Holiday house

Regular readers will know that I recently went to France, and we stayed in a little woodland cottage the first week which which lovely, and the second week, an absolutely GORGEOUS place, done up by an extreeeemely artistic English lady. Everything in the house was wonderfully vintage and mismatched and just loverly loverly. I, of course, felt it was far too big an opportunity to miss out, so took some photos to share :)

Looking up from the stairs.

There were loads of vintagey hats and old books everywhere.

And a huuuge amount of pots, vases, glasses, ornaments, and general decoration.

I LOVE this mirror! Looks like its from a church or something :P And there were lots of those metal lantern all over the house.

Not to mention a MASSIVE collection of DVDs to keep me occupied! I just had such an amazing time :)

Someone has a new dress...

I have a story to tell. So here we go, enjoy!

I popped into Miss Selfridge the other day with my friend Rhiannon and had a look in the sale rail, and I found a lovely satin dress, that I quite liked, and it was in a size 4 too :D I tried it on, and really liked it, but it had a broken zip and I thought that it couldn't be mended. When I got home, I told my mum about it, and she said that she could really easily show me how to fix it, so I rushed back next day, and found the dress. But unfortunately, it wasn't there in a 4, a 6, or an 8. I found one in a 10 though, with a broken zip, but it was massive on me. I bought it anyway, but didn't feel too hopeful. When I took it home, my mum showed me how to fix the zip, then helped me sew in two darts which only took about five minutes, and then it fitted perfectly.

I'm so bad at taking pictures of myself xD

Its a lovely pale greeny colour, in satin. And its GORGEOUS! And the most amazingest wonderful bit of it all it the PRICE! Make a guess now... and see if you're right! You'll be surprised! It was ....

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£3.50

I KNOW! Three pounds fifty for a beautiful prom dress! That's only 40p extra than the price of a Starbucks Vanilla Cream Frappucino (my favourite :P )

It was reduced from £50, in the sale! SOOOO happy about that! Ahh, bargains like this make life worth living :D

What bargains have any of you lovelies got recently? :) xx

(I've only just noticed I have quite obvious tan lines in this picture - you can see two white triangles where I was wearing a halterneck bikini all summer hahaha :P )

No more summer

And so, the summer comes to an end. :( And I'm back at school. I'm gonna miss just being able to sleep all the time and go out with all my friends up to London and round each others' houses... But the good news is I get to see them all at school EVERY DAY YAAY! So its not so bad.

I had another wonderful time at Tania's a few days ago, yes, the lovely Tania of forget me not . She is interested in photography, and I am always willing to offer my services as a model for her :P And she has given me all of the images, so I thought I might share some of them with you all. I've put most of them in black and white and sepia, I think they look better :)

Here's my lovely £14 New Look maxi from a few posts back, with Accessorize earrings (a present) and my bikini (we went swimming :P ) And the sunglasses are Tania's.

Wearing a Primark skater-type top, £6. With a Topshop £3 (in the sale :D ) necklace.

It was kinda windy xD

I wish everyone the best of luck for the new school year! xxxxxx

Body Shop

I have always lovvvved the Body Shop. I used to go in when I was younger and try out all the free samples with my mum :) And if I'm honest, not much has changed! I went in about a week ago with my friend to try out some of their lovely products, when I saw something AMAZING! By the door, there were little free plastic pots for you to fill with Body Shop samples and take home with you! As I'm sure you can imagine, I was insanely excited by this, and proceeded to fill as many as I could to try out at home :P In the end I left with this:

I've put together a few reviews of everything I've tried out :)

BODY SCRUB:

This is cherry body scrub (from cherries grown in Italy, the nice lady in the shop said), and it is really good. You can see some of the little black seeds in there that help to scrub off dry skin. It smells more of artificial cherry sweets than actual cherry, but I'm not complaining as I love both.

Even now as I type, I can still smell the sweet smell wafting up :P Such a lovely product :)

BODY LOTION:

These are really good, I have here satsuma on the left and strawberry on the right. The lotion is quite thin, but feels very soft and light to use. They both smell incredible, both sweet, fruity and fresh. The only thing I would say is that often they don't come out of the dispenser easily - you can see the satsuma tester is only half full. But otherwise, just wonderful.

BODY BUTTER:

I've always loved these. Much thicker than the body lotion, but incredibly moisturising. The scents aren't quite as intense, they all have a similar underlying smell, but they are very thick and feel luxurious. However they can leave your skin a little greasy if you use too much. Here I have satsuma on the left, then mango, then cherry.

SHOWER GEL:

I've never tried these before, but I have to say I'm impressed. They lather well, and the scents are great. Here I have, from left to right, strawberry, cherry and satsuma. They leave a very fruity smell in the air as well as on me :P Lovely :)

I never thought I'd like any of these products as much as I do now once I've tried them in place of other products at home, but I love them all! Whoever came up with such a great idea to take testers home is amazing! I definitely know now what I'm asking for for Christmas....

Summer

Now I'm back from holiday, my mum doesn't go back to work til I go back to school, so this is again the time of the summer when we do house projects, woo! This involves painting bedrooms (four years back), getting new wardrobes (last year), and relaying carpet (this year). So I've had eeever so much fun taking everything out of my room, and have only just put it all back. Which was kind of boring, but also really nice just to check through all my stuff, rediscover little presents or craft kits, and make everything tidy and pretty and exciting. I guess it's a good thing to have to have a bit of a clear out really. I really tried to make it look very personal so I've taken a few photos to show you all my hard work, and you can find out a bit more about me from them :)

I have a long line of all my books, in alphabetical order by author. A bit like my own little library :) I'm not particularly patriotic or anything, but I couldn't think where else to put a Union Flag and I thought here sort of worked :P

Lanyards from two concerts I won tickets for, Pixie Lott and JLS (which were both AMAZING), which I've hung here to make me look like a festivally type, haha :P You can also see the beginnings of my mini indoor jungle on the right. I love having plants in my room, makes it feel healthier :)

Here you can see my radio/tape/cd player, tuned, of course, to my favourite radio station ever, 95.8 Capital FM :D oh the love. That blue envelope under it has all my tickets of concerts I've been to in it, including the Jingle Bell Ball (I won tickets, yays! you can see a red confetti heart on the shelf above that I caught there, which I've kept just for a reminder of how wonderful it was), and Scouting for Girls :) Also a fresh rose in a vase on the far left, I love a little natural beauty.

An overall view :) I'm aiming for a warm, cosy comfy feel, but also very tidy. Haha, you can see all my cuddly toys at the top lined up in size order :P And of course my laptop so I can write to all you beautiful people :)

That's it, I hope you enjoyed seeing a little bit more about me! Also a HUGE thank you to everyone said such lovely things to me about my results :)

And its results day......

So, today came at last.... I'm not in year 11 yet, so I didn't have that many results, but but I must admit I was SO SO SO incredibly nervous. I'm extremely embarrassed to say I started crying before I even got the results, I just really didn't know what to expect! And now I can say I am so impossibly happy with them! I got:

GCSEs:
Latin - A
IT - Distinction

GCSE modules:
Physics - A
Chemistry - A*
Biology - A*
Maths - A*
DT - A*

I am so happy, I worked so hard and I'm so pleased it has paid off! I hope anyone else with results did brilliantly! :)


So, that aside, I thought I might share some of the lovely dolls' house photos I took the other day at the dolls' house shop for my art project, because the attention to detail is amazing, and I just think they're beautiful :) If you didn't know the scale, you would probably think they were actual size rooms! I hope you enjoy :)

Dolls' Houses

I love dolls' houses. Aren't they beautiful? All my life I have been fascinated by them. I have video of me at about two getting furniture for my first ever dolls' house. I wasn't a messy sort of child, I was very very very neat. I laid everything out perfectly, and you can see me adjusting the position of the pillows very very slightly, just so it was perfect. Nothing much has changed! Haha, I still tidy it up sometimes. :P

I'm trying to find a way of incorporating them into my prep for my art gcse mock as I have the idea of making a little room, about the size of a large shoebox, with everything in it, but miniature and made by me :) So for prep I've been taking some pictures of my dolls' house and I popped along to the dolls' house shop near me and took some photos.



This is what I wore on my way. I have no idea what compelled me to take this photo, I guess the sun came out and I felt inspired :P It's quite an un-me-ish outfit, but I thought it worked and its always great to try something new :) This maxi dress is from New Look, AAAND in the sale :D £14 from £30, I think. I love a good bargain, I do! And the bag is from my uncle, and the worst thing is I can't remember where its from! I know its from some of his foreign travels, but I can't for the live of me remember where! :( It's one of those things that I put in my wardrobe and retrieved recently and thought, yeah, I like this! So this is its first appearance with me :)

Holiday!

Ahh, you must forgive me! I have not blogged for like, ever! I've neglected my blog again :'( I've been on holiday in France! Which was so good, but now I need to tend to my blog :)

While I was out there, my mum was trying to immerse me in the language, suggesting I read books on french history, which I erm, refused. So our compromise was french fashion and beauty magazines :D which are basically the same ones as in Britain but translated :P And I have seen some BEAUTIFUL things which I'm going to show you.

These pictures are all scanned in from the August edition of Glamour, en francais :)



I officially love this. I just, adore fifties fashion. This is just so beautiful, so elegant, so feminine. VERY flattering, chic, glamourous, and just one of my favourite things ever. LOVE LOVE LOVE. It reminds me of when I was younger and spent all my time drawing princess dresses with tight bodices and huge skirts. So uhh, if anyone happens to have 2734 euros spare to give me to buy this outfit, then I'd appreciate it. Hahaa, I can always dream... :P








I never thought I'd actually like a all-in-one knitted ski-suit. But somehow, I love this! Knitwear is coming back and this Dolce and Gabbana jumpsuit just does it aaall for me. I adore all those patterns and the cute little reindeer :)

Fabric!

Ahh, I'm back! And I've finished my work experience! I have to say it was really good, but I just got so exhausted and there were times when I had nothing to do :P But what I did was really fun, I learnt so much :)

One of the things I did was speak to a lovely french machinist who showed me the different seams and hems. And he gave me some fabric samples to keep with them on, and so I have some BEAUTIFUL duchess satin. I've never been a huge fan of satin, if I'm honest, but I think this is just gorgeous, and such a rich colour. So I really want to make something out of it. Basically, any ideas of what to make, anyone? I'm open to any suggestions :)

Work Experience

Hey!
I feel I've been neglecting my blog! so here I am on my lovely shiny new iPod (see post below) to write you lots of boring writing, sorry about that :(

So, the reason I've been so busy with non-bloggish things is that I'm on work experience! Which is completely stealing all of my energy! I think I'm rather glad that true working life is a long way off :P


I've been at Aurora Fashions, they own Warehouse, Coast, Karen Millan, Oasis and some other ones I can't remember haha :P and I've been specialising in the Coast part. The whole building is just amazing! It is SO posh inside! The whole top floor where i have my little temporary desk (with an amazing view over London) is open plan and is full of computer islands, sewing machines, beautiful prom dresses hanging everywhere, rolls of fabric and spools of thread and mannequins :) it is a haven of clothing beauty!

Yesterday I went to this meeting where they put these dresses on a model and make TINY alterations, they are so precise, there is actually no room for imperfection! It just killed though to see them chopping off and repinning the strap to be sent back and modified on a beautiful prom dress worth about £300 because it was slightly at the wrong angle! Amazing! And today I used this machiney thing to cut out a pattern for a Karen Millan shirt, which will be sewn up by a machinist and used to decide whether the fabric is good enough to use to sell. So, rather exciting :P It's amazing to learn all about the whole process of making a garment. I'm having a really good time, the only thing I'd say is that the day is SO LONG for me to get used to!

If you have any questions about it, feel free to ask! And sorry for all this writing, I'll try to put some more pictures next time! :P