Blogtober day 3: A/W14 wardrobe

So I recently went to London and picked out a few clothing items to start my A/W wardrobe for this year, so I thought I'd share my new purchases with you. 

All items above are new season in stock at Topshop! 

Jumper: £18

Top: £16

Dress: £34

Bag: £29.99 H&M

Shoes: £32 Topshop 

Coat: £34.99 H&M

Dress is above

Necklace: Forever 21 (price unknown, gifted)

Top: £12 Topshop

Skirt: £35 Topshop 

Necklace: £8 Topshop 

Shirt: unknown price but from Topshop 

Dress: unknown price but from Topshop 

Until next time lovelies x

July Wishlist

Along with every other blogger this month my usual monthly wish list includes one or two items I've spotted from the AW14 collection that is not yet available, so I apologise in advance and we can envy those who already own the items, lucky lucky people!

On a brighter note hey, hello, hi! It seems like forever since my last blog post, I plan them and time just flies by without my actually typing away and staring at a screen for hours! Little life update: I passed my second year of University, one step closer to becoming a primary school teacher!!! Cue celebrations.

Yeah, well anyway, back to July wish list, this one was a little hard. I'm in need of a few new pretty and petite dresses for my Summer, going into Autumn collection, but they are so impossible to find. It seems like every store has just forgotten up update their stock in the last month or so, then comes the first world issues of not having my size when I do find something worth splashing out for!

Firsty up is lovely little Topshop. My favourite place.

Leaf Print Overlay Crinkle Sundress, £38

Tapestry Print Sundress, £36

Flower Jacquard A-Line Skirt, £35

Next up, Miss Selfridge:

Then a little teaser of the Nars AW14 collection, I am so desperate for this little compact! 

Last but definitely not least is my Sephora basket, and all you Americans will have no idea how jealous I am that you live close to these stores! This basket will be full for a long time until I can justify spending an awful lot on shipping :( Seriously cannot wait to get my hands on a TARTE Lights, Camera, Splashes though! 

And i'm going to have to quickly dash off and get ready for dancing, so I shall leave you with a little delight that I recently purchased the Bumble and Bumble Surf Set from Boots for £18, and My next blog post will probably be a review of that set! 

Until next time, Lovelies x

OOTD

Travelled home today from university, and had the worst time with train. They were all delayed by 2 hours! :( 

Regardless of that, here's a little travelling outfit of the day! :) they are awful quality picture, and my student room looks very bare from where my mirror is placed (it's far from bare).

Dress: Topshop

Coat: Topshop 

Crop top (under dress): Topshop 

Backpack: cath kidston 

March wish list

It's too late in February for one this month, so I'm slipping the last week and doing one for March! 

Topshop:

H&M:

Zara:

Clothes haul

Last weekend I went to Leeds, and I was in a pretty bad mood after visiting my student house, so went shopping and came home (retail therapy at its best)!

I went in to Cath Kidston for a bowler bag, I wanted on in the sale but they'd sold out online! So when I walked in a picked up a normal prices one and walked to the back of the store to see they still had a sale. I wondered around at found this little beauty in the sale! Bloomsbury bowling bag reduced from £65 to £45! I have wanted one of these for so long and so glad I finally got one. 

I then wondered over to Topshop, they had quite a lot left in the sale but nothing really worth buying. I saw a dressing gown in the sale, from £36 to £20, and because I'm always so much colder at home, and it was covered in an adorable polar bear on ice skates print, it was a must have! 

Next item from Topshop was a navy striped, low waist dress! This was £24 and was in the basic, fashion steals (affordable and fashionable) section. I'm yet to wear this but the fit is amazing, it's definitely a must have and is a dress for any event.

Last item from Topshop was a gingham, black and white check a line skirt for £36! I have tried this on and it's very smart casual! A line skirts are definitely a mist have for all seasons though, especially ones with bold prints and styles. 

 My last item of the haul is a new MAC lipstick! This is my second MAC lipstick and I'm already addicted to them! I'm a huge fan of lipsticks and have many different brands including high street drug store lipstick (rimmel London) and high end (Paul and Joe). This lipstick is called Peach Blossom. 

 

Wish List!

This blog was going to be an outfit of the week post, about the clothes i'd worn during my first week of placement, but got so busy in the morning, and so tired in the evenings that I completely forgot to take pictures of my outfits after Tuesday!

Instead, I decided to do a wish list, in-between researching camps for the CCUSA camp fair on saturday! 

Starting this post, i've been wanting this little dress for a while but was way too expensive. UNTIL it went in the sale a few days ago as further lines were added! this dress is from Zara and is now £12.99, and I shall definitely be buying this on the weekend when I go back up to Leeds! it has very pretty red detailing down both sides of the top of the dress, definitely brings out the frame of the dress. This would also be very handy to take to America (when/if I ever get hired, taking forever)!

The next item to go on my wish list is this beautiful sunflower print baby doll dress from American Apparel . Sadly, this dress is £48 and right now I do not think I can bare to separate with that much money after just paying rent and bills for a house i'm not even currently living in until March! But I do really love this dress and it would be great for summer! 

Topshop have always made really pretty vests, and cami's, but I didn't really like them on myself because I don't like tops/dresses that are really low on the back! However, they recently brought back these little pretty things and I shall definitely be purchasing some of these soon, and at only £20 are perfect to match up with anything! 

Another Topshop favourite of mine is this pretty red bow for the hair. This particular one is a clip in bow and at £8.50 is a little pricey. I don't really use hair accessories either, apart from the plan grips and bobby pins, unless I have my hair up or i'm going somewhere special. This bow would work perfectly for summer when it's way too warm to have long hair down all the time.

Next on my list is an A-Line skirt from Urban Outfitters. This particular one is black with white detail and pretty flowers. A-Line skirts to be everywhere for spring, so i'm looking forward to trying some of these and seeing some more pretty patterns. This skirt is £30.

Cath kidston make the prettiest clothes, but they are always in really big sized, e.g. an extra small is 8-10 UK, and being petite is not Cath kidston clothes friendly! HOWEVER! Recently been brought to my attention that the sizing has now been re-arranged and they now sell actual sized clothes instead of XS,S,M,L! The new season is now my most favourite thing when I saw this lovely tea dress which I must have! Even though this is £55 it's great material and quality and would look lovely in the spring summer time, with or without tights. 

This last item is also from Cath Kidston, and is from the new seasons line. This is the bright daisies quilted make up bag, and I find the new seasons prints so lovely and summery! This particular bag would be used as a make up bag for me, but a travel one which i'd be able to put just the essentials in, and includes a mirror, all for £16!

What is in your wish list from the new season?

*Next blog: The Leibster award, kindly nominated by Raise the Waves

OOTD

Today I had to go in to where my next placement is, starting Monday, full time for six weeks (which I'm super excited about)! Excited about placement because the teacher I'm teaching with is a new graduate, who's first year it is working in this primary school, who graduated from the university in currently studying at!! Then this evening we had a tea party for my niece who just turned 4 today.

My outfit of the day consisted of my new Topshop coat (berry boyfriend popper button), and an old favourite black dress with a colour and eagle clips. 

I also used my every day make up, consisting of neutrogena grapefruit moisturiser, collection 2000 red long lasting lipstick (discontinued), benefit products and rimmel London mascara. 

As well as a Victoria's Secret body spray. This fragrance is my favourite and I have quite a collection of these fragrance mists. Midnight dare smells of raspberries and sandalwood, it's very sweet but more fruity, and not like a sweet child smell! 

Then to finish this post, this was the gift I bought my niece for her birthday, a Percy pig cake from Marks and Spencers for £10. The reason I only got her a cake was because I got her wayyyyy too much for Christmas and spent an awful lot of money on her! But she got plenty more presents from everyone else so she was happy with the cake.

(She's nibbled some ear)

Topshop/H&M haul

I have not been sale shopping this year after Christmas, simply because I was waiting around for the new season clothing to come in so I could shop for my (very possible) trip to America (waiting on a camp to hire me through CCUSA)! But today when I went in to the town centre to pick up a cardigan to go with my placement clothes, I couldn't resist nipping in to Topshop and seeing if there was anything good left! 

My first purchase was a lovely burgandy boyfriend coat, with popper front buttons and big pockets, from Topshop! I had my eye on the navy one, but they didn't have my size left. This was reduced from £58 to £35! 

 

The next item from Topshop was a lovely grey checked dress (not available online in the UK). This dress was not in the sale but was only £32! It is very baggy but I luckily was wearing a belt when I thought to try it on, and it looked lovely! It was so comfortable and soft. The dress was baggy 1/2 sleeves and I would wear it with a belt, black tights, either black ballet shoes or boots and then depending on the weather a neutral  coloured cardigan or coat! Maybe even the next coat posted above! They both have a similar burgandy/red colour! 

The next item again was from Topshop, and is a beautiful green coloured bag! I'm not sure why I chose this, but the colour was just too pretty to leave behind! Again, I would probably use this mostly in the warmer weathered seasons with a white dress/play suit, or some plan jeans and a white top, but to bright up plain outfits really! This was in the sale for £14 and is available online.

Lastly from Topshop was these two nail varnishes, they were both in the sale from around £5/£6 both to £3! They had such a huge selection of nail varnishes in the sale and I would have chosen them all of my mum didn't stop me! The red'ish colour is called blitz, it's a lovely shiny colour and matches my new coat. The other green'ish colour is named overcast, this is a normal polish, it's not shiny or matte! 

The last item was from H&M, and is a white cardigan with a lovely knitted style, 3/4 sleeves and a black outline with small black buttons and little pockets. This was around £15 and I got this just to go over my plain dresses and work clothes for placement (working in a primary school). I also got a size bigger than my usual size because H&M cardigan always shrink a little or get tight after a few washes.