Festivals & What I Wore!

Hiiiii. As I've spent most of my summer 'festivalling' I thought I'd share with you what I wore to my most recent one, Redfest. Festival fashion is my favourite, it's basically an excuse to wear what ever you want. As you can see I didn't go too crazy... but I love seeing what everyone else is wearing at festivals:)

Outfit 1. For the first day of Redfest I wore my fail-safe, all time favourite Topshop denim shorts and paired them with this white top with a galaxy cross motif from New Look. As for footwear I had to wear my wellies for the whole weekend as it was so muddy!

Outfit 2. You may recognise this play suit from Topshop as it was featured in one of my recent posts. This is my favourite item for this summer, so simple and easy. In the evening I threw on a baggy black Topshop jersey over the top.

Outfit 3. This black dress is actually so old, it's from H&M and it always seems to creep back into my wardrobe every Summer... its so simple and comfortable in hot weather (which we were lucky enough to have!) here I wore it with my favourite scarf, if you know me you'll know I've been wearing this scarf practically every day this summer. I love the subtle skull detail and how lightweight it is, and the colour virtually goes with anything, and again that's from Topshop.

If you live in the Surrey/Kent area I would really recommend a visit to redfest next year! It's such a good bargain for the amount of music you get to see. My friends and I go every year and love it.

Galaxy Nails Tutorial Video!

Hi guys... I made a video! So here's a tutorial for you all as it was so highly requested from my 'Galaxy Nails' post. Enjoy!!! x

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Galaxy Nails

 As I am a lover of all things sci-fi and 'out of this world', I couldn't help but notice the gorgeous galaxy nail trend that seems to be floating around the Internet at the moment. Really surprised how easy it was to get this effect! This is by the my most favourite nail art I've done.
Let me know if you would like to see a tutorial!! :)

On the subject of stars, I got my Astro Lamp in the post yesterday! wooo. My boyfriend and I put it together last night and it looks amazing. Star gazing in the bedroom!

Mini Wish List

1. I NEED some heeled Chelsea boots in my life. I was longing after a pair from New Look for ages at £60.... yes £60! From New Look? Madness. But then I found these from a little store on the Internets for £35, a lot more reasonable. They are currently out of stock but as soon as they some back in they are going straight in my shopping basket!
2. I would really like a retro Casio watch, I don't normally wear watches but the thought came to me after reading Company Magazine's 'Saved by the Bell' inspired fashion page. I love that the 80's/90's are coming back round. Keep it coming!
3. This isn't a specific item, I just need to stock on jewellery! I have my fave pieces which I wear pretty much every day and I want to find some more little bits. I found the perfect little website called 'Kukee' It's so cheap! Will be making my first order very soon! www.kukee.co.uk
4. Love this jumper. Found it on pinterest and I have no idea where I can buy it :( I need it.
5. Now this is a bit of a cheat item... because I already have it. I've wanted this Topshop play suit for so long and I found it in the sale - winning! Love love love it, been wearing it every other day like a loser.
6. Now for the non-fashion related item. I'm going to start a little project. As I've always said one day when I have my own home, I would like a huge map of the world to hang on the wall. I saw this picture on pinterest and thought - I could do that! So I'm going to buy a blank canvas and have a little paint, and hopefully the result will be as good as this! Then eventually I can take it with me to my first home to add a bit of a personal touch :)

Learning Curve

These past few weeks have been a massive learning curve for me, as I seem to have found myself at a bit of a dead end. I am once again, unemployed.
Turns out all the hard work and hours I have been putting in for the past 3 months have not benefited me at all. I won't go into it in too much detail but basically it involves a internship and not a very successful outcome!
This has given me a chance to think, and take a good look at myself, and I have come to the conclusion that I am too nice. I seem to go out of my way to please and impress other people, without thinking about myself. I need to learn how to say no to people.
I have always considered myself to be a strong person, but recently I seem to have burst into tears for pathetic reasons, more times than I can remember. Which makes me think that maybe I have been trying to be strong for too long now, and my mind and body can't take it anymore. I have almost 8 years of locked up emotions catching up on me now.
So now is my time to work on myself, have a little cry, and pick myself back up again. I need to spend some time travelling, making music, being with people I love and looking at the beautiful world we live in. Because life is too short.

I don't know what career path I want to take, but hopefully in this time I will find my place.
I will also have more time for blogging! ;)


So here's some snippets of what I've been up to while I've been a bit MIA...

Radio 1 Hackney Weekend, The Eden Project, Hackney Weekend, Summer Classical Concert, Open Mic Night - Jubilee, Family Summer BBQ

Happy Fathers Day

A slightly different post today, appologies in advance for the morbid tone! As today is fathers day I thought it only appropriate to dedicate this post to my daddy, and possibly share some things that don't often get said.

Unfortunately I lost my dad just over 7 years ago, it came as a real surprise to everyone and just looking back at photos for this post today, I am still so over whelmed with sadness that I can honestly never see going away. I think about him every day, and I miss him every day.

I don't want to make a whole post about my self pity, I just want to say that I hope everyone treated their dads today, and every day, like they are the best man on the whole planet, because I would give anything to see mine again, and tell how much I love him.

If I can ever find way to put my emotions, experiences and memories into words, I will one day write a separate post about my amazing dad, but for now, some other words...

If tears could build a stairway,
and memories a lane.
I would walk right up to Heaven
and bring you back again.

No farewell words were spoken,
No time to say "Goodbye".
You were gone before I knew it,
and only God knows why.

My heart still aches with sadness,
and secret tears still flow.
What it meant to love you -
No one can ever know.

But now I know you want me
to mourn for you no more;
To remember all the happy times
life still has much in store.

Since you'll never be forgotten,
I pledge to you today~
A hollowed place within my heart
is where you'll always stay.