Jubilee Garden Party

When invited to a jubilee garden party by my grandparents I didn’t think too much about what I was going to wear. Having only just arrived back home from university it was not at the top of my priorities. So when the moment arrived when I actually had to crawl out of bed and chose something there was only one dress I could think of. It is my old faithful. I bought this dress when I used to work at Next. I saw it one day behind a rack of other clothes and I hid it in the back store room to buy later on. Since then it has helped me through many an occasion. It can be worn both in summer and winter simply with a change of tights; it can be a casual dress to wear to the beach or a more formal affair for dinners out. An all rounder really. I know it’s not a very patriotic dress, not being red, white or blue, but this dress helped me through yet another occasion.

The other bits a bobs I was wearing wear very cheap items with I always wear with this dress. The belt is from H&M; only cost me about £6 and goes with everything. I really enjoy wearing a belt because of the hourglass figure I seem to be sporting. The shoes, which are slightly out of shot, are cheap ones from Primark that I bought when brogues were all the rage.

These things help most outfits and all in all didn’t cost very much. I got the dress with my Next discount (25% off), and the rest are simply cheap accessories.

The Spontaneous Nights Are The Best

I do enjoy a good spontaneous night out. Last night ones of these. Me and my friend JS and her friend that was visiting from home AS decided to go to a little pub down the road called 'The Cask', we knew it was open mic night there and a few people we know are regular performers. I took it as a very casual night and simple wore jeans, a baggy jumper, converse and had my hair up. I also vowed that i was not going to drink because of the 9am lecture i had the next morning. Yeah, that went a little bit to pot! Got there and the first thing i did was order a cider and black! 3 of them and 2 double archers later i could no longer deny that i was drunk. Yet the casual night turned out to be lovely. We all laughed so much and made friends with loads of new people (even if the friendships were made because of arguments over Ed Sheeran). Then from 'The Cask' it was on to 'Bacchus', our amazing local, where we danced and danced and danced until the lights came up. Then crawled into bed to get up at 8am and do it all over again :)

Dress Up Times

In my house we love a good themed night where it gives us the chance to go all out and look a little bit like idiots. For this occasion it was my friend FH's birthday with the theme of favourite flora and fauna. So, not doing this half arsed, i went as a lion.

That is me as a lion ^. Pretty good i think! Now for a run down of the outfit...

• Hair - Backcombed to within an inch of its life - not fun to comb out the next day
• Face - Yellow face paint that lasts forever and is only £3 and a good friend (JS) who is very creative and will willingly do all my makeup :)
• T-shirt - Bought from a charity shop for £1.75. Is a size 16/18 but when tucked into a skirt it doesn't really matter
• Skirt - Bought as a present from my friend RK for my birthday
• Tights - Borrowed off FH. I later destroyed said tights and they are now in the bin

On the whole i think a good outfit for very little money. A little imagination is all that is needed.

Fashion Timesssss

I came to a bit of a block with what to write about in this blog. Not much has been happening recently that would be of much interest so i thought about doing a bit of fashion. I'm not completely up to date with latest trends and that but, as my sister has told me before, I'm not too bad at doing the student wardrobe thing and making something out of nothing. So here goes...

Saturday Night Out
As i do every Saturday i went out to the local bar called Bacchus, don't tend to venture in to town on a weekend because its a bit rough. Bacchus is an underground bar that looks a little like an old ladies front room, but it is possibly the friendliest place anyone could go.

This is what i wore ^^. The clothes i am actually wearing are not mine. I am quite fortunate that all my closest friends that i live with are the same or similar size to me so we do a lot of sharing. This play suit is from my neighbour JS which she kindly lent me. After going out every night last week i began to get stuck in a rut with my clothes, i got the feeling they had all been overused and felt it time for a change, and that is where JS came in. 

26th January - A little catch up

It's been a while since i wrote on here so thought it be best to fill in on what I've been up to since the new year.

I had a trip to London to visit some Uni friends and had a thoroughly lovely time. We spent the first day there shopping in Ilford and then going out to a free gig in Hoxton in the evening. Being students and all we tried to find as much free stuff to do as possible. The next day we then went to the natural history museum which i have never been to before, and found it fascinating! Not only that but it is such a lovely building as well, i would recommend if going for nothing else, go for the architecture.

A couple of days after returning from London, i made my way back up to Scarborough for the start of the new semester. It was lovely to see all my Uni friends again, i didn't think i would miss them quite as much as i did. But i wasn't back in Scarborough for long though, having only one exam on the first day of the two week exam period meant that i was going to be very bored for two weeks whilst everyone was revising, so i did a bit of a tour visiting some friends at their universities because they are all pretty close to one another.

I started in Nottingham where it was a very casual couple of days with lots of eating out and having chilled out drinks in the student union bar. I then moved on the Leicester with the friend i visited in Nottingham and that was a little more intense. When we arrived we went to a lovely pub lunch and then headed back to the halls my friend was staying in, to have a nap and then get ready for a night out. It was one of her flatmates birthdays so the entire flat was going out. We went to their student union, which is nothing like the one back in Scarborough. Ours is thoroughly a little bar whereas theres is a massive nightclub. It was a lovely night though as it was indie night and i knew all the music :)

So that's me pretty much filled in. Hope you all had a nice Christmas and New Year!

23rd December - And here we go again...

As the title suggests, here we go again!

Today i have slept to my heart content to try and get rid of the insane headache i had due to last nights antics. The cat Oscar happily joined me and we had a nice nap together to try and get the energy for the evening.

I went for drinks with my sister (life of a vegetarian girl) because she had broken up from work and wanted to go for cocktails. I only stayed out till 9 though because i was invited to a girly sleepover at DC (this one is female)'s house with my other friend PR. We gorged on Chinese takeaway as well as watching lots of films. One thing we did that got me in the Christmas spirit though was that we played board games, cluedo and monopoly (i went bankrupt).

I do love girly nights :)

Signing out

22nd December - A house party with friends

My friend DC always organises parties and get togethers when we are all back because i think he gets bored being in Derby. So last night was the nigh of one of the get togethers, and i have to say i had really mixed feelings about it.

For one, i understand that the start of any party is a little bit slow, but right at the start none of my closest friends were there so i felt conversation etc was a little strained, also the people that were there didn't drink very much, whereas i do (what uni does to ya guys) so i felt i was being a little bit judged because i was walking around with a bottle of cider.

But then, when everyone got there, especially one of my best friends PR it really began to be good and i realised how much i missed all my friends. We all got a little drunk (partly due to mine and DC's competitive sides when it comes to drinking. We had a shot competition... I am 5 foot 2 at most and he is well over 6 foot, i think we know who came off better) and ended up having a genuinely nice time.

That was until things began to get a little weird with DC, as it does with most guys, when he invited me back to his room. It doesn't bother me too much because i know that he was out his face drunk and i also know, that like me, he becomes a very lovey person when he is under the influence. I was not going to mention this to him when i saw him the next morning but my oh so lovely friend PR decided to announce it to him because she had overheard him asking me. Ultimately he went very red and the silence that followed was one that could have been cut with a knife. Guys eh?

Signing out