Chez Moi

it's my 4th year in uni and i've finally got a house that i love living in, it feels like my first real home all of my own, well rented but you knoww.... also the area is a gazillion times safer than where we've lived previously. we've been here for 6 months already but i've been meaning to take few photos of it to send mama stewart! since i'm procrastinating greatly (i've got a presentation to finish for thursday) i thought today was as good a day as any to take some picis and therefore thought i would post them up here! they arent necessarily photos of the rooms, just the little details that make our house a home! (WARNING: this is going to be a long and probably boring post)


our lounge window with our baby plants and a very duurrrty window.

lovely view of the park estate

our pretty gothy fireplace, we got sick of buying flowers all time so we just hung dried ones up instead.




we really love rob ryan so we printed off this picture and popped it in a frame near our front door.



our lovely little herb garden in the kitchen (we only planted the seeds yesterday, hence the obvious lack of greenery)

this is all i can be bothered doing now because my computer isn't half taking its time. i'll post mine and sarah's rooms at a later datee

literal developments.

sooo i didn't know when i purchased my black and white disposable camera how much faff they are to get developed! everywhere is fine and dandy with coloured disposable cameras but not with black and white film oh no. it cost me £13 and took three weeks to get back but dont fear because i got them back (only about 6 actually came out though, bummer)

Hello Helsinki, Ta Ta Tallinn.

this post is way over due, forgive me for this.
mid-december me and two friends, lottie and amanda decided to go on a short winter break to Helsinki, we all love to travel and it was a place that i've always wanted to go!
typical of our luck the first day we were there happened to fall on their independence day resulting in EVERYTHING being shut all day, meaning we had to stroll around in freezing temperatures for hours on end. needless to say we were over the moon.
our luck changed when we found an open air ice rink and karaoke area (?) by the train station we had a lovely skate around and even found some finland flags to wave around!

we then found a little warm bar and got some glögi which is the most beautiful mulled wine type drink!
other highlights of the trip included a trip to the beautiful town of tallinn in estonia, eating the most delicious meal of my life in a traditional finnish log cabin that sold bear meat!! and a trip to the museum of modern art!

i'm a lazy oaf.

i've loved the lazy oaf brand for quite some time now and still believe that it would be my dream job to work for this lovely fun company. some of my favourite of their pieces areeeee.....







while they're quite different to my usual style i would gladly wear them with jeans or a plain skirt for a really fun and relaxed look!

meet me at hobbycraft!

for christmas my lovely big sister bought me a book called 'meet me at mikes' not only does it look pretty in my room but it helped me make the little critter pictured above (don't ask me what it's meant to be or why i'm smiling so strangely) he's got a bit of a bonk eye but i love him none the less, my next project is a cat.



Here is their blog that has lots of nice projects posted on it quite regularly

http://meetmeatmikes.blogspot.com/

Sonia My gal Rykiel

road trip to rotts.

i'm driving back to nottingham today to start second term at university, not looking forward to it quite frankly, i know theres a lot of had work ahead of me! i need a dose of optimism.

while i'm talking about what i need, i might as well mention this skirt! i saw this image of alexa chung in it a while ago and looked high and low in charity shops in a bid to find something similar (i guessed that it will have been vintage) only to find out last night that its actually from her collaboration with madewell, this sucks because its now sold out and the only one i can find is going for $298 on ebay when it was originally quite reasonable, how annoying that if i'd only researched and found this out when i first saw the picture i'd probably have one caressing my legs now! LESSON LEARNT.