Winter Staples

 

I got my Student Finance on Monday and went a tad crazy in Princes Street. I would usually be quite guilty at how much I spent. To be honest I'm not feeling bad about these purchases as they are essential pieces I can wear over and over again this season in many different ways/with different outfits without me getting sick of them.

1.ZARA - Gold Metallic Thread Sweatshirt - £19.99

2.H&M - White Basic Loose Shirt - £7.99

3.H&M - Imitation Leather Trousers (with jersey side panels) - £14.99

4.URBAN OUTFITTERS - Cooperative Green Paid Structed Satchel - in sale £22

5.URBAN OUTFITTERS - Deena & Ozzy Cuffed Black Boots - £48

What does one wear to Weddings?

 This October I am a guest at my boyfriend cousin's wedding. I'm rather excited, especially as it's my first proper English wedding.
I have been looking for dresses since early summer and I set my heart on this very pretty dress that was in Topshop, nude mesh skater dress with black lace flowers. Sadly I assumed it might still be in stock in September (when I would have the money to afford it) however it's completely out of stock in store and online...I've searched eBay and couldn't find it in my size...so I've had to look for new options.
So my favourite choice so far is...

I think this MissGuided 'Cristina Lace Pleat Dress' in Wine would rather suit an October wedding. Also the fact it's a skater style is great for me because it's the cut that's generally the most slimming on me since I have a fat ass but smaller waist.
The good thing about this dress it's basically half the price of the Topshop one I wanted, which means I can spend some more on accessories. I'm think black tights, black heels, some dainty gold rings and cute drop earrings.
Any thoughts/ideas?

On another note, I'm so so happy to be back at University. My first day today went well and I'm really glad to be going into year 2 of English Language and Linguistics as well as picking up an outside course - Criminology which going by the first lecture, I think I'm really going to enjoy.
I'm going to be a very smart and healthy student this year.

Leeds Festival

 Yes I know I have been very late with this post, but here are some of the photos from Leeds.
Sadly my camera decided to break the first few hours of the festival (I blame the crazy spinny ride, my camera couldn't handle it's power). Yet luckily Alicia brought her camera as well so here are some random photos of the weekend...when I mean random, I mean the ones where I don't look completely like a drunk drowned rat.

We sadly didn't get so many great photos of any of the shows as the camera couldn't handle all the flashing lights/we were unable to steady our hands from being pushed around by the crowd. The one above is of The Strokes. As amazing as they were, it was probably the most violent of all the shows that weekend. We got to the main stage very early to get near the front row but sadly being right near the front meant we were pushed around, falling to the ground and had our toes tread so much...despite my attempts to control the crowd by randomly shouting 'WOULD EVERYONE JUST STOP PUSHING!' like I was the teacher or something (cringe. God I'm annoying)

Got to see so many artists;
The Strokes, The Kills, 30 Seconds to Mars, Rubberbandits, Peter Doherty, Sub Focus, Nero, Simian Mobile Disco, Bedouin Soundclash, Bombay Bicycle Club, Patrick Wolf, The Streets, Pulp, The Naked and Famous, The National...and probably more I have forgotten.

Some key things to summarise the weekend:
Mud mud mud/Fake tattoos/Intense rain/Overpowering heat/greasy hair/chips with ketchup/corny silent disco/tent fires/walking bare foot in the mud/speed peeing/anti-bacterial gel and one of the last times we could say to each other 'down it Fresher'...

Without sounding so cheesy and emotional...it was one of the best weekends of my life with great memories, so thank you so so much Alicia for everything over the festival...and for putting up with my moaning about the weather. Haha!

Autumn Wishes

As you can see I'm very inspired by this whole 'Teddy Boy/60s Mod Rocker' look that's emerged this season from the Burberry and Yves Saint Laurent A/W shows and very present in high street shops like Topshop and Zara.
Wish me luck on adding these some what 'essentials' to my wardrobe...

Image sourced from Google.

Gifts, treats and pretty jewellery

Last Tuesday was my birthday and I had a lovely day (basically birthday week as I was constantly treated and given gifts)
Got so so many lovely gifts by my friends and boyfriend, lots of jewellery (which is totally what I needed and will be showing off in future outfit posts) and so many sweets and cakes!
As I've mentioned before my friend (basically sister haha) Farah has her own jewellery line and she kindly gave me one of her pretty pieces called 'The Ella Necklace' for my birthday.
So here it is on me:

It's such a subtle but elegant piece, I'm looking forward to layering it with my other necklaces. My one is navy swarovski crystals with an 18 inches long silver chain. The great thing is that Farah can make alterations to customise the necklace for you. The crystals can be:

Lilac, Purple, Green, Aquamarine Blue

Mixed blue-green, Navy blue, Crystal AB, Ruby Red

...and the chain can be gold as seen in Farah's photo below:

Please check out her blog's jewellery line page here: Designs by FaraM

I frankly cannot wait for people to be like 'oh that's a pretty necklace, what shop did you get it from?'
and I can be all 'My friend/jewellery designer made it for me'.

Thanks again Farah :)

Also thanks everyone else who treated me on my birthday, love you all :)

Well, well, well

It’s been a while since I last did an ‘outfit’ post.
So yesterday I was feeling in the ‘dress up’ mood and had a little hour session creating outfits…well more like creating a mess of my room. Yes, I’m sorry, this was quite an impromptu one…hence having no make up on and bed hair. Also my room at home is teeny, hence the reason why it was rather hard to do full body shots…and to be honest you would not like to see the full body shot of me in these shorts…I have a lot of, as one would put it…‘junk in the trunk‘…hahahaaa.
Oh well I’ve started a healthy eating plan this Monday and added a lot more exercise into my regime so hopefully will look much much better and more confident in such miniature shorts.



Denim shorts - Topshop
Peterpan collared blouse - New Look…last Christmas gift from Farah
Sunglasses - H &M
Handbag -  £3 in Primark sale

Maybe a few more weeks on this regime and I’ll actually step out in public in this outfit, not just in my bedroom! They say the camera adds 10lbs…but I think in most of my photos the camera seems to deduct 10lbs…I definitely look much chubbier in real life.
Swiftly moving on for my body woes…I recently joined Twitter and yes I am now a self-confessed Twitter-aholic…damn you Blackberry Twitter app! I added my Twitter feed to my blog so please, if you want to, follow me and/or leave me your twitter name so I can follow you.
Have a lovely week!
Eda love xxx

Guess who's back...

So yes this has officially been my longest break away from Blogger. I am stuck in my internet-less home…the only chance I get to go on the internet is if I go to town with my laptop…and believe me it is a pain having to lug my laptop there. Mostly because I haven’t got a laptop fitting sized yet still stylish bag…yes I am quite a drama queen. For this reason I return to Blogger with 3 of my favourite ‘new in’ affordable bags that I can hopefully squeeze my laptop in this autumn.


Forever 21, Grey Briefcase Bag - £29.75

 









 

ASOS Leather and Leopard Bag - £85







Urban Outfitters Ostrich Lady Satchel - £48 

A big thanks to Peach for awarding me with one of the versatile bloggers award.
I really want to get back into Blogger this month. I will try and do more outfit posts and hopefully in new locations…not just against my university bedroom wall hahaha.
Eda love xxx