Ipswich Fashion Week - a late post!

Ipswich Fashion Week - a late post! 

I was helping out at Ipswich Fashion Week about three weeks ago now. It was a really fun event and was helping to raise the profile of Suffolk fashion!

It was held at the Corn Exchange in the town centre and featured the Ipswich Town Footballers as well as some of the regions finest boutiques, high street stores and wedding retailers!

The Corn Exchange looked beautiful, as did the models! These are some pics from rehearsals. Behind the scenes exclusive!

My team badge! Very proud haha! 

Hopefully there will be another Fashion Week in April to showcase the Spring/Summer lines. I love getting involved with anything East Anglian and fashion based, sometimes all these local business need is a bit of publicity to go big time! 

Biba Phone Case

Hello everyone!

I'm going to start today's post by saying I'm sorry that I haven't been posting as regularly, but until May third year uni is taking over, but I'll try to post as much as poss!

Sooo, I designed my own iPhone case! I have the old iPhone 4 and it's so hard to find pretty cases for them nowadays.

This is a photo I took of a Biba drawing from the Biba and Beyond exhibition in Brighton earlier this year. I've had it as the background for my iPhone for ages so I thought it was time it took centre stage.

I went onto Vista Print where you can customise so much stuff! Some friends have used it for business cards with great results so I thought I'd try it out.

I'm really pleased with the results. It only cost £15 including delivery and because my photo is of a drawing it's slightly mottled close up, but I think if you had a regular photo (not shot through glass!), it would be even better!

What do you think!?

New Hot Brand: Laura Gravestock

I absolutely love silver jewellery. If you've read some of my previous posts you'll see I'm currently loving silver rings, especially ones featuring hearts! 

After seeing the ring on the top right of my selection in this months Cosmo mag, I had to check out jewellery designer, Laura Gravestock's website.

With a huge range of collections, materials and price ranges, I could have chosen so many from the site! 

I've done a little collection of my favourite rings but she also does earrings, necklaces and bracelets. 

Ted Baker Competition Goodie Bag

A while back I entered a competition with Ted Baker for their Spring/Summer collection. And I won runner up! Yay!

So today I received my prize...a fantastic goodie bag!

Here's what I won! 

iPhone case

Heart mirror and case

Notebook

Patterned nail file - gorgeous pattern!

Make-up bag - loved these for ages! The bow is so cute!

Tote Bag

Thanks Ted! 

Any of these you would like to see a full review on? 

SHOES!

SHOES! 

Weirdly enough, I'm not that into shoes, I'm more of a bag gal. But, when I was in M&S the other day checking out their autumn range, I came across these gorgeous mint green heels in the sale for only £11! I was sensible and didn't get them, as I needed practical shoes. Wah!

But when practical shoes look like this, things aren't so bad! These little beauties are going to be great for uni and interning this fall, and they do them in half sizes too! Perfect for my weird ass feet!

Have you bought any cute shoes recently? Or had to leave any gems behind? 

ASOS Bowling Bag

How cute is this bowling bag from ASOS? Love the colour too! Would be so cute for uni or college! 

ASOS, £35

Start Me Up

Todays the day...I'm off to see the Stones! Yusssss!

Pretty god damn excited! My dad has played their songs in our house since I was a wee one so it's nice that I'm going with him and my brother!

I'll do an outfit post later on, but I'm basically wearing a straw trilby, black and white zodiac dress from Topshop (too cool!) and loafers.

Plus I'm taking my new ostrich bag! Beaautiful! Not exactly rock n roll but it'll fit all my stuff in it!

You can find this lovely bag at Miss Selfridge or click here. 

I'll take lots of pictures! Have a lovely weekend readers! 

Cute Collars

A bit of a random post today! I'm struggling for blogging inspiration at the moment, work is draining it out of me!

I've noticed that I'm wearing a lot of collars at the moment! If my tops don't have one on I tend to add one with a necklace, or fold a collared shirt over a jumper.

What would you like to see me posting about?

Decorating Glass Tumblers

I wanted to make my good friend (and beautiful model), Miss Katie Smith, something a bit different for her birthday this year.

She's just got back from a trip to Africa and took some amazing photos! So I thought what better than having them printed on a glass to keep and look at forever!

I used glass tumblers/beakers, and decorated them with wrapping paper using watered down PVA glue.  I wouldn't try putting these in the dish washer and even hot water may cause them to peel, so I'm advising that if you make them you can use them as pen pots, makeup storage, tooth brush holders or even tea light stands (place them inside or on the base, just watch they don't get too hot!).

These are the wrapping paper pieces that I covered the glasses in. And the special one for Katie was with printed photographs. 

PVA glue mixed with water. I just put a little water in until the consistency looked right. A bit milk like I would say. 

Paste some of the PVA mix onto the paper and place it where you want on the wrapping paper. Then roll it, smoothing air bubbles as you go. With the excess paper at the ends, snip down to the base in little strips, then glue them down onto the base of the glass.

Then cover the whole lot in PVA glue to seal it. This is the Safari cup.

Finished cups! I really like them, what do you think? 

Freckles and Gilbert

Surfing the usual blogs this afternoon, I came across this super cute iPhone case!

I clicked the link to the website and came across Freckles and Gilbert. They do the cutest iPhone, iPad, Kindle and laptop cases with delicate and unique illustrations. And at reasonable price points!

The cupcake on can be found here, and costs £20.

I also really like the below products (it is my birthday coming up!).

iPhone Cover Make-over

I've been meaning to do a DIY iPhone case for ages! It's nice to make something that no one else will have!

How to make...a personalised iPhone cover. 

You will need:
-plain iPhone case (you can find one similar here).
-decorations
-super glue (or hot glue gun if you have it).

In my case I had some neon fabric stars left over from a project years ago and thought they would look great against the hot pink case. I bought the case for about £4 on amazon, a great bargain and it looks fab!

I'm really pleased with the outcome of my case! I don't know how long the stars will hold but they seem to be staying put for now.

What do you think? 

Ted Baker S/S '13 Competition Entry

Afternoon all! I'm having a little break from essay writing to enter the Ted Baker S/S '13 Competition.

You can win £75 in vouchers, lovely! Find out more here.

With all the lovely sunshine around, I just knew I had to include sunglasses in the combination. I love these Sandeep Wayfarer Sunglasses, so classic! I then headed to the dress section and fell deeply, madly in love with this swan print dress! How gorgeous is the detailing on it?!  This would be the perfect summer dress to wear the office with some chic sandals or wedges. And then came the bag! I love this mock croc handbag and it fits with the "Summer Work Outfit" style. Big enough to carry everything I need and the lining has bulldogs on it! Super cute!

(All items and background pattern by Ted Baker)

Quick Wishlist

Today I'm just doing a quick wishlist in-between handing in uni work and doing MORE uni work!

Love this cute horse print dress from Topshop, £40. It's a slip dress so I'm not sure if it would suit me or not, but maybe if I add a thin waist belt?

These rings from New Look are so sweet, a set of 4 for £4.99, sounds good to me! 

With the gorgeous weather outside my lips need a new kind of treatment. NARS Pure Sheer SPF Lip Treatment in Greta looks like the perfect nude colour while protecting your lips from those rays. £18.50 available from ASOS. 

TREND: Elephant Prints

Sorry for the lack of posts the last couple of days. Uni deadlines are looming and I've been designing a website for one of my modules and it's been going completely wrong!

I've noticed lots of elephant prints around at the moment. They are so cute! My friends have just got back from Safari (so jel) and they got to see actual elephants! Amazing!

But if you aren't jetting off on Safari, maybe treat yourself to your own little elephant, in fashion form!

Best Of...Pandora Rings

If you read my blog a lot you might already know that I'm not a huge Pandora fan. I don't really like the round charm bracelets (I'm more of a Links of London girl).

However, I DO love their stacking rings! I used to wear a ton of rings, until I became a waitress and was forced out of the habit.

But I still love them! Here are my current favourites from Pandora:

OOTD: Black and White

Leggings, New Look

Shoes, Asos

Jumper, Asos

Necklace, Matalan

If anyone saw me today, then you'll know this wasn't todays outfit! 

This morning I had to get up at 5am to catch a train back to university for an 11am lecture :( 

So I looked a bit worse for wear, with no makeup and incredibly messy hair! Ah well! 

This photo was from yesterday. We had some family over for lunch to celebrate my Mum's birthday the day before and I was going for a comfy vibe. I love my cross leggings, they are so wearable! They are starting to fade as I wear them so much, so I'm looking to buy some more!

Have you seen any lovely leggings around?

Free People, Moonshine and Silver

I saw the little beauty on the right on someone's blog earlier today. I can't get it outta my mind! 

My mum has a charm bracelet that my Grandpa bought her when she was younger and my favourite charm on it is a moon one. I think that's why I have a soft spot for moon jewellery. 

When I saw this hanging round someones neck on their outfit post, I knew I had to find out where it was from! 

I'd never been on Free People's website before and already love it! They seem to have a variety of price points, so you can find a save and splurge item that look quite similar. Perfect for a girl on a budget! 

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