Garden Day

I drew this ages ago, back when we had about a week or two weeks of sunshine. Do you remember that? It was sunny every day! I got into the habit of taking a blanket out into a corner of my garden (it's hard to find a private area since I have neighbours on both sides and the front is open to anyone who walks past :( ) and would read or draw and try to get a tan! I did try to use my laptop but its so hard to see the screen when it's sunny so I just gave up. 

Anyway, I painted this the other day and thought I might post it even though its not that good, but its been a few weeks now since I wore it so I might as well. The dress is from Primark and its gorgeous and so girly and I want it in a million other colours plz! Since I was in my garden I went barefoot and wore some sunglasses so I could see, but as you can tell, I can't draw or paint sunglasses! I should have just left them out, especially since they're not all black but have white polka dots on but I knew I'd just mess it up if I tried. Also, I need to find better ink pens, I always loose the ones I really like in work, so note to self, stop taking good pens to work! Yeeesh!

London times again

Travelling map on the train. Free TV on the train, HIMYM yay! Typical tourist picture. And again.
Fire Music! Turns out he was pretending to play, I was disappointed. The sky looked so pretty. Chilling in the night - it was actually about 9:30pm! With the Lions!
Me and my friend going underground. London at night. Thorpe Park! My OOTD - trying to show how wet it was.
I fell off a ride. Paddington Station. Jelly Beans! My reading material on the train home. 

I was meant to post this yesterday but things have been busy, as usual. The other day in work I whacked my head really hard against something and I think I had/have concussion! If not I'm pretty dizzy anyway and my sleeping pattern is messed up. I got home from work that night about 4am and woke up the next day at 4:15pm!! I had work by 5 and it takes me half an hour to drive to work, so I was in a rush yesterday and yeah, now my sleeping pattern is messed up as I've just woken up from a nap! Oh well, onto the post now!

I went up to London again recently, this time to visit my friend. When we got there we went for a walk and did some sightseeing as another friend I came up with had only been to London once years ago. It was really nice and warm and light for the time of night and then we had some drinks in the pub before getting a pizza and going home to watch a film, and meeting some of my friends housemates.

The next day we woke up super early (for me!) and went to Thorpe Park with two of my friends housemates. We had to catch two tube trains, a train and a shuttle bus to get there but it was worth it! I've never been to Thorpe Park before so was excited, but I stupidly wore a maxi skirt thinking I'd be okay! I wore it thinking it would dry faster than the jeans I'd brought if we went on any water rides (which I did, except for the big splash one) but then when jumping off one ride at the end my skirt got caught and I fell and bashed my knee and hands. It probably was hilarious to look at judging by how much the girl who worked there was laughing, but she directed me to first aid when I showed her I was bleeding. They were only small cuts but stung and wouldn't stop bleeding and I had a nice chat with the first aider who had a friend in Swansea Uni. The rest of the day was fun though, and we went on loads of rides loads of times since it was actually really quiet considering it was the last day of half term and only rained a little bit. We weren't complaining though since the longest we had to queue was half an hour, and on average about ten minutes. 

We'd been there from about 11:30 to closing time at 6 so were exhausted travelling back. One guy actually fell asleep on the tube on the way home but the boys both went straight to the pub while we girls went home to shower thanks to the rain and water rides! We ordered pizza again! And waited for another friend who was coming down from Aberdeen for the Summer Holidays then we went to the pub too. I tried a strawberry beer for the first time which was amazing, and I don't like beer so it was a nice change. Needless to stay when we got in we all fell asleep straight away ready to catch the train back home the next morning. 

I'm usually running late or miss trains when I'm coming home, and we thought we would miss the train (something wrong with the tube again!) but we actually made it with ten minutes to spare, which never happens! Note to self, leave extra time in case of delays! We got back home a couple of hours later where I promptly fell asleep again. It was a really fun trip and I sort of wish I'd had the chance to shop but my bank account is glad I didn't, and we had a fun day in Thrope Parl anyway with 2 for 1 vouchers and hopefully next time I go to London, I might go see all the Harry Potter sets everyone's talking about! 

They call me clumsy...

... for a reason! Okay so just a short little post as I am so behind on everything! I finally caught up on over a weeks worth of blog reading, and I read a LOT of blogs so it took ages and there's loads of new ones today, waaah! I've barely left any comments, which sucks, as I'm trying to comment more. I'm so used to just reading blogs and never commenting unless its congratulations or about a competition and I'd like to comment for other reasons than that, particularly as the last one makes me feel a bit like a user, but I do really love the blogs!

I was going to do a London Instagram post, but my last few posts have all beeN Intsagram collages and I'd like to not do that for every single post, yaknow? And I was going to post a few illustrated outfit pictures I've done, but first I need to find my water colours! I've drawn a few just haven't gotten round to painting them yet, sigh. So here's a quick little post to say I have been busy, and I've been busy injuring myself, yay! I have so many bruises on my thighs from god knows where, I fell off a ride (after it stopped) in Thorpe park getting lots of cuts on my hands and knees, it looked hilarious I bet though, and I somehow managed to  punch the coke machine in work whilst getting something causing my little finger to bleed like crazy (above photo) and someone opened the door into me hurting my other little finger as I was holding my hands weirdly I guess? All in the space of two to three days! Okay so its not much, but enough with the finger injuries already plzkthnxbi!

So yeah that's it for me, and sorry for the lack of updates, commenting and boringness that is my blog, my stats have gone down waaaay much so it really does show, ooops! P.s I'm going to go see Prometheus tonight, finally!

A week of Parties!

Like I said in my last post I've been busy working, or partying! Well going to events at least. I didn't take pictures of everything so didn't have a wide selection to pick from oh well. It was my brothers 21st birthday so I made lemon cupcakes for him, and also my boyfriends 26th birthday. He wanted a Victoria Sponge and that's it in the top picture... only... I dropped it and forgot to bring the cute candles I got :( It still tasted yummy though, it just looked silly! I was working on his birthday event and then went to a BBQ but it was dark, and for his actual birthday we went to the Uni Society events do. The second picture is of the empty sweet jar filled with stars lol, and the third is my outfit. We all wore blue and white to match the drama's colours, and they won a few things, so yay! It was loads of fun. My dress was from New Look and I got £8 off thanks to a tiny little mark that came off easily, woot! The night after that a lot of the societys held a Night of Musicals, which was awesome including drama, choral, glee, dance etc and I made a new friend, he was sititng by himself bless him. I'd be too scared to go to something by myself, I mean I do but I know loads of drama people will be there and try to sit next to them, but he was lovely. 

Second row, yeah... a weird picture but that's me trying these curler things. They do work, but didn't work for the night I needed them as my hair didn't dry fast enough. I'm trying to make my hair prettier but also treat it better so tried these out from New Look. I think my hairs a little bit too long for them though. The middle picture is of my pink lush bath! Finally getting round to using all these bath products :) I including those two pics to fit in with the party theme as they are 'getting ready' pictures. Third picture in that row is of Taybarns. It was my first ever visit and was okay, think I prefer Cosmo but it is much cheaper. It was birthday/new job dinner for my boyfriend since he likes Taybarns. Driving there was a nightmare though, I may or may not have got lost.... anyway! Moving on!

For the third row there's me sporting my Jubilee look, but not really, I worked it! :( I wore this bow when I came home though, can't wear it in work since I wear hats. Then it was the Drama awards night and I got to sit on the committee table even though I'm not even a member! It was very fancy and loads of fun. It's quite sad too though since I won't be seeing a lot of people again since they're leaving Swansea after finishing uni :(  I wore a dress from Debenhams which I got for £5! It used to be £85 but it was in the 70% off pile and it was buy one get one free, and I didn't get a free one, yes I'm stupid! So that was my week in Instagram pictures and just add in a few closes in work, and it sums up my week. Now I'm off to pack since I'm going to London in a few hours and I have done nothing! Ooops! I am tempted to take my laptop on the train to catch up on blog reading and plan a baby shower but then I don't want to lug it around London, hmmm, why can't my laptop be tiny eh?

O hai, remember that challenge I was doing?

Yeah I'm still doing it, just you know, I've really far behind, by a few weeks and missing some days....but never mind eh?! Better late than never right? I've sort of had a blogging/internet break, mainly since I've barely been at home and don't really use the internet on my phone except for Instagram and Draw Something etc. I really need to catch up on all the blogs I read, but there are SO many, it's kinda daunting but I miss reading them. I've been working a few closes and then sleeping in the day, rinse and repeat. Or I've been going to lots of drama things and there were birthdays and lots of stuff, so basically I was very busy! I will try to do a catch up Instagram post but wanted to do this first. 

The challenge was created by Selina and I failed! But sort of knew I would from the start. I'm missing out three days since one of them is 'The item that brings all the boys to the yard', I don't really have anything :(, another is about my style icon and I'd rather do a post on that on its own maybe using Polyvore, and then something I'm obsessed with but I'd be reusing things in this challenge anyways like my shoes or something. Now onto the challenge!

001 - Something that is from my favourite brand -  I have a few but decided on David and Goliath since their prints are always SUPER cute, look at that Pug Shot! Squee!

002 - A Piece of clothing/jewellery that was a gift -  I picked my D&G watch which my ex boyfriends mum gave this to me for Christmas the year before. I have worn it every day since! I should probably replace the strap but meh, I'll wait till its literately falling apart. It's something I wouldn't have picked for myself (colour and price, I break things) but I love it and am terrified of breaking it!

003 - Something from your favourite store - I picked a skirt from H&M since I can't leave that shop without buying something! I picked the star skirt since it's my most recent purchase from there and I should wear it more. It has a zip in the front so I'm wary that I'll have people telling me I was wearing it back to front, but I should just wear it more!

004 - A totally me outfit - It's hard to get a full picture of yourself using Instagram so I picked an old one, a cute dress with an animal print (birds) flat shoes, tights/leggings and a cardigan is a 'totally me outfit'!

005 - What's in your bag? - I actually did a post on that since I forgot it was part of this challenge. 

006 - Something that everyone has now - Creepers! I have wanted these for ages! But had to wait till a good pay day and I finally bought these bad boys from ebay. I love them, and am half glad the weather sucks since I can get more wear out of them. I did wear them when it was sunny and my feet were boiling, oops. A little side note, I'm not wearing them out with those socks, I pulled up my trousers to take the photo! I'm not crazy!

007 - Pretty Hair - Um.... my hair's a bit of a mess atm, I don't really do pretty hair. It's usually down an messy, in a ponytail/bun or plait. I tried curling it for two events recently and it just didn't work! It did work on the day I didn't need it too nor take a picture, oops. So I included a photo of me wearing a daisy chain. The sun was very glarey so my face looks weird. 

008 - Face of the day - The last one that I'm doing. I was worried about this but including one I took before going to a Uni Society Awards do. I wore fake eyelashes for the first time from my Glossy Box, and got complements :) Definitely will wear them again and they stayed on all night, yay!

So that's the end of the challenge, and I'm not sure about when I'll next update as I'm going to London tomorrow and I have a close in work tonight and I still need to pack! Ahhh! When will I ever be prepared in life? Hope everyones had a lovely week and an even lovelier weekend!

P.s! I won Lucy's competition! I'm so excited! I never win anything eeeek! I actually did a little dance when I read her comment, thanks! ^_^