Nail of the day

I'm loving monochrome at the moment, and these black tipped nails are what I'm wearing right now. Easy, simple yet quite classic. I have gel nails so these were done at the salon, but just as super easy to replicate at home. Ah how nice nails can make you feel so much better!

It's snow fun

It's beginning to look a lot like christ.... oh wait, its January, and the fluffy white heavens have been well and truly opened here in the UK the past week. Damn, where was the festive atmosphere in December? Nevertheless as per usual the UK has struggled to come to terms with the weather. Why is it we seem to come to a hault when in snows? Crazy Aye. I for one still love the snow, albeit I've gone past the stage of wanting to go out for hours and play in it making endless snow angels and snow igloos pretending me and my friends lived in the Arctic (anyone else do that when they were little?!). So I settled for walk in the park right near to us with my mum on afternoon to take in the cold frosty air. Personally I love seeing snow pictures so here's a few I snapped whilst donning my wellies.

It really was so picturesque, and helped dejumble my mumbled brain for a short amount of time. And it also gave me a chance to wear my trusty £3 Primark bobble hat I've been living in, who says cosy has to be expensive. Hats off to anyone who had to brave the roads, I was lucky and got to stay in surrounded by my uni books/procrastinating with YouTube videos. Hope everyone stayed safe! Now let's hope it melts soon and we don't have to skate everywhere...

Happy Sunday

Lately, I've found myself in a bit of a motivational rut and letting myself plod along with lack of inspiration. But, its time I grabbed life by the reigns and let my positive self shine through. I woke up this Sunday feeling inspired. I see other people succeed at things, whether its a job, a hobby, a lifestyle choice, and find myself thinking if they can succeed why can't I? Don't get me wrong there's already a long list of things I'm happy to have succeeded at, but I'm excited to make new goals and dreams happen. I may not be the most experienced crayon in the box, or sharpest to the mark but the way I see it, if there's a will there's a way. If that smidgen of zest for something exciting and life changing if there then why shouldn't we let positivity run through us? So this is a bit of inspiration for myself and others looking for achieve things with determination, hard work, and a little sprinkle of love. The World is our oyster, so find the pearl.

2013 here we are...

So, it had been a couple of week since we also toasted our flutes and cheered in the new year, and so far its been quite a positive one for me. Not an immense amount has happened but more than anything I'm feeling quite excited and positive about the year ahead, here's hoping it's a good one!
I've had a few nice events to start of my new year happily. (apologies for the grainy photos, as they were all taken out I had to rely on my phone camera)

It feels like forever ago now but I celebrate New Years Eve with a delicious curry and a couple of glasses of wine with a few friends down the local pub. I've been out the past few years and just find it ridiculously overrated, expensive and a bit of a let down (I always feel really anxious building up to midnight, who knows why?!) is this just me? It was a nice relaxed night and I shall definitely be doing something similar next time. I wore a gold sequined open back top from Asos, which I absolutely love as it combines glitz and comfort.

                                       

I also had my work's staff party to look forward. I only work part time as a waitress when I'm not at Uni but everyone's so lovely and get's on so well so it's really nice to all get together outside of work. We had a meal (Christmas style of course, even though it was January - turkey overload) then all got our dancing shoes on and hit Birmingham. Fun night had by all. I wore a black midi dress from Topshop, such a good buy for only £28!

And finally, more recently I made a weekend trip to visit my chum Lottie in my favourite city,
London. We went to Koko in Camden on friday night which was fun. Really good music, and plenty of dancing, followed by an interesting bus journey home involving guitars and plenty of singing. On Saturday I made Lottie join me in being a tourist before crashing out watching a film on the evening (party animals!) The weekend definitely made me fall in love with London even more, although we definitely annoyed people on our journeys by singing renditions of Queen's bohemian rhapsody out loud. Anyone else sing a song they've got in their head out loud in a very out of tune manner and forget they're in public? No? I may need help.

Just a snippet round up as I always love seeing what other have been upto and seeing a few snaps. What have you been doing in the first couple weeks of New Year?