My special place..

I believe we all have that one place that we go when we want to chill out, relax, work or have a think about something. My 'special' place is my bedroom, specially my desk area.

I had a vision when styling my room that I wanted all white furniture to give my room that modern, relaxed feel to it. I recently bought a new desk and a unit to complete my perfect room. The desk I chose was the MICKE desk from IKEA and my unit is the infamous ALEX from IKEA, however I get the smaller size than the usual size that many people on the bloggerverse purchase!

(Yes, that's the Kardashians on my telly <3)

I have some of my favourite items on and around my desk and side unit so that when I'm trying to muster up some inspiration for my university work or relaxing, I have my favourite people and bits and bobs around to motivate and inspire me :)

On the left hand side of my desk, I have some of my DVD boxsets including Harry Potter (THE BEST FILMS EVER!!!!! <3), Sherlock and the Fast and the Furious. I also have my 'Niall' One Direction build-a-bear that my friend, Peaches, bought me for Christmas last year! I have my most recent birthday card from my boyfriend and a pictures of him in Italy and us at Thorpe Park. I love this area of my desk as I can look up above my computer screen when I'm getting writer's block and see my favourite person's face :) 

On the right side, on my unit, I have my Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 camera in Blue and my mini photo album. My gran bought me this for my 20th birthday and I love taking snaps of random days out and storing the polaroids in this cute 'Pieces of Moment' album. Additionally, I am OBSESSED with candles, especially Yankee Candle. I am currently burning 'Black Plum Blossom'. One bone that I have to pick with America is that they have access to Bath and Body Works candles! I ordered the 'Cinnamon Sugared Doughnut' one on line after Ingrid (a.k.a MissGlamorazzi) recommended it in one of her videos a few months ago. 

This completes the tour of my desk area! Hope you enjoyed my waffling on...

See ya pals!

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My University Essentials...

I am currently sat in Jamie's dorm room in his halls of residence whilst he is playing squash at the gym with one of his flatmates. Whilst sitting here, I had the sudden urge to write a post. However, with only a suitcase full of clothes and my university bag with me, I was pretty limited in my ideas. I decided what was inside my uni bag rather than my ancient suitcase was a lot more interesting! 

Because I am old-hat at this university malarky now (I'm in my final year), I take for granted the essential items that I need on a day-to-day basis. However, my boyfriend started university this year, so I have been looking at University through 'fresher' eyes once again which has made me realise the top things I need to survive a crazy day on campus! 

My top items for having in my university bag are as follows:

- An A5 notebook with good quality paper, I love the WHSmith ones as they paper isn't too thick but doesn't resemble tracing paper either, all for a really good price! WIN WIN

- My Kindle, I love my kindle, as noted in a previous post. I have a two-hour one way (four hours total) commute each day that I travel to uni and seeing as I own an iPhone with TERRIBLE battery life, I needed a train hobby that wouldn't affect this! I can honestly say I havent read so much in my life, I am currently 85% of the way through Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and I LOVE IT. Although, I have heard the end is disappointing so I am a bit worried! 

- Books related to my course. Similarly to the kindle, I need something to fill the space of my commute, so doing a bit of studying not only fills this time but improves my performance too ;) haha! 

- Diary. The little pink one in the picture is solely for uni work and term dates so I don't forgot anything important or get it confused with my social life or work! I also have a larger day to day view diary that I keep all other information, events etc in but rarely take this one to university!

- Additionally, I always make sure to have some lip products in my bag. Currently I have Rimmel Moisture Renew 210 Fancy, which is a gorgeous coral pink perfect for casual days and Seventeen Stay Pout in Rule Breaker which is the most amazing berry red shade perfect for autumn/winter!

Hope you enjoyed this quick little post all about my university essentials! Any questions about university feel free to leave them in the comments and I will do a post on the FAQ :) 

Bye pals!

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I'm BACK! (again....)

Hello internet,

So, for the third time in this excellently organised and consistent blog, I am declaring: I AM BACK!

The next 12 months are going to be some of the busiest, most hectic, nerve-racking and most important of my life but I felt like I needed to start this blog back up as a way of chilling out and getting my mind off of university work and crazy life!

Since my last update -

- I turned 20! 

- I FINALLY passed my driving test!!! :D

- I started my third year at university

- I waved my boyfriend off for his first year at university in Bristol!

- I can't wait to get back into the flow of blogging and updating you all on the little goings on in the my life! 

Enjoy pals,
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I like Kindles?!

So I have always been a big lover of reading and getting completely and utterly involved in a book (a number of times forgetting that they aren't real life) - I may or may not have finished reading The Hunger Games feeling like I was about to volunteer as tribute for EVERYTHING. However, I never thought I would say that I would enjoy a Kindle (or any other brand of eBook!). I'm a big lover of tradition and there is something so satisfying about buying a crisp, new book and turning that final page that I could never imagine being the same with a Kindle. 

However, in January this year, I bit the bullet and bought an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. My mum had gotten one for Christmas and I noticed that she had whizzed through about five various autobiographies and  two true-life misery books within about two weeks - which I found astonishing!! Additionally, she could fit it in her handbag easily and it was so slight and inconspicuous!

Now, as you may know from my previous posts, I commute through London and the wonderful (!) tubes three times a week to get to university - all whilst carrying a satchel full of books, stationery, food and a HUGE make up bag (priorities!). This was a daily jigsaw puzzle which meant I couldn't carry around books like I used to, hence my reckoning for becoming 21st century. 

Although it will never beat a physical book in my eyes, the convenience and the huge collection and reasonable prices  make the tablet a great purchase! I've only owned it for a couple of months and I've already raced through Veronica Roth's Divergent series and am half way through the chick-lit series 'I Heart...' by Lindsey Kelk! So all-in-all, I'm loving this little gadget, with it's ease to fit in my bulked out bag and lots of stories at my fingertips, I'm glad I have one... but don't worry books, you'll always be my number one <3 

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