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  • This Week…

    What I wore: Top [Primark], Skirt [H&M], Sandals & belt [New Look], Necklace [Accessorize]
    – Teen Choice Award red carpet blogging = standard – Sunshine! – Bright yellow hues – Afternoon spent boating at my friend’s house – Beautiful view, beautiful day – Hot honey, lemon & orange – Working in my garden has it’s advantages – My sister was watching Glee clips on her Wii (Woop for the Warblers) – Fringe is annoying, but good excuse for a pretty hair tie – Queen Rowling at the Olympic opening ceremony – My favourite part of the whole night – Exciting packages! – Beautiful bracelet from Prairie Charms – Demolishing pancakes this morning – Mum and sis found old family photos, definitely amusing! –

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    Soundtrack: Muse – Survival

    To me this week felt kind of unproductive, in a nice way, but I’m surprised how much actually happened. It kicked off getting back into a good old red carpet round up [check out the post here], is it bad I’m thirsting for January award show season already? 
    The sunshine has been absolutely blissful this week as Summer seemed to finally arrive here in the UK. I spent Monday at my friend’s house, which backs onto the river, and we spent a lazy afternoon drifting on a dingy. Despite having to get some boring admin-y type stuff done I’ve tried to spend as much of it outside, I even forwent my bus ride and walked to work instead [albeit in 30 degree heat at 1pm in the afternoon, wasn’t the best plan in the world]. The forecast isn’t looking great so I’m glad I got some rays before the gloom and doom of typical British rain returns. 
    Thanks to the BBC coverage I’ve also been completely suckered into the Olympics again. The last time this happened I’d just finished my GCSE’s and spent most of my time glued to the TV screen watching pretty much every event. But how good was the Opening Ceremony?! Danny Boyle had me won over when the Queen parachuted out of a helicopter with James Bond. Pretty much sums up the eccentricity of us Brits in a nutshell doesn’t it. It’s also gotten me really excited about heading to watch the Paralympic Games at the end of August. Can’t wait to see the Stadium for myself. 
    Outside of the games I received my lovely bracelet from Prairie Charms, as part of Project Blogger. I’m probably aiming to make a full post about it this week, so keep an eye out!
    There’s also two very exciting things coming up for me this week!
    The first is participating in Camp Nanowrimo. For those who don’t know the aim of Camp Nano is to pen a 50k novel in a month. Sounds hard but I did their November event for the first time last year and went over target! I’m really looking forward to writing my August novel. The idea and characters haven been rooted in my head for the past few weeks so it’ll be good to get it all out on paper. 
    The second is that as of this Wednesday I’ll be starting my 12 month work placement, as part of my Uni course. I’m super excited and very nervous but hopefully it should be great experience to work in a full time marketing job for a year. This new routine may also mean a little shake up of my blog schedule, as well as what I blog about. But it does give a great opportunity to wade into the world of professional work wear ;) 

    Keep on wishing…
    R.xoxo

  • This Week…

    What I wore: Top [River Island], Jeans [Primark], Brogues, ring & necklace [New Look]
    – Finally worked my way through Avatar: Legend of Korra – Had a bit of a freak out about Team Starkid’s AVP3D:AVSY announcement – Loooong hair – Waiting to start work – Wednesday screening of Magic Mike – Boredom on the train – Krispy Creme with my friend Roushie – New shoes from TopShop! – Promising weather this week – 
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    Soundtrack: KickthePJ – Tree Hugger [cover]

    It seems like such a British thing to start talking about the weather right? But I definitely think the rain brought on the cold I’ve been fighting for the past week [see nothing good comes from bad weather!!]. I spent most of the week either working or sitting in my room with meds and hot honey/lemon drinks watching epic amounts of YouTube videos. Thankfully Summer seems to have reared it’s lovely head just in time for my last week before I start my 12 month work placement. I’m super excited, albeit a little gutted I’m missing so much Summer. I’m starting to build up my work wardrobe, very slowly, and finally got my first pair of decent work shoes from TopShop. They were originally £50 but had gone all the way down to £15…BARGAIN! 
    As for blogging shenanigans, I’m super gutted I couldn’t make the Blogger’s picnic in London yesterday. I was spying on people’s Instagram photos for the majority of the day, looks like everyone had a great time. 
    I may be making a few changes here and there on this blog. Nothing major! Most likely types of blogging content and my style of ‘This Week’ post, as I’ll be working 9-5 in professional work wear for a year, there may not be so many outfits to shoot. Adjusting my blogging schedule and style to fit around work is certainly   going to be a challenge that I’m excited to take on! But never fear, the TCA’s are on tonight so it’s business as usual red carpet blogging/tweeting outfit opinions at 2am for now ;)

    Keep on wishing…
    R.xoxo

  • This Week…

    15.07.2012

    What I wore: Cardigan, brogues, ring & jeggings [New Look], Top [Zara], Necklace [Accessorize]
    – Finishes off ‘Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares’ by David Levithan & Rachel Cohn – Me & my friend’s traditional Filipino outfits – Dancing at our town’s local Cultural Festival – Chinese dragon – Muddy boots – Watching some of the other performers – RAIN! =( – Watched The Amazing Spiderman in 3D – Found this amusing, on a poster for Magic Mike – Lunchtime reading – Started reading Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro – Painting my nails…- The finished product – Movie day & pizza with friends – Lunch break at work – 
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    Soundtrack: Newsies Original Broadway Cast – Carrying the banner

    Despite the absolutely horrendous weather here in the UK, I’ve had a pretty good week. As I said in my last post I was at my town’s local Cultural Mela Festival, helping out with the traditional Filipino dance my mum organised. The whole day was great even if it did seem to downpour every other hour and I did manage to get a little sickly towards the end. 
    The rest of the week has been spent getting back to reading and planning my Camp Nano novel, as well as obsessively geeking out over The Amazing Spiderman, the Newsies soundtrack and Comic Con spoilers for Glee and Dr Who. I did have some friend’s over on Friday who I used to do musical theatre with, it was so nice just catching up with all the drama and generally pigging out over horror films and RENT. 
    I also tried out my Models Own Nail art pens, which I’m terrible at using at the moment. Definitely need to learn how to have steady hands.
    I’m also on my two week countdown till my placement starts. I’m generally really excited but nerves really hit me the other day and I really need to get organising travel, admin and a working wardrobe too. 
    Finally, I’ve also now have a page if you’re interested in PR/Ad spots on my blog. It’s the tab at the top of the page, just send me over an email if you’re interested. 

    Keep on wishing…
    R.xoxo