Tartan and Stripes : Style Diary

Todays outfit expresses the epitome of casual.

 A slouchy knit jumper with a voile trim, paired with my favourite ripped jeans and soft scarf makes for the best uni look! I don't know if it has something to do with the colder weather, but I love being able to dress up in warm winter jumpers and boots without worrying about being too hot! 

My striped jumper is an oldie from Hollister that I picked up in the Braintree outlet store. What a lifesaver that shop is! You can pick up some great bargains. My jeans are Topshop Jamie jeans with rips. I paired the outfit with my Cashmink scarf from House of Fraser and love how comfortable and soft it is. The best £5 spent in the black Friday sale! Finally I paired the outfit with my classic Zara tote bag. This bag is perfect for uni as it fits all of my sewing materials as well as my other bits and bobs. Plus it is super easy to just throw things into it! 

I put my hair into a side fishtail braid. One of the most easy plaits to do which looks like lots of effort has been made! 

This is what I spent most of my day staring at today! Although I wouldn't change it for the world! 

After getting in from my water aerobics class my mum told me to pop upstairs and look in the bathroom. She had very cutely put out my pyjamas and dressing gown on the towel warmer so they were lovely and toasty for when I put them on. She is super duper cute! (Pyjama Set- Victoria Secret, Dressing Gown- Victoria Secret) 

 Hope you have a lovely rest of your day! 

Let me know what you have got up to!

Lots of love, 

The great return..

If you are a follower of this blog, or have just happened to come across this little space on twitter, in that case hello!, then you may have noticed the small gap on this blog over the last couple of weeks. Basically so many things have happened suddenly in my life that I decided to spend some time away from my computer and with loved ones. Not going into to much detail, but things haven't been so great but are slowly getting better.

One of the best news is that I have finished university for the year! My uni has finished so much earlier than others which works in my advantage because it means I can gain some work experience.
I have a couple of work experience's already lined up for the next two weeks which I am SO excited about. Hopefully I can expand my knowledge of the fashion industry as well as how a magazine/blog works too! I will share all about my experience at a later date i'm sure! As for now I will leave this blog post short and sweet with a few images that I have taken over the past couple of weeks!
Hope you are all well! And as always thanks for taking the time out of your day to read my posts :)

Working on my final project in the sewing room at University

A Calico version of my final project 

Details!

Afternoon lunch with my mum and grandma!

So amazing! 

Everybody loves a scone! But where's it s'gone?...

Something nice about being up in London before 10am!

The beautiful architecture that is London

Some hats in Topshop flagship store!

Topshop Flagship store in Oxford Street is amazing!

Shoes, Shoes, Shoes!

My dream is to own a pair of these shoes!  

Food porn!

Incredible window display in Nike!

More shoes!

even more shoes! 

Flowers!  

Marble post inside the V&A Museum!

My little bunny rabbit!

Quite the poser!

The wonders of garlic bread!

Original freshly squeezed still lemonade...YUM!

Yummy Pudding! 

Savage Beauty exhibition at V&A

Homemade Chinese takeaway!

Desserts!

Thanks

Time for a change!

I thought I would share this picture from my holiday! 

Hello!

I don't know really where to begin with this post. But I guess it should start with a huge sorry. Sorry that I haven't posted since July, and sorry that before then my posts didn't have the usual character that I wanted them to. I have had writers block. I always read about people experiencing this and how 'tough' it was for them not knowing what to write about. I always laughed because I thought that it was an excuse out of doing something or a easy way to get a break. But it is truly the most annoying thing ever! 

Like many of you reading this, I started my blog with all of these fresh ideas and inspirations with how I thought my blog would go. To a certain degree blogging has surpassed everything I could ever have thought it would be. Although I don't have a huge follower count, when I post I get sincere comments which honestly do mean the world to me. As a shy, anxious person knowing that somebody reads my blog and they enjoy it makes me feel really happy. And it has been making me feel happy. The last couple of posts I have done have all been reviews or hauls because they are easy to do, but they aren't what I truly want to be writing about. Somewhere down the line of writing my blog my route has changed from 'Fashion' posts to more 'Beauty'. This is partly down to the fact that I didn't want to be seen in my pictures as I found it very awkward asking people to take them for me. I also am not a very confident person so wanted to give it time before I actually appeared on my blog. Don't get me wrong I LOVE reading beauty blogs myself, and over the past couple of years really enjoy experimenting with makeup and shopping for it, but fashion and style is truly where my passion is at. 

I just felt like I needed to write this post to set some things about my blog straight. Firstly as I said I love beauty and would still like to feature this on my blog occasionally fashion and style posts are what I want to do more of. I am starting a fashion design course in September so hope that this will help me to gain back some inspiration. Secondly I want to become more involved within the blogging community. Like everything I began to get very weighed down by numbers and views. I want to blog for the fun of it like I did at the very beginning. Finally I just want to thank everyone who has ever commented on a post, or messaged me on twitter. It does mean a lot and I am so thankful that I am able to talk to so many lovely people. Seeing as my blog has turned one years old I can honestly say that the blogging community are so supportive and welcoming. 

I hope you are all well and have had a lovely summer break. I can't wait to be blogging again! I hope you enjoy some more of my style posts very soon I can't wait to show you what I have been working on! 

Thank-you again. 

xoxo