Hot & Not - 09/02/12

What's been hot:

1. Perfume party with the girls from work. Getting six bottles of perfume for the price of one.

2. Studding an old pair of boots and them turning out pretty damn bad ass.

3. Shopping trip and Snow Patrol gig with a good friend.

4. Making money on an ebay purchase that I bought specifically to sell.

What's not:

1. Walking all the way to work, getting checked out and thinking I looked dead sexy, only to look in the mirror once I got to work and realise I had the remnants of my breakfast Pain Au Chocolat all round my mouth.

2. Getting the bus to work, look in the mirror once I got there, only to realise I had a cotton wool swab stuck in my ear which I'd put there to soak my piercing a few hours before.

3. Forgetting to put my boots on after work, walking home in my ballet shoes in the rain and getting wet socks.

4. Printing out 20 copies of my artist statement and realising that there are spelling mistakes... not before I'd given them out.

D.I.Y studded boots

Work in progress. I will post better pictures and how I did it when I finish them, hopefully tomorrow! For now, my hands are super sore!

Obsessed with GIFs!

Can't stop making them!

Manchester Shopping Haul

So, after staying in Manchester after seeing Snow Patrol on Friday, we had a lovely, expensive, cold and snowy day of shopping round the City Centre.

L is wearing a coat from Topshop, infinity scarf/snood from Kurt Geiger, jeans from Topshop and boots from Carvela.

I'm wearing a duffel coat from Topshop, scarf from H&M, jeans from Topshop, boots are Tundra by Ash and my Cambridge Satchel Company bag.

Here are the goodies that I picked up. I was intending to go and splurge on an Alexander McQueen scarf, but after seeing it in person in Selfridges, I changed my mind completely so went out on a mission to get some new tops to wear into spring/summer.

Stripy, off the shoulder tshirt from French Connection

Reduced from £30 to £20.

Available HERE in limited sizes and colours.

 Hooded, knitted slubby jumper from Topshop

Reduced from £36 to £18 and 25% staff discount at the till.

Available HERE

Moustache skull tshirt from Zara

£17.99

Available HERE

Sleeveless, baggy hoody from Zara

Reduced from £25.99 to £9.99

Slouchy foil skull vest from Topshop

£18 with 25% staff discount at the till.

Available HERE in tall. Or HERE in Petite. (Couldn't find it on the website in regular sizing, which mine is!)

Polar bear tshirt from Zara

£17.99 

Available HERE

Tshirt with cut out skull on back from Zara

£15.99

Available HERE

Converse Chuck Taylor OX Allstars from Footaslyum

£39.99

Available HERE

So I think I did pretty well for myself! I've been needing new tshirts for a long time and I'm so glad I picked them up. I'm sure you can see a pattern in the things I buy though...black...white...grey..skulls...who needs colour, eh?!

Snow Patrol at Manchester Arena

So, on friday night L and I went swanning off to Manchester to see Snow Patrol at the Manchester Arena. Was a great night and we had good seats, which was lovely.

The woman behind us seemed to be having a great time, too...

Here's a few pictures from the day and night.

I taught L how to crochet a granny square on the train. Because we're too cool for school!

Seems to be loving it..

Sat in M.E.N waiting for Snow Patrol...

...with the world's most expensive Caramel Nibbles. £2.70!!! Outrageous!

This is the pretty hotel we stayed in :)

Wooooo!

House hunting!

House hunting is not going well. We went to a viewing of a local apartment for sale last week and it is absolutely beautiful from the outside...but unfortunately damaged in one of the rooms inside. I don't want to get into trying to fix a damaged roof/ceiling/floor before I can move in somewhere. So, looks like this Princess Castle is out of the question for now! :( Look how lovely she is from the outside!

28/01/12 Liam's Memorial Football Tournament

Yesterday the boyf and friends and family went to cheer on the boys taking part in a Football Tournament in memory of one of our good friends, Liam, who's life was sadly cut short due to Cystic Fibrosis.

Everyone raised a good amount of money and had a great laugh and get together. Here are a couple of pictures from the day.

It was icy, but the sun was shining...great weather for footballers, I guess.

We fed and watered the crowd with drinks and biscuits.

Poppy and Dylan came as well.

The boyf and I.

This is a photo of me, the boyf's mum and Liam's mum.

Good day had by all, lots of money raised and good catchups with old friends.

We miss you, Liam! 

x

O.O.T.D. 25/01/12 and massive burgers!

What I wore for a meal out with friends/what I was going to wear for Britain's Got Talent!

Ash Tundra Boots

Dorothy Perkins Scarf

Topshop Seven-Eighths Skinny Jeans

Topshop Shirt

So, this photo was taken just before I was heading out to got to see the Britain's Got Talent auditions last week in Blackpool. Unfortunately, by the time my friends and I had finished work, the queue was so long that we, along with a couple hundred other people couldn't get in because there weren't enough seats. So we went home early, boo!

Faux fur and pleather jacket from Topshop.

Alexander Wang Rocco bag.

So I decided to wear the same outfit for a meal out with the boyf and friends.

Urban Outfitters double finger cross ring.

Vintage thumb ring.

Finger tip rings from Fashionology.nl

Alexander McQueen double skull ring.

DKNY bracelet watch.

Model's Own Nude Beige nailvarnish.

We went to an American style Diner which was super yummy.

The feast!

I had 8oz burger with cream cheese and cucumber. I think it was called "The Wall Street" burger.

Followed by a scoop or two of a minty icecream sundae.

My friend Jen and I enjoying the night.

Just a side note:

I had my first Lindt chocolate bunny earlier in the day. My lovely boyf sneakily bought one on the way out of a shop without me noticing. Yum yum!

And also, my Illamasqua order came! Eeeek, how exciting!