[Acne]

As you know, when I get bored I get the camera out. I will not be around much for the rest of the weekend as I have a match which will take up Saturday night and all of Sunday due to travelling.

The skirt is Primark, the T-shirt is this years Comic Relief tee designed by Stella McCartney and the scarf was from the market.

Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday! xx

[New Season Buys]

New Look seems the place to fulfill the craving for this season's nautical trends. While in town I tried on some sleevless things to try and lift my mood and make me feel a little more summery.

Topshop vest. The most unflattering photo ever. It has a very deep racerback so my bra was completely on show but I really want it.

Warehouse dress. The colour isn't very good on me and my size was a little big so maybe not.

And this is what I wore! Zara tunic, Primark skirt, H+M cardigan and Traidcraft necklace. I hope everyone was happy with their award, have a great Thursday!

Pop!

Primark skirt, Topshop T-shirt, Uniqlo long sleeved top (underneath), Primark tights.

All of a Sudden

Over the past few days I have realised just how much time I spend eating, blogging and spending money on things I don't really need so I am going to try and spend more time doing homework and working towards my upcoming exams. But everyone deserves a break so here are some pictures I have rounded up over the past week or so.

Saturdays outfit. Topshop tee; Primark skirt; H&M skirt; Traidcraft necklace.

I'm not a big wearer of jewellery but I normally wear this sort of stuff. Traidcraft necklace; New Look (Chanel style) hairband; Bracelets from Xmas cracker.

One of my friends took this picture of me at my drama class. I look rather awful as my eyebrows are lighter than my hair but I love the penguin so much I just had to show you!

Yet another program on my schedule... Did anyone see the new series of 90210 on E4 last night (Brits)? I only saw about twenty minutes. Does it get any bitchier because that's the whole reason I watched it! And who is watching Gok Wan's Too Fat, Too Young tonight (Brits again?). I think it will be very deep and meaningful as he will be talking to teenagers who are obese. As a young boy, Gok Wan was bullied for being fat, gay and Chinese all at the same time so we will maybe see a new side to Gok tonight.

When You Say I'm Addicted

One of my main resolutions for the New Year was to stop shopping at Primark as I need to bring more quality and long lasting life into my wardrobe. I.e. everything won't fall apart after one wash. But Primark have been doing some rather fabulous (yeah that resolution sort of died put too) stuff recently. Like the Chanel style pumps I showed you a few posts back, which I love, and now this skirt which was £9. So simple and just perfections in my mind. I think it would go better with my long grey cardigan as there is a tad too much blue going on.

No, I haven't abandoned you...

It's just that I have been rather busy. Well, reading Gossip Girl is very time consuming and my kitchen and dining room have been getting painted so my dad couldn't use the table so had to steal the desktop which I always use as all my photos are on it. But the painter has finally finished so I have the computer back!

And on that note...

To all you Brits reading this, get your remotes at the ready as Gossip Girl returns to ITV 2 at 9 tonight. I have to confess that I have never watched Gossip Girl but tonight is when I shall be converted. . Have a great night and next time in town, I shall wear my man hat with pride!

New Born

He saw me coming down the road and at once his face lit up. His foot stopped tapping to the beat of Radiohead that was coming from his earphones and suddenly became more interested in making sure his hair looked OK. I grinned at his vanity and made my short legs carry my rather squat figure closer to him, even though my blisters were making my feet burn and itch. My hair was flustered and getting in my eyes, my cheeks red and my back acing with the weight of my books but I didn't care because I was with him, getting closer and closer. His blond hair flopping slightly over his eyes, his huge rucksack on the ground next to his bulging art folder full of masterpieces and the sports bag holding his hockey stick. I could already remember his smell, the way my heart missed a beat every time he touched me. The way he stroked my hand with his thumb, put my hair behind my ear, going out of his way just to hug me. He looked exhausted after his long day at school, dark circles starting to form underneath his bright blue eyes, but he was still beautiful. He was beyond hot, in my eyes he was perfection. High cheek bones of a grown man, but filled with pure innocence and full lips that were soft and gentle at the touch. I reached out my hand to him and was about to take it but I suddenly remembered where I was sitting and who I was. In a crowded maths class. Single. With my sexist pig of a teacher yelling at me. Yay.

Today, what I was thinking when I should have been doing Boxplots, or whatever they were...

My events after school were not as magical as I hoped they would be. I bought these shoes from Primark, the new issue of Vogue and a Starbucks hot chocolate. It was extremely strong and now I feel a little sick. Great!

You can now add me on mylookfashion.co.uk! Just search for Strawberry Fields if you are a member and if you are not try applying! So worth it =D xx

Little Brown Bags

I have recently been very envious of those who own brown leather satchels. Miriam. and Petra. were showing off theirs while I sat and read enviously at their very desirable accessory. So I was over the moon to discover a brown satchel in Peacocks the other day for a tenner. I was so pleased and utterly over the moon!

I am getting quite into buying bags cheap. I have an uncountable amount of bags from Primark and I have this other bag from Peacocks which was also £10. I have used it so much.

I need to be careful with these bags though as they do not have much structure and if you don't have enough stuff in them thy just flop about. They do continue on the the slouchy trend I guess though!

Here is my outfit that I was wearing at my Gran's party while I was writing my last post. I bought the top in Pisa and I was disappointed with it as soon as I tried it on for the first time. It was too long to be a top, too short to be a dress and had too much material to be a tunic that I enjoyed wearing. But I tried it on with my beloved Primark skirt and voila! I fancied trying it with braces or would that be too much?

Zara tunic, H&M cardigan, Primark skirt, M+S tights, Bracelets stolen off mum who got one from a raffle and the other from a cracker on Xmas day!

As usual, sorry about the extremely bad quality of photos. My camera seriously sucks.

Thank you for your very comforting words from the last comment! Relatives can be so annoying so thank you for letting me have a good moan!

15 Steps

I have decided to turn my life around this year. Well, I say that every year but, this year is going to be different. Here is what I am going to do to make me into a better person.

1. Don't say 'fabulous' as often. It makes me sound repetitive and uninspired.
2. Make sure my lips don't spread over my teeth when I smile. It makes me look like I have had botox or I am wearing too much lippy.
3. Do more productive activities on week nights. For example, not looking on bebo profiles of people I don't know and watching Friends re-runs on E4. I have seen them all before.
4. Do more productive things on week ends. Like not going to see films I have already seen three times and walking around All Saints for half an hour. I can't afford it!
5. Spend my money on better things. Like intelligent novels or school books or classical music. Not endless copies of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.
6. Save my money better so I don't have another incident of running out of credit in Starbucks.
7. Only go to Starbucks no more than twice a month. It's too expensive and not good for my figure.
8. Work out at least four times a week for at least half an hour each time so I can go back to my old dress size.
9. Eat more healthily by eating less salsa on my wrap at lunch and not going to Starbucks. For the same reasons as above.
10. Persuade my mum to get a French tutor so I have a chance at passing my exam. My French teacher sucks so badly.
11. Don't get addicted to Internet browsing and shopping. It will make my chances of debt in later life a lot more likely.
12. Stop the Primark addiction now. Quality of clothes in my wardrobe is essential.
13. Get a new wardrobe. How am I supposed to put everything I wear in two shelves and one rail?
14. Be friendlier to people I talk to face to face. It is not J R's fault if she wants to have brown hair and ginger eyebrows.
15. Prove to my chemistry crush that I am clever, mature and sophisticated. And that I understand the rules of rugby. Well, that might be pushing it a little!

New Years Eve Celebrations

Well, it's official. 2009 is here! Last night I was at my parent's friends house where there was like fifty people crammed into one room for the countdown. We were the last to leave and we got home at 3:30. I woke up this morning with my hair sticking up and a fuzzy brain as I tried to remember what happened last night. I think I had one too many glasses of Baileys!

And Whatever Lies Ahead

• Exams at school. Exams for keyboard. Exams for oboe. Exams for dancing. Exams for drama. Why do I bother?
• The return of Robin Hood to BBC1 for all us Brits. Jonas Armstrong!
• The extension to my shopping centre being opened and a whole new centre being opened as well. It will have Zara and Mango!
• Having to play in the huge theatre for my concert band, twice. I'm not nervous...
• Confessions of a Shopoholic, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and New Moon coming out in cinemas. Excited or what?

And if you can suggest anymore, I guess I have a fabulous year ahead of me! Well, that's number 1 broken already! =)

If I haven't said it already to you, Happy New Year and have a fabu....amazing year! All the best for '09!

'15 Steps' is a song by Radiohead from their alum 'In Rainbows'. It is featured in the Twilight movie and plays in the credits. Watch the rather rubbish video here.

Final Act.

I went to H I's house yesterday. Everyone hid from my camera and then we ate home made yule log.

My camera was in a weird mood and wouldn't take a picture of my whole outfit so i did it in two parts.

T shirt: New Look

Vest (underneath): George at Asda

Skirt: Primark

Tights: Primark

Socks: River Island

Just to show how festive I am

I got doodling last night and produced this so I thought I would just show you!

Well, this is my last post of 2008. Thank you so much for the last two moths of inspiration and feedback you have given me. Enjoy your holidays and come back well rested and fed! I hope to hear from you in the New Year, 2009 people! Love you all so much xxx

Don't Look Now

“Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.”

Anon.

2008 has been quite a memorable year for me. There has been tears, bad times, awful moments, arguments and tensions. But there has been a lot of happiness for me. Smiles, laughter (a lot of laughter) and love, I guess. Most of all for this past year I would like to thank:

1. My family, for being there for me and teaching me how annoying little brothers can be


2. My fabulous and utterly amazing friends, for all the laughs, tears and hard times we have shared


3. My cat, for listening


4. Topshop, for helping me develop my own style


5. H&M, for your amazing designs in jeans, skirts and cardigans


6. Primark, for making me feel loved when I'm broke.


7. Stephenie Meyer, for introducing me into a whole new world of literature and hot guys


8. Grazia, for making me sound clever whenever I start talking about fashion


9. Kings of Leon. Wow! you have amazing music


10. Radiohead, for giving me a new anthem


11. Muse, for making Twilight fabulous


12. All of my amazing readers, for giving me beautiful feedback and flattering me more than I deserve. You all have such amazing blogs and are so inspirational, in style and personality.


13. Well, it would come out eventually. Thank you T G for showing me love at first sight. Thank you for showing me how much it hurts when boys have better things to do. And, of course, thank you for showing me how hard it is to move on.

"If music be the food of love, play on."

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Act 1 Scene 1

Truly Scrumptious

On Sunday I went into town on my own as some people were recovering from a La Crosse game. Well, I had it even worse, it was between 0 and 1 degrees Celsius out there and I couldn't find my leggings so I had to just wear shorts and bare legs. They turned purple eventually, but I still made it to town! While out there I bought...

The H+M skirt that I found out about from Fashionable Early (see my blog list) at £15 and the Primark bag, or satchel, priced at £8. Scrumptious

I then went for a trip around New Look with my voucher and got this adorable beanie for £5,

which is far better value than this Accessorize one which is almost £15. The colours are just a little different but apart from that and the bow, they are practically the same.

So with the new addition from new Look, that brings my hat collection up to 8 hats. Four berets and four beanies. Ooooo, I never knew getting wrapped up warm could be so addictive.

Good news!

My iPod is alive and Amazon sent us a new Wii and this one did not get left outside in the pouring rain, so we forgive them!