tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092044330415521352024-03-18T10:51:44.774-07:00DITZY AND WHIMZYHolliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11314723272160936071noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-309204433041552135.post-40063709837975367612015-09-28T05:14:00.001-07:002020-07-28T10:09:03.051-07:003 weeks & 5 days Interrailing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've just started an Art Foundation Course and I'm finding the creative environment really motivating already. And I don't want to harp on about it because I mentioned it in my last post but in a turn of events I've also decided to try to commit to a plant based diet/vegan lifestyle. I've meddled with the concept for a while, knowing I'd eventually transition, but I've finally taken the plunge. It has only been a month I feel so awake! So far so good! Watch Cowspiracy and Earthlings! They are enlightening!<br />
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This post is a photo dump from interrailing (digital and film pictures). I went with one friend (Amber) for 3 weeks and 5 days because I could only get so long off work and we had to be back for A Level Results day. So, our timescale was limited, and it feels like we literally did a whistlestop tour of Europe, which was exhausting and crazy and the most incredible experience.<br />
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We flew into Amsterdam, where we spent 2 days. We visited two museums there and cycled around Vondelpark, and went out one evening with a girl from our hostel, for 'drinks' that turned into getting hot chocolate from a cafe on the side of a canal.<br />
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We then caught 2 trains, a night train, a ferry and a coach up to Copenhagen. In Copenhagen we were lucky enough to be able to stay in an apartment through connections my friend has, which a welcome change from the hostel we had in Amsterdam. We spent 2 days there again and went to Tivoli and Christiana, went shopping (Copenhagen has Monki, & Other Stories, Cos etc etc) and cooked ourselves a huge substantial meal of fajitas (a big deal when on an Interrail budget like ours).<br />
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From Copenhagen, we got a direct night train to Berlin that got in at 6am. We spent the day walking around near our hostel in Oranienburger/Freidrichstrasse and then joined a walking tour, which was so, so interesting. We then went out that night and got back at 5am, but had to check out at 10am that morning, so on almost no sleep we spent that next day deliriously stumbling around the city, visiting museums and killing time before going to catch a night bus to Krakow in Poland.<br />
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We arrived in Krakow at 7am, and my Dad's friend Robbie, who lives there, was kind enough to pick us up from the station and take us back to his and his wife's house. Being able to do our washing, have good showers, be fed and kindly driven around was amazing. Robbie gave us a quick tour of Krakow and took us to Auschwitz, which was on a bigger scale than I could have ever imagined. It was unsettling just being there, and having just come from Berlin, I learnt a lot over those few days about the 2nd world war/holocaust.<br />
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From Krakow that night, we got a night train to Budapest. We spent 3 days in Budapest, which felt like an eternity following the whirlwind of a journey we'd had so far. We also got slightly carried away because everything is so cheap there and decided to eat out for every meal of every day just because we could for once, having lived on €10 a day up to this point. We climbed up to the palace on the Buda side of the river, went to the market in market square, explored the jewish quarter, went out to a ruin bar/club called Szimpla Kert (which is one of the coolest looking places I've ever been) went to the Szechenyi Baths and went shopping.<br />
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From Budapest, we got a day train, followed by a night train, to Split in Croatia. Again we had 3 days to spend there and managed to do so much - we visited Krka Waterfalls, went to Hvar Island and spent a day on the beach before going out in the evening with some of the people at our hostel. Our train from Split to Zagreb left at midday and at Zagreb we changed onto a train headed for Villach in Austria, where we got off at midnight, intending to get on a night train up to Vienna. However, we were bluntly told that this train was full and that the next one didn't leave until 5am. So we had no choice but to try to sleep on the floor of the train station - and there were probably about 100-200 backpackers doing the same thing. We had no problem waking up in time for our 5am train because of the cold, so, relieved, we got onto a train that arrived in Vienna for 9am.</div>
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We only had 2 days in Vienna but explored by foot, using a walking tour route we found online, so we saw a lot. It was prettier and cleaner there than I expected, but we had come from Eastern Europe so it was probably going back West that was a shock too. </div>
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Salzburg was our next stop, which was only a 2 hour train journey from Vienna, and we were there for a day and a half, which we actually found was enough, because it is such a small place. My friend did a cycling tour of the sound of music landmarks/sets while I browsed shops because I've never seen the film before and was dangerously low budget by this point. We also climbed up to a fortress the evening we were there and saw the most incredible sunset and had breathtaking, sprawling views across the city.</div>
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The next afternoon, we caught our next train to Zurich in Switzerland, which got in late at night, so from the station we went straight to our hostel. The most shocking thing upon our arrival in Zurich was the extortionate (to us) cost of everything. We soon realised that our strict budget hardly allowed us to buy bottled water, and after walking around in the sweltering heat for an hour or so, we literally spent the rest of our only whole day there sitting on a bench in front of the lake with our supermarket value range lunches. We were kind of glad to leave and be going to Interlaken for 3 days.</div>
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As soon as we got off there we were literally in awe because it was so picturesque. Mountains littered the landscapes at every angle and our hostel was one of the nicest we had had which was very much appreciated by this stage in our trip!! Our first day in Interlaken we decided it would be a good idea to climb up the mountain Harder Kulm, instead of paying for the cable car up. It was simultaneously horrendous with the humidity/hot weather, and hilarious, because we were both thoroughly unprepared for what turned out to be an intensive hike. The next day, we used up the remainders of our money to go canyoning, one of the scariest yet most exhilarating things I've ever done. On our final day there, we walked for an hour towards where we thought the lake was. Nothing was signposted, we had no idea where we were, had hardly any phone signal and we had to be back in the centre of the town for 4pm to get a train to Paris, but we eventually found the most insane clearing/private beach leading out to a panoramic view of Lake Thun and the mountains surrounding it. We swam there and had a picnic before running back to catch our train, which then arrived in France at about 9pm.</div>
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We only had one day in Paris, and by this point we were both exhausted, so didn't rush around trying to do too much. We did see the Shakespeare and Company book shop though, which I remembered hearing about a couple of years ago <a href="http://www.rookiemag.com/2013/09/in-the-stacks/">through Rookie</a>, and it just incomprehensible. Had I had any funds left over I would definitely have lugged back a tonne of books to England. By the end of the day in Paris we had reached the Eiffel Tower, which we sat/laid in front of for 3 hours as the sun set and as we reflected upon the ridiculous amount of things we had done in the past month and also anticipated returning home the next day/A Level results.<br />
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I was also suitably petrified, walking into this on my own and being, as far as I could tell, the youngest person in the room; but in the end it seemed everyone was in a similar position and happy to talk. No one was as scary and intimidating as I expected once a conversation was started.<br />
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Safia Minney (CEO of People Tree), Zandra Rhodes and Lucy Siegle introduced the evening with speeches detailing their trip across India, where they met with organic cotton farmers and fair-trade artisans. People Tree is known for being a pioneer for ethical fashion, and there was a lot of focus on this aspect of the collaboration collection, which is what really sets it apart. It helps to know that the 'organic' and 'ethical' monikers aren't just token marketing ploys, and we can rest assured that sustainability really is at the core of the brand(s).</div>
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The stories and anecdotes the women told of their personal experiences only further went to show how important it is to make the connection between the clothes we wear and the story behind them; the people who make them, the ways they are made, how the materials are sourced and so on. Rebecca Pearson, a model for People Tree, spoke about how for her, being exposed to this information humanised the previously mystical process in which her clothes came to fruition, and it dissuaded her from doing any future shopping on the high street. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">The decor in the penthouse was wonderfully bizarre, technicolour, eclectic, everything you could expect from Zandra Rhodes. Everyone looked really cool, too, so I was in awe most of the night, there being literally too much to take in. Though taking photographs, considering the location, felt somewhat intrusive, so I only took a handful. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Wow I look extremely short here. I <i>am</i> short but I try to wear shoes that disguise it a bit and these definitely don't. They are also very uncomfortable and squeak a LOT on any non carpeted floor so they're really not practical in the slightest.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I have the afternoon off tomorrow so if I get round to it I may take some photos for another post for next week. I'm just really missing how exciting I used to find blogging and the concept of the internet circa 2012 and feel like I've been letting go of it slightly. Writing wise my posts are a lot shorter than I remember them being, too, which is annoying for me. I just can't think for the life of me what I can write that is anything of substance/use so instead I just don't.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Helloooooooooooo I am glad to be back. I got into a mindset of working every evening and both days at the weekend to be able to pay my parents back for my car (also passed my driving test two weeks ago woo) so I've had 0 time with my mum who I usually enslave to take my photo for me. I had Tuesday afternoon off school though and managed to take these.</span></div>
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It's pretty much half term now and I'm going to try to commit to two or three blog posts to catch up with things I bought and wore throughout the summer still. I'm also going to read troves of everyone's blog posts since about June when I last had a chance to keep up to date. Thanks for reading, even though my consistency on here is non existent.</div>
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Mmmmmmm I'm finally back after summer. I had a measly 6 weeks, the first 3 of which I moped around (and did some overtime at work in) before I went to Italy for a week followed by Reading festival the day after we landed back in the UK. I was then weirdly ill for a week after Reading so I wasn't even 1% productive then and now I'm suddenly back at school. However I'm itching to getting back to being more active here. Two rolls of 36 exp film to get developed and a few new clothes to be wearing will hopefully motivate me.</div>
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I also need to thank <a href="http://roseandvintage.blogspot.co.uk/">Ellie</a> for sending me this top which is absolutely fab (though admittedly challenging to keep up, but I've persevered and worn it rather constantly despite that). She sent me a surprise envelope of cool stuff at the start of summer and I'm ever grateful.</div>
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These photos are from the other night when I went for pizza then to the cinema to see an advanced screening of the film 'Pride', which is about gay and lesbian activists supporting miners while they were on strike in 1984. It was very good and I would recommend. </div>
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Top - Vintage I assume but a gift from <a href="http://roseandvintage.blogspot.co.uk/">Ellie</a></div>
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I also wore this top with some red shorts from Topshop while in Venice. Above was in the restaurant we ate in the night of the day I got my AS results (by a horrific email) just off St Marks Square. We got the best food there and I still yearn for it now. Below is in a random street.</div>
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Long time no post bc I've been doing a lot out of school (we still havent broken up) eg overtime at work to pay for my car, and a photography course every Monday. But from Friday I am mainly freee and I should be posting a lot as I have a lot of new clothes. All of these photos are from the 8th of June when I met up with <a href="https://twitter.com/_antonio_p">Antonio</a> and <a href="http://opheliahorton.com/">Ophelia</a>. We mainly stuck to trekking round East London (me and Antonio met in Brick Lane then went on to a sample sale in Bleach London to find Ophelia. From there we went to Fish Island to take photos). I'd met Ophelia before, a year ago, but I started talking to Antonio a couple of years ago on tumblr and this was the first time in real life. I had to size these down then enlarge them to 'original size' to make them fit my blog so better quality versions will be on <a href="http://antonioperricone.tumblr.com/">Antonio's blog</a>.<br />
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My face has never been quite so <i style="font-weight: bold;">full frontal </i>and I was so nervous before because I assumed that would be the case. As long as I don't look too long at any picture I'm not too weirded out. All photos by Antonio unless otherwise specified and some are digital some are film.<br />
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A super old outfit from one-two months ago . I went out with my family to do the Beaulieu to Buckler's Hard walk on a random Sunday. The villages were both really quaint and kind of like stereotypical chocolate box cottage, war-time England ones. There were ponies/horses wandering around by themselves and small ice cream shops -similar to a place nearer where I live called called Burley. </div>
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"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Pippa Lynn picks up on the street style spotted around their East London HQ. Big on biker details, bomber jackets and boxy crop tops, Pippa Lynn twists things up with a poppin’ colour palette and some cool-girl credentials."</span></div>
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Hello! Evidently, I haven't been posting. I've been quite busy with revision - my exams finished last Friday - but the main reason for my absence has been that I am one of the 'key ambassadors' of the official tumblr<a href="http://maleficentmovie.tumblr.com/"> microsite</a> for Disney's upcoming film release 'Maleficent'!! It has all been confidential until now but I've been working on stuff for it for maybe two months. I'll probably be producing 3 pieces of content a week there for about 6 weeks, in the styles of the two main characters of the film, Maleficent, played by Angelina Jolie, and Aurora, played by Elle Fanning. I'll crosslink some of the stuff I put there on here and I have about 3 other outfit posts (photos from the last couple of months) written and two others that I need to do within the next couple of days so I'll be back to <i>at least</i> weekly posting either way. </div>
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Sixth form has been quite OK so far and I'm not drowning in work as of yet. Prospects are quite exciting and I'm generally content. I'm glad, on the whole, that summer is over. I've been watching films and reading more often and I had a weekend where I watched near on 10 movies recently. There is too much stuff I want to consume within this world and I've decided to start chipping away at learning all the THINGS. The list I began with included An Education, Submarine, Fight Club, Now is Good, The Bling Ring, The Breakfast Club, The Great Gatsby, This is England and Toast. I realized whilst watching some of these that I had been so immersed in obsessing over american culture/design that I had forgotten that England can be cool too in a slightly drearier, mundane way. I mean <i>sure</i> your weather is great and your diners are ravishing but stately homes (which I've suddenly become beguiled by) and some of the subcultures that manifested here, the music and the remnants of the past you occasionally notice <i>can</i> be cool. Maybe<i> possibly</i> sometimes????????????<br />
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Back to films: An Education and Ginger & Rosa (another film i watched a few months ago and was really influenced by) are set in 1960s London. They kind of resonated with me because the environments and the school halls and the streets and alleys and landscapes and the sorts of lighting (eg no sun) were familiar, albeit exceedingly more aesthetically pleasing in these films than in real life. This is England is another depiction of a story set in England that felt authentic to me, despite not being a skinhead myself donning Fred Perry polo shirts, Dr Martens and Levis with braces. I do recognize that I would naturally relate to these films anyway though; they're all coming of age plots and so the characters are often my age/the subject matter is pertinent; it's not just the cultural similarities that draw me to them.<br />
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Furthermore, I've never lived in or visited America so some facets of their language and school/societal systems and architecture I see in their films (<i>EG them not calling them films</i>) are alien (but fascinating) and Hollywood movies most likely have higher budgets than these largely indie movies do on the whole too so maybe that's why some often feel more fictitious (which isn't a bad thing either - my favourite film is Fight Club).<br />
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Hello! My reasons for not blogging pertain to the same 'crisis' thing I had back in summer. I consciously took a break from sharing stuff instantaneously, and consequently, I've allowed myself to think and make things and go places without the nagging thought that I may only be doing so to have something to blog about. I've done this blogging thing for so long now (all of my _____teen years) that it began to feel innate to share stuff and trace all of my references. I think I found myself questioning how much of myself was real any more. I found I wasn't allowing myself or my blog to evolve naturally due to this now instinctive consciousness and analysis. Around this time I watched an interview with Simon Amstell where he stated that he began to look for comedy in situations almost before living them. He said he sought out comedy in everyday life to be able to use in his shows 'scarily quickly'. This kind of precedent is mirrored in my blog (but obviously not with comedy (instead with fashion and colours etc)). I began to wonder if I was forcing things, and the notion that I may have become dependent on validation scared me a lot. </div>
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Many people have written before about the fact that seldom things are original (some Tumblr quote says that striving for authenticity is the more important alternative) and apparently this is heightened with the prevalence of the internet now, which is culpable for the relative dissolution of subcultures (things change too fast) eg Courtney Love on Miley Cyrus. Again this legitimacy archetype applies. <i>Too many things to question.</i> This all came to a hilt with a passing comment someone made to me over the summer about me looking young. It made me question my entire existence and by the end of the following week I'd cut half of my hair off and had begun purging one bag of rubbish from my room each few days. I have also restricted myself to wearing only black clothes for the past 3 months, partially for practicality (sixth form blah hate not being able to match clothes blah money blah) but also to rouse the expulsion of what I felt was <i>somewhat</i> fake from my life. In this time I feel I've grown up a lot and it's been a sort of a long awaited detox.</div>
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One of the things that I did keep constant was keeping my camera on me, though it did take me about two and a half months to use up one roll of film (despite having used 1 roll a month for the past few months), again to counteract this <i>am i taking my camera to take photos to ultimately share online </i>mentality. Nonetheless, I now don't feel any particular rush to post in real time and I've had the photos below for over a month without the compulsion to share. I think of it as more of a choice to put this here now rather than more of a mandatory obligation.</div>
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SO, I went on a trip to Cornwall from the 7th - 9th of November. It was an art trip with school so I was with my art class and I had to take photos for my sketchbook anyway, hence why some of them are quite random. If so it's because I drew something that's in them or whatever. Also<i> don't fret </i>I am not transitioning into becoming a plant blogger. It just so happened that a lot of Cornwall is green. One of the three plants I bought at the Eden Project is already dead so I'm definitely not cut out for that life.</div>
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The main point of this trip was to visit galleries and make copies of pieces we liked and to generally make our ideas cohesive by the end of it to form the basis of a project. I didn't really fill many pages/get much done compared to others but I can actually tolerate what I did manage to get done for once (this is rare). The Hostel we stayed in, which was a huge old Georgian house, was supposedly haunted, and the food wasn't too bad either, so it was a generally good trip for one partially spent on a cramped coach or out sketching in miserable windy weather. </div>
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From visiting the local art museum in summer, also in a grid print shirt from Primark for £12. I cut the hem off so it's cropped now. I've had my hair cut since then and also these photos are for my sketchbook for school so theyre posed (who takes photos without squinting yet i have my eye WIDE open).</div>
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The Rodarte SS14 and Narciso Rodriguez SS14 collection pictures here are quite random additions but the looks I have posted are very much what I'm into wearing at the moment (well it would be, if i could afford designer clothes ha h a ha). However, I wasn't very enamored with the Rodarte collection as a whole despite the two looks above offering a slight fraction of a redemption. The polar contrasting blocks and strict tailoring of the Narciso Rodriguez looks (and entire collection) are <i>completely</i> my new object of adulation, though. </div>
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Photos from when I met up with <a href="http://opheliahorton.com/">Ophelia</a>, <a href="http://roseandvintage.blogspot.co.uk/">Ellie</a>, <a href="http://maddemoisellerossele.blogspot.co.uk/">Ibe</a> and <a href="http://tobyknows.blogspot.co.uk/">Rachel</a> in London on the 7th. As you can see from <a href="http://roseandvintage.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/im-gonna-pop-your-bubblegum-heart.html">Ellie's blog post</a>, we went to Brick Lane, met Zachary Robinson (i even TOOK my journal with me in case I saw someone famous (for an autograph) but upon seeing him I forgot all about it), and to The East End Thrift Store. We were also photographed for Rokit's blog which may or may not be uploaded by them soon (I'll probably add the photo here).</div>
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"I don't remember doing anything particularly poignant to make this summer terrifically good or horrendously bad. Everything is very subdued which bothers me because everyone else seems to find events so profound. My spectrum of emotion doesn't seem to ever venture too far out of melancholy indifference to content gratification, and I have no prominent feeling to write about as a result of this. I'm not doing anything and feel sort of desensitized to the world/things."</div>
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Things that have happened since I've blogged: We had a heatwave for two weeks and I went to the beach quite a lot over this time. Bus fares and Mcdonalds has bled me dry of any money I had left in my bank account from my paper round last year. I went to Mary-Anns who lives in the middle of no where in a very cool cottage. When I arrived, her horse was in their garden. I went to an Antiques warehouse. I saw the Great Gatsby and Monsters University and ate Pizza in the gardens in town. I have had four sleepovers and I am re-reading the Harry Potter series (I'm on the Order of the Pheonix). I did work experience for a week at a photographic studio which was really good. I've been to Boscombe a few times, to a cafe in town for the afternoon. I saw a show, had two picnics, went to a party, have tried to look for a job and have visited the Harry Potter studios. Butterbeer is my new favourite drink. I met up with some internet friends in London (and caught the train there and back alone which was daunting and I felt prematurely mature). I went to a beach gathering at night and we went in the sea in the pitch black. My parents are in Poland at the moment so I stayed with my aunt this weekend. I cut 7 inches off my hair and it's now a bob (it's shorter than in the photo below because I cut it again today). I like it and I'm going to keep cutting more off inch by inch.</div>
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My August project is to redecorate my room. I have gotten rid of all of my clothes/things in my room because I had an existential crisis in July. I have 2 skirts, 4 shirts, 1 top, 1 dress, a jumper and 2 pairs of jeans (all of which are new except for one skirt and the one top) left and my walls are completely bare. I want one of my walls to have psychedelic posters plastering it but the ones in the first photo were all £30+.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">This is pretty much the most narcissistic post ever, but I would feel weird putting photos of other people here (that don't already assume photos of them could be here/are fine with it). Since exams have finished I haven't really been keeping track of time. I hadn't realized that I've actually been out and done quite a lot until I wrote it all down on my phone yesterday. Also, please watch </span><a href="http://bbc.in/11XHlUg" style="text-align: left;">this</a><span style="text-align: left;">! It's really funny and more can get made if enough people watch it (apparently). Jessie Cave is in it. </span></div>
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My clothes here are all black and white. I bought the dress to replace one I bought from Etsy a couple of years ago that I've gotten too tall for (shock horror (I'm still short but taller than my previously shorter self, at least)). It was green velvet with a lace collar and pearl buttons down the front (<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/transaction/44333331?">I just found the link here</a>). The annoying thing is that I had to take it up first of all to wear it, then I outgrew it, so if I'd have left it I could still wear it now. Anyway, I wanted a 60s dress that actually fitted me because I have a habit of buying clothes that are gargantuan. The top half is tiny pin tucks in a sheer fabric and the skirt bit is crimplene.</div>
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These pictures are from <a href="http://www.hel-looks.com/">Hel Looks</a>, a street style blog from Helsinki. I must have been living under a rock because I only came across it in March-ish via Tumblr. I like the sort of style featured on it, it's not so 'high' fashion, more every day casual stuff, but still really innovative and fresh (I need to rinse my mouth out and download a new vocabulary). I don't know if i's something to do with both being nordic countries, but when I went to Iceland in March 2012 the street style I witnessed while I was in Reykjavik (for only about 3 hours) was also astonishing there. We saw a man in a head to toe purple suit inc. matching top hat.</div>
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Last Saturday was me living out many Harry Potter/fangirl dreams in one go. I dressed vicariously through Dolores Umbridge (I found myself searching vintage tweed suit on eBay a month ago and found a garish pink one for £12(it was by accident but everyone has been telling me it's in her vein) and saw Jessie Cave's comedy show Bookworm at the Soho Theatre. (Jessie Cave played Lavender Brown in Harry Potter.) I discovered her website <a href="http://www.pindippy.com/">pindippy</a> pretty much exactly a year ago and have followed her <a href="https://twitter.com/pindippycave">twitter</a>/<a href="http://www.youtube.com/pindippy">videos</a>/instagrams ever since. I wrote a typical fangirl email to her last June/July but never sent it and once she favourited my tweet at about 1am and it was the highlight of my day/biology lesson being able to tell fellow fandom obsessee Abi the next morning. I went with my mum for my birthday because London is like, 2 hours away so it was a bit of a trek to get there. The show itself was amazing and exceeded expectations. I would definitely recommend it and do sit in the front row because her sister Bebe will give you gingerbread. If you want a more accurate less contained version of events see <a href="http://waywardwallflower.tumblr.com/post/50763930863/holy-shit-mother-fucking-god-tonight-i-saw">here</a>. I think I may be going again this month but then again maybe not - It depends on travel arrangements and stuff, but do go! I may meet you! We can discuss Jessie Cave over the internet together afterwards!</div>
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It's half term now so I'm catching up with outfit posts. I've done over half of my exams and they have been ok to good with the exception of Physics. God help me with physics. After June 17th I am free for the summer so I'm counting down already.<br />
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