Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise

Dress ~ Rise, belt ~ Forever21, Shrug ~ New Look, Bracelets ~ claires, ebay, internacioanle.

So much for returning to blogging, it's quite hard to get back into it after being gone a while! Oh well hopefully after a few posts i'll stop forgetting i've got a blog. The last week has been fairly uneventful anyway, i visited my cousin in Brighton last weekend but apart from that it's just been the usual....uni, shopping, tv, wetherspoons. standard. I did see Les Miserables on Wednesday, which is when this outfit is from. I'm a little split on the film, i really enjoyed some parts (mainly Helen Bonham Carters performances) but overall it wasn't really for me. 
Back to the outfit though, i found this dress amongst a rack of lipsy and rise dresses in Tesco for £10. I've never known them to have other brands in there before so it was quite an unexpected bargain. The belt is one of my newest buys and really similar to these in Topshop at the moment but for a third of the price. Now that i've found a space in my room i'll try to take some more outfit posts which might encourage me to post a bit more. To be honest though if this snow sticks around i can't see myself wearing much more then pyjamas this week!

XOXO

Long time no see!

I know i'm a sporadic blogger at the best of times but even by my standards 9 months without a single post is pretty inexcusable. All i can say is that in my defence its been a busy year, revision rolled into exams and exam period turned into my entire summer when i had to defer half of them. Before i knew it it was September which meant a new flat, a new year of uni and of course lots of drinking. Honestly i'm not quite sure what happened to October but coursework hit in November big time which meant 10 hour days in the library and little time for anything else. By the time December came around i couldn't wait to get away from it all and a well deserved trip to Rome followed by a nice family Christmas was just what i needed to recover before coming back to London for my 21st and New Years eve.

Now its January though and things are getting verrrrry serious again, i can't lie i'm petrified! With five essays and a dissertation to do before exams kick off again i know this semester will be over before i know it and then that's it for uni, i actually need to get a job, decide what i want to do, where i want to live.....scary time. I think to be honest that's why i'm here, with all this seriousness i need something in my life that i love and is just for my enjoyment, basically i've missed blogging and that, in a nutshell, is why i'm back :)

XOXO 

a thousand black flowers explode into butterflies

Skirt that should have been ironed ~ Urban outfitters, top ~ Primark, boots ~ internacioanle, Jacket & bracelets ~ H&M

Hi hi...i finally bit the bullet and told my brother about my blog so i now have a willing(ish) photographer at my disposal for outside outfit photos! Saying that i go back to London tomorrow so won't be able to take full advantage of it till i'm back for summer, i'll make sure to find some good locations for then though.

Anyway i've been ill most of this week but this outfit was from one of the few days that i managed to coax myself out of my pyjamas and actually venture outside. I've had my regular trip around the charity shops and boot fair (with lots of bargains to show for it) but apart from that i've had one night out and the rest of the week's been spent between the sofa and my bed. I'm just hoping that i feel a bit better tomorrow and that the weather follows suit as my mum and brother are coming back with me for a couple of days.....i do like seeing London as a tourist from time to time as opposed to just living there plus we're going to visit the London dungeons which should be fun :)

xoxo

The skeleton in my closet

Now that i'm back home for a few i can go back to wasting huge amounts of time on the internet.....i spent the whole of yesterday watching House whilst online window shopping and now i can't stop thinking about how i need these pieces in my life:

I saw this skeleton bracelet on a blog a couple of weeks ago and have now fallen in love with the whole Sakdidet Road collection! Shame about the price tag :( I think i'm going to spend today uploading stuff to ebay before i can justify buying anything else!

xoxo

Motel rocks....again.

Hello strangers....nearly four weeks without blogging again whoops but i had a ridiculous amount of work to do before breaking up from uni. Can't believe i've nearly finished my second year already - just exams to go now :s
I do have a few weeks before i really have to start on the hardcore revision though so i'm planning to catch up on some blogging and thought Thursday nights motel event was a good place to start.
It was similar to the last event but with the addition of some gorgeous jewellery courtesy of ROCK 'N ROSE and possibly with slightly less alcohol in the cocktails as i actually left relatively sober this time! To sum things up, it was great to see Rachel again, lychee macaroons are amazing and Motel have some pretty floral's heading our way.

xoxo

It is the unofficial force - the Baker Street irregulars.

I believed i promised to post my outfit photos from ldnlunch a few days ago....whoops. Better late then never i guess, and i know you can pretty much see what i wore from the photos of the day but this was one of the few times that i had an ally (Rachel!) to take photos of me from outside the confines of my room so here i am posing (badly) in baker street....

You'll have to excuse my face....a mixture of one too many cocktails and my inability to pose in front of a camera don't really bode well together but the outfits the important thing. Obviously i had to wear my new boots (which so many people have mistaken for the real thing!) which i paired with a dress from 18 and East but actually cost me about £4 on ebay and then this jacket from H&M which i've been searching for in my size for ages and finally found the day before ldnlunch - fate?? Which reminds me i'm STILL trying to hunt down the H&M leather skater skirt in a 10, if anyone sees one or owns one which they for some bizarre reason don't want anymore i would love you forever if you'd let me buy it ♥

So far i've tried 5 H&M's with no luck, next on my list is the Brighton branch if i go and visit my cousin this weekend....so come Monday you might see pictures of me looking incredibly happy in a leather skirt on your screens :D

xoxo

London Lunch

Apologies for the photo overload but as most of you probably know the ldnlunch was on saturday so lots of bloggers met up to do what we do best....drink wine, eat yummy food and talk about clothes. Everyone looked amazing (obviously) and thankfully were also really nice which along with the wine helped put me at ease! Hopefully i didn't make a complete tit out of myself, although i did call several people by the wrong name and was definitely a little wobbly on my feet by the time we got to wetherspoons. I didn't get to talk to everyone properly because there were so many of us but i did get to meet the lovely Chelsey, and bonded with Sian, Jemma and Annabel (who has possibly the best accent ever) over cake in spoons.

I would have quite happily carried on for the night but lots of people had coaches to get/places to be so started to disperse until it was just me and Rachel left. After another cheeky drink we headed off to the tube rather tipsily (although fyi i'm not the one who walked into two chairs and tripped up the steps to spoons!) and after taking a few outfit photos which i'll post tomorrow said our goodbyes.

It really was a good day thanks to Sophie and Eloise, hopefully we can all do it again soon :)

xoxo