Hello Final Year

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Well, I was still really busy... I think I just need to come up with a new routine around university, work and everything else in life. But as soon as things really get going, that'll be easy I'm sure! At the minute my timetable keeps changing and we are just going through ideas, so I am just going with it at the minute until things settle down.

Final year has been really exciting so far (I started back on Monday) and I've been brainstorming my ideas so I can do something (hopefully) spectacular over the next year. It has felt quite strange to go from what I was doing in my placement to back to university. However I am still really excited about the next year and I cannot wait to get stuck in!!

I just thought I would show you something that was on campus as part of the first week at university, Harvey Nichols had brought a huge trailer onto the campus to stage a fashion show, and live bands. It was during my lunch break that the fashion show was staged and I reached for my camera to show you all some photos. 

I hope you enjoy!

Do you have the time?

I'm really sorry for my lack of posts lately! I was really getting into it, but I've been busy with work and doing research for my university course, so I haven't felt like I have time. Yep, it is that time again, I've had my year in The Real World so now I get to be a student one more time. There will be a lot of work involved but this year we get to choose about our projects and I love the idea of getting to do things I am truly passionate about. It is really exciting. This is the year I get to make a Final Collection, which will be most favourite part of the course (even if I do complain about everything going wrong at some point or other). So here is a little post with photos from weheartit.com to do with studying and reading, that will just about get me through until tomorrow when it is time for my Friday Feeling.

 Some of these study areas are really inspiring, and will be going into my flat inspiration folder! I'm starting to create some personal collages on the walls in my flat, so these are really interesting for me.

What is the study area in your house like? Anyone going back to university this year?

I love Leeds

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As you might know, I live in Leeds. I have done for three lovely years now. I've studied and worked 9-5 in Leeds and well I've grown up A LOT! I am about to embark on my final year of my course and I am rather excited!! Oh the creativity is about to burst out of me just at the anticipation. (I am also aware that there will be a whole year of work work work to do before I graduate but I'm not going to  let that scare me - well not right away).

Now, I must admit I haven't even started making the most of living in one of the most fashionable cities in the UK... but all of that is about to change.

It really does!

So yesterday, me and my new lovely friend Lil went to the Victoria Quarter in Leeds to the official launch of the Leeds Loves Shopping Festival which starts October 13th 2011. This was loads of fun, we met independent designers, the people behind the Leeds Guide, Marketing in Leeds, Leeds City Council and even the organiser of the Leeds Fashion Show Anjula Davidson!

It was great fun to talk about my little blog and what I am intending to do with it over the next few months. We also chatted about upcoming events as part of the festival and about the planning and dedication towards planning these events.

We were given lovely goodie bags, with lots of information about the upcoming festival and two little presents!!

 

I received this beautiful hair clip from Life's Big Canvas and a bath bomb from Patisserie De Bain.

I have made so many contacts in Leeds, which hopefully will lead to me getting involved more with Fashion Activities all over the city!

Look for companies and organisations in Leeds on Twitter if you live in the area if you'd like to do more to get involved too!

Check out leedslovesshopping.com for everything you need to know about the festival, and I will keep you updated with everything I get upto as part of the festival right here, so don't forget to check back!!

Who Lives in Leeds and would like to get involved too?! Leave me a lovely little thought below!

The Tote Bag

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Hello, I've had a productive day today. I have tidied and sorted the flat a bit more (there is still a lot to do) and I have been to the library to get some books out to do some reading for my dissertation.

I am usually awful at finding the books I want, no matter how organised I am, I just can't seem to follow the little symbols on the sides of the book to "help" you find them. Anyway, it was going well, until I could only find the Reference copy of one of my books (it didn't really matter because I picked up 2 extra books in its place) but I double checked and there was a standard copy available somewhere. I decided to go have another look and on my way to where the book should have been hiding, another book caught my eye...

It mainly caught my eye because it has the most interesting cover in the whole library but then I wanted to know what was inside this beautiful cover. It is basically filled with hundreds of designs found on the fabulous accessory the Tote Bag. Here are some photos I have taken from inside the book:

 You can also find out more on this website: http://www.jiteshpatel.co.uk/totebagbook/.

If you could design your own tote bag, what would it look like?

National Sewing Month

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Ooooh how exciting!

September is National Sewing Month!!!

Some lovely sewing facts!

Every year there is a theme and this month's theme is "Sew for the Love of it!", which I think is great for the first time I will be taking part in my very own National Sewing Month! Not that I really need an excuse to sew, but it is all about home sewing and the things you love to make.

 

If you head on over to http://www.nationalsewingmonth.org/ you can find out all about it, and they even have a **Competition** for all you lovely lucky people in the US! And even though I can't enter because I am in the UK, I will still make something featuring the "love heart" just because I sew for the love of it!

What are you doing to take part in National Sewing Month? What are the kinds of things you love to sew?

Friday Feeling #1

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Don't you just love the above image? What a perfect little picnic that must be! In a way it makes me think of Fridays, the day of the week that everyone looks forward to, the beginning of the weekend. "Thank God It's Friday!!" I hear you all exclaim, "Living for the Weekend" sang Hard-Fi and " Get that Friday feeling" with Crunchie... clearly, Friday is the best day of the week.

So, I thought I would make sharing my Friday feeling (on a Friday) a regular thing! I might have to start writing it in a morning, maybe about what my weekend is going to involve (as you can tell I've not thought it all through properly yet) but seeing as I had this idea tonight, I wanted to start it now.

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I've had a good Friday, I worked for four hours at Gap Outlet in York (it was only my second shift but I love working there already!). I then spent my afternoon catching up with my lovely friends Heather and Josh, baking muffins (pics to follow soon however they don't look very muffin like...) and planning what we can do to help us relax around doing uni work that is likely to drive us insane over the next year. It was great and we had a good giggle, just what I needed! Normally I'd spend Friday nights sat at home watching telly, so I will be catching up on what I missed tomorrow morning on BBC iPlayer, probably after a little lie in.

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I plan to spend my weekend reading books, drinking a lot of tea and doing some work towards university, which I am really getting into lately. (I do have to go to work on Sunday but I can still do these things around this!).

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I am planning to start filling scrapbooks too, one for my blog and little ideas to make it more "me", and one for me to stick things in and keep little things that I like and find inspiring. I have always been meaning to do this, but I never got round to it. I would just love to keep scrapbooks and journals that I can always rely on to inspire me, and now is the time I am going to get this into my habit. I guess it could be a New Uni Year Resolution!

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One last thing for my weekend, and probably next week and the following weekend and a few more weeks and weekends after that... I want some inspiration for my flat as I am now living alone. It isn't a bad thing, I quite like it, but I want it to be homey and cosy and a lot more girlie! I think the below photo is a good start to the kind of flat I want.

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Any ideas or inspiration would be great!! I plan to make my own cushion covers and have throws and blankets at hand, but I dunno what more I can do with it! Obviously my flat doesn't have that amazing window but it is pretty impressive, and once I have finished tidying and getting things in new rightful places I will take some photos for you all to see!

Hello September

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Hello, it has been a little while since I posted on here. I have been meaning to but I just haven't got round to it. There has been a little shake-up in my personal life (that I won't bore you with) however I am really really going to get back into blogging, so you can look forward to seeing many more posts soon!

Well, here is September, the month where the leaves go orange and start falling from the trees. I quite like Autumn, it isn't too chilly and everything is so colourful! It is also the season that my Birthday falls in (I tend to get excited about my birthday even though I still have 2 months to go!).

My summer ended well, I had a weekend trip to Lincoln (photos to follow), I have finally got myself a part-time job (Yay!), I have moved back to Leeds and I went to Alton Towers (where I went on ALL the big rides and completed one of my 30 things before 30!). Life has been busy for me, but I have been enjoying myself too, which is always a bonus!

So this post is all about my trip to Lincoln, where I spent the weekend with Jamie, one of my older brother's, and his girlfriend Cherryl. We went for a little walk down (which meant we had to go back up) Steep Hill, which unless you have been there you do not know just how steep it is, where we visited vintage, craft and little homey stores that just filled me with inspiration all day long! We walked around the cathedral, and ate out for Sunday lunch and we even had some very tasty ice-cream. Here are some photos that I took while on my little vacation:

 

 

 

Here I am sitting on the roof terrace at The Cloud Bar in Lincoln