Even though the Christmas and Halloween LUSH products have been available online since the Creative Showcase and I did attend the Showcase this year, I still saved some money to do my usual haul when the products came to store as I wait all year to visit my local and grab some seasonal products. A few of the products I am going to show are from the Showcase and a few are even from last year as they have been released again this year but I still have a large amount left so I won't need to buy any more soon. Lets get into the haul!

September is a month that I wait all year for, the beginning of Autumn! I am much more of an Autumn/Winter person than I am a Summer person. I think there is nothing worse than being too hot in bed or at work and I would much rather stick on a jumper and some boots than wear a Summer dress. Autumn is also the beginning of the count down to my favourite time of the year, Christmas! As a whole, I have loved September a lot and there have been a lot of things I have been enjoying this month too!

Pictured - Bucks Fizz body conditioner

This is one product from the Showcase that I knew I would fall in love with! I'm really lazy when it comes to putting on body lotion, especially in the Summer months as it leaves me feeling too hot and sticky, so I neglect using it quite a lot. This is why I love body conditioners! You apply them after washing whilst in the shower or the bath and then rinse off. The product leaves your skin feeling super soft and moisturised, without feeling sticky or having to wait for the lotion to sink into your skin. After seeing leak that a body conditioner was being released this year called Bucks Fizz, I knew it was going to have either the Celebrate or Bubbly scent, and I was correct! Bucks Fizz smells exactly like Bubbly! Not only does this body conditioner smell good, it does the job really well too! I really feel like this is the best body conditioner LUSH have ever released. If you're a fan of orange scents and you're too lazy sometimes to moisturise your skin, you will love this product! A little bit goes a long way, so don't let the price knock you off as a small tub would last you a long time. I am definitely going to be grabbing a large tub when the seasonal products launch on 6th of October!

Photo credit - Tumblr

As I said before, Autumn is my favourite season of the year. I wait all year round for the leaves to start turning brown and falling from the trees, for the nights to start getting a little darker earlier and for it to still be dark when I wake up. I live for the fashion, parkas start coming out and ankle boots are back in all the stores pairing perfectly with thick tights and cord skirts. I love sitting with my window open when it's pouring down outside and sitting listening to the rain with a cup of tea and a good book. I just love Autumn and everything about it! We're getting closer to Halloween and I have already started to decorate my bedroom for it. And then we have Bonfire night to look forward to, which I love! Myself and Reece have been going to my cities Bonfire show every year since we started going out and I'm hoping we can go to our fourth one this year! It feels more and more like Autumn every day and I love it! I also really enjoy using Tumblr during the Autumn months, so if you are interested you can take a look at my Tumblr here if you enjoy Autumnal photos!

Photo Credit - LUSH Cosmetics 

I'm sorry, but this month is all about LUSH for me! As soon as the Halloween and Christmas ranges are released, I start planning for Boxing Day in the hopes that LUSH will have a sale after Christmas to rid of all their seasonal stock. I have planned and wrote a list for the last couple of years. The first couple of years I wandered in without a plan at all and just picked up what was left as I had to work on Boxing Date. 2014,  I didn't stick to my list at all as I planned to do my sale shop at the store in Newcastle, to stand outside for around 2 hours and then be told inside the store that they weren't taking cards or gift cards. The next year my local store was too maniac to be able to get what was on my list, products were being swiped right in front of my eyes so I didn't even have time to check my list. Last year, I basically memorised my list but as my store is quite small I didn't manage to get a few of the products as the store didn't have them. I attempted to get online but as there were more than 40,000 in the queue ahead of me, I gave up. I have learnt from my mistakes and as there are a couple of gift boxes that I desperately want this year, I'm just going to pay full price for them. I really really wanted the Santa in Space gift last year but missed it and I don't want to miss some of the gift boxes I want this year, so I'm planning to purchase the Jingle Bells and The Man in the Moon gift sets before Christmas! I'm also going to start putting money onto a gift card to ensure I have enough money to get everything I want! I've already made my list so prepare yourself, I plan on purchasing a lot! For the gift sets, the ones I have my eye on are Merry Christmas gift set, Seasons Greetings gift set, The Man in the Moon gift set, Dreamscape gift set, Christmas Bathtime Favourites gift set, Starry Night gift set, Deck the Halls gift set, Jingle Bells gift set, Wonderful Christmas Time gift set, Snowflakes gift set, 12 Days of Christmas gift set, Stardust gift set, Oh Christmas Tree gift set and Star of Wonder gift set. If I manage to grab all the gifts I want, I'll have 93 items in total. I also plan to stock up on some individual products, although I'm not too sure how many of each I want to pick up yet. I'm hoping to grab some bath bombs, including Christmas Sweater, Luxury Lush Pud, Snow Fairy jelly bomb, Thundersnow, Shoot for the Stars, Sherbet Dip, Golden Wonder, Star Light Star Bright and of course, Lord of Misrule. The bubble bars I definitely want to grab are Plum Snow, My Two Front Teeth and Man in the Moon. I also want to grab a 500g bottle of Santas Christmas and Berry Berry Christmas, another large tub of Once Upon a Time body lotion as I don't think it will come back next year, a large pot or two of Bucks Fizz and another pot of Christingle. I also want to grab some more Butterbear wash cards and a large tub of Buche De Noel, hopefully! I know I won't be able to grab everything, but hopefully I can get myself the majority of it all and I will be happy! I'm honestly planning on buying myself so much LUSH it lasts me all year!
Pictured - London
I couldn't write a September Favourites and not mention mine and Reece's trip to London. This was the biggest highlight of September for me by far but I am currently writing a blog post about our trip that I will hopefully post next week, telling you all about it. It was so lovely to be back in London after only being there once, way back in 2010. It was nice to get away with Reece and have our own little apartment and it was also really nice to finally meet Jess, a lovely girl who I have been talking to for almost a year who has become a really good friend. Although being in London was hard for me at times as trying to control my anxiety was proving a little difficult, I'm really glad that I didn't let it get the better of me and I came away from London a little relieved to be going home, but so glad I done it. 

What have you been loving this month? Let me know down in the comments below!

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One of the things I have been dying to travel down to London to do has been to visit the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour. I've been adamant on going ever since it opened! I have been a massive Harry Potter fan since the books came out as my Mum bought them for me when Philosophers Stone was first released and then continued to purchase them for me throughout my childhood. I remember saving my £5 pocket money for the newest book to be released and being so excited to get it, reading it page to page as soon as I possibly could. I remember when Deathly Hallows was released and my 'friends' had seen me in town and didn't come over to say hello because I was carrying a Waterstones bag. This really didn't sway me, I'd always been interested in books and reading as a child and that's never changed.

Another thing that hasn't changed it my love for Harry Potter, so much so that when I was 18 I had the Deathly Hallows symbol tattooed on my wrist. I've had many people over the years tell me, 'You'll regret that when you're 80!' and, 'What are you going to tell your kids that is when you're older?' my reply is purely, 'Do you think my kids won't know about Harry Potter?!'

So as the massive Potter fan I am, when Reece and I decided to travel down to London for the LUSH Creative Showcase, I knew this was my perfect opportunity to visit the Warner Bros Studio Tour. I might live in the UK, but London isn't as accessible as I would like it to be as I live in the North and train tickets can be way over £100, at the cheapest! I've also managed to get Reece to enjoy Harry Potter in the three and a half years that we have been together, so I think he was pretty excited to visit the studios too.

We decided to dedicate the most of our third day to visiting the Warner Bros Studio Tour. Things didn't exactly start perfectly as we mistakenly got on the wrong train from Euston to Watford Junction and what should have been a 20 minute journey was actually closer to 45 minutes, making us late for our allotted time. Luckily I rang the customer advice line and they said it was fine and when we actually got there and handed over our tickets that stated 'Valid at 13:30 - 14:00,' they didn't even bat an eyelid! 

I took in total over 600 photos at the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour, so naturally I can't share them all, but I am going to share the best ones here for you all to see! I also took some videos too, which I have shared over on my Instagram page, @iyastevie, if you wish to take a look at them.

Pictured - Privet Drive 

The gift shop was amazing also! You could buy Harry Potter everything, from the Hogwarts uniform, to the books and DVD's, to jewellery to collectable figurines. I could have spent all day in the gift shop alone! I got myself a Harry key ring, a Dobby pin badge, some Platform 9 & 3/4 earrings and some post cards of the four Hogwarts houses for me to frame.

The Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour did not disappoint at all. This was easily the best day I had in London. It was everything I expected and more! The atmosphere was amazing, everyone was so excited to be there and people really had came from all over the world! It's really quite amazing how a book series can bring so many people together, it's truly magical. I was close to tears a few times because I was so overcome with emotion about seeing everything I had read about and seen on TV so many times before, seeing how the story I loved so much was brought to life and being able to see it with my own eyes is just priceless. 

I couldn't recommend the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour enough! Whether you're a massive Harry Potter fan like myself, you've only seen the films or you aren't interested at all, I think this is an experience that anybody can appreciate and that every body needs to see at least once. I think it's worth every single penny of the £39 ticket also, and that's not something I say very often!  If you're ever in the London area, I would really recommend looking into visiting the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour. It's a short train ride away and a bus picks you up right outside the station and drops you off right outside the studio.

I'd go back in a heartbeat if I could, as J K Rowling said, 'Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.'

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You can purchase tickets for the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour here and you can also purchase from their online store here.

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