Magazines and Madwomen

Hello!

This week I FINALLY handed in my dissertation, it was a glorious day and my friend Claire and I went out to celebrate afterwards with cocktails at Turtle Bay, which we felt was very well deserved! I do feel a weird sense of loss now that it's all done and dusted, I woke up the next day and it felt like the day after Christmas - that kind of sad, weird feeling of disappointed, though I can't think why I am disappointed I no longer have to write about madwomen.

It has really dawned on me now that I have handed in that big old essay that the end really is near and I feel ever so sad, trying to make the most of it and have as much fun as I can before I head into that scary place we called The Real World. I am currently in the midst of finishing making a magazine with Claire for our magazine journalism project and I am sharing a sneak peak of some of the photographs we have done for it on here, I'll put the full copy up when it is all handed in and then hopefully I'll never have to look at it again as it is quite frankly giving me a headache.

Charlotte and I will be all handed in as of next week so we can get back to what we love doing, going on adventures and doing outfit posts again! Oh how we have missed the good old days of freedom!

A nice classic cheesy 'yay I'm handing in my dissertation!' photo!

These photos were all taken by our amazing photographer Donna Slidel and the models are the gorgeous Sophie and Ross. It was absolutely freezing this day so they were such troopers standing around in shorts and t-shirts all day! These aren't the final copies we are using, it was so hard to choose! Here are some of my favourites from the day...

These photographs were also taken by Donna and the models are Charlotte and Joris who literally look so good together it hurts my eyes...

 

So excited to get the final magazine all printed and show you the results :)

 

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Nights Out and Cream Teas

Hello!

While my dissertation is slightly taking over my life (and soul) I still like to make sure I have the occasional (weekly) night out to forget about my work woes and drown my studying sorrows - I have also vowed to completely make the most of my time at Uni, so that definitely includes going out and partying with all the other slowly dying third years.

This week my friend Carla and I went to our favourite place Oceanaaaaaaa (while it's very tacky and all, we always have the time of our lives there) with a group of our long suffering third year pals. It was, as always, a brilliant night and despite Carla having a deadline the next day we managed to get suitably merry (this is why Carla is always my partner in crime - no matter how much work we have on, we always have time for fun.)

I decided to wear my bowler hat out, which is pretty daring in a club as drunk people like to try on hats apparently, luckily I managed to come home with it and I would have to say that wearing it was the best decision of the night as loads of people came and chatted to me claiming I looked really 'approachable' in my hat (is this true or was this just a really awful chat up line? I will never know.)

Blouse - Zara

Hat - Urban Outfitters

Shorts - Levi's (Vintage)

ANYWAY, after a great night out we were feeling a little worse for wear the next day so we decided to go for a cream tea at one of my favourite places in Southampton, Halliday's Tea Room, and as always it was amazing. If you are ever in Southampton definitely pop into this little hidden treasure, they do amazing food and it's so cute and quirky in there.

 

All I can think about since I started writing this dissertation is cake, so by the time I hand it in I will not only have gained lots of useless knowledge about crazy nineteenth-century women but I will also have gained about ten stone.

Anyway, on the subject of cake and work, I must get back to both.

 

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