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Top: Swap via Jasmine

Jeans: UO

Sandals: Vintage

Necklace: Gift

Tote: Julia Pott

These photos came out a little bit bright but I wanted to share them with you anyway because I'm wearing a wonderful top that I have from the swap I did with Jasmine of Transient Withdrawal. It's wonderful meeting people through blogging and clothing swaps is just one of the perks. What I didn't realise, however, was how much shorter Jasmine is and so all the dresses ended up being too short to be dresses but I like a challenge. I love this top as it combines stripes and a nautical collar.

I also wanted to share with you my new hair colour. It's only a bit darker than it was before but I much prefer it this colour. I can't even remember what my natural hair colour is anymore but I know it's boring. I'm also getting my hair chopped when I get back from Berlin as I'm ready for a change for autumn.

That's not a knife, This is a knife.

Top: Ark

Shorts: ASOS

Cardigan: H&M

Shoes: Miss Selfridge

Bag: Charity Shop

Necklace: UO

Whenever I try and think about the favourite part of my hometown, the cynical answer that always comes to mind is 'the train station'. However ridiculous this may sound, it's true. I'm always getting a train somewhere or other, be it London for shopping and seeing friends or further afield like Leeds. Travelling is just something I always manage to stumble into. I've spent the majority of my summer sitting on a train but I wouldn't change one single journey.

We took these photos on Sunday morning at the train station after spotting this old train off the tracks that went nicely with my outfit. These shorts are a new purchase that I've been hoarding for a while, waiting to be able to wear them on a day I have my camera. This colour will make up the majority of my autumn wardrobe, I just love it! However, these shorts wrinkle so badly, so quickly. Does anyone know any tricks for keeping linen crease free?

I also included my friend's outfit as many of you have liked her contributions in the past. I think she should start her own blog.

Golden

Dress: H&M

Cardigan: H&M

Shoes: Primark

Necklace: gift

Leeds is nestled in West Yorkshire. Somehow while out driving we managed to stray into North Yorkshire and after Mel's little car nearly gave up from all the hills, we stopped to soak up the scenery. We spotted some sheep who were just dying to pose for us. 

I liked the colours of this outfit but it was a little blah for my liking when I looked back at the photos. Does anyone else get that? The outfit looks great in your head and alright in the mirror but not at all in the photographs. It's irritating!

This is the last set of photos from my mini-visit to Leeds. Only a few weeks until I'm back though and this time I will be living with my wonderful photographer so blogging will be a lot easier.

Inspiration For The Week

This week I finished my admin job and am free again. I'm so excited at the freedom to wear whatever I want again so expect an influx of new outfit posts. I've got just over a week before I go to Berlin and then it's not long after that that I'll be heading back up to Leeds to start my final year of university. I have lots of sewing, lots of ebay selling and lots of clearing out to do over the next few weeks. I want to squeeze in more time in London, more time with my home friends and those that are staying behind in London and also some much earned sleep.

My favourites of the week

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Take Note: August's Blogger of the Month

Due to dreadful planning on my behalf and the fact I was without a laptop for the majority of July, I had to move July's blogger of the month til August. So without further ado, I introduce to you Steffy of Steffy's Pros and Cons. Her wonderful vintage stylings make her blog a great read and her shop is full to the brim with goodies. She agreed to answer some questions for me below.

How did you first get involved with blogging?

i had a livejournal back in those days, and then began steffys pros and cons as a personal type blog

Describe your personal style.

girly and feminine but vintage inspired

Who are your style icons?

twiggy, and i love the fashion blogs fancytreehouse and flashes of style

Where do you get your inspiration from?

other bloggers, the colors of the season, just everywhere

How does where you live affect your style?

it's really hot in florida, so that needs to be kept in mind :)

What's your favourite book, movie and band?

favorite book is in cold blood, movie is the notebook [ cheesy] and band... always the beatles.

What would be your perfect Saturday?

morning run followed by iced coffee and a baguette/ raspberry tart, shopping for my store, watching a netflix movie with matt, and SUSHI for dinner (MY FAVORITE!!)

If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?

new york city.

What's one fashion faux pas you secretly love?

i really love GIGANTIC headband bows...  i know many other people think theyre too much

If you could live in one movie, which would it be?

i just saw midnight in paris. i would live in that one, because i want to meet all of the greatest writers and painters!... and go to france!

Any tips for aspiring personal style bloggers?

post your own content, make it original and special and most of all, make it you!

So go check out Steffy's blog here

Fever To Tell

Playsuit: Vintage

Tights: ASOS

Cardigan: H&M

Belt: Zara

Shoes: Primark

Tote: Julia Pott via etsy

The perks of living with your best friend who has a car are endless. It means trips to sainsburys to stock up on cheese (my main weakness in life), driving to small towns to raid the charity shops and reliving childhood in the form of visits to national trust properties. For the last day of our Leeds visit we drove out to Harewood House and enjoyed some good old Yorkshire scenery. 

There was a bird enclosure, complete with a penguin tank and lots of beautiful greenery which we explored on the Himalayan walking route. We spent most of the day in hysterical laughter and took an embarrassing amount of photographs. Every else there probably thought we were insane but that happens more often than not when we're out together.

Consider this a massive recommendation to visit Harewood House if you ever get the chance! The next day was the ridiculous long drive back to London complete with singing so hard we lost our voices and discussions of fitting our heads inside our chests. Don't ask!

Careful Crossers

Top: Primark

Skirt: Swap (via Jasmine)

Sandals: Charity shop

Sunglasses: market in Toulouse

Growing up in a small town meant entertainment wasn't always what other kids were used to. When I was a teenager and still in school, most of my friday nights and my summer days were spent at the lakes. Our school backed onto the lakes which had two bodies of water and lots of green fields, hills and woods. It was the perfect place to spend endless hours, killing time until we could get out of our claustrophobic town. In the summer we would go out on the lake in boats and play in the playground that we were much too big for. We shot a short film for school there and staged a death scene by pushing a girl down the hill while filming from a tree. I held hands there with my first real boyfriend and I got drunk there when we weren't old enough to go to the pub. It has so many ridiculous memories there that it's one of my favourite places, which are far and few between in my home town.

A few weeks ago, I took my friends from university there to take a boat out and soak up the nostalgia on a sunny day. It was the perfect excuse to wear this skirt (that I have due to a swap I'm doing with the wonderful Jasmine of Transient Withdrawal) along with those perfect charity shop sandals I mentioned. I was going to buy a pair from Clarks which were out of my price range so I held off and then I stumbled across these, identical and never been worn for the massive price of 99p!

Sometimes, I'm just lucky like that!

P.S. Yes, we are singing I'm on a boat in that last photo.

Down in The Yards

Shirt: Charity shop

Shorts: Vintage

Belt: Zara

Shoes: New Look

Ok so in no way do I think it's normal to pose for photos in the bathroom but we took photos in every room of the house to give a mini tour of the new place and the bathroom ones had the best lighting of a bad bunch so voila!

When I bought this shirt the guy serving me asked if I was going to Barbados, I told him that I was not but that I was just indulging in my guilt pleasure for loving hawaiian shirts. He didn't seem convinced unfortunately. The week I spent in Leeds I had such good luck with charity shops, it was unreal. You know when you've had something on your list for ages and then suddenly all those things turned up wherever I went. Including the perfect sandals, a typewriter and a sleeveless shirt identical to one I was about to buy from asos for a fraction of their price.

That is why I love shopping in charity shops!

He's The Only One Who Knows The Words

Dress: H&M

Cardigan: Topshop

Shoes: Primark

Necklace: Gift

We took these photos outside of our new house in Leeds. I went up there for a week to sort out boring things like internet, furniture and it turned out to fix a broken boiler. We didn't have hot water until the last day of our visit which was horrible but lead to some hilarious noises coming from the bathroom as we both tried to suffer through cold showers.

I don't know what it is about the place but I always have a feeling of such contentment whenever I'm in Leeds. I love London to pieces and I know I will end up here eventually but Leeds is my home too now.

This outfit was very feminine, perhaps a reaction to the fact I'm currently living in smart casual clothes for my job. There are a few colours I wanted to inject into my wardrobe and purple is always on that list so this dress filled the void for a little while.

I've been so busy this entire summer, it's nearly over and I still don't have a spare second. I need to start writing my screenplay for my graduation film and about a million and one other things too but I've had so many of my friends in London that it's been hard to say no to plans. I can always sleep when I'm back at uni.