Stop, woah yeah, wait a minute Mr. Postman

I love being woken up with a parcel, especially one i'm really looking forward to. So was super happy this morning when my Urban Outfitters parcel arrived. I'd ordered a t-shirt, some sunglasses and a purse in the sale. I can never resist a bargain!

I wore my t-shirt with black leggings and some cream and black heeled brogues from New Look. It's by Altru for Urban Outfitters and i'm sure all my ladies from my photography course will be jealous of the vintage camera design.

My lilac sunnies came in handy today too as my nephew's scratched my old favourite's and inbetween the rain today it was very sunny!

And now for my favourite thing that the postman delivered today. A brand new Wren purse I think you'll agree it is beautiful!

Now this was all very exciting, but my postman brought me another exciting thing today. As I received my ND Photography certificates the other day I am now finally able to apply for my accommodation at uni, and got the forms through today. Woo! Things are moving very quickly!

Not such a grey day.

I've had a lovely day today meeting up with a very lovely friend of mine. I love having a good catch up and a cup of coffee, today we went to Esquires Coffee House. I had a raspberry mocha frappe and Amy had a toffee coffee frappe. It was far too warm a day for hot coffee!

I'm having a bit of a dilemma at the minute choosing what to wear on a morning as i've packed up most of my wardrobe to be picked up in a couple of weeks for the big move. I've only got enough clothes to fill a small suitcase which is coming down with me and I hate wearing the same clothes over and over. I chose today an old A-line dress from Primark with grey tights and high wedges in the same colour blue as the dress.

I love this dress, it always reminds me of this one that Twiggy modelled in the 1960's.

I'm also getting pretty bored of my hair at the minute. I've been growing it for the past 9 months or so and it's great now that it's all my natural colour and I can wear it curly, I hate having to dry and straighten my hair so it's so easy to just wash, scrunch and go. But there is only so much I can do with Kirby gripping my fringe out of my face, so for a change I tied my Orla Kiely scarf in it.

Now, i'm not usually one for painting my nails, I can never seem to find a colour that matches my skin tone. I'm the same with eyeshadow, I never wear it. But i've taken a fancy recently to light grey nail varnish so I decided to try some today. It's Beautyuk, glam nails nail polish in Soft Grey from Superdrug. I love it, it's a really nice shade and I will definitely be wearing it through the summer.

Time for change.

I said i'd get back to you when my second birthday present arrived and hoorah it has! And now a very beautiful gold, mini casio watch is adorning my wrist. I'd been gazing at it for months on the Urban Outfitters website so when my mum said she'd but me a watch for my birthday because my old one was so old the strap was starting to split and looking awfully scruffy, I was over the moon when she agreed to this one. And as you can see the website photograph doesn't do it justice at all. It truely is beautiful!

There were a few things I spotted in the Urban Outfitters sale too that were just too good to resist and while looking at them a purse, a t-shirt and some sunglasses accidently fell into the shopping basket and got paid for. Completely by accident of course. I won't spoil the suprise now but i'll upload a couple of photos when they arrive.

Anyhoo, must dash i've got a Rhubarb Crumble in the oven and tuna pasta bake to stick in!

Every girl needs a pink wig.

Yesterday was my niece's third birthday. I got woken up at 6.20 to watch and photograph her open all her presents, then we went to the cinema to watch Shreck 3. It was actually my favourite of the three Shrek films, the storyline was much better I thought and the new characters were hilarious. I loved Rumpelstiltskin although he did remind me a bit of the Queen of Hearts in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. And the Pied Piper was genius!

Here's me and the beautiful birthday girl all ready to go to the cinema. It was a boiling hot day as you can see so I was quite glad to have a break from the sun for a couple of hours while we were watching the film. I like when the sun comes out but i'm so pale that my skin needs factor 50 sun cream or I burn.

After the cinema we had a little tea party at my mum's house and the birthday girl had changed into her Stephanie from Lazy Town outfit for the occasion so we all had a go of the bright pink wig. What do you think, next new hairdo?!

Start wearing purple for me now!

I got an early birthday present this week, my long awaited H! by Henry Holland varsity jacket. I absolutely love this jacket and it is now number 29 in my collection of coats and jackets, they even have their own wardrobe... and some. Where the hell am I going to store them all in a student room come September?!

The colour of the H! collection is purple, this jacket features delicious deep purple and yellow ribbing, which contrasts beautifully with the denim and jersey. And as I can't resist a great colour co-ordination I dug out my exact purple tights to wear with this outfit.

It's also the detail on this jacket which makes it really special. The brand crest and even the lining is beautiful.

My dress was thrifted a couple of years ago and I also highly suspect hand made too. I teamed it with black biker boots from New Look and grey socks.

Here I was on my way to my final british sign language assessment for my level one certificate. I get the results in a couple of weeks so fingers crossed! Also my other birthday present is on it's way and as soon as it arrives i'll be sure to show it off!

Out with the old in with the... Errr... Old.

As I previously said i've been trying to sort out all my possessions in preparation for moving. I discovered The Rag and Phone Man who come to collect and recycle your old clothes, sheets, soft toys in exchange for 50p per kg, they also take old mobile phones working or not.

So i've sorted out about 7 big black bin bags full for them to collect. But as I was going through my old clothes being very ruthless and feeling proud of myself for giving away my miss sixty jeans that I loved but because they have an irreparable rip and have been hanging in my wardrobe for the past two years I decided now was the time to say goodbye, it was easier than I thought. I came across my Abercrombie and Fitch Emma boot jeans which were the most amazing pair of jeans I have ever seen, they fitted perfectly but I wore them to death and the bottom of the legs did that horrible fraying thing that jeans a tad too long have a habit of doing. I was just about to throw them into one of the bags for the rag and phone man when I had the ingenious idea of turning my old favourite pair of jeans into my new favourite pair of shorts, so that's exactly what I did.

I did feel a little bit like I looked like I was off to a festival this day rather than going to my nephew's first sports day but I was comfortable and felt good that i'd not had to get rid of these jeans completely, just the knee downwards. I wore my "new" shorts with £3 sand shoes from Primark and a jumper that was on sale from Peacocks. The last one and it was in my size, would have been rude not to!

To accessorise I wore a cameo necklace and some little anchor stud earrings from Topshop and a thrifted satchel bag which only cost £3.50, as soon as I saw it I needed it and doesn't it make you feel good to find something amazing in one of those shops that costs so little!

Something in her style that shows me

If you could choose one woman in the history of the world that you would love to meet who would that be? Some people may spend ages thinking about this, maybe choosing Margaret Thatcher, Marie Curie, Boudicca, Elizabeth 1st. My answer, most definately, without even blinking would be Pattie Boyd.

Pattie Boyd for those of you who don't know was a model in the 1960's. She married George Harrison in 1965, then Eric Clapton in 1979. After finishing her modelling career Pattie took up photography and now displays her photographs around the world.

The reason why Pattie is on the top of my to meet list is because she's had the most wonderful, interesting but also heartbreaking life and she's done it all in style! She's modelled for Vogue, Vanity Fair and Elle magazines, also designers such as Mary Quant and Ossie Clark.

She's classy, beautiful, successful, and has always looked amazing. Could you imagine many of these so called "celebrities" now being like her? Or even any models? She was never the 6 foot 1, size zero supermodel that we come to expect walking down our catwalks now but she always looked amazing and knew how to wear clothes.

She is of the generation where models were just becoming public figures rather than a frame to hang beautiful clothing. These models had to walk all over with their portfolios looking for work, had to do their own hair and make up and bring shoes and accessories to shoots, and still managed to look amazing!

She was the muse for two of the most amazing musicians of a generation, being the inspiration for George Harrison's Something, For You Blue and Isn't it a Pity and Eric Clapton's Bell Bottom Blues, Layla and Wonderful Tonight. Just listening to those songs, you can feel the love that both men had for her. Who wouldn't want the chance of meeting a woman who inspired such songs?!