straight in with the beauty stuff. And the first thing that I've been
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enjoying in the last month is this Primark Perfect Finish Foundation and I've got it on today
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This is in shade three of Nugget or Nougar, however you want to pronounce it
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It's quite a light shade and it does say medium to full coverage and I would say that's right
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It's quite a thick foundation. It was only £3.00 so I think that was
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well worth it and it did go on really nicely I've put it on with a foundation brush
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and it just went on really nicely over the top of my primer so I would recommend that
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The other makeup product I bought, I think I bought it on the same day, was an elf eye shadow palette
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I have used some elf makeup before but not for a long time so I thought I'd pick up this little
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palette. I do like a small palette. This one is called Rose Water and it's got four
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eye shadows in it. I've got these three on today. I haven't used the very dark one. I don't know how
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well you can see that, but the colours are very pretty. They go on nicely. The blend well and they
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do last all day as well. So I'm using this one. The purpley one kind of on the outer corner of me
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eye just to darken it a little bit. I have used this one as well but it is quite dark so I'd probably
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use that for more of a night time look. So I highly recommend that little elf palette as well if you're
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looking for a new eye shadow. And the other thing I wanted to mention is from the Body Shop and
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it's from the Body Shop Advent calendar that I got just before Christmas. And this is the sheer butter
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or the sheer, not butter, the sheer shampoo and conditioner for dry to very dry hair, intense repair
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I've never used Body Shop shampoo and conditioner before and I was very pleasantly surprised
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This is really good shampoo and conditioner. It made my hair feel really soft and in good condition and I would definitely buy the full-sized products of those
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So if you are in the market for a new shampoo, a conditioner, I highly recommend trying those ones
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I will leave the links to any of the products that I can find that are still online
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If I can find the links, I will leave them in the description. description box below. My next favourite this month is some jewellery that I was actually sent by a company
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called Carrie Elspeth Jewelry. They contacted me and they asked us if I'd like to choose three
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items of jewelry in exchange for a blog post, which I will be writing this week. But I thought I'd also
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mention them on my YouTube channel because I think they're absolutely beautiful. So I'll just show you
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what I asked them to send me. I chose a necklace. Well, I actually chose a necklace of bracelet
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like a pair of earrings. They have quite a big selection on their website
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and they are handmade in Wales. And the first item I chose was this necklace
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I think that is so pretty. It's got like purples and blues and silvers in it
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This is called a pastel geo necklace and it's got glass beads and it's just so pretty
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I'm going to actually put it on. It doesn't really go with this dress I've got on
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But I'll just put it on so you can. see it a bit better. There, it's just, it's just a really pretty necklace and I just think that
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would be so nice with lots and lots of different outfits. I'll just keep that on. The other thing I got
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was a bracelet. This is a blue sponge gemstone bracelet. You can get it in 21 different
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gemstones. That's what it looks like. It's just a pale blue. I just, I love the color blue
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So like I said, there's 21 different gemstones you can choose from. You can see it. You can see it
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got a little silver star charm on there. You could choose from the star or the heart
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And they sent me the star one, which I was quite happy with. But I think that is really pretty as well
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It fits my wrist perfectly. So that was really nice And the third thing I chose which I think is probably my favourite is a pair of earrings And I just absolutely love these
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And these are blue cat's eye star earrings. How pretty are those
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Really, really pretty. I'm not going to put them in because I've already got studs in, but I just, I can't wait to wear them
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I just think they are so pretty. And the hooks are sterling silver
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and the stars are fibre optic cat's eye beads. So Carrie Elspeth kindly gave me a discount code for you to use
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and it is GG20. I'll put it on the screen here and I'll also put the link
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and the discount code in the description box below. And if you use that code, you'll get 20% off
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and that's valid until the 31st of March, 2024. So you've got plenty time to go and have a look
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They've got some absolutely fabulous jewelry on their website. It's not expensive jewelry either
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The range is an average of around £20 and I think the earrings were, I think the earrings were less than that
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I can't remember offhand. I will leave the link to those in the description box below along with the discount code
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So next we'll move on to books. And the first book I wanted to talk about that I've read in the last month and really, really loved
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is The Cat Who Caught a Killer by L.T. Shearer. I think I got this as a Christmas present, not Christmas gone, but the Christmas before, and I hadn't read it
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And I'd discovered it on my shelf and thought, well, I'll read that. And it's about this lady called Lulu, who was a retired detective, and her husband has been killed in a hit-and-run accident
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And they had shared a house with his mother, who was now in a care home because she's got dementia
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so Lulu moves out of the house because it feels too big and lonely for her and has too many memories
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and she moves onto a barge and while she's on this barge she meets a cat and the cat talks
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now it does seem strange and when you read the blurb it's like that just sounds too stupid to read
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but you know it wasn't there is there's a murder to solve and the cat helps Lulu the cat's
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called Conrad. And the cat helps Lulu solve the murder. And he only speaks to her. He doesn't speak
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to anybody else. And all the way through, you just think to think to yourself, is this real? Is you
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dream in it? Is there a twist yet? But I won't give it away. There is actually another book out
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with Lulu and Conrad in. So I'm really looking forward to read it. It was just a lovely read. It was
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easy to read. It was very well written. I enjoyed the characters. It didn't even seem stupid that
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Conrad the cat was talking, I have to say. Yeah, it was a lovely book and like I say, I'm looking
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forward to reading the next one. So I can highly recommend the cat who caught a killer. It honestly
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isn't as stupid as it sounds a talking cat. The next book that I've read, that I've really enjoyed
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and this is called Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont. and it's by Elizabeth Taylor
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I don't think it's that Elizabeth Taylor. And this is quite an old book
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I think it was written in the early 70s. And it starts where Mrs. Palfrey
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this elderly lady, is about to move into a hotel, the Claremont
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where older people can go and get a room and they can just, you know, they can live there, basically
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So there's about five or six of them, elderly people, mostly women I think there's one man
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and the you know they go down for dinner every night and it sort of tells you a little bit about their lives
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and Mrs Mrs Palfrey doesn't really get on with her daughter very well
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and she wants her grandson to come and visit her and he never comes
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and then she meets this this young man who they kind of become friends
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again I won't give too much away but I absolutely love this book
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It's quite a thin book. I just thought it was, again, so well written
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The characters are so well drawn. You feel like you're at the Clermont with them
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It is sad in places and it is quite, it makes you think about what it would be like
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to be, you know, older sort of 80s and not really have any family or you know people to visit you but I still even though it was quite sad in places it was funny in places it made you think
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I just, I loved it. I would read that again. I liked it that much
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So, yeah, I highly recommend Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont. So on to TV, and the first thing I really enjoyed in the last month
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was on Netflix, and that was Inside Man. and it is a four-part kind of, I suppose
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it's a thriller, comedy, strange kind of program and it features David Tennant and Stanley Tucci
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David Tennant is a vicar in England, and Stanley Tucci is a prisoner on death row in America
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And as the episodes move on, the two become connected in some way
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I'm not going to give away too much, but they become connected. And David Tennant inadvertently commits a crime that he didn't intend to commit
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And it's a story of, you know, this can happen to anybody
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And these events unfold that are so unlikely. But I suppose that could happen to anybody
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It was a little bit far-fetched. But the cases do become connected
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I thought Stanley Tucci's character was fantastic, even though he's a murderer on Death Row
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I thought his character was fantastic. And I'm really hoping they bring out the second series of it because he was an interesting character
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David Tennant's character, less believable, I think. Even though both characters were a little bit unbelievable, I think Stanley Tuchies was more believable
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But yes, it was four episodes. It had his gripped. I think I binge watched them over two nights
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I highly recommended. It was very enjoyable, even if it was a little far-fetched
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The other thing I've been watching recently, and I'm assuming a lot of people have who are watching
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and that is The Traitors on BBC. Absolutely love the trailers. It's a reality show if you don't know what it is
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and it starts off with 22 people in a castle, in Scotland, I think it is
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and Claudia Winkleman is the, presenter, everybody's sitting around a round table, they have blindfalls on and she picks three of
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them to be the traitors and the rest are faithfuls. And the idea of the program is the faithfuls
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have to try and guess who the traitors are and get them banished. And the traitors have to avoid
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that and they get to murder somebody every night. And in the end, if there's still traitors left
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to be found, the traitors are the ones that win the money. There's
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They are missions every day for them to add money to the collective pot
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Just gripping, very gripping. There's been a couple of occasions in this series where we've gone like, what
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Just really, really addictive watching. I enjoyed the first series and I think I'm enjoying the second series more
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So if you haven't watched The Traitors, you can watch it all on Catchup on BBC Eye Player
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Really enjoyed that. So now it's time for my fail. of them on. And this is another TV series. And I'm sorry to say that it is true detective
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series three. This is on Now TV. Really enjoyed the first two series. They involve, all series
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involved two detectives. They have a case to solve. And it shows you a bit of their lives
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And that's the series. This one, it's eight episodes. And this one starred, I don't know if I'm
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pronouncing this race, Maharshala Ali and Stephen Dorf. Now, the reason this is a fail
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first of all, it was long and drawn out. I think they could have done it in four or five episodes
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quite easily. There was lots of the episodes where I'm like, is this really necessary to hear
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about this? So it was slow. It was shown in three different timelines. And the only reason
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you kind of could follow the timelines was because Maharshala Ali's character
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remember his name in the series in the 80s he had like an Afro
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in the 90s which was the second timeline he had kind of
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a flat top hair coat and I think it must have been maybe 30 years later he had grey hair So you could tell the changing timelines because of his hairstyle But sometimes it was a little bit confusing because it would go backwards and forwards
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And it was a stupid ending. And the other thing was, I couldn't understand a lot of what Maharshala's character was saying
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He had a very southern accent in it. And he spoke quickly
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And we ended up actually having to put subtitles on because I really didn't
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I couldn't catch a lot of what he was saying. The whole series is about
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it starts where two children go off on their bikes and the dad's left, he's fixing the car
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and he says, yeah, be back by a certain time. And I think the kids are something like 12 and 7
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something like that. The kids don't come back. And the series is about finding out what happened to the children
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they definitely could have done it in four or five episodes and like I say the ending
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I was like really that's the ending I was quite disappointed in the ending
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so yet the true detective series three was definitely a fail for the month
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if you've seen that let us know what you thought in the comments below
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did you enjoy it or did you think it was just a no just like I did
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the next thing I wanted to mention on my favourites was a card game
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and it is the Monopoly deal card game I put a picture here because I don't actually have it
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it's my sons we went to Simon and Haley's house a few weeks ago
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and they said you fancy a game of this monopoly deal so we said okay how we ended up having two or three games of it
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it was really fun if you like monopoly you like this card game
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it's kind of monopoly without all the hassle of the little houses and you know the little
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counters and things like that and you've still got all of the
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you've still got the property cards, the rent cards, the houses and the hotels
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cards, you've got action cards, the kind of mimic the community chest and chance
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And it's quite a fast, it's quite a fast game, so you can probably play it in about one game
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and maybe 45 minutes. And we played two or three games, but we were there along with lots of cups of coffee
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So, yeah, if you're looking for a new game, to play or if you want a game to take on holiday, this ideal card game to take on holiday
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monopoly deal well worth a look at. The last thing I wanted to mention on my favourites, and by far not
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the least, because this is probably one of my favourites this month. And this is something I got for
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Christmas of Warren, and it is my new Vendula cat bag. And this is a tattoo paula run by cat
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if you've watched my channel for a while you'll have heard me talk many times
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about my pink cat cafe bag from Vanjula and I did mention that I would like
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a new bag from there so Warren got me this for Christmas and I just love the bags
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I'd love a collection of them they're not that cheap so it may take me a whale to get a few of them
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but I just I love the detail on them like you know all the little things in the tattoo shop
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just so sweet the little it's got little studs on it it's got the little window
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with all the different things on on the back it's got a little flower
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so that sort of looks like a tattoo and it says my tattoos don't like you either
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on there it's got a little like a key ring detail on here
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does have a over the shoulder cross body strap if you wanted that
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when you open it up it's got pockets in i have been using it so it's got stuff in it's got a zip pocket in the middle
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and it's got the usual um lining with different um landmarks in it like the tower of london
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and the eiffel tower and i just absolutely love it so i just thought i'd show you that you know if you
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if you are looking for a bag that's a little bit different i highly recommend you check out the vendula
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website so those are all the things that were my favorites and one fail over the last
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few weeks, I'd say probably from the beginning of December. I hope you enjoyed that
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Like I say, let me know what you thought of the True Detective season three if you saw it in the
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comments below. And if you've got anything that you'd like to recommend to me along the lines
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of what I've been talking about, I'd be very happy to hear your recommendations. Again
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leave them in the comments below. So thank you so much for watching. I'll see you again soon
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Bye for now
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