My January sale purchases Hauling #2

A resolution of mine this year was to save some more of my money and I have definitely not kept to that... HOWEVER! This does mean that I have a few sale items (and maybe an expensive splurge that totally was not a sale item) to show you.

Resolutions.

First off I would like to say happy new year! I mean, yeah, of course I know I'm late, but better late than never right?

2016 is going to be a good year (and right now I'm feeling super happy because I got free delivery on my urban outfitters order-oops!).

The joy of braces.

Okay, so I have rather not straight teeth (as a nice way of putting it) and they do make my confidence feel lower and when talking etc. I don't like to open my mouth to much-my smile is VERY much a closed mouth one-. I had been called all sorts of names, small children used to ask if my teeth were wobbly (which they weren't they were adult teeth in wrong positions) and one boy even told me that both his parents were dentists if I "ever had any problems with my teeth." Gee thanks. For years, I have seen people come into school with perfect teeth or with braces on and I've been waiting and waiting for my braces to be fitted.

Forever ago my dentist knew that I needed braces and I have been told this since I was about seven, but when it finally came to the time that all my milk-teeth had fallen out and I was ready I was stopped shortly. The dentist hadn't referred me to an orthodontist and so continue the constant wait for 'nice teeth'.

The girly tomboy?

Okay, so a while back I was on the topshop website (when am I not on there?!) and they had a quiz to see which look suited you or something, I'm not quite sure. Anyway, I answered the questions and gave in my sizes hoping that the outcome would be a perfectly suited wardrobe for me and I could give everyone some ideas for what I want for my birthday (not long to go now!). At the end of the quiz I was pretty impressed with how well they seemed to know me and my style. A few of the clothing items on the list were not what I would chose on my own, but I really liked them.

One of the items that popped up was a gorgeous burgundy pinafore dress with sort of dungaree straps, I fell in love (obviously). It is now the number one item on my 'birthday list' (people still write birthday lists right?).

France Photo Diary

In the summer before I went back to school you have remember me mentioning going on holiday to France. Anyway it's been a couple of weeks back now, but I still miss the ability to go swimming whenever I want to or just the feeling of being able to relax. 

 

Sitting on the beach reading with my blanket wrap around me so that I was all snuggly warm was blissful.

School Stresses and Moving on

When I was younger, the biggest stresses at school for me was whether or not I had packed my PE kit and oh no did I have more than 3 pens and a pencil. Pretty meagre stresses really, but as you go through school it can just get more and more stressful and maybe half of that is what we put on ourselves, but for 15 and 16 year olds like myself, these worries can feel as if they are taking up our whole lives. Okay maybe that was dramatic, but you get the point.

Back to basics Hauling #1

The other day I was sitting in the waiting room of the orthodontist and happened to pick up a copy of Elle magazine. I enjoy reading, but with magazines my main interest is all the beautiful pictures and photos (particularly those that belong in the fashion category).

Within the section of this seasons upcoming trends and styles there was a page dedicated to the nude colours and more "basic" clothing. Before I had even seen this article I had already been picking up more 'nude' coloured clothes within the shops and I realised that I actually really love this style!