Dorothy Perkins Haul - Pt 2: Coats

It's hard taking pictures of yourself.

Hi Guys,

Here is part 2 of my DP Haul: Coats...

I got 3 coats.

Coat 1:
This was the most expensive one, rrp £75. It is gorgeous, especially the side view which I tried to capture. But it is not gorgeous enough to justify the price....I think. Argh I don't know. I want it. But I can't afford to keep it. It didn't take my breath away and make me scream with excitement, or even let out a hushed 'wow'.

Coat 2:



This was £60. Potentially great, but a big stonking disappointment. Probably didn't help that I got this about 5 sizes too big (perfect coat to wear with my asos wildebeast catching dress!!!!!! lol). It's a boiled wool coat with a massive collar and big sleeves. A definite return.

Coat 3:


This was £60. And I like it, but again it's not wow wow wow. And I like the shape and style, but I dont like the collar and wrist ribbed detail, a bit casual for me. I want a pretty but functional coat.

I'll be honest, I probably would be keeping coat 1 and 3 but that's prior to my trip to new look that I've shared with you. Dorothy Perkins were nicer (in terms that I could wear coat 1 and 3 year after year after year) but I think new look will be ok (snood coat - yay? nay?) for this year and next for sure.

Please tell me what you think below.

Thanks :)

Dorothy Perkins Haul - Pt 1: Jeans

At last! Sorry it took so long, but here's the stuff I got from Dorothy Perkins online that I had all the trouble receiving. And the wait wasn't even worth it because I think (still not sure) I'm returning it all.

In return for your patience I've taken quite a few pics. Unfortunately lighting is bad so you can't really make out any detail but just take my word for it, nothing to get excited about!!!

Forgive my appearance, I'm in my pyjama top and I haven't brushed my hair for 4 days haha I did put make up on though :)

I'm doing this blog in 3 parts: Jeans, Coats and then Hat.

I brought 5 pairs of jeans altogether, but duplicate styles in different sizes. So these pictures are of 2 jeans. Shockingly (in the best way) all five jeans were toooooo big (YAAAAAAAAY) but I'm considering keeping these two, or at least one, as an emergency pair.

I'm not even sure which jean is which. One is super skinny, and one is super skinny pleat (which is the reference to the pocket i think). One is definitely black, the other is....either black or really really really really really dark indigo.

You've seen pictures of me in my skinny jeans (or you've seen me if you know me!) and you know I wear them tight. So tight I can't keep my little vaseline in my back pocket. So tight that I can't sit down on the bus. So tight that I'm splitting out of them hence this mad desperation for skinny jeans!!! lol

Well, the two jean's pictured have two problems. Even though they are 'short' they are not short enough for me. And even though they are skinny, they are not skinny enough for me. The leg is bagy because it hits me in the wrong spot, but even generally they are really big. I've never had a pair of jeans that I could tuck my top into (not that I'd be brave enough to rock this on street, tuckage is for blog photo only!).


But look how stretchy they are! I can actually move my leg!!!!!


Check out my BULGE!!!!!!! LOL And that's not even all the extra length. Not cool. And I've got the jeans pulled up to under my bra. Not cool!



What if I roll them up? Quite cool for spring/summer/autumn. Crap for winter.

(that white string thing is the price tag btw)

So.....what do I do? I'm not sure if these jeans are practical. It's all good prancing and posing in my living room, but on the street I imagine that I'd be hitching them up all them time (even with a belt). It is nice to have jeans that don't cut off my circulation though......

Tell me what you think below!

Cheers :)

No regrets

Hi Guys,

This is really random and crazy shallow and its come to me as i'm
watching katie w sing for survival on x factor but....always wear what
you want, you never know when your last day on this earth may be.

Unless you have to wear a uniform, wear what YOU want to wear.
Whatever it is that makes you happy, that makes you smile and feel
good about yourself, wear it!

Im watching katie (who got through btw!!!) sing 'for survival' and she
doesn seem comfortable in that dress. Im sure its too blah for her and
if she had
been the first to leave this years x factor she would have been extra
gutted that it was in that dress...or maybe she isnt as shallow as
me!!!!

style369

Style369 is the new member of the Arcadia family. It's suppose to be the trendier younger sister of Evans methinks. (Does sizes 14-26).

It's still in it's growing phase so I'm not going to pass judgement. I did that too early when ASOS Curves was launched and boy do I regret my words!

Here's some stuff that I like the look of:

ARGH! I can't hold my tongue anymore. I don't like it. I had to comb the whole site to find 3 things I could post on here and I'm not even that excited about them, I was desperate. I think style369 is a response to ASOS Curves and it's just not doing it for me. I hate the idea that Arcadia only bothered with the fat young girls when they became scared they were losing money out of their fat wallets.

Boooooo :(

Bedroom / Storage

Hello!

So I've mentioned before about dressing tables and clothes rails and the like. So I thought I'd put my thoughts on 'paper' and try to come to a plan that I can then work towards (and share my progress with you)and make reality .

My bedroom at the moment:

Erm, messy!!

But basically my bedroom is really a dressing room with a bed in it. And I like it like that. I like being surrounded by the frivolous stuff that I work hard to buy.

I'm trying to keep it low key because my bedroom at my parents house was crazy. CRAZY. It was hot pink and there was stuff everywhere. It looked like hello kitty and barbie had a lesbian affair and then got into a cat fight and threw each others crap around the room! And I LOVED it.

Going for a different look now though since I'm all grown up and stuff ;) Big white bed, white walls, cream(ish) carpet.



Depending on my mood it's either like being in heaven or a mental institution. But whether blissful or crazy its def much calmer than hot pink.

So apart from my bed, I've got a built in wardrobe with single rail and shelf, and this is where I have my clothes, bags and most of my shoes. On the shelf I store boxes and general junk (I could probably make more use of the space...)

I then have a freestanding wardrobe which I use to store my coats and jackets. It also has two drawers that I store my nighties and 'home clothes' in. On top of the wardrobe I have my patent croc trolley suitcase.

I have a chest of drawers which I use as a vanity. Top drawer is beauty stuff and the other 3 drawers are random tops I don't really wear.

I have a pink clothes rail (soon to be replaced with a black/silver one) which I store the clothes I'm wearing that week. Some people find it weird having clothes out like that, but tbh i've never even closed the door to the built in wardrobe so it doesn't make a difference to me. I like being able to see all my stuff. And it's not there long enough to gather dust...and if it's dusty I just give it a shake ;) lol

I then have bedside table next to my bed, and two bookshelves. And then I have the 4 big drawers that are part of my bed, I store all my bed linen, kitchen towels, towels, and then I have a drawer I call "Superdrugs" and it's where I keep all the beauty stuff I'm hoarding (as you know, I like to bulk buy); I get this habit from my mum because she does this too. So if I ever run out of toothpaste, shampoo, bodywash etc I just have a peek in the drawer before I go to the shops.

I do not have any electrical entertainment stuff in my room (apart form my music thing which isn't even plugged in so that doesnt count!). Though there are times when I wish I did have a tv in there (I;ve been really ill this week and I really thought I'd die of boredom if not the sickness :() I do like my room as a sancturary.

I digress....so even though in an ideal world I don't want any more furniture in my room because for me, furniture equals junk, I need a dressing table. Technically space is not a probably, but it might look a bit squeezed in my room, I might need to lose weight otherwise I won't fit!!!!

But part of me thinks that getting a dressing table will create more mess because tbh I need more than an extra surface and two tiny drawers. I need a hardcore vanity unit. A room . A suite!! You know how it is, the more space you get, the more junk you accumalate.

And dressing tables are not cheap. This cannot be a passing whim. And desks (cos what is a dressing table but a desk with a mirror?!) are a sore point with me and my mum. I was desk obsessed when living at home. And I never ever used the 1235356 that I made my parents buy. I don't like the idea of being at a desk. I did my studying on the floor, or on my bed. Even when I am in my office I work at another desk (unless I'm using my computer obviously). And currently when I get ready I trail my junk from the bathroom, to bedroom, to hallway, to bedroom, to bathroom, to living room, to bedroom. Will I really sit on a fancy padded stool and do my hair and make up there? Cos if I don't.......*sighs*

Ok, dressing table tirade aside, I also want a better storage system for my shoes and I'm thinking:

A million clear shoe boxes. I'm over the polaroid on shoe boxes thing ( I didn't polaroid, I just wrote descriptions on post it notes and stuck it to the box, worked perfect!). Primark shoes don't come with shoe boxes, so this solution could work. It's about £55 for 50 boxes though....or £40 for 30 normal boxes and then I'd need a few boot boxes which are approx £35 for 10. This does not work out to be a cheap solution. It wasn't planned and I'm not sticking to it rigidly (obviously) but I'm trying to clear out my shoes by wearing them to death and binning them. cos I am a hoarder. Even when the heed falls off and I buy a new pair I keep the old pair 'just in case' Just in case what?! I'd be better off bare foot in the snow then hanging on to some of the crap I won't chuck out lol

If I could store my shoes like that (I'm thinking in a massive pile) then I'm ok for handbag storage, cos I store them in a massive box (ikea) and a giant mountain on the box in my built-in wardrobe (which is small but really deep). OR I could store all the shoe bozes in that space and put my bags somewhere else......nah. I'm stuck with those giant ikea storage containers and they are best where they are.

But one thing I do really really want, and have done for a looooong time, is a coat rack (or a coat tree) to hand my most used handbags on.

Summary? F*ck.

So.....

How and where do you get ready? Do you have a fancy dressing table? How do you store your shoes and handbags?

PS: Life is good when this is one of my biggest worries at the moment. I is grateful!