Happy Holidays

Its starting to feel alot like Christmas...

Assignments handed in, Christmas shopping nearly completed and the wrapping has started.

I hosted Christmas dinner at mine tonight for the girls - it ended in ordering 4 large Domino's pizzas. Nom Nom. BBQ chicken of course.

The Christmas crackers were still pulled, the hats worn and the bad jokes told!

And tomorrow at work will be busy busy busy, and its fancy dress, I'm going as a Hippy.

Peace out man

Suit Up, Look Sharp

So me and the sister had a shopping day to Nottingham in the week. It was to start our Christmas shopping, this did not happen. Typical. Haha.

Instead, we shopped for ourselves, and I found my suit for the Christmas Party. Yes. It took all day and we had a lovely lunch. But no Uni work was completed, it has however, taken over my life so a break was needed. And the suit was needed.

Roasted veg, pesto and goats cheese tostada flatbread and some cheeky skin-on fries was what we re-fuelled with at Dogma on Byard Lane, the food was lovely and the service was brilliant.

The suit, wasn't as easy. After all of the shops, we were unsuccessful on finding a suit, other items were purchased... one shop was left and I knew it wouldn't let me down. Toppers, or as its actually called Topshop. We must have been in there for well over an hour, (the Nottingham store is quite big ya know) and I came out with two suits as I couldn't decide! And a nail varnish to add some glitter in my life.

One must go back though. It was a hard decision... the outfit is final and was wore on Saturday where many cocktails were consumed.

Suit and Leotard: Topshop
Shoes: Jeffrey Campbell
Clutch Bag: Prada

Colour Pop

Blonde, Pink, dip dye, Purple, Blonde..... 

I knew the blonde would not stay for long. So Christmas is a coming, new hair? Why not, my amazing cousin came round last week and fixed my roots, finally. But then I thought, lets do something a bit different... 

My inspiration:

Me (I went for a more grey look, than lilac): 

To maintain, I will wash with a silver shampoo and condition, twice a week... I think a new lipstick is in order.

Organisation and Determination

I am still getting used to this blogging... I have been talking to myself about the content of my next one, yet am struggling to find the time to actually write it and post it. I have been so busy with my University work and working. I work in retail, so December is MENTAL... no holidays, no days off, no illnesses.

Stress, Stress Stress.

December, please slow down.

Christmas is nearly here, that means deadlines, busy at work and Christmas shopping (which I still have yet to start) I have had my Christmas present early, a shiny new Ipad that I am currently using for this blog post. Its pretty, its white, but I have a boring case, well its a professional black leather case. So need to invest in one, maybe leopard print one or dip dye? I need to investigate.

Christmas Season = Christmas Party! My outfit is none existent, due to my life being taken over by my assignments (which I cannot wait to see the back off) but as I drifted away from my work for a second, a matching, patterned suit is what I set my eyes on - 3 days to find it, with a Uni dead line and 3 shifts at work. Bring. It. On. Here's some inspiration...

As you can probably tell, this week and the week before, have been a teeny weeny bit 'ARGH.' But I have my Ipad, (breathe), a hair appointment approaching, (breathe) and my assignment is nearly at the end, even tho I'm over my word count. Typical.

In between work, uni work, work, cleaning, uni work, uni work. I have managed to join a couple more groups on LinkedIn to hopefully help my networking, download some apps which will help with my studies and hobbies and apply for a few graduate jobs! eeeeeee, scary stuff.

Rant finished, or should I say reflective blog post finished?

Barcelona... Sonar 2012

Hola,

Dedicating this blog to the amazing week I had in Barcelona in June. For the past 2 years me and the 'boyf' had said we were going to Sonar in Barcelona. It never happened, but this year it did! And it was awesome...

What is Sonar, I hear you say. Sonar is 'the international advanced music festival', which began in 1994 and runs for three days every June. I have always wanted to do a festival, but the rain, grass and tent combination has always put me off. So this was perfect, not a drop of rain, the sun was shining and the music blaring, and self catering apartment to return back to, fabulous.

It consisted of Sonar by day on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and Sonar by night on Friday and Saturday night. The line up was massive...

I didn't know them all, and certainly didn't get to see them all, some personal favourites were:

Flying Lotus (He smashed it)
Thundercat
Mary Anne Hobbs b2b Blawan
Fat Boy Slim (Who's set started at 4am!)
Annie Mac
Hot chip
Friendly Fires
Jacques Greene
James Blake
Psilosamples (Who did a beautiful acoustic version of Al Green - 'Lets stay together')

The alcohol was quite expensive within the festival, but if you nip outside, you can visit the shop, OR Mr. Mojito guy!

So great music was surrounded by great architecture and of course style. Hoping I would one day set up a blog, I took 'street style' pictures in-case.

When the festival ended, once recovered, we saw the beautiful sights. We stayed on the edge of the Gothic Quarter, near to Port Vell, which I would recommend as it wasn't too far away but not smack bang in the middle where my knickers would be drying on Las Ramblas! Ha. It was close to the beach, and the closest metro station was like a 5 minute walk.

So who's booking to go next year? meeeeeeeeeeeee

Adiós

x

....I miss my purple hair

Here goes the first blog post. I thought I would start with background information, original I know! 

So this is me, well that was me in the summer, in Barcelona. Which I will do a blog post about soon, as I believe it deserves one.

I am 23, and in my final year at University studying Marketing and Advertising. Its actually due to a social media intern-ship, at the University of Derby, that I have finally started my own blog. Thank you. I am quite 'social media' active... I have a Facebook, for chatting, and sharing photos with all my friends that don't have an instagram. (Everyone should have one btw, it's great.) I recently became a 'tweeter' well, I tend to follow more than I actually tweet. I follow friends, brands, artists, marketing people, fashion people, the list goes on, and of course celebrities. Blogs are a favourite of mine, that might be why I never had the balls to set one up. But now I kinda have have to. Here's some shots from some of my 'bible blogs.'

The internship has also encouraged me to create a LinkedIn account, which is proving extremely useful. A Facebook for professionals. Well, not quite the same, but it is enabling me to find people who work in the industry, (that atm I can only dream of working in) and connect with them, to hopefully start networking, the possibility of work experience and who knows, maybe a job - that would be nice. (Or even just a reply, a tweet still excites me!) Any developments of this, I'm sure you will see on here, as I will not be able to contain my excitement. 

Somehow, I have found myself to be a shoefanatic, working in a shoe shop doesn't help, may I add. Here's my new pair of the week.

Anyone who knows me, will understand my latest shoe purchase. And to those who don't, you will soon come to understand. Everything about them, could be so wrong, yet so right. I bought my first pair of creepers 2 summers ago, and I can remember the day of making the decision, they were so different, no one liked them, some may have described them as ugly, yet to me, I needed them. And from then on the collection has grown. 

I love style, I follow fashion, I spend ridiculous amounts of money, (that my dad constantly reminds me that I don't have) on clothes, yet I have a love/ hate relationship with them. I am sure everyone can relate to having a wardrobe full of clothes, yet nothing to wear? What is this about. 

I recently came across this "What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is an instant language." - Muicca Prada

Chow for now people

x