Monday 30 July 2012
Crow Wear
Daisy tee £16.99 - Crow Wear [link]
Necklace £12.99 - Crow Wear [link]
I just couldn't wait to post about my new stuff! Crow Wear are relatively new on the scene and contacted me about a sample and sent me a t-shirt and necklace. The t-shirt (obviously) has a peace sign made of a daisy chain and is a really flattering fit, with pre rolled up sleeves and the fabric is ridiculously soft, so yes I'm so happy with it. I also received a $100 bill necklace and wearing Benjamin Franklin round my neck pleases me somewhat. It's like an antique silver and it's so intricately engraved. The tee is just £16.99 and the necklace £12.99 so they're both cheap considering how awesome the quality is and Crow Wear's other designs are also fab and they do mens wear, so definitely check out their store here!
love amy x
Sunday 29 July 2012
Sunday Summary Week 63
1/ Drew on my friend's wall 2/ Training it 3/ Bought my boyfriend a plug
4/ Bike ran out of battery 5/ Sleepy Tommy 6/ Cider ice lolly
7/ Midnight cowboy rides again 8/ Bitten legs 9/ Vintage cars
10/ Countyside dusk 12/ Electric bike errday 13/ Horrendous weather change
Overall this week I've had two events where we've stayed up all night - really not as fun as it sounds! I've been working a lot more so hopefully I'll get a paid well at the end of next month, in time for Reading Festival! The weather went a bit tits up today really, and it's really not fun cycling in it, the ride from the train station to my house really isn't that far and I got soaked, hope it gets sunny again soon!
love amy x
4/ Bike ran out of battery 5/ Sleepy Tommy 6/ Cider ice lolly
7/ Midnight cowboy rides again 8/ Bitten legs 9/ Vintage cars
10/ Countyside dusk 12/ Electric bike errday 13/ Horrendous weather change
Overall this week I've had two events where we've stayed up all night - really not as fun as it sounds! I've been working a lot more so hopefully I'll get a paid well at the end of next month, in time for Reading Festival! The weather went a bit tits up today really, and it's really not fun cycling in it, the ride from the train station to my house really isn't that far and I got soaked, hope it gets sunny again soon!
love amy x
Friday 27 July 2012
Power & control
I can't believe I never posted any of these images before! I used a Nishika N8000 for my last photography project and created these moving images. I have yet to receive my grade but hopefully I'll do well! These images can only really be created easily with the Nishika N8000 as the camera actually has 4 lenses, which, when you press the shutter button, takes a 4 exposures, all from slightly different angles. The camera was originally made to create 3D images, and you would send in your film to the company and they would send you back images you could see with the special 3d glasses. This company is however no more and the camera which would have been around £500 back in it's day is now available for £20 on ebay! I developed my film and put together the images as a sequence gif on photoshop and these images are the results, what do you think?
love amy x
Wednesday 25 July 2012
Jewellery Storage
A random topic I know but I love seeing how different people store all their jewellery and accessories and have picked up a good few ideas from the internet and I thought I'd share some of my own ideas!
Firstly, I keep everything in my mirror cupboard in my room. It's actually the mirror I take most of my outfit pictures on instagram with, but you wouldn't notice if you don't know so here's a couple of pictures! (1, 2)
Necklaces:
I hang all of my necklaces on a coat rack thing that I drilled into the back of the cupboard door myself, which I didn't really do very well as it sometimes falls off, but it's pretty easy to fix! I can't remember where the rack is from but I organise necklaces on it according to length so it's really good if I want to layer different lengths together!
Earrings:
The cupboard has shelves in it so I stapled a cute woven ribbon just below one of the shelves and the length goes along the whole of the cupboard, then I simply pierce the earrings through the ribbon and they all hang down! This means that the pairs are all together rather than fishing around a little bowl for ages trying to find a full set!
Rings:
I found an old Chanel storage box in my garage which I think may have been used to store a watch and just filled it with my rings. It's not really the best storage as you still have to root through a ton of rings but it fits well on the shelf and the gold Chanel logo makes it prettier!
At the moment I'm still trying to think of a way to store all my hair garland things and sunglasses as they're all just dumped in a box, any ideas? How do you store your jewellery?
love amy x
Sunday 22 July 2012
Sunday Summary Week 62
1/ Rainbow silly band! 2/ New SheInside tee 3/ YSL Shocking Mascara
4/ Sooo beautifuuul 5/ I like trainz 6/ Good luck card from my baby bro
7/ Made Alex's hair pretty 8/ Macaroni came out the ice maker 9/ Hippie party!
10/ Twiggy makeup 11/ Snuggly Paddy 12/ Dad got me goodies from work
13/ The exerciseless bike 14/ Edible flowers! 15/ Pretty burger
4/ Sooo beautifuuul 5/ I like trainz 6/ Good luck card from my baby bro
7/ Made Alex's hair pretty 8/ Macaroni came out the ice maker 9/ Hippie party!
10/ Twiggy makeup 11/ Snuggly Paddy 12/ Dad got me goodies from work
13/ The exerciseless bike 14/ Edible flowers! 15/ Pretty burger
I've had a pretty crappy week if I'm totally honest, this summer really isn't turning out how I expected. I failed my driving test on Tuesday, my supposed friends have been bitchy to me and because of this I haven't seen anyone other than my boyfriend, who seems like the only person I can trust at the moment. Hopefully things will get better soon.
Thursday 19 July 2012
WANT: asos
ASOS Double Spike Bracelet - £6
Really loving the rose gold trend at the moment and this really floats the boat, especially with the precious metal being mixed with a punky twist, and how can you pass it up at just £6?!
Tuesday 17 July 2012
I'M ON THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Sunglasses - Camden
Denim vest - DIY
Back patch - While She Sleeps Merch
Tie dye dress - Miracle Eye
LOVE belt - Urban Outfitters
Bag - Charity shop
Snake arm cuff - vintage
Pretty long overdue, but this is the outfit that I wore to Lily's blogger picnic (post here) a couple of sundays ago. I don't really wear this dress very much as it's a little long for me so is unflattering sometimes, and my mum's supposed to be shortening it a bit but she's taking ages to get round to it, so I just tucked up the dress into my belt! I may not be as much a whizz on the sewing machine as my mum but I finally managed to sew my While She Sleeps back patch onto a denim vest I made a little while ago and I'm so happy with how it turned out and it's definitely made me a lot more confident with sewing machines, but not as much to trust myself to hem anything!
ps - how creepy are my legs in the second photo, one seems to have disappeared, freaky!
love amy x
Monday 16 July 2012
Sunday Summary Week 61
1/ Braving the top tucked into disco pants! 2/ Posting off shorts from my shop 3/ Got ma nails did
4/ Cute yellow pub 5/ Appletiser, yummm 6/ Pink to lilac ombre lips
7/ Adorable popcorn packaging 8/ Boyfriend before Guilfest 9/ Cat managed to get on the pram
10/ Cidre is incredible 11/ Found some sequin leggings 12/ Chicken Katsu!
Not really that much to say in this post I'm afraid! I have my driving test tomorrow so all I've been doing these past few days is driving everywhere (which has been burning a hole in my bank account!) so I'm really hoping I pass.
Just wanted to mention that a blogger I used to follow called Rebecca has started a new blog and would definitely recommend checking out her blog Bandasaur here. She's still starting out and you all must know how frustrating it is to get followers when you start with a clean slate, so please check it out!
love amy x
Monday 9 July 2012
Sunday Summary Week 60
1/ Krispy Kreme date with the boy! 2/ Chocolate glaze donut, nom 3/ New dungarees 4/ Made a necklace, should I add to shop?
5/ Drop Dead case is back, Fifi broke ): 6/ Cool looking lipstick 7/ Freddie & guggie 8/ Lilac hair!
5/ Drop Dead case is back, Fifi broke ): 6/ Cool looking lipstick 7/ Freddie & guggie 8/ Lilac hair!
9/ So many prospectus'! 10/ Found an old crop top 11/ Alex's new kitty! 12/ Tom & 20 chicken nuggets
13/ Alex & Tommy 14/ Tommy & food 15/ Snuggly Tommy 16/ Sleepy Tommy
17/ Driving practise day! 18/ Freddie & babychino 19/ Naff/awesome South Park tax disc holder 20/ New topshop skirt
21/ Vintage shop 22/ Made bracelets 23/ Planning my outfit for a hippie party! 24/ Stained glass at college
Okay so I know there's a ridiculous amount of pictures of my boyfriends new cat in this summary but I couldn't filter them out, Tommy is too cute! I finish college tomorrow so I can finally enjoy summer, then I have my driving test in exactly a week which I am so nervous for! I'm so paranoid I won't pass because my manoeuvers aren't up to scratch as I haven't been able to practise them much in my new car, so wish me the best of luck!
love amy x
Lily's Picnic!
Bit of a late post, but last sunday I went to Lily's birthday blogger meetup! I had an amazing time and brought along my friend Polly, who's pretty new to the blogging world so check out her blog! It was so lovely to meet new people, including obviously Lily, then Ella, Lyzi, Kim, Michelle and Camilla. We went for a picnic in St James' Park with some yummy treats like cupcakes and sweeties, then when the weather started to turn bad we ventured into Fulvio & Mason which was beautiful, but everything was so amazing and expensive, I felt I couldn't touch any of it! After that we went to a Boba bar for some boba tea which looks amazing, but really doesn't taste it. It's like a japanese milkshake thing with jelly balls at the bottom and I got coconut. It was a fun experience but they were so sickly and totally not worth around £4! Next, me and Polly wanted to go to Camden so we split from the group and I bought a vintage dungarees from Rokit, and as is tradition, went to get some bang bang chicken!
Overall I had an awesome day and on the train home we came across the cutest little puppy, I couldn't not share a photo of it. I have a ton of outfit photos so will post them in a separate post (:
love amy x
Sunday 1 July 2012
Sunday Summary Week 59
1/ Styling up my studded shirt 2/ Which hair colour? 3/ Freddie watching Toy Story 4/ Pretty Red Bull can
5/ Racing stripe tights 6/ Miiiilk 7/ Sewed on my While She Sleeps backpatch 8/ Fisheye over my iphone lens
5/ Racing stripe tights 6/ Miiiilk 7/ Sewed on my While She Sleeps backpatch 8/ Fisheye over my iphone lens
9/ College times 10/ Hand candy 11/ Train to London 12/ Polly
13/ Boba tea! 14/ Lily's blogger birthday picnic 15/ Bags n stuff 16/ Camden Lock
love amy x
Today has actually been so good! I went to Lily's birthday blogger picnic and met a load of the people I read about almost every day on their blogs so it was a really fun experience. I'll reveal the pictures in my next post as I have a huge amount! Anyway, I only have one week left of college until I'm done for summer which I'm so excited about, even though I don't have a lot planned, and don't have nearly as long off as I did at the end of year 11 but I'm still not complaining. I have my driving test booked on the 17th July so hopefully I'll pass then I'm planning on doing a ton of overtime at work so I can make a load of money to go on a big shopping spree and to fund Reading Festival at the end of August!
Infinity Guitars
Jacket // IRIDESCENT
Bralet (under shirt) // Charity shop
Shirt // Zara
Shorts // DIY
Tights // Primark
Creepers // Underground
I should have uploaded this look a while ago but have taken so long to get round to it. These are from when I dyed my hair pink, purple and blue. It faded so fast which sucked and I ran out of pink halfway but it wasn't that noticeable. I studded this vintage Armani jacket myself and it's in my shop now here. It's so beautiful and will be hard to part with!
love amy x
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