Happy Sunday

Today i went to the Enchanted Palace installation at Kensington Palace, which i've been wanting to visit for ageeesssss but have only just got round to it.

Note: i love the colour blusher the princess is wearing here.

I was really hoping they'd let you take pictures but a bossy man followed me round the whole time making sure i didn't have time to sneak nearly enough photos with my brother's unfamiliar camera. Due to the unfamiliarness of said camera i haven't uploaded the pics i did manage to take yet, but here is one of me and one of the 'Princess of the world' dress which was truly lovely. Bad quality because taken on my phone.

Boooo i look really grumpy here.

I went mainly (well, completely, actually) for the fashion and the fairytales as they are my two favourite things, but the history was interesting as well. What struck me most was how lonely many of the princesses seemed to have been - the palace was a luxurious prison to them. The whole exhibition was beautiful in a way i'd like to emulate, ethereal and otherworldly. Plus i have now decided when i get a house i am definitely having trees planted in the living room carpet so i can hang scarves and house keys on the branches.

I didn't take an outfit pic because of the camera issues, but I wore a cream Topshop dress with a cutout back with small pink and grey motifs all over , my mum's old (vintage, yeah?) denim waistcoat and silver sparkly ankle socks and cream brogues. Oh, and a massive bow made of fake hair on my deliberately frizzy-for-achange-instead-of-poker-straight head. I love that bow, i really do. It doesn't match my hair colour that well and it wasn't popular amongst more normal people when i wore it out the other night, but i don't care. It's MY bow. I regretted the brogues when my feet got hot after a spicy Wagamama's tofu and coconut late lunch. HOT FEET ARE BAD THINGS.

I seriously missed my camera today which despite being elderly was faithful, and i knew how to turn the flash on and off. BUTBUTBUT i am starting a new job tomorrow. Although this is kindof a little bit slightly annoying in that it takes away my gorgeous long holiday which i waited so long for, on the other hand it does pay and i really need the money. Then i can buy myself a shiny new updated version of my old camera and take better pictures fo yo. At the mo i'm on poor quality iphone photos.

Nails this week. See what i did there with the strawberry theme, do you? Do you??

I'm amazed at how much less the Barry M topcoat i have (worn here) chips less than the Essie one i got for christmas. I bite my nails, and i painted these on Tuesday i think. Hardly any chippage, impressive! I tried to send this pic to fuckyeahprettynails but i couldn't work out the submission box. Oops. I am such a technophobe at heart.

After Wagamama's i went to Spitalfields market which i may marry some day. I bought dark chocolate Montezuma buttons because they're one of the only types of chocolate i'll actually eat. Then i bought a bodycon dress which even i am brave enough to wear - i have moderate bodycon fear - from the Tatty Brown stall. It's basically a black tshirt dress, with lots of net petals sewn onto the shoulders to make sleeves. Lovely stuff. Should be good for going out when i finally turn 18 in less than a month! I've got another dress from Tatty Brown from a few years back - they incorporate vintage material into their clothes. And because i've got this job lined up i didn't feel too guilty about adding to a wardrobe which is too obese for it's actual wardrobe. God knows how i'll manage at uni...

COMING UP THIS WEEK:

• I have to work out what to wear to a smartish job in a basement, in the summer, using a wardrobe that contains no black trousers or skirts expect for my old school one and that has unpleasant pervy connotations.
• A Topshop delivery should arrive, containing some immensely practical cream lace boots that i'm pretty sure you can't wash.
• Lula issue 10 arrives. So psyched for this!!
• I may finally get around to reading the French Vogue i bought nearly a month ago in Paris.
• I will attempt DIY - cutting off some old black tights to make cycling shorts and a homemade Miu Miu collar. Quelle horror! You see, French Vogue's made it's mark already.
• I may take a picture of my Pierre Hardy for Gap brown wedges which arrived this week. About a million years too late for the blogosphere i know, but that's what you get round here. I wore them friday night and they earned their keep, so hopefully they should be out the box again soon!
• I will decide what nail art to attempt this week. I may be becoming slightly obsessed with nail blogs.

WATCH THIS SPACE to see what is posted about! Or not, depending how lazy i feel. Place your bets now!

I promise to do my best, love my god.. nope, the rest of the brownie promise has deserted me. Sorry.

Something that's come to my attention recently is how my blog-reading habits have changed. Obviously you can never read every blog - my ever-growing bookmarks list and stubborness/laziness not to change to that bloglovin' whatsit which i'm sure would actually be easier god i really should do that etc blah blah are testament to that - but those i used to read are most of the 'main' fashion blogs, by which i mean Style Rookie, Sea of Shoes and stufff. I still read these, but i've been tending much more towards blogs which are similar, but seemingly not in a way i can name in my head.

I just stole a chocolate from a box in front of me that doesn't belong to me. I'm not sorry about it either. It was good. Even though i've already had pasta overload today.

Anyway. I've been reading White Lightning, Nice and Shiny, Self-Constructed Freak and Gem Fatale A LOT recently. I don't know whether this is because my own personal style is more like these people, or maybe because they don't use quite so many designers so i can relate to them more, but i suspect it's because they write in a more personable style than say Tavi. Style Rookie is of course a wonderful, well written blog, but it always makes me feel slightly inadequate as i have to stop about fifty times each post to look up something she referenced. Sometimes this is a good thing as it's what i'm in the mood for, but i really do have to be in the mood for her excellently written posts. I can click on over to the blogs previously mentioned any old time, and i think this is because they are slightly more...colloquial? Maybe..less consciously fashion based, like not always referencing designers?

So after i came to this convoluted, badly thought through conclusion, i decided this what was what i want my blog to be like. I haven't blogged enough before for this to become an issue, but i'm determined that what i write should portray me, my style and thoughts and i don't really mind if anyone wants to read what little ol' me has to say, i kinda just want to get it down so i know what i've been thinking about. I will personable and colloquial, and leave the well researched and intelligent fashions conversation for those more knowledgeable than me. Expect a lot about things i want to buy but can't afford, nail colour procrastinations and fickle, designer led trends because i buy into the mass-marketed trends like the unoriginal person i am.

If anyone has bothered to read to the end of that badly written (for laziness quota, please see previous post) convoluted post, i thank you from the bottom of my heart and am amazed.

Here are my promises to myself that i WILL keep and follow to the letter - promise...

1) I will blog at least three times a week.

2) I will outfit post, despite my wonderful ability to look stupid in every pose i try. This may involve me hiding my hand with my face in attempt to look better. Right now my camera is broken sob sob i loved that camera like a child, but i will beg/borrow/steal until i acquire another one.

3) I will not be pretentious and try to sound knowledgeable about collections that i really know nothing about.

4) I will try not to worry about how some days i don't bother to dress up much because i am tired am lazy, but will try to highlight the GOOD days.

5) I will not use 'lol'. Though not against it, i feel it truly has no place right here. Sorry, lol, i will continue to use you with friends who don't judge. Don't give up on me quite yet.

6) I will try to be at least vaguely original, sometimes, maybe.

Internet, i trust you to keep me to these!

Let's go...

LAZY

So despite promising myself that once exams were over (I just survived. Quaffed a whole bottle of rescue remedy throughout exam time though) i would blog EVERY day, WITHOUT fail, i've been spending my days doing, really, well, nothing. It's reaching the point when i can no longer justify this by saying i'm due a relaxing break because of the horror that are A levels, as it's been 2-3 weeks now. I feel i must do something that doesn't involve wearing pyjamas until my parents get home, watching obscure documentaries about chinese school children or eating pasta twice in one day.

I think i really do need to get properly into this blogging lark - i know i'll enjoy it once i get there - if only to practise my writing. Which i'm damn sure does need practising.

I can tell i'm being lazy because i can't even be bothered to turn my 'i's into capitals. LAZY AS.

So, jeez, fashion stuff. I'll get round to it, honestly. Even if no one reads this blog but me! I'm sending my thoughts into the wide, wide internet...who knows what will happen??