Happy Halloween!

I thought I'd share with you some photos of my Halloween celebrations I love getting all dressed up, having a fun night with friends fully embracing spook night and making the night last as long as possible, before going to a Halloween event in Greenwich me and my friends had pre drinks in my room which was decorated and served with some witches brew before the night began.

What did you do for Halloween?

It's fair to say I scared some people that night...

The witches brew I made was vimto, strawberry daiquiri, vodka, fresh orange juice, star-shaped ice and popping candy.

I also put some frozen Woo Woo cocktail into a brain mould as Cloe is modelling here!

Room Tour 2014

I have just moved into the new house as I'm starting my second year at university and lived in halls for the first year (which was an experience and a half) now after lots of planning and organisation my new home has finally come together. I'm living with five other students from the uni and the past few days we've been getting used to our new house, decorating it and getting back into the whole independent living trying to remember to lock the doors at night and how to work the microwave etc.

My Room

I haven't completely got my room how I want it to look I'd like to add a armchair next to bed and a bigger rug on the floorspace but after 6 months I'll do an updated room tour this is just the basis of my stuff and a few decorations. 

On this shelf I've displayed my photo frame which was a going away gift last year from a friend with photos of friends, family and my beloved rabbit who passed away sadly. I put up a sarcastic sign that I got a couple years ago which I thought was funny (and true) with my house keys, vintage bell and Thai Lychee candle which smells amazing.

My desk has my make up bag, make up brushes, mirrors, laptop and printer with a notepad and pen, when I'm doing laptop work I tend to do that on my bed but for applying make up I always sit here on mornings and catch up on my favourite youtubers.

This is a stacked shelf (which I'm debating painting white) to the left is some printer paper and a clothes rail that I don't need as I have plenty of wardrobe space so one of my other housemates can have.

On the top I have placed my picnic bag from The Range which I'm using to store my make up that I don't use everyday keeping my essentials in my make up bag on my desk, on the first box I have a chanel bag displayed, embellished clutch and handmade record player bowl (my friend Grace made loads of these and gave them to her friends such an awesome idea). I have also this small white tin which I have displayed my 'Hello There Sailor' sunglasses from River Island and blue reflection sunglasses from & Other Stories I think these look nice but are also handy having them displayed so I can see which sunglasses go with my outfit of the day.

On this second box I have stacked some of my favourite books including The Great Gatsby, The Little Book of Chanel, Dear Scott Dearest Zelda and Shopping for Vintage I have placed my Lake Sunset Yankee Candle to hold them in place. I have also displayed all my nail polishes in this glass jar with industrial style writing that I bought from Matalan for £9 I also keep my most used nail polishes at the top I've been loving the Sally Hansen Diamond Top Coat and Essie's 'Urban Jungle'. I have my camera displayed along with another of those white tins that I picked up from Hobbycraft with my white cat eye sunglasses in them.

For the third box I displayed a cute rose water bottle that reminds me of a day out with my best friend in summer you can read about that here I also have my favourite scent at the minute Victorias Secret Coconut Passion and some ceramic coasters with lovely messages on them that my friends got my for going away to uni. I have displayed Chanel Fine Jewellery, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Collection of Audrey Hepburn DVD's and Fashion Fact Off game with a rose gold candle.

On this shelf I have my favourite flavoured water, Raspberry & Green Tea, three floral tins with cottons buds, bobbles, grips etc in and a game of Fashion Table Trivia.

This Prada box holds my jewellery in it as I don't ever really wear jewellery I only wear it for special occasions I don't need to have it hung up so this box handily fits it all in. 

On the last shelf I have my books and magazines displayed including a handy manual for all fashion students the Atlas of Fashion Designers and the perfect coffee table book Alexander McQueens Savage Beauty including issues of my favourite magazine Porter. I think getting fashion books for christmas are always my favourite present as they are always so handy for the career I'm choosing and inspirational to look through.

I got my bedding from Asda Home then some textured white pillows to decorate I also put up some fairy lights to make it more cosy and a fluffy white rug which feels like heaven on the feet!

These are my mirrored wardrobes

A Trip to Birmingham!

I visited my good friend Bekki in Birmingham for a few days as she lives there while she's studying Textiles at the University, she moved into her new house over summer so I was able to see her new home and have a look at what her life is like in the city. The trip started off with an unexpected coach drama but thankfully I managed to resolve it it quickly so that I was still able to get down and listened to lots of Ed Sheeran and Arctic Monkeys to get me through the journey. I'd never been to Birmingham before so I was excited to see what the city was like and found that it was like a smaller London in the case that it had everything it needed but more closer together so you needn't spend a lot of time travelling to get where you wanted to, it's a really vibrant city and we had lots of fun.

On the first day after I arrived we went back to her house and chilled, had some food and then started to get ready to go out to dinner we decided to wear our higher heels as we only had a little bit to walk (give me flats any day). 

Ready for our mate date!

I'm Wearing:

Green Pleated Dress - H&M 

Snakeskin Heeled Sandals - Topshop

I wore this dress as I was feeling adventurous with colour and the weather was getting quite chilly so picked this longer dress and wore a long black chiffon duster coat over it also we decided to splash out and have a three course meal so didn't want to wear skinny jeans, you should always have room for dessert!

We walked to the Mailbox as Bekki had picked out one of her favourite restaurants to go to called 'Red Peppers'  I had a look at the menu online and everything looked so good take a look and see what you think. 

This was a really beautiful view with lots of restaurants surrounding it.

(Shoe Appreciation Shot)

My nail polish is Essie's 'Bikini So Teeny' if you're wondering.

Cocktail O'Clock!

I got the Elderflower Cooler which had Gin, creme de cassis, elderflower cordial, mint and cucumber which is usually one of my favourite drinks but the cucumber completely spoilt the taste of the elderflower although Bekki ordered the Italian Colado which was delicious and had Bacardi, Amaretto, coconut cream and pineapple juice in it.

For starters I ordered the Grilled Halloumi Skewers which come with cous cous salad and a refreshing garlic dip, it was so good and a good size I don't like it when starters are too big so you're put off your main. Bekki ordered the Potato Skins with garlic dip and she said they were really good too!

For our main meal Bekki got the Coconut Chilli Chicken Pasta which she said tasted wonderful and I ordered the Chèvre pizza which had goats cheese, mozzarella and caramelised onion on it which is my favourite pizza at the moment.

Round 2!

Bekki got another Italian Colado as she loved her first one and I ordered the Cosmopolatian as that's what I normally go for and I wasn't impressed with my first cocktail this was much better and I simply adore pink drinks!

There is always time for desserts we ordered the chocolate brownie which had melted chocolate pieces in, drizzled with chocolate sauce and white chocolate ice cream desserts are always my favourite part of any meal, we then went back to Bekki's and watched Divergent while drooling over Theo James.

The next day we headed into the city centre for a day of shopping and as I had been saving up my wages I was about to do some damage (in a good way of course) but first we needed food to get some energy for the day.

We went to Bacchus which is one of Bekki's favourite restaurant and I can see why the interior is absolutely beautiful and the food was delicious too, I took a few sneaky photos inside so you could get the idea of the experience.

It was underground so when you went down the stairs this was the first thing to greet you on the way down a beautiful Ancient Greece mural.

Like I said I just love pink drinks clink clink!!

I ordered the veggie burger which came with handmade coleslaw with a sweet salad dressing normally I leave the salad but I ate this one because it just tasted so good and homemade chips to top it off this food was absolutely delicious and left me so full i couldn't even finish off the chips. 

A cheeky toilet selfie

I'm Wearing:

Black Cami - Oasis

Grey Pinstriped Trousers - Topshop (£10 in the sale!)

Black Duster Coat - ASOS

Nude Lattice Flats - New Look

Black Leather Doctors Bag - Urban Outfitters

I wanted to go for a comfortable outfit as we'd be walking around shopping all day so I opted for these trousers and flats and a light jacket as it wasn't that cold yet in England I refuse to wear my winter coat until at least October.

I'm going to do a separate post on the things I bought so look out for that...

Arms filled with bags we headed back and had some dinner before getting ready to go for a night out I wore this black lace dress from Topshop but opted for nude flats as my feet were aching from a full day of shopping. We went to Risa which had a room for house/chart music and upstairs a cheese music room which is of course where I spent most of my time singing to the oldies.

The next day we decided to just have a chilled day so we went and picked up some food from Asda and grabbed some pasta salads and walked to a park near Bekki's house and I even made friends with some squirrels I'd really love a pet squirrel one day they're just so cute although I may have to opt for a chipmunk!

It was a jeans and flats kinda day...

Look at this little guy posing for a photo looking all cute and innocent

Who dat? Who dat?

After wandering around the park we went back and watched Now You See Me mainly for Dave Franco and then had some pizza and watched Mortal Instruments which I love and wish they would make the second one already then we got ready for another night out. 

I had a lovely time away big thanks to Bekki for letting me stay, being the best host ever and planning the whole weekend also for letting me get into blogging mode!

Steph