stuck like glue...

Does anyone else every have an outfit in their head that they just can't shake? Ever since I first saw these green suede boots on asos, all I've been able to think is how amazing they'd look with white jeans and a red blouse. Of course I don't own any of these items, typical. I'll probably wind up getting them but am on a rather strict budget at the minute. Anyway I think this combo would be just right for spring. Only a month to go and then we'll be out of Winter.

1) Keyhole Sunglasses £12 Asos

2) Zig Zag Rings (set of 3) £6 Asos

3) White Super Skinny Jeans £30 Asos

4) Spike Stretch Bracelet £8 Asos

5) Green Suede Ankle Boots £45 Asos

6) Red Keyhole 70's Blouse £95 Whistles @ Asos

home baking...

One of my favourite things about going home is that I can bake! My oven at uni is just plain shocking, tried to bake a cake and it was en epic fail but hey ho I go baking crazy when I get home.

Over the week I tried out these 4 new recipes, 2 are from  Good Housekeeping's Favourite Cakes, Bakes and Cupcakes and the other 2 from the BBC website which is ace for recipes so check it out!

1) Mini Tiramisu Cakes - Perfect combination of tiramisu and cupcake! Saw these on Baking Made Easy and the next day I was baking away. I actually wound up making 1 and a half (18) times the number of cupcakes as I had so much filling and syrup. They really are delicious and best when left for 24 hours for the syrup to soak into the cakes. 

2) Scones - Got this recipe from the Good Housekeeping book, it's actually for white chocolate scones but I swapped this for sultanas. Best eaten straight out the oven, well let them cool first!

3) Gingerbread Cake with Lemon Icing - The recipe actually calls for orange icing but I'm not that big a fan so used lemon juice and zest instead, this stops the cake from being too sweet. 

4) Spiced Carrot Cake Muffins - These are from Good Housekeeping again, I just swapped the crushed almonds for walnuts and cut the muffins in half when cooled to make them like mini cakes. My favourite carrot cake recipe that I've ever made.

If you love baking I'd definitely recommend the Good Housekeeping cookbook it's got a good mix of recipes and gives really clear instructions. So if your considering buying go for it! 

DVF...

Diane Von Furstenberg's Spring Summer 2012 ad campaign features a model wearing one of her dresses in a gorgeous landscape, so far so normal, but one crucial difference - where the models face should be there's a mirror which leaves an image of the sky where her face should be. Apparently this is in reference to surrealist painter Salvador Dali, but for me it just seems strange. When I was flicking through Elle it definitely made it stand out but is this really a good ad or just something to generate buzz.

The purpose of an ad is to sell the product, who wants to buy into a clothing brand that is about being faceless. This effectively gets rid of the biggest maker of individuality in a person. Are DVF marketing their clothes to faceless clothes horses? If they wanted to create talk they've managed but at the end of the day if people are talking and not buying... ad fail. Not that I think it will really impact their sales but it certainly makes me think twice about what type of consumer they think they have. I'm not convinced, what do you guys think?

GOSH quatro eyeshadow...

So recently I've started getting more and more interested in make up, and I;ve got a very full make up bag to prove it! It all started a couple of months ago when I saw this beauty tutorial and decided (even though I don't wear glasses which is what the tutorials for) that I needed some new gear to try out the look. So off I went to go find some new make up. Now I'm a student so can't quite justify spending £40 of my loan on the Dior palette they suggested. I did however find this quatro palette from GOSH which was the best alternative I could find, plus at £8.49 it's a gazillion times more affordable on my student budget.


I've never actually used GOSH products before but I've always been tempted. This Dior alternative is the GOSH eyeshadow quatro in Q22 Driftwood and since buying it I've used it virtually everyday. For me they are the perfect natural shades. They've got a good pigmentation and last, some of my other eyeshadow rubs of or winds up in the creases of my eyelid but this one is fantastic.


I use all the shades for both my eyelid, brow and as liner. In fact I've used it so much I've just hit pan so shall soon be returning to Superdrug to get another. I'll definitely be using GOSH again. Have you guys used GOSH products, what did you think?


You can buy it here

Vogue Paris Jitterbug...

How have I only just seen this?? This is the the new Vogue Paris a la Emanuelle Alt... love it :)


For the article about it on Vogue Paris website click here.

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New make up, stack of magazines, favourite winter beanie and freebies all adds up to a lovely winters day.

le pliage strikes again...

Another Longchamp le pliage bag, this time as a back pack.

perfect summer wardrobe...

(images from Fashion Gone Rogue)

Lookbook from Elizabeth and James "Textile" range, the perfect wardrobe for chilling out over Summer. Loving the pastel neons (is that a term?), tie dyed jeans and trainers combo and loose fitting tops. Time to start saving those pennies!

the dream wardrobe...

(images from various sources)

In my dreams this is my wardrobe, Miranda Kerr. What can I say? Skinnies, blazers, stilletos. The muted colour palette and burgundy bag is gorgeous! And she makes it look so effortless. Drop dead gorgeous and I am drop dead jealous.

time to say hello again...

(1/ Zara sale dress which I wore for NYE 2/ New earrings from Topshop 3/ Cupcake Jar! 4/ Next Gilet 5/ Shoes from Paris  6/ Topshop wedges 7/ Superga) 

Report, report, report! That's literally what I've been doing since I came back to uni, and before that I was ill - although luckily after NYE. So that's why the long silence. Anyway hello again and welcome 2012! These are some pictures I took over the Christmas hols of presents, sales bargains and my NYE outfit, can't believe that was less than 2 weeks ago.

I finally bought the gilet from Next I've been eyeing up since October (see this post) and it payed off, got it for £30 instead of £65. My other sale bargains were my Superga's which I got for £24.99 instead of £40 and the Zara dress which I got for £23.99 instead of £30. Topshop heels were full price and I got at the start of December, and they are amazingly comfortable. The rest were presents, I've been waiting for these shoes since Paris and now it's too cold to wear them! Typical. Roll on Summer!