twenty first birthday celebrations

Including my 'Mexican Birthday' + birthday meals, I celebrated a total of five times over the past fortnight! Bit extravagant maybe but I've come to the conclusion that I'm not getting any older so I won't be having any more birthdays(;aha.

wiw- flower crown + tie-dye tee made by my sister; crochet waistcoat newlook last summer; shorts h&m last summer.

MOLFEST; I decided in the summer that I'd like to celebrate my birthday with a bit of a party. I'm not really one to host a big party in a big venue so decided upon having a festival themed garden party for my family + close friends. Any excuse to fancy dress! My mum had got me 50 paper bands with 'Charlotte's 21st Birthfest' printed on them to hand out to everyone, we run out! We worked out there must of been about 80 people packed into my garden! My boyfriend + I had got home from holidays the morning before so it was a lovely surprise that so many people turned up + the effort everyone put in. All in all it was a rather messy night; we open and finished off the 3 bottles of Tequila I had brought home from Mexico + we ended up going to bed at around 5am! My neighbours must love me!

wiw- republic dress; river island heels.

REVOLUCION DE CUBA + GLAM NIGHT CLUB, CARDIFF; Standard birthday night out but with my friends it's never that standard!ha. With thanks to pre-drinking games 'Ring of Fire' + my very own game Water Pistol Roulette we was very merry (to say the least!) before we even arrived in the capitol! We went to Revolucion De Cuba for the first time to try some lethal tea pot cocktails before moving onto our usual haute of Glam Nightclub for some old school R&B! Brilliant way to finish off my birthday celebrations(:

BIRTHDAY PRESENTS...

It's safe to say that I was truly spoilt this year (as always!) so kinda excited to share my new goodies with you...

Fujifilm Finepix Z900EXR - From The Boyfriend

(The photo's I took of the camera didn't do it any justice so pinched one off the website instead!)

I guess that if you moan all the time about wanting something people do actually listen! I've been trying to buy a Finepix second hand on eBay for a while now so that it came in time for my holiday (three days!!). I was really not expecting a camera at all let alone the latest model! I've ordered a nice big memory card from Amazon so that I can take lots of cool pictures with the new settings, EEE! I am struggling to find a camera case that isn't an ugly monstrosity though! The best I've found so far are these two by Acme Made, any of you know of any other cool camera case brands?

Diesel Loverdose Perfume - From The Parents

Gorgeous night time perfume in an amaze bottle! Love the smell of this!

Owl Necklace & Key Ring 

 Gossip Girl Season 4 & Velcro Rollers

A bit of girly glam!

Box of Sweets - From The Sister

This was a surprise present & totally up my street! I have a major sweet tooth so have been tucking into this box at night whilst watching my Gossip Girl Boxset! Love the vintage-esque box it came in too. Will definitely find a way to recycle this once all the sweeties have been eaten! 

Also I had some alcohol (Raspberry Sours, NOM!), a cream wire pot for my make-up brushes, bits for my birthday night out (eyelashes & glue, earrings, hair glitter, etc.), Just Dance 2 & will be picking up a full length mirror for my bedroom. I also had money & gift vouchers from my family which will of course be spent wisely(; I feel utterly spoilt! Time to get back to sorting out the iPod, one of many things to do in prep' for Saturday eeee...

BIRTHDAY NIGHT OUT 80'S STYLE...

001. Me & my sister all eightied up - 002. My friends & I on the way into town - 003. My DIY shoesies! - 004. The girlies with our mic's (excuse the weird face!) - 005. Me & the lads

It's crazy that my birthday has been & gone after I was planning & looking forward to it for over a month! The preparation certainly paid off as it was an amazing night! Of course there was a few hiccups including me losing/having my purse stolen, NIGHTMARE! Luckily there was only money in there & no cards, but I never lose money so was kinda frustrated that I lost over £30! That still didn't manage to ruin my night though. If you're going out for a birthday & fancy something different, go to Reflex! I pre-booked a birthday package online (absolutely free to do!) which meant we had queue jump, free entry, 3 complimentary bottles of pink bubbly & goody bags with fancy dress items. Totally worth it, singing the Grease Mega Mix into inflatable microphone will never get old! After we polished off our free drinks we moved onto Oceana & spent the rest of the night in the karaoke & disco room. One of my best birthdays to date & I must say we looked pretty swag in our 80's costumes!

I'm kinda gutted I didn't get a full length photo' of me in my 80's gear but as it was my actual birthday day I didn't stop preparing for the night & it was basically one mad rush to make sure everything was sorted for when the bus came! I'm really please with how my outfit turned out though, especially my shoes! They were originally a deep purple colour & after around 6 layers of glitter glue turned out super sparkly! Might even dedicate another post to them. I had the earrings & lashes (you can't really see but they had silver polka dots & multi-coloured sparkly bits on them) as part of my birthday box from my family, will share my other presents with you tomorrow! The rest of my outfit is basically all from eBay, self confessed eBay addict here! All in all I've had an amazing couple of days & now it's back to reality as I start back to university tomorrow, bring on year two...

GO, GO...

Neon Legwarmers,  Gummies (eBay), straws & shot glasses (both Asda)

I apologise for my inconsistent blogging this week & I suppose for the next week or two to come! I've had nothing to do all summer & now it's all go, go, go! Do you find that things always seem to happen this way; all or nothing?! Kinda gutted as I think I've recently I think I was getting into a pretty good blogging routine, oh well that's life I suppose! My excuse this week is that it's my mums birthday Tuesday & mine Saturday, which equals double birthday celebrations! We literally have 4 days of partying planned; we're going for a meal tonight, an open mic' night Friday, my Birthday night out Saturday (WOOP!) & determined to go bowling Sunday (random I know!). This week is being spent getting everything ready for Saturday; music, outfit, decorations & most importantly drinking games! I have a box of tricks in my room & the image above is a few of the items from it, very neon! I am super excited like you wouldn't believe, just hope everything goes to plan now!

Along with sorting out my birthday I'm also going on holidays a week Saturday so need to sort out a million things for this too! I'm kinda stressed as I'm a major faffer & will not be able to rest unless I've made hundreds of lists which kind of calms me down! I also enrol back to uni' next week which will add another lump to my already full plate! Just need to keep thinking it'll all be worth it when I'm chilling next to the pool with an alcoholic beverage & a good book mmmm...

HAUL: PRIMARK TEES WITH A TWIST...

Not your usual Primark Haul post! As I've mentioned it's my birthday next weekend & I decided to have an 80's themed night out! I wanted to make the costumes a little more personalised than the ones you buy in fancy dress stores so decided to get some tops printed! Being true to my bargain hunter self I bought the plain white tops from Primark for £2.50 so that the tops cost only £5 in total with printing! It's safe to say I felt (& probably looked) a little weird going to the cash desk with 12 mens tops but it's all in the name of a bargain! I decided to get mens tops as they'll be perfectly baggy to cut into crop tops. I've spent this morning Photoshopping everyones logo's ready to take to the printers later..

It's safe to say I am stupidly excited! I've ordered other little bits for my costume from eBay but I'll save them for another post! I'm kinda glad birthdays are only once a year as sorting all this out has been rather stressful; my organised, control freak side has really come in handy over the past couple of weeks...