Dinner with family - ootd

Here is a collection of photos from a meal with my family and the outfit that I wore. I was really happy with the way that it looked all together and also the top is brand new so I thought that it was the perfect time to show it off in a outfit of the day. I feel that this is quite and classic and simple look but that's really what I love about it as it can be worn for any relaxed occasion and is also very easy to wear.

Outfit details:
Top - Zara
Trousers - River Island
Shoes - Forever 21
Necklaces - gifted
Bag - Topshop

(Also, sorry for not posting in a while, I was away on holidays so expect posts about that super soon!)

Breezy British beach day

I wanted to post a collection of photos telling the story of my day at the beach and I decided that these were my favourites from those that I took, and boy did I take a lot.

I had fantastic fish and chips, probably the best I've ever had, and the ice cream is honeycomb flavour with chocolate underneath and was delightfully tasty. I paddled in the sea which was unnaturally cold and hurt my feet walking across the pebbles littered across the shore. But all in all it was a lovely day with my family, with beautiful surroundings and lovely weather, I would gladly do it again sometime.

Sunny London Day - ootd

So I thought that this gorgeous summer day would be the perfect opportunity to show off one of my most favourite outfits that I have been wearing this summer. It was such a lovely day and I thought that the breezy maxi would do wonderfully to help me cope withe the heat and the sunglasses, well aren't they just so awesome.

I also really enjoy this shell top which is simple yet looks so put together, I just loved this outfit so much. I put this all together with my chunky sandals as I feel like they made it more informal and gave it that slightly more edgy vibe, I also can't seem to get these shoes off my feet right now,they are just so good for the summer.

Outfit details: 

Top - Topshop

Skirt - H&M

Bag - Urban Outfitters 

Shoes - New look

Sunglasses - Topshop

Sorry to myself...

So I was planning on posting regularly about the things that I have been getting up to this summer... Look what happened...

I'm not really apologising to anyone other than myself, just because I really wanted to make this work and make it happen like a proper blog and it didn't really. So I have decided that as soon as I have all of the time I am going to work on making this into something proper that I can be proud of. I want to work on better posts with better images and improved content. I also want to try and set up social media links so that I can try and spread my blogging around for more people to see if they are interested.

So that's the plan, and although I doubt that it will happen I don't want to make this blog into a list of failed ideas, and I am quite excited about making exciting and interesting posts. I just hope that this works and I am actually able to create things that I am interested in and that make me happy.

My new camera: fujifilm x10

This is my new camera, isn't it pretty! 

I just love the retro style that it has going on, with the big lens and the leather wrap around. I honestly think it looks so cool. And as much as this might have been a factor when buying the camera, there were also many other features that caught my eye, aside from the wonderful aesthetic. One being the manual functions that it has, as you can manually set the exposure and shutter speed and other fun things. This means that I get to play around with proper photography, which I have been wanting to do for a long time as it really interests me how just a camera can be used to create vastly different images. As well as this, it creates an extremely high quality photo as it has a super high tech sensor which makes even my photos look all pretty.

And now that I own the camera I am so happy with it, it is so pretty and produces such good quality images, it makes me want to document as much of my life as I can in images to treasure them as stills of memories that can aid my mind, I want to be a memory maker and this camera is going to come along with me every step of the way. My aim is to always have my camera with me so that I can capture every moment and treasure them. This will allow me to create a photo album every year with pictures of the year gone by, as I remember being a child and enjoying looking through photo albums of my parents when they were younger, and this will allow me to create something for my children to enjoy as well as me. 

So I plan to try and take as many photos as I can, whether this will work and whether I will remember I'm not sure, but I will try my very best to share photos on there so that my life is well documented, just as I mentioned in my last post about summer and documenting what I do this summer, I will also collect images on my new camera to share.

This may even become an activity that I do one day, I might decide to explore my new camera and work out how all of the manual functions work so that I can optimise the photos that I take.

Summer so far...

Summer so far has been distinctly average and to some extent a little days, having to fill so many days yourself when people don't tend to be around can be difficult and I have struggled to find things to do. I really need to find myself a hobby and this is where I get stuck because there have been so many projects that I have started and then given up on and I want to find myself a hobby that I can fully immerse myself in and use to take up much of my time. The difficult thing is, I always thing of so many ideas and then discard them because of reasons that I create in my head. I just need to pick something and work on doing it for a while to see where it takes me, I'm sick of having back to back days of sitting in front of the TV eating food.

So I have decided that I want to document my summer here, I don't know whether I will be able to and I don't know whether I will end up actually doing anything or posting anything about what I do, but it doesn't matter, I'm at least going to try! I feel like if I have a place to document what I do with my days then I will actually get something done so that I can make a post about it here. I hope this goes well, I just have to think of something to do tomorrow now... Wish me luck!

Favourite brush ever

Literally this is the most amazing brush. Honestly. It's wonderful. You need this brush in your life.

I cannot explain the greatness of this brush, it has magical properties.

Although to me this is the wonder brush, it's official name is the ELF Powder Brush, and boy is it good at being a powder brush!

It does just look like a standard brush, but don't be deceived, the soft hairs and flat top make it wonderful for applying powder to a fuller coverage. The closely packed bristles allow the powder to glide onto the skin without clogging up the brush. At a very very low price, it would be silly not to buy this brush, it is one of my most favourite products and I feel that soon I shall be finding myself buying another to add to my every growing collection of brushes.