Wednesday Want Week 17: La Garconne

Love this crop sweater, great for the summer days where the weather isn't as ideal as you would want it to be.  Just a shame that it's at such an extortionate price!  Find it here.  Also apologies for the short rushed post, just at an internet café so don't have much time!

love amy x

Sunday Summary Week 10

1/ Me and my stepdad comparing tans.  I win.

2/ My calendar for the holiday, counting down the days until I go home!

3/ 500 piece puzzle me and the fam completed

4/ Freddie asleep in his pram while we were having dinner, bless.

5/ Went to the beach without suncream on, big mistake.

6/ Spongebob carseat we found in some supermarket, there was a Buzz lightyear one too!

Again, apologies for the late post.  This will be the last tardy one, as the next time I will be getting round to doing a Sunday summary post, I will be back in England!  It's already been X days in Spain and in some ways it's gone really fast, but in others extremely slowly.  I'm absolutely gutted that I missed Guilfest, which was this very weekend just gone.  It would have been so good as I looove festivals, and I know a couple of bands playing, so everything would have been awesome, so annoying!

At least I can go to Reading festival.  I've been every year since 2008 as well as two previous times with my mum when I was younger.  This year will be my fourth wristband!  I know it's scabby, trust me I've had it from everyone, the whole 'Do you have any idea how skanky those must be?' and 'What will you do when you get a job??' yadda yadda.  I honestly don't really care!  It's kinda sad, but my Reading bands are one of my most treasured possessions!  They have all these amazing memories attached and they also kind of help represent me as a person? Kinda? Like when I see someone with a Reading band it's an instant conversation starter and I'm hoping they'll help make friends with things in common with me at college (as sad as that sounds!).

Anyway, I'm babbling again, sorry! I think it's because I'm tired, I always seem to babble when I'm tired, I didn't realise this also translated when I'm typing too!  Also also, when I get back from Spain I have a great giveaway for you guys with a truly awesome sponsor! I actually cannot wait to unveil it!  Until then, CYAAAA!

love amy x

Haul/Help!

Swallow knuckle ring - €5.00 Ale-Hop
White sheer stripe tee w/ writing - €5.99 Zara

Desert print vest - €5.99 Zara

Pink vest - €5.95 Zara

Floral skirt - €7.99 Zara
Black pleat skirt - €9.99 Zara

Brown bag - €39.99 Zara

The other day I went to a big shopping centre here in Spain called Ondara.  The shops there are pretty good, with a Pull and Bear and a Zara, as well as a few others.  At the beginning of the holiday, me and my brothers were given €50 to spend, and I had already brought €30 savings from previous holidays so went crazy with the sales.  I always find that the Zara stores in spain are better than the ones in the UK, especially the teenage range that they do (TRF).  I bought a few tops, two skirts, a bag and a ring.  The ring was from a store called Ale-Hop which sells a load of random stuff, it's really cool actually, bit of a shame we don't have it in England. (If you did bother to do the maths, you will know that I spend more than my limit.  My mum helped me out with the little that I went over)

I looove the vest with the desert print on it.  It's quite small on me, but it was going so cheap, there was only one left, and I've been wanting a similar one for so long.  It's really similar to the clothing made by Your Eyes Lie and Black Milk so I'm delighted with it, bargain!

I'm a little stuck on the bag I bought.  It is probably the best quality bag that I have acquired, as it is genuine leather and is really strong etc. But I spent so much on it, €40!  I do like it, but I'm having doubts, as I know that if I took it back I would have another €40 to spend on holiday, as it is only day 7 of 14 so I have none left for my holiday.  I also don't really use brown bags that often, as I mostly wear black shoes or accents to my outfit, so would not use it as much as my other bags, which are all cheaper than it.  I'd really love your honest opinion on it, I won't be offended if you say what you think!  Should I keep it or save the money to put towards a Cambridge Satchel or something?

love amy x

Sunday Summary Week 9

1/ Created a packing list for my spain holiday!

2/ Nana bought a blow up sumo suit for my brothers, obviously I needed to have a go
3/ On the plane flying over pretty mountains, so many of them
4/ I got a free sample of one wax strip in a magazine, what is the point?
5/ Getting creative with watercolours in my moleskine by the pool
6/ Our villa/my home for 2 weeks

Things I loved this week:
1/ This song from the band my boyfriend introduced me to called ‘Right Away Great Captain!’
2/ These gorgeous clothes from an up-coming designer, JAM IT DOWN
3/ This seriously addictive unicorn game!

Sorry I missed this post!  I can't believe it's 3 days late! I am able to get on the internet in Spain if I go down to the library which has an internet connection, but it’s closed on Sundays so I wasn’t able to so my Sunday summary post.  So although it’s Monday, I’m still pleased that I can get internet here at all, because in the past I’ve had to go down to the internet café, spending a euro for every five minutes that I’m online, and that really isn’t worth it!

The appearance of my blog is seriously killing me at the moment.  I'm really OCD with the posts and how it looks and I always make sure that the weekly's that I do are spaced out with different topic posts.  Now I have so many sunday summaries and wednesday wants and it's stressing me out! I've now scheduled some posts so hopefully it'll sort itself out and they'll work.

I’ve been here in Moraira, Spain for 5 full days now and it’s blistering hot here!  I’m already starting to go brown as I tan really easily and we’re lucky enough to have a pool to go in, but I annoyingly have to avoid getting my hair wet, as I’ve got quite a lot of bleach in it and do not want to come back with green hair!  As I said, the lack of readily available (close by) internet means that posts will be less frequent but I’ve got a few scheduled ones lined up for you guys.  At the moment I’m just dealing with reading all the updates on my dashboard, I follow quite a lot of blogs and I read every new post as I hate missing out, so the build up that occurs is crazy!  So yeah, stay tuned for some scheduled posts and that, bye bye!

love amy x

Prom

As you may know from my previous posts or if you are a follower of my twitter, my prom was on sunday and I wanted to share some (or a lot of) photos.  I'm obviously the blonde in the pink dress, and my date is my boyfriend Alex, with his little matching tie and pocket hanky whatsit.  I had pre drinks at mine where everyone had photo's taken with their dates, then we had some with the stretch hummer and we were off to the venue.  The venue was so beautiful, with really grand buildings and amazing grounds with peacocks roaming around (only have one picture of it!) and it's so weird finding blue and green feathers around when you're used seeing to scabby pidgeon feathers!  We got in and had our photo's taken professionally (when they're on the site I might ammend them to this post) and they served buck's fizz, which was nice as a lot of proms do not allow any alcohol.  There was a little finger buffet put out as well and the desserts were the cutest;  I had the chocolate berry cheesecake, which you can see in the picture, and wow it was so yummy!  If you read the shoe haul/panic post the other day, you'll know that I really couldn't decide which shoes to wear, and you'll now be able to see that I chose the studded River Island ones.  They looked really good and matched my clutch, but they absolutely killed my feet, resulting in me having to hobble around and walk slowly, but at least the pain was worth it!

At 11:30 we all went to my friends house for the after prom party which is basically where everyone just gets quite drunk.  I didn't really drink too much as I was absolutely knackered so I just got all grumpy!  I cannot handle going without sleep, I get so irritable and snappy it's unreal.  We weren't supposed to be allowed inside her house, but as everyone wanted to stay up, they were in the marquee where we were originally supposed to be sleeping, so I was let in the house to sleep on the sofa after much begging, but still didn't get much.  Thankfully I got to my mums relatively early in the day and had a powernap to keep me going!

Altogether, my prom was amazing, I could not have asked for a better night and it was so lovely seeing the average people I used to see at school everyday looking so amazing all dressed up.  I've got to go get packing for my holiday in a few days so congrats if you read all this and apologies for the rambling and  image overload!

love amy x