Cosmo Blog Awards 2011

Dress - Topshop / Jacket - Primark / Bag - Mulberry Mabel / Belt - Primark / Badges - Stolen Thunder & Helpless Romantic / Necklaces - Girlprops, Topshop, Urban Outfitters & This Charming Girl / Rings - Urban Outfitters, Me & Zena, Galibardy & Topshop
Not quite sure why its taken me until now to write this post but I didn't want the year to end without acknowledging this event. I took these photos today because incidentally I'm wearing the same thing sans more gold jewellery than Mr T owns. If you compare them with the pictures below you can see how bad my roots have gotten! This outfit is literally comprised of my very favourite items of clothing. Fave jacket, fave dress, fave bag & fave lipstick, which is Tramp by Illamasqua. Its probably safe to say that this outfit represents me in a nutshell. Of course I love bright colours, polka dots & peter pan collars as well but I often find myself going back towards my gothy tendencies.


Sarah, Lauren, Olivia, Jazmine & Me

Lyzi, Olivia, Lauren, Jazmine, Gem & Me

Me & Gem
I'm not gonna go on about the awards themselves because they were months ago but I'm sure you all know by now that I didn't win. I don't think anyone was more deserving of the honour than Zoe so they definitely chose the right winner. The main reason I made the three hour trip down to London was because this was going to be my very first blog event and I was so excited to get the chance to meet some of my favourite bloggers. I was feeling ridiculously shy at the time & was relying on the much needed free cocktails to ease my nerves. I think they only used about one shot of vodka per ten cocktails so even though I chugged that amount back I was nowhere near drunk enough and remained my awkward self for most of the night. Luckily Gem put me totally at ease. She really is one of the loveliest girls you could meet. Everyone I met that night was so nice & I can only hope I get to meet some more of my fave bloggers next year.

Being nominated for a Cosmo blog award this year has opened up so many doors for me. I've been to a few more events since this one, made some PR contacts, gained loads more followers & best of all I can now say that I count some bloggers as my friends. I'm not really sure how I made the shortlist but I'd like to once again thank everyone who nominated & voted for me. Thanks for supporting me this year & I'll see you all tomorrow in 2012 ;)

Death At The Chapel

Lace Shrug - Topshop
Polka Dot Vest - H&M
White Top - Topshop
Black Top - Topshop
Necklace - This Charming Girl
I started off this morning wearing this lace shrug & polka dot vest with a black bodycon skirt. Then just as I was taking some outfit photos the door rang and the postie turned up with a lovely package from Topshop. I ordered these two tops and some pink shorts on the 21st of April. I've been tracking them constantly ever since and got really concerned when two days ago the status changed to delivered. Luckily some nice person decided not to steal my parcel & instead popped it into a letterbox. Bloody Hermes, their service is ridiculously shiteous. So many online shops use them as couriers as well. Going by the Money Saving Expert forums I'm not the only one who's had problems with them. Ah well, I know now to just get on the train & visit a Topshop rather than ordering online.

I do love these tops though. They looked so gorgeous on the website I couldn't decide between them and had to order both colours. I think it'll be worth it though, they'll go with anything & they're exactly my kinda style. I'm staying in the white one with the lace shrug on top today. Not that I'm doing anything exciting as per usual. Probs just gonna go food shopping in a bit & play some Zelda: Twilight Princess. Still haven't finished it, I totally suck. I think the only Zelda game I've actually finished was Phantom Hourglass.

Anyone else excited for the new series of The Apprentice? I've just been looking pictures of the candidates on Digital Spy. I didn't realise it starts next week yay! Nothing better than some glorified salesmen making complete arses of themselves. I always get really annoyed on any task where they have to design something. It always looks like a 5 year old opened up Photoshop and plonked down the worst fonts known to man. I could do a better job than the graphic designers they use. Hire me BBC! By the way thank you for all your lovely comments about my design work in my last post. Hopefully I can put my skills to good use sometime soon!

It Was There That I Saw You

T-Shirt - H&M
Cardigan - American Apparel
Jeans - Topshop
Necklace - This Charming Girl
I am in love with these jeans! I lost 5lbs the other week and my size 12 New Look Super Skinny (yeah right!) jeans had become ridiculously baggy, making me look about 3 sizes bigger. So I treated myself to not one, but two pairs of size 10 Jamie jeans from Topshop. I got them in a normal denim colour and these burgundy ones. I saw them instore a few weeks ago I fell in love with them. I would never normally buy coloured jeans but I really liked this colour and couldn't stop thinking about them so I just went for it. So glad I did. I was worried that they wouldn't fit over my massive thighs or hips but I managed to wiggle my way into them haha. Totally recommend the Jamie jeans for anyone looking for some good skinnies.

I also decided to follow the crowd and buy Topshop's cream blush in Neon Rose and highlighter in Sunbeam. I'm wearing both of these products in these photos. I really like the highlighter as it gives you a really lovely warm glow. I wish they did it in a slightly pinker colour as I think that would suit me more. I think Neon Rose might look a bit orange on my skintone. I much prefer their cream blush in Flush as again its a lot pinker in colour. The quality of these products is stunning though. I really rate Topshop's makeup range, well the permanent collection anyways.

Anyone else daring to wear colourful jeans this Spring?

death by bagel.

Dress - Topshop
Necklace - This Charming Girl
Today I'm wearing this black ponti shift dress from Topshop. I love the flared sleeves on it. Its so basic but I think the shape is pretty cool & classic. I never get to go anywhere exciting anymore & wearing my PJs all day every day is depressing so dressing up is making me feel better. Sorry that you can't really see it! I guess I should stop wearing black in outfit posts. My flat is so tiny that the only place with a plain background and enough light is in front of the wardrobe which happens to be black... ah well. I bought this necklace from This Charming Girl who do some amazing jewellery. I have a similar Marc Jacobs necklace which is more of a pewter colour but now I'm blondie again, I'm back to my excessive gold jewellery loving ways so I bought this to wear instead.

God I am so sick of this snow! I really need to go buy some food but still haven't ventured outside. I've had a bagel for pretty much every meal the last four days. It is actually sending me mental and making me massively crave vegetables! Captivity is also making me so unorganised. I've only bought Andy and Chloe some Christmas presents so far and I totally forgot that its my mums birthday today. Shes 63 years old now. I feel so awful, she always sends me stuff and buys anything that I don't have enough money for but I couldn't even remember to send her a card. Hopefully a text & a call later will do? Lol, I suck.

Anyways, I'm probably just gonna spend the rest of the day watching Sailor Moon and complaining about stuff on Twitter. Feel free to add me if you've not already!