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My trip to Liverpool at the weekend was great fun. It's somewhere I've always wanted to go and it certainly didn't disappoint. My friends who live down there have told me that loads of money has recently been spent moving and modernising the city center but as I'd never been there before I can't really comment on whether its better or not. The choice of shops however is amazing, especially when you come from a city like Edinburgh which is still missing quite a lot of the larger chains that you find on most high streets.

 I didn't spend to much time shopping as I was doing the tourist rounds and stopping in many pubs but I did visit the new Topshop (and had to stop myself from spending in the shoe lounge) which is huge compared to the one here. I also walked in the door at Primark and then walked straight back out again! It was way to busy, people pushing everywhere, we don't have one in Edinburgh yet (think it's on it's way though) but even for stuff I can't get here I value my sanity to much.

I'm going to try and head back down again very soon as I'd really like to visit the Tate, and my friend said she'd show me the smaller shops that you don't get anywhere else. Maybe I'll head down to do my Christmas shopping this year instead of going to Glasgow.

What I'm wearing seeing the sites in Liverpool - Cardigan- Topshop, T-shirt- Neurotica Topshop, Shorts- River Island, Boots- Emma Cook for Topshop, Bag- Balenciaga.

Summer Hols Are Over.

Wow, it's been a longer than expected summer holiday from the blog. Initially I only intended in taking a few weeks of but that's turned into a few months! This summer has been pretty busy with festivals, lots of weddings and a few trips away. I feel like I haven't had any time to myself since June!

Enough of the excuses though as it really is time to back into it and I have missed doing it a lot. Since it's my first post back it just going to be some photo's as I'm not really sure what to write about! I'm sure I'll get my writing back on track over the next few weeks.

 

These photos were taken back in July when my boyfriend and I went to the beach for the day to fly a kite that I got for my birthday.

What I'm Wearing - Pocho Hoodie- Topshop, Shorts- River Island, Trainers- Converse, Sunglasses- Topshop.

Lazy Blogger

I've been quite a lazy blogger over the past few weeks practically dropping of the face of the internet with no explanation at all. Well tonight I give myself a big slap on the wrist and motivated myself to at least sit down to do a little post! It hasn't been the case that I've stopped being inspired these last few weeks as there's certainly been a lot out there worth taking note of. I think it's more that my brain has been a little fried by the sun and I've been struggling to figure out what to wear on these hot days which are a little strange for Scotland.

One thing I have noticed is that when I'm trying to find something to wear I pretty much can't. My wardrobe has become so packed with clothes that there is on average about 6 different things on every coat-hanger! Clothes are now starting to leave their home and spread themselves out into what should be my home. In fact they are now all over the house much to the boyf's annoyment.

I guess the question is, what can I do about this? I could hop on the blogging bandwagon and start selling of my clothes via the blog but I've had a good rifle through and I think there is only about 3 things that I'm really willing to part with. The thought of getting rid of stuff and then missing it a month down the line has happened to me to many times in the past. Another idea would be to pack away all the clothes I'm not wearing like winter jackets and the likes but I feel that might be a silly idea as it's not unheard of for there to be extremely cold days in the summer.

I've decided my only option is to find a new flat with more storage options, however a lack of funding has put a halt on that idea. Guess I'm going to have to live with the ever expanding wardrobe unless anyone has an ingenious idea.

I Predict A Riot!

From tomorrow morning Marks and Spencer will be selling a number of things at 1p. Yes thats right 1p!! It's all to celebrate their 125th anniversary ,so they're taking things back to 1884 prices.
I'm not sure how many people know about this offer but I'm sure the ones that do are ready for the madness that these prices will no doubt produce.
I can't make it there myself as I have to work but anyone that does get to see whats on offer please let me know what goodies you got at these crazy prices!

Someone Help!!!!

I'm here pleading for help today as Typepad is driving me mad. For the last 3 nights I have been trying to comment on a blog that requires you to have a Typekey account. Now forgive me if I'm wrong but I thought that Typepad and Typekey were now the same thing and I'm sure that right now I am writing this using Typepad.
So this is the message I receive to sign in http://profile.typekey.com/user name which all seems really really simple, except I have no idea what my user name actually is. I've tried everything I can think of and every time I get the same messages your request can not be processed please try again or your open ID credentials can not be verified.
If anyone has any idea what my user name might be or how I could find out what it is I'd be forever grateful. For now if your blog has this requirement unfortunately I am unable to comment for just now. Maybe someone who is more technically minded than myself can rescue me.

On the Sale Trail.

As everyone knows there are sales going on everywhere. People have been snapping up lots of bargains and until now I had been keeping away.  These last few days I started to take little peaks at what's available and next thing you know I've spent more than I thought I would.
Every year I wonder how the sales manage to drag me in again. Every year I say I will stay away but I never do. This year though I am not regretting my purchases at all, a gorgeous military style jacket that I had seen months ago and a tartan dress which has orange in it even though I was scared of orange a few month ago!
I'll put some pictures of them up very soon.

Happy New Year

Just a quick wee post to say a belated Happy New Year to everyone. So now it's time to really stick to those improvements (resolutions) that I promised I would do this year! The first one being to be a better blogger. I'll be trying to do at least 2 posts a week and more if it's possible, wish I could go back to the days where I posted 2 times a day but I just don't have the time anymore.

The second thing that i promised myself was that I would learn two more skills and I've started on this quest already. I have signed up for a jewelery course and started taking yoga lessons, hopefully all this self improvement will continue well past January but I guess I'll just have to see what happens.

So lots of love to my readers and I hope that 2009 is an amazing year for all of you.

Festival in Full Swing

Sorry for the absence at the moment but it seams I've been enjoying the Edinburgh Festival to much and it hasn't left me much time to blog. With free comedy, street theater and clubs open to 5am every night of the week there doesn't seam to be enough hours in the day! It will all be over for another year soon and I will be back I promise!

The Realities of Festival Dressing.

Whilst I was in my Internet black hole I was lucky enough to get to enjoy the T in the Park music festival here in Scotland. Now I love a good weekend of listening to great music and drinking beer but while I was there I got to thinking about what its really like to dress for a British festival. Before you go to any event like this you are bombarded with images of celeb's looking great whatever the weather, all the magazines are telling you what the best festival look is and all your friends are talking about what they are going to wear.

Well I feel that the reality is much different especially if your camping. You end up wearing all your old clothes because you don't want ruin all your good ones, and you put on so many layers to prepare yourself for any weather eventuality. By the time the last day of the festival has come you haven't showered for a few days and your happy to put on about anything that will keep you warm and dry!

Lucky for me then that I wasn't camping this year so I thought I'd be able to up the fashion stakes. On day one I wore some hot pants with thick tights, old cowboy boots and my leather jacket. Brilliant I thought, if it got muddy my boots would be great and if it rained my jacket should keep me dry. All went well until we had to que for the bus to get home and it was so cold I regretted wearing the hot pants.

Day two and I decided to learn from my mistake and wear my skinny jeans instead on my hot pants and I put a hoodie on under my leather jacket. Again everything was perfect until the end of the night when the crowd at the last band decided to soak us with beer, making my beautiful leather jacket all sticky and leaving marks on it where it had ran down my back.

I guess what I have to learn from this is to only wear old clothes to a festival because I don't have the cash to buy a new one should it get wrecked, unlike all the celeb's in their designer gear. I'm in the process of trying to clean my leather jacket and I'm sure it will be just fine, if it isn't I will just have to think the beer has given it some character.

5am For What?

Yesterday all these crazy people were up at 5am for the Next summer sale. The reason I know there were people there is that one of my friends works early on a Saturday morning at saw all these crazy folk with bags stuffed full of things leaving the store.

Now the Next sale is something that I have never understood, why get up so early for Next clothes? The stuff they sell isn't exactly the height of fashion and I've heard that what they do is keep all their junk that they can't sell in warehouses and then fill the stores with it every time there is a sale. Who wants to fight over a dress from 3 years ago that nobody wanted then anyway? Their clothes aren't even that expensive in the first place, why would you get out of bed that early on a Saturday morning for old, dull, inexpensive clothes??? I'm getting into a bit of a rant now but I really have always found it very hard to explain. Maybe someone out there can help me understand all this as I'm very confused!