anchors & floral prints

t-shirt- c/o orange circle
skirt- c/o fashion union
socks- topshop
converse- my friends old ones her younger brother grew out of

I feel kind of, dare I say it, sporty today. No no no no. Walking around with my converse on y'all because I'm gonna go and play some football. Well, technically, I actually could now seeing as my exams are all over with and I seriously cannot pull off wearing frilly ankle socks. ANYWAY I seriously need a new camera because my pictures don't justify how pretty the print is on my t-shirt from Orange Circle, it's a lovely vintage-y floral print inside an anchor. I loooooooooove it. They have so many awesome designs on their website. And then my trusty denim skirt from Fashion Union. I think I wear this 4 out of the 7 days in the week (3 days then to wash it to then where it another 4 days, obvs).

In other news, I think I've successfully managed to make myself look like an 8 year old in these photos. Well done me.

now playing: calling lewis watson (x329832)

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mon portable

Ellie the fashion blogger/phone expert here! (I joke). How are we all today? My last exam's tomorrow so be prepared for many 'I'M FREEEEEEEE' tweets, more blog comments replies and a lost soul wondering around Nottingham trying to find something to do other than revision. What do normal people do at the weekend? 

In other news, today we shall be talking about my iPhone. My saviour. My life. Oh, how I wish I could say I was exaggerating. My case is a lovely Kate Spade one c/o Three Mobile and this is the most hardcore phone case I've ever seen in my life. There's actually a tiny phone case on the inside beneath all the pretty polkadots, keeping my phone safe from when I like to throw it on the floor. Obviously, the most noticeable thing on my phone is my wall paper, the most important thing in my life: potato waffles. Apps wise? I have a kind of OCD when it comes to organising my phone, they all have to be in folders in a certain order. I have all the boring ones that everyone has...Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr etc. To make me look like a photographer, Picfx is the app I always use for my instagram pictures aswell as Squaready and sometimes BeautifulMess, too. For all blogging-ness, Bloglovin' is my all time favourite. I also recently downloaded BlogGo seeing as the Blogger app is beyond useless, it is so simple to use and I love it for inserting photos too (erm, blogger- take note). 

What's your all time favourite app? I'm on the hunt for some new games at the moment!

(ps: does my sarcasm come through on my blog? I was scrolling through the other day and I thought that you guys are thinking I'm proper weird....)

now playing: calling lewis watson/fall at your feet saint raymond/many of horror biffy clyro/rollerblades eliza doolittle/the youth mgmt

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FLIP FASHION-LUCILLE CLERC

Ahhhhhh pretty picture book time guys! This was a kind of 'I need this' buy from Amazon a couple of weeks ago when I saw it somewhere (I think it was in Company but I'm not totally sure). I'm a sucker for all pretty illustrated books. Flip Fashion is illustrated by Lucille Clerc (I've just been looking on her website and her work is beautiful) and basically, what it is, is an interactive flipbook full of different types of fashion....there's literally everything to choose from to create your own outfit. Futurisitic, vintage, cyber, street, gypsy, all american. Maybe this is meant to be a kids book? WHO KNOWS! But the illustrations are far too pretty and it makes me feel all creative as I 'flip' (haha) through it. I loves.

now playing: another love tom odell/bad blood bastille/bryn vampire weekend/what you want bombay bicycle club/i am not a robot marina and the diamonds

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dreaming of summer

all photos from tumblr or pinterest

This is what gal'sz been rebloggin' recently innit. I've gone for a whole tropical, high summer kinda feel- pineapples, palm trees and dungarees. Perfecto. Meanwhile, I look outside and what do I see? RAAAINNNNNNN. Tumblr is as close as I'm going to get to seeing the sun. 

I thought I'd pop an inspiration post on za blog today to add some pretty pictures on here and make me feel all creative. Now I've handed in all my art coursework, I kinda miss doing it- I've swapped the paintbrushes (not really, I'm all for that collage and scissors life) for biro's as I look at my room and the floor is a sea of French past papers. Oooooooooo how metaphorical. Speaking of French, I had a slight panic yesterday after I discovered my exam was a day earlier than I thought- turns out it's sometimes quite handy looking at your exam timetable. Bad news: one less day of revision. Good news: I won't turn up a day late.....as the lovely Rachel said, 'silver linings and all that'. Well, yes, how very very true...

now playing: step vampire weekend/reckless serenade arctic monkeys/million dollar man lana del rey/kodaline love like this/my boulder the king blues

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nobody knows what the future holds, said it’s bad enough just getting old

dress (worn as a top) - cow
cardigan- c/o french connection
skirt- urban outfitters
shoes- topshop
necklace- c/o adorn accessories
watch- ebay

HIHIHIH HI HI HI HIIIIIIII! Today, I am representing a pet shop. Not really. Kitty came to my window (she's a good climber) (and yeah her real name is actually Kitty) so I let her in, and consequently she was the victim in today's outfit post. Thanks Kitty. Second thing, before you click the link, I would like you to guess how much I bought this watch for. Go on, guess.... NO YOU'RE WRONG IT WAS £3.60 NO I'M NOT JOKING YES I'M BEING SERIOUS QUICKLY GO AND BUY IT. It took a month for it to arrive but I can cope with that. I'm always wearing my denim dress which I bought from Cow ages ago and I live in it but I thought I'd jazz it up today by wearing it with a skirt consequently giving it the illusion that it's a top. I'm far too crafty. Then my super lovely cardigan, my crazy amazing pug necklace, and my seriously scuffed black shoes. Man I'm on a roll with these double adjectives today.

I don't know whether you guys can remember, but ages ago I posted about my little trip to The First Cut Exhibition in Manchester featuring Rob Ryan and lots of other art-y people. I thought I should tell you guys that it's currently on at the Lakeside Arts Centre in Nottingham until the 9th June with free entry, too. I would so recommend popping along. I can't wait till my exams are all out the way (one week left) so I can take my sleeping bag along and live there (I joke, kinda...).

and here's what I wore...round and about

now playing: Modern Vampires Of The City by Vampire Weekend has made it's way onto my iPod and I'm deeply obsessed.

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embracing my inner tavi gevinson

After cutting through Primark to get to work, I somehow left with a bag of haribo's, spotty tights and a flower headband in my bag. NOT AGAIN! In my defence, I have been on the hunt for one of these for far too long and I couldn't really say no for £3. Guys I am Lana Del Rey. Practically. I have also named this my 'serious revision headband' that enables me to learn 150 key terms for English Language (I wish). So yeaaaah....if anyone from College is reading this and sees a nutter hiding in the corner of the library tomorrow with flowers on her head............that's me.

PS: New picture on the side of my blog, yes or no? I don't like change.

PPS: How dodge do my eyebrows look in that middle picture????

now playing: love me again john newman (this guy is COOOOOL)

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PIN IT FORWARD UK

all pictures from my Pinterest

Aloha! Today we shall be talking about the lovely Pinterest. (aka my style inspiration, the saviour of my art coursework and where I aspire to create cakes as tasty as these) It's my little creative escape. My online scrapbook and pin-board full of things I like. However, slightly more organised than my real life pinboard. I originally heard about it when I was on work experience a couple of years ago and then I've been hooked pretty much ever since, plus, it was the online decent website that wasn't blocked on the computers at school so the majority of my lunch times were spent pinning whilst people were walking past going 'Ellie are you on that website AGAIN?!'. I was (and still am) addicted, you could say.

It's so awesome to be apart of the #PinItForwardUK Campaign and I found it so interesting to be able to meet up with Enid from Pinterest whilst I was in London a couple of weeks ago to find out more information about the whole website and their plans (it's exciting guys). I also found this awesome blog recently too called Five Five Fabulous, who I'm going to pass the Pin It Forward baton on to-you have to have a peep at their pinterest too because there's some lovely things on there!

If you fancied checking out pinterest and seeing what it's all about (or have a scroll through my boards!), you can sign up here! Or leave your links below so I can follow you :)

now playing: I've been listening to the 'NME Presents The Vaccines' which was free with NME last week. Loooooooove it.

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