Purple Rose

The lovely Emma from Purpleee Rose held a giveaway a few weeks ago and I must be on some kind of lucky streak, as I won!  I received the cutesy parcel when I came back from Spain, so apologies for the lateness!  It was a vintage giveaway so all the items are unique which is really cool!  In the package was a gorgeous vintage scarf, a velvet maxi dress, some lovely necklaces and a little note for me!  The dress is honestly amazing, it's just insanely annoying that I'm so tall, as it's that little bit too short, grrr. However, I'm thinking of playing around with it a little bit and making it into a short dress, and using the excess material to make a skirt a la Kayla Hadlington!  I haven't been able to take a picture of the dress full length, but if I do change it about, I'll be sure to make a post about it.  On that note, thank you so much to Emma for hosting a giveaway, I'm delighted with my wins.  Now to any readers, make sure you check out Emmas blog here, it's one of my favourite and I strongly recommend following her!

love amy x

Wednesday Want Week 18: Tequila Star

I've always loved the clothes that clothing line 5Preview has, and this online store called Tequila Star has very similar prints, for a much more affordable price! I love how the designs 'mock' the big brands and the leather jacket is just spectacular.  Click here to go to the site and click on each picture to go to the listing.

love amy x

The Lost Girls

Ink marl turband: Crown & Glory (won in a giveaway!)
"The Lost Girls" Crop tee: Charity shop
Floral skirt: €7.99 Zara

So here I am, sporting my new Crown & Glory turband that I won in the Wallpaper Rose giveaway and the skirt I bought in my recent haul.  It's a little more girlier than the stuff I usually wear but you can't wear the same stuff all the time I guess. I'm pretty happy with the tan I got from spain, apart from my face, I never seem to tan on my face though, which is annoying, but at least I can wear makeup to create the illusion, sun makes you age more anyway.  I also apologise for the grainy-ness of these photos.  The room was perfectly light and settings on camera were as normal, so I don't know what went wrong but meh, what can you do.

love amy x

Spain 2011

Here are a few snaps from my holiday in Spain.  I went for two weeks and it was lovely to have a holiday and spend time with my family but I did miss my friends, and got so behind on my blog!  I don't really have any amazing photos, as most pictures are actually just of my baby brother, so I tried not to overload on them.  The first picture is our villa, the fourth and fifth are of Freddie after eating an ice cream, the sixth and seventh are of the outside table when the umbrella base snapped and smashed the glass tabletop, pretty bad!  The eighth photo is of the 500 piece puzzle we completed, quite sad I know but we had nothing else to do! We did buy a 1000 piece puzzle after that, but we weren't able to complete it before we left, it was mostly blue pieces so was really difficult! Lastly, the ninth photo is of the emergency passports we had to buy as we lost our normal ones, it was extortionately expensive, about £130 each but apparently we can claim that on holiday insurance.  I don't know much about that stuff, so just look how pretty they are!

So yeah, bit of a boring post but I wanted to put something about my holiday on here.  Today I need to organise everything, including tidying my room, cleaning up the blog, sorting out blog buttons, sorting out the giveaway, making a present, posting orders, a lot to do!

love amy x

Sunday Summary Week 11

1/ Freddie on the plane back to England
2/ Pretty clouds from above
3/ Funny ad at the train station
4/ Mouldy findings from the fridge when we arrived home
5/ Came home to some post!
6/ Made rice crispy cake :D

Things I loved this week:
1/ This Flickr photostream. This girl is seriously talented at drawing!
2/ The Gives Me Hope website. Like the FML website but with uplifting stories. So lovely.
3/ These cute "I do" soundgraph wedding rings

This will be the last of my scruffy weekly posts! I'm back in England now so regular posts will be back!  I'm sorry this post is so boring, the pictures all seem to contain rectangular things, so nothing exciting.  I'm in a really weird mood where I can't think of much to write.  Alex came round yesterday and stayed round and spent the day here today which was nice as I hadn't seen him in 2 weeks.

I know I said this before with a 100 follower mark, but I am going to do a giveaway when I reach 150 followers!  I hadn't actually organised the giveaway before and some sponsors let me down, then I had to go to Spain but now I'm back with a great sponsor and some want-worthy items up for grabs, so spread the word!

love amy x