SUNDAY POST #002

It's been a long old week! Apart from my trip to Brum for the Clothes Show (which feels like an age ago!), my week has been a very stressful one trying to get all my uni' work up to speed ready to finish for Christmas this coming Friday. I have one essay to finish them the festivities can truly commence! My family + I was meant to put up the decorations today but an hours shopping trip to Cardiff turned into an all dayer due to the insane amount of traffic + shoppers. The main reason for the trip into town was to visit a Genius at the Apple store after dropping my phone + completely shattering the screen! I have never been so devastated! It resembled something like this, not the smallest of cracks! £119 later I now have a new phone + vow to treat this one with utter respect!ha..

The night I broke my phone I was enjoying a night out with my bestests in the capital. My friends Sarah, Carrie + I made our way around the bars sampling cocktails + 'Suck and Blow' jelly shots (great laugh if you haven't tried them before!). Sometimes you just need a night out with your girls!

Got nothing excited planned for this week; just one last big push with uni' work! Hopefully squeeze in some time to post about some of the goodies I've bought lately. Will leave you iPhone users out there two pieces of advice: invest in a case + make sure you have insurance, wish I did *sob*

DIY INSPIRATION: KANDEE HEELS

 All shoe's by Kandee - £199.99

It's been such a miserable day here is something that's gotta put a smile on your face! These images do these beauties no justice! I mentioned in my last post about the models amazing shoe's at the Clothes Show Live; I was rather excited when I managed hunt them down but then even more gutted when I saw the price tag, boo! When the models strutted their stuff down the catwalk wearing these shoes the lights caught them + they glistened in the most gorgeous way! 

At £200 a pop they are most definitely out of my budget range but I can't help but marvel at them, they're so pretty! They have the cutest names too; the green After 8, the blue Blueberryade, the lilac Parmafizz + the gold Lemonade. The unlikely pair that caught my eye was the emerald green pair, they're to die for IRL! 

Of course once I realised that buying a pair wasn't really an option, creativity starting taking over + I am debating on making a pair for myself! All you'd need a lot of patience, a pair of inexpensive platforms + some rhinestones. What do you guys think, a little optimistic or doable?

CLOTHES SHOW LIVE 2011

So as I mentioned Sunday I visited the Clothes Show Live for the first time yesterday with my uni' friends Cinzia + Rowan. We had such an amazing day! We booked our tickets on a whim when we saw them on offer on Groupon the other week, so glad we made that impulse purchase! 

I couldn't get over the amount of stalls in the shopping area, I was totally in my element!ha. I was trying to be good with my money with Christmas coming up + all but did buy a few cheeky things for myself. I'll probably mention them in separate posts but I'll quickly list them for now: the popular feather print dress by Love, two Illamasqua pure pigment's, TIGI Party Girl Set + lots of Models Own goodies! I could of spent a lot more but the good me took over for a change, boo!

The catwalk performance was fab'! The theme was 'Night at the Department Store' + basically travelled through each floor and saw the mannequins come to life! If you can't make it this year, the outfits from the catwalk can be found here. The clothes were gorgeous but the majority of the time was spent in awe of the models' glittered platform heels + of course the gorgeous topless male models, hello! Thinking of even dedicating a post to the shoes from the show, they were amazing! Back to reality for the mean time now; I have two weeks of university left before breaking for Christmas, bring on the deadlines!

SUNDAY POST #001

Photo's are a little random! 001. Can't go wrong with three for £10! 002. My friend Sarah + I(: 003. Home made festive mince meat ready to be made into pies!

I've had one of the best weekend's that I've had in a while. It kicked off with an Ann Summers party with my girlies Friday night at my house. I personally love AS parties; I've been to a few over the past year or two and totally rate them! I can't remember the last time I laughed so much! Was actually exhausted once everyone had left due to laughing for 3 hours straight! Worth booking one just as an excuse to get all your friends together + have a giggle!

After getting my 5 hour shift out of the way Saturday morning it was time for another girly gathering this time up our local student union for karaoke night! In typical student style we got absolutely blotto on wine + again was in fits of giggles for the majority of the night! I had vague flashbacks this morning of us all singing S Club 7's legend of a track S Club Party on karaoke to everyone's pure delight! I was in total control of the 'ooh ooh there's a party over here', such a tune!ha..

It's safe to say that I was slightly struggling this morning but still made the effort to take a trip into Cardiff to attempt some Christmas shopping with my sister. I can now admit than I'm definitely an online shopper! Why people put themselves through that to buy presents is unreal! I'd much rather be sat at home listening to some Christmasy music, sipping tea + adding items to my basket in peace than getting shoved, knocked + elbowed by crazy shoppers! We then met up with David for a Nando's before getting stuck in traffic all the way home! 

My house currently smells AMAZING! My dad is making mince pies and the aroma of warm cinnamon + fruit is filling the house. So festive, getting me all excited, three weeks today wahoo! Going to try + get an early night tonight as me and some friends from university are going to the Clothes Show Live tomorrow afternoon! This is the first year I actually booked tickets, instead of saying that I will then totally forgetting, I'm so excited! Will hopefully be able to pick up the last little presents for the ladies in my family there, and of course I'll probably end up treating myself too! Any of you lovely ladies going CSL this week? Going to cuddle up in my onesie now + watch 'A Night with Beyonce', B foreverr ♥