home, wallpaper and a bloody big mess.

Hello! I'm back from my few days in Essex and I'm throwing myself into preparing my room before Marko gets home, so that we can paint it and get it looking luusssshhh for my birthday - which is coming up very soon! I'm so excited! 2 days and my baby is home and a few weeks and I'll be 16!

I just wanted to show you THE coolest wallpaper that mummy found..

Its called Frames and it can be bought here from B&Q. Isn't it just the coolest?! I was set on having stripes, which I knew would be a challenge, but thinking about all the possibilities with this is getting me really excited! I love it already!

Now all I've got to do is decide if I'm still going to have the green, blue and pink on the other 3 walls, or if I should have just blue and green. The colours are so yummy though! I want them all!

They're wayyyy brighter and more vibrant in person but.. Gah! I cant wait for it all to be finished! I'll be slacking with the posts and will have to postpone my July playlist until it's all finished as I'm still sleeping on a mattress on the floor, surrounded by boxes and wallpaper covered floors.. It's a long and tedious process!
But in the meantime, me and Milo are just waiting for our favourite Serbian to come home :)

xox

he's over 1100 miles away and yet my boyfriend still dresses me..

Marko is STILL in Serbia.. *sighhhhh* but there's only 8 more days 'till he comes home! But the other day, he decided that he wanted to dress me for my girlie night with one of my closest mates. And actually, he picked quite well!

Just trying out some of the apps on mah new phone as you can see! I LOVE retrocamera! It's basically an app that has loads of old style cameras to choose from that take a picture as if it was taken with one of those retro cameras. For someone like me that loves polaroids and vintage photography, it was perfect! And it was free!

Speaking of Marko, I got his postcard from Slovenia today.. A good 2 weeks after he sent it! But it made me smile 'cause some of the stuff he wrote is so typical him ^^

Ooh yeah! Look what I found earlier..

Isn't this the coolest?! I've seen loads of people with real spiral stretchers and thought they were really cool, but the idea of spending agesssss stretching your ears seemed really boring, and it's not always good if you're trying to get a job, like me! So this is perfect! There's a few other sizes and styles, but these are the cheapest I've found - £2.95 plus £1.75 shipping on Amazon. I'm seriously considering getting one, even though I've heard that they can be very delicate. Has anyone bought one before? What do you think?


Just wanted to share that with you for now, along with a little note that I will be going away to Essex on Monday for a week to visit some family, so I doubt I'll be blogging during that time. Hope y'all liked the playlist yesterday!
xox

ITS COME!

 FINALLY my pocket watch necklace came :')

Not gonna lie, it's a lot smaller than I expected. It's roughly the size of a 10p piece, but I was expecting it to be about as big as a.. urr.. I don't know what to compare it with, so..

THERE!

But overall its seriously yummy and uber cute! It ticks and shows the time too, and clicks open just like I wanted :') I lurrrveee it!

Have you noticed how I managed to get my hair looking somewhat half decent today too? The colour's looking good too.. Not what I wanted, but it's alright :) I've got an awesome idea for when I next dye it, which will be awesome. Today is great so far!

Happyyyyy :')
If you would like to buy the necklace, it can be found here on ebay.
Sorry its been a while since a post, not much has happened, but I've got some nice ideas for posts for the next few days. Hello August!
xox

ooh. nautical.

So I went shopping with Mummy dearest and I'm loving what's in the shops at the moment!

From Primark, I picked up these awesome anchor tights and blue and white espadrills, each for £1!

(If you like this, it can be found here!)

Then from Republic, I bought a dress very similar to this, but without the tie and with black polka dots on instead, for just £10! Its so vintage and 50s! It got me in the mood for some intense shopping 'cause there's some amazing sales on at the moment, but I'm totally broke :'(
Still waiting on my pocket watch necklace.. I'm so excited for it!
xox

impulse buying is good for me. just not for you.

Omigosh I've got so many good buys lately!

I've just come back from a long weekend in France with the school where I picked up some really yummy bits and pieces from markets and shops there. And it was so cheap too! Gotta love a cheap and gorgeous holiday buy :')

I picked up these pumps from a cute little market near Rue for 22 euros. They're made of real leather and are so cute and intricate! I'm just so worried of ruining them though, 'cause I wear pumps out so quickly >< But they are easily one of my favourite pairs of shoes.

Quick shop suggestion if you're going to france.. MIM. Whilst me and a couple of mates were there we got loads of reallyyyy nice and reallyyyy cheap clothes. I bought a jumper, a 3/4 sleeved top and a

boho purse for under 10 euros! How cheap is that?!

I've also just ordered a vintage style, working (hopefully!) pocket watch necklace from Ebay, for £1.89 (and compared to the £26 one I saw in Urban Outfitters, it's a steal!) which I will post a picture of when it arrives!

I also popped down to my local St Peter's Hospice today because I thought I'd seen an expansion pack for The Sims 2 a little while ago and I got a massive bargain there too! Not only did I get the Nightlife expansion pack, but I also picked up The Day After Tomorrow, Little Miss Sunshine and Weezer's blue album, all for...

4 QUID!!!

See. It just goes to show, charity shops are brilliant, not only as it goes towards a great cause, but also because you come back with some brilliant bargains!
Oh, in that picture you can see the jumper I got from France and you can also see that my hair is yet AGAIN a different colour XD

So the purple had faded so badly. It was far from purple anymore. In places it was purple, but in others I had: pink, orange, red, plum and brown.. My roots were getting really long, quite a few people were getting purple and I didn't really like the colour in the first place, so I opted for Garnier Nuttrise in Red. (Which is more of a reddy brown)

That was at least 2, if not 3 weeks ago, and my roots are beginning to show again and the colour has faded a lot, but you can see its much different. I'm just debating what to do next, as the last dye I used was too red than brown.. Eventually, I'd love to have hair like Lua P's! Its amazing!

For now, I can only dream.
xox

couple of things i cant get enough of..

Well as a couple of people may know, I am an Avon Representative. (wooo!)
So this post might be a bit biased, but I think it may come in handy now that summer is pretty much here!

At the moment I have been getting UNBELIEVABLE amounts of bites. I haven't been anywhere. Oh no. I'm still in my own house. My own bed. Yet I woke up this morning with six - yes.. SIX! - bites on my neck. And that's not even the start of it.
I have no idea what it is. Honestly. But it's becoming so irritating that I had to do something about it..

Spray after spray after spray.
Buzz Off and even a jungle formula insect repellent have done nothing, except suffocate ME!
But I'd seen a few articles in magazines about this stuff from Avon and I wasn't sure, but considering its so easy for me to buy (being a rep and all!) and its so cheap, I gave it a go.

Skin So Soft Dry Oil Spray is like a moisturiser. Its a dry oil spray, so you kinda spray it on, rub it in a little, and its soaked into your skin instantly and leaves your skin really soft and it smells good too! But the Soft and Fresh 'flavour' of the Dry Oil Sprays is also meant to repel off bugs - And it does!

I used it as soon as I got it, and that night I wasn't bitten at all. But then last night, I didn't, and I was bitten loads.

Its currently on sale online for £5.20, but there is ALWAYS some kind of offer on them. Usually 3 for £3 or something similar - so stock up!


The other thing I've been using a lot of recently is the Skin So Soft, Soft & Glow body moisturiser.

It's one of those gradual tanning lotions, which is great for us here in the UK where we all want a nice tan, but never get enough sun for it! But for the odd occasion when we DO get sun, its SPF 15 - which is just about enough to protect against our weather ;)

But, I was just applying it a second ago and looked at my legs to find that they were sparkling! Not like, over the top glittery, but a really nice, subtle shimmer, which is great for going out in the daytime.

Its currently on sale online for £3 , but again, its always on offer, so you can stock up on other essentials. And if you don't like cream moisturisers, it comes in a dry oil spray too.

But yeah. That's what I've been using loads of this past week. My legs are a lush colour, I'm not scratching anymore and I smell good too!

Call me biased, but Avon have really got it sometimes.
xox

dyes and american pies.

Sorry it's been so long! Its been a busy busy week..

I thought I might do a post today, as at the moment, I'm sat with a THIRD hair dye on, trying desperately to get blonde ><
Last night I used Garnier Nutrisse Truly Blonde Pre-Lightener to get to a very odd shade of yellow, before using the Radiant Blondes hair colour in 8.03 Natural Blonde and sleeping on wet hair.

I woke up this morning to find I had gone ginger.

So that was great.
But yeah, I'm sat here with yet ANOTHER dye on (Boots had a 3 for 2 offer on all their hair dyes, so I thought, why not?!), this time its the 9.3 Pineapple shade, slightly lighter, PRAYING that it works, otherwise I'll have to stick a hat on, walk down to my local tesco and try and get another dye.

Luckily this one smells a lot nicer than the Pre-Lightener did.

But yes! Its been a busy week! I finally got my science results back - A in biology, A* in chemistry and C in physics, so I'll retake that one! But yeah, I'm pretty pleased with that :D
Speaking of school, it was nice to have just a 3 day week this week. Lovely way to ease everyone back in after the holidays. So thank you Will and Kate, and congrats! The wedding was lovely. I'm so proud to be able to say I watched it all. It was beautiful.

I also went to see Insidious that evening, with a few mates.
What a film!
I had Liv and Lev on my left, hugging each other, barely able to watch, and Joe and Jordan on my right, squeezing each others and and chewing on my jumper!I was just laughing the whole way through :') It's a good film though. Music is freakayyy.. We're convinced there'll be a 2nd. And we will DEFINITELY be watching it!

Went over the boyfriends house yesterday and watched half of American Pie, before realising it's NOT a film you watch with your other half, and putting Hot Tub Time Machine on instead.
And we made a den!
Might put a picture of that on later.. I was quite proud tbh :')

Just washed the dye off.. Third time lucky I hope :S

Well. Its not as ginger anymore.. I'm not really sure what colour you'd class it as? But it'll do for a moment.. Gonna go out later and pick up something lighter and see what happens!

Oooh I bought a few things actually!

Bag and vest top were both a fiver from Matalan and the shoes were £18 from a brand called Orchard, which can be found in Brantano. Also bought a really nice denim like, cotton shirt, also from Matalan, but I cant find a picture of it..

Well anyway! I'm off out to sort out the mess that is my hair. Gonna try the sublime mousse in the lightest shade, but pick up a brown colour in case it doesn't work ><
xox

Ooh! I forgot to say - we FINALLY have a full set list now :') Looking forward to practice!

home, shaun of the dead, and easter bunnies.

Poor Milo had a haircut! :(

So I'm home!
Well I guess you didn't know I was away on holiday, but I spent 4ish days in a gorgeous little village by the sea, called Blue Anchor. It's about 5 or 6 miles from Minehead and its really really lovely :3

So anyway, we got home yesterday about 4 in the afternoon to quite a lovely day actually :) I also found that my replacement card had come through (thank GOD!), so I don't have to worry about that anymore.. Though it is always really annoying when you loose your purse.. Mine had some really personal stuff in :/
Oh well..
But Marko came over for a bit too! It was really good to see him after everything that's happened in the last week. I mean, it wasn't for long, and I was getting ready to go out, but I've missed him :(

So yeah.
After that, I went out to a friend's 15th meal/sleepover thingy. We went for an indian, then went back to hers for Shaun of the Dead, Sweeny Todd and a few episodes of Flight of the C onchords - Much love for those two!
It was really good to see everyone in what felt like so long. And I had my awesome new dress on! (photo down belowwww!) I found it in this little shop on the highstreet in Minehead, and fell in love with it so much, that when I passed it on the first day, I begged my parents to take me back the next so I could buy it! It was £24 and is my new summer fave.

Speaking of summer faves, anyone else get the new Jack Wills handbook through this morning? Its really good this month! I was so excited when I saw that PEGASUS BRIDGE were playing at the Polo! But really upset when I realised this years Polo is in Cambridge :(
I love those guys..

So tomorrow is easter sunday! We have a tradition in our house, that rather than buying loads and loads of chocolate, me and my brother get some money to spend on new clothes. This year I was in Primark when my Mum reminded me about the money I had, so I picked up some shorts, a vest top, and a necklace from there, all for £16. Then as we were heading home, I saw Apricot had a sale on, so picked up this lovely skirt, for £8! I'm on the lookout for a denim jacket now.. They go with everything!

Oooh actually, the necklace I bought is in this too. Its a collection of feathers, with gold leaves, coins and beads. For £2, I couldn't leave it!

Want to apologise for the quality of these photos.. I know they're mirror photos, but I'm 15, and really cannot afford anything better than that! Ugh! AND LOOK AT THE DIRT ON THAT MIRROR!
Hopefully if I post anymore outfit photos, they'll be better, but I didn't have much time to anything better than this for today :L

But yes! Here is my new summer fave, along with that vintage jumper I brought from motel (the one in the last post!)

Much love over the rest of the holidays, hope the Easter bunny is kind tomorrow!
xox

Just thought I might show you something I bought a couple of weeks ago.. A Polaroid OneStep camera.
Finding cheap film for it is proving difficult thought. The cheapest I've found is about £15 for 8 shots. Which works out at almost £2 a shot..
That's quite expensive for someone like me!
But if anyone knows where I can get it cheaper, drop me a line :)

I also went out shopping yesterday and brought a gorgeous vintage cardigan from Motel. It cost me £22 and I already love it to bits! I've wanted one like it for ages.
Annoyingly, when I got it home, none of my family liked it.
Smeh.

Will try and post a picture soon.
xox