OOTD: YOU REARRANGE MY MIND.

So this is an OOTD from what feels like ages ago; well it was my 'leaving for uni meal' so it kinda was! Sorry for not being a regular blogger lately but starting university is a busy time and I've constantly got things going on at the moment (well excessive drinking and sleeping). Now I was wearing this jumper in my last OOTD post but don't judge - it's just too darn cosy!  

JUMPER - Primark / SKIRT - Primark

 CLUTCH - Primark / BOOTS - River Island

 NAILS - Rimmel 'Pompous' / RINGS(left-right), handed down, Topshop midi rings, Miss Selfridge turquoise

 BRACELETS - ASOS & Matalan / WATCH - Micheal Kors

Oh shit, just realised this entire outfit is more or less Primark! Ah well buy it cheap then dress it up nice right? 

As always I hope you are all oh so very well and thanks for all the encouraging comments on my last post, all though I've been very busy I have still read and appreciated every single one! Remember you can follow me on bloglovin here if you want to stay up to date with all my posts and that! Lyrics in the post title are from Rearrange by Miles Kane!

IT'S FRIDAY. I'M IN LOVE #11

IT'S FRIDAY. I'M IN LOVE post number 11! That's dedication that is! Now before I tell you all the things I have been loving since last Friday I'll just share with you one thing that I have not; my poor laptop had to go to the mender's yard. So some letters on my keyboard had stopped working so I had to take my baby in to get fixed and I won't get it back for a month (how am I going to survive?). So I will now be using the family computer (yey.) for blogging purposes so if I ain't blogging as much as usual, it's because I'm trying to drag my darling mother off've Twitter.  Anyway...on with the favourites.

THIS NAIL POLISH...

Yup, I hopped aboard the ol' beauty bandwagon and bought myself some Seche Vite topcoat. I have been meaning to write about this lifesaver for awhile now so this feels long overdue. BELIEVE THE HYPE. It works! It's a miracle! Pop it on after you've painted your nails and it dries the polish quicker, makes your nails look shiny and seems to be chip resistant for up to a week. 







THIS BOOK OF POETRY...

John Cooper Clarke - Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt.

John Cooper Clarke is one of my biggest inspirations. He is a performance poet from Salford who was weaved among the punk and post-punk era who has influenced many a creative soul such as the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Alex Turner, Kate Nash and Plan B. I had the privilege of seeing him performing live at last years Lattitude festival which was definitely a highlight for me just because every time I hear or read his poetry I am inspired to write down something, anything down. So I saw this book of his poems on Amazon and immediately purchased it and have been browsing through it ever since this morning when it arrived in the post. 



THESE FOOD ITEMS...

Nomnomnom. Snack-wise I have been loving tortilla chips and spicy chilli hummus and cherry tomatoes which is very tasty and I guess pretty healthy for me. Dessert-wise I have been liking vanilla ice-cream (Tesco's is best) served with blueberries which is both refreshing and delicious and again quite healthy. I have also done a bit of baking this week and produced these chocolicious butterfly buns which were very nice indeed....if I do say so myself!


THIS SKIRT...
I won this dipped hem skirt from eBay last week, now I already have the same style skirt but in a green paisley print (worn here) and I was so happy when I won this version because it's floral and pretty and the style is easy to wear. I think it's really flattering and is just one of those 'throw it on' kind of pieces that never go wrong!








THIS DRINK...

Rekorderlig - Strawberry & Lime cider.
Yeah yeah, I've posted about this before but well it is my summertime drink of choice and it's bloody delicious. It's fruity and sweet and oh so refreshing. Serve over ice and lime et voila! 

As always I hope you are all very well and don't forget to stay up to date with all of my posts by following me on bloglovin here!

IT'S FRIDAY. I'M IN LOVE #8

So this is my eighth It’s Friday. I’m In Love…doesn’t time fly! I have been pretty busy working this week (only one full day off – sob) but I have still had a lot of time to find some favourites.  So let’s roll on with them…

BARGAIN BEAUTY BUYS

So I went on a rather unintentional shopping trip earlier this week to a lot of budget shops, and I will be putting up a full haul post tomorrow so look out for that but in the meantime I just thought I'd share with you my joy at finding a lot of stuff for little pennies. So if you do live in the UK I would definitely recommend checking out shops such as Boyes, Home Bargains and Poundland because you can often find a lot of good brands and discounted prices which is always a bonus for the old bank balance! 

MY TELEVISION ADDICTIONS THIS WEEK:

SKINS RISE PART II 

Okay so I think from these IF.IIL  posts we have established that I am just a little bit obsessed with Skins but I promise after this post this is the last time you’ll hear me banging on about it! Anyway it was the last ever episode this past Monday and it ended with the final part to Cook’s story and it was epic. It was like a proper grown up gritty drama piece with sensational acting. It was somewhat heartbreaking to see Skins go but the story was perfect for Cook.

SOUTHCLIFFE. 

So if you live in the UK then you might have seen this advertised quite a bit as of late. It is shocking to watch, after all it is about an ex-soldier who goes on a violent shooting spree in the sleepy fictional seaside town of Southcliffe but it is also kind of brilliant. It jumps backwards and forwards in time quite a bit and uses a lot of close camera angles. Instead of doing the old cops and robbers ‘catch the criminal’ narrative the director chose to show us the reactions and consequences of a town ripped apart which makes for an altogether more real and hard-hitting viewing experience.

I’M ALAN PARTRIDGE. I LOVE Alan Partridge and all of this week I have been watching the old series repeats back. Personally I think Alan Partridge is British humour at its best and I might reference it all too much in real life. 

THE LAST OF US.

Okay so I am gonna look like a total geek here (well I am) and say that I have been obsessed with a PS3 game called The Last Of Us; a zombie-apocalyptic game set in 2033. Now I have wanted to play this for ages after watching the full walkthrough on YouTube here (total geek alert.) but I have finally managed to play it properly. It's more of a movie than a typical video game and the characters and the plots are engaging and fresh plus the main character is a bad-ass fourteen year old girl who looks a lot like Juno. Yeah, I like it a lot. 

MY GRANDAD'S BIRTHDAY!

So last Saturday it was my Grandad's birthday and so all the family went for a lovely family meal on the Friday. It was so nice catching up with my cousins before we all leave for University in September and it was so nice to see my Gran & Grandad enjoying themselves after having a pretty rubbish time of late. I do like a family get-together every now and then, even if it is just because my aunt is funny when she's pissed.   

EAR CANDY.

RIZZLE KICKS - LOST GENERATION. I like the Rizzle Kicks okay. They made the trumpet cool again and I am liking their new song a hell of a lot. Lost Generation is really summery and really catchy.  

FOALS - BAD HABIT. Oh I love this song to pieces, I love the whole album in fact - it is certianly a contender for my album of the year. This song in particular feels really dark but also really summery and I really like this contrast.

SWIM DEEP - KING CITY. This was my song of the summer last year and it probably still is for this year and I am so pleased they are finally getting the recognition they deserve.

LANA DEL REY - COLA. Okay this song is a little bit cheeky and it makes me giggle a bit everytime I hear the first line but I just love it. All Lana Del Rey songs seem to transport me to a convertible in the L.A sunshine and wearing some heart shaped sunglasses and this is totally a good thing in my eyes. 

MILEY CYRUS - WE CAN'T STOP. Oh my am I admitting this? I cannot get this song out of my head - it is so bloody catchy. I can't stop singing it, damn you 2013 Miley for you catchy song and tough-girl attitude. 

So that's it for another IF.IIL. I'm now going to play some more of The Last Of Us. What have you been loving this past week? Oh and of you haven't already then please follow me on bloglovin here and thankyou all so much for my 100+ followers this week I feel utterly honoured!

THE BUCKET LIST POST

So I have been toying around with this idea for a while and since y’know yolo (oh shoot me now) and that I thought I’d go ahead and do a post about it. I have come up with the entirely brand spanking new idea of creating a bucket list for myself (oh, how original). I often find that I can get stuck in a bit of a rut when it comes to life experiences and all that so I figured I’d make a list (because I just loves me a list) of all the things I want to do, see and try before I’m old and grey that I can tick of as and when I achieve them.  So this is my list below, which I will store on a page entitled ‘Bucket List’ (genius.). I figured that if I actually publish this on my blog then I will have to cross stuff off it. 

• Get a tattoo
• Go to New York
• Fall in love
• Visit Paris
• Learn to drive
• See Arctic Monkeys live
• Learn how to knit
• Go on a spontaneous roadtrip
• Buy a house
• Be side of stage at a gig
• Dye my hair pink or blue
• To throw a dart on a map and visit the place it lands
• Go on a rollercoaster
• Convince someone I’m foreign
• See Rihanna live
• Complete a video game
• Throw a dinner party
• Buy a goldfish
• Write a book
• Go to the cinema in the morning and not come out till at least midnight
• Get VIP access to an event
• Pay for my parents to go on holiday
• Go to a carnival
• Stop biting my fingers
• Graffiti a wall
• Add a lock to the lover’s bridge in Paris
• Peirce my own ears
• Get my passport
• Go strawberry picking
• Watch a thunder & lighting storm on the beach.
• Ride an elephant
• Go on a pub crawl
• Dance in the rain
• Get a degree
• Go grocery shopping in the middle of the night
• Ride on the back of a motorbike
• Go to Morocco
• Try oysters
• Have something published in a magazine
• Have kids
• Go somewhere entirely new by myself for a day
• Try popping candy with ice-cream
• Learn how to fishtail braid my hair
• Eat fish ‘n’ chips on the end of a pier
• Make a call from a telephone box
• Pretend to have a different name for a day
• Get a tragus piercing
• Put loads of washing up liquid in a water fountain
• Learn a card trick
• Kiss under fireworks
• Go to Disneyland again
• Go to more festivals, big and small.
• Go to Amsterdam…
• Go wine / cider tasting
• Throw a drink in someone’s face (you know, like in the movies)
• Hail a taxi

HAVE YOU GOT A BUCKET LIST? / HAVE YOU GOT ANY BUCKET LIST IDEAS?

As always I hope you are all well!