dazed & confused

yay ♥

topshop tuesdays

these shoes completely remind me of my childhood. i've said before, i AM the little girl from miracle on 34th street. my mum always dressed me in mary jane's just like these, and still now, i completely love them. these are so perfect for spring & summer 2011. i love the teardrop cut out, big buckle and decent heel. i'm one of those people that walk very, very weirdly and therefore have to get their shoes reheeled all the bloody time. in fact, my £88.00 brogue boots from office that i bought in summer are all but ruined now... (must.. reheel... them... soon...)

my fashion class and i were discussing just now how dreary and horrible this winter has been and how its about high time the florals and bright colours became popular again. we need cheering up. im currently at preston uni, which i think is actually rain capital of england. it is wet. everyday. and everyday i forget my umbrella. many wasted minutes of hair straightening, backcombing and hairspraying is put to waste almost as soon as i leave the front door.

but spring is nearly here. which means sun, and cute shoes and ankle socks, bare legs and shorts.

oh hurry up summer, i cant wait to meet you again. ♥

love and lomography

happy valentines everybody ♥
this was the sight i woke up to this morning, a beautiful handmade cupcake bought for me by my beautiful boyfriend, after his morning lecture. i, like most people, am completely obsessed by everything and anything cupcake so it really made my day.

im so completely in love with this camera, but at a steep £110 i dont think its going to be mine anytime soon. i do love lomography cameras and the look they produce on film, but i do not think they are worth the money at all. they are literally toy cameras, made from cheap plastic which break easily. lomography really are cashing in on a trend. i admire them for what they're doing, but they could at least make a bit more "worth-your-money". although having ranted about this... i will still continue to use my fisheye and lust over diana's.
this weekend was my gran's ninetieth birthday, so we had a massive reunion of massive family. it was so lovely seeing all my long lost cousins and great aunties and uncles. i was flashing about with my new minolta slr so will post up some of the piccies when i've had them developed.
i'm about to go put my deposit down on my new house for next year so i'll have to dash. i'll try and post again tomorrow.
♥

post update: 8pm...

my brother and his girlfriend are engaged!!

and i'm going to be their brides maid!! too happy for both of them, and so, so excited to be a bridesmaid! :) congratulations matt and deanne ♥

totally addicted to chung

PERFUME PACKAGING BRIEF

we were asked to pick a celebrity and pick an artist or illustrator to influence our packaging designs. i chose alexa chung, an idol of mine and an illustrator called emma rios who has worked with boodles jewellery company. construction was an issue as im quite pants at time management & preplanning anything so i had to print the main body and the lid/bottom on different sheets of card and fit them together afterwards. definitely could have been neater, but im quite chuffed with my overall design.

MASSIVELY WANT THIS

it would look so pretty on my macbook ♥

love

a trip to the races

PHOTOSHOP BRIEF

for our cad design sessions, we were asked to produce a scene which used all the skills we have learnt in photoshop over the past term.

being an epsom girl, i wanted to use the epsom derby as my starting point. i then chose typical ladies day outfits and put horses heads onto the bodies. i'm really not sure if i like my final product, but it took so much work and many an hour to produce. but i guess we've all got to learn from our mistakes...

merry christmas

just a quickie cos i was SO excited about this (even though i am lying in bed with flu, on christmas day)...

i have been PINING over this aqua dress for the past three months when stumbling across it on asos.com, but pushed it to the back of my mind as it being £110 i knew neither myself nor my parents would be able to afford to buy it for me. so... come christmas day, i'm merryily opening my presents when i choose to open my god parent's bag....

POW. IT'S ONLY THE BLOODY DRESS!!!

asdiohasdoianaisdhaoisdhoadnaoih!!

im still so excited that i own it!!!!!!!!!! ahhh!!

isn't it just amazing??

i think i'll be cracking this number out for new years :).

anyway, im properly dying of this horrible flu so i will draw to a close and post all my FAB presents on in soon.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

xxxxx

xmas wish list

Topshop

cap sleeve pale blue shirt - £25.00

cap sleeve navy blue shirt - £18.00

sluggy pink jumper - £26.00

Anna Lou of London

H Necklace - £10.00

Urban Outfitters

Face Hunter styling book - £14.95

Alexander McQueen book - £19.95

Style Diaries styling book - £16.99

Muti shabby chic frame - £20.00

a new watch (again)

this is my third new watch in the past like 3 months? whoops. If you remember the four colourful Casio watches from asos that i wanted?? i recieved the orange one for my 21st birthday, last month. it hasn't left my wrist! so, with my new found obsession with casios... i bought another one... this time a neon pink one, for a very small £7.00 @ ebay. i'm so chuffed.

what else has been happening?? i drove home from uni yesterday, somehow managed to do the 5 hour journey in 4... i think i must drive a bit too fast. i still need to update with all my beautiful 21st bday pressies. i got some amazing things!

my beautiful boyfriend bought me this lovely blouse from topshop. it looks great with leggings or black skinnys, i also team it up with my brown brogues and gold accessorize watch.

i start back at monsoon today as a christmas temp. so excited to see all my old friends again :) no 75% accessorize discount this time though :'(.

i'm also thinking about starting a university portfolio blog... i really enjoyed the blog we used instead of a sketchbook.

i'll try and post again tomorrow with some more wardrobe updates!

lovelove x

Ice Queen

TREND BRIEF

i thought you guys might be interested in what i've been doing at uni at the moment...

i was given the word "solid" and was told to come up with a trend board which would represent that word in a fashion environment. we were to suggest examples of our expression of the word which a fashion designer could then interpret into a design for a collection.

it has been very, very cold and icy in preston at the moment so i took my slr out and snapped the morning frost. i then thought i could use this frost and manipulate it into a ice queen; lion, the witch and the wardrobe style.

next project i think we're doing perfume packaging.... no idea how that even comes into fashion promotion?? but it sounds like a challenge!

tapered trousers