Instagram round up January 2015

I'm fully back into the swing of uni life, and have officially handed my dissertation in! January's treated me pretty well, so I'm looking forward to what the rest of the year will bring.

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1. My friend Bee's first time making a coffee at the union cafe, 2. I bought a black turtleneck and drank red wine and judged you really hard for your choices like a true wine mum, 3. New Years' Eve selfie, 4. Handing in my dissertation and on my way to the pub, 5. Trying on my new lipstick - L'Oreal True Reds Blake Lively edition, 6. First Aid Kit playing at UEA LCR - they were so good!

Resolutions 2015

It's December 30th, and 2014 is almost over. A year ago if anyone had suggested making new year's resolutions I'd have laughed in their face. But here we are a year later, and a lot has changed. I've pretty much had to question every aspect of myself this year, and I've got to be honest, I'm glad it's over! 

I'm looking forward to 2015 starting, and the chance to make some changes. I need to do more things that are good for me and that make me happy, and these are some of those:

Do more yoga and get back into running

Drink more water

Don't beat myself up for focusing on my mental well being over my achievements - I should always come first

Read more

Blog more

Seek out positive and healthy connections and relationships

Pass my degree

Get a job after graduating

Work on being as body positive as I can be

Live in the moment more - enjoy the little things

End the year in a good place as much as I can.

Work on being my own best friend, not my own worst enemy.

What about you? What do you want to change in 2015? Let me know in the comments below!

Have a happy new year, and enjoy whatever you do to celebrate it. 

  

Boxing Day at Forty Hall

 This morning my mum came into my room with a bacon sandwich and a cup of tea and announced 'we're going for a walk.'

My family love to soften the blow of bad news with food, it's how we operate.

Anyway, I groaned and complained, as did my brother, but we were dragged along on this walk. We decided to make the most of it and have a mini photoshoot.

We went to Forty Hall, a local house and gardens near my home. I spent lots of childhood walks there, and going there always makes me feel a little nostalgic.

I took the opportunity to wear one of my Christmas presents - this lovely jumper from Joy. It's wintery but not Christmassy, so I can wear it for January and February too.

Jumper - Joy, Jeans - Topshop, Boots - Doc Marten, Coat - Primark. Belly bulge - Christmas food!

Glasses - Gok Wan for Specsavers, Lipstick - GOSH in Yours Forever

I'll probably do a post soon about all the new lipsticks I've bought recently. I'm really liking this one from GOSH - it's in a lovely colour and the formula's really moisturising.

I've barely ever actually been inside the hall itself, they hardly ever used to open it. Nowadays they have lots of events going on inside it, which is nice because it's a really beautiful house.

This and the following photos are all taken in the Rose Gardens. There aren't many roses there this time of year, but during the summer it looks beautiful. It's the perfect place for a game of hide and seek too!

I've had this Primark coat a few weeks now and I really love it. It's huge and shapeless and I feel like an overgrown bat, so it's exactly my kind of thing. The boots I've had since September, and I bought them in the softest leather they have so they barely took any time to wear in at all.

After our walk we had lunch and then me and my mum went to see the new Hobbit film. I cried, a lot!

I'm going back to Norwich on Monday, because I've got to finish my dissertation and I can't have any more distraction. It's due on the 13th of January and I've probably done nowhere near enough of it, so the next few weeks will be work, work, work. Christmas always goes too quickly and I can't wait to hand the damn thing in.

That being said, I'll probably write a post before or on the new year. Resolutions will be made!

Happy Holidays!

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Happy Holidays everyone! Outfit photos are pretty hard to take when I'm at home, but I thought I'd put together my Instagram photos from the last month. See you again before the new year!

1. Showing off my lovely new Primark christmas jumper, 2. My uni house's adorable christmas tree, complete with little crochet squares made by yours truly, 3. The feminist society christmas meal, wearing my adorable little present earrings from Accessorize, 4. Taken before the Alumni LCR at uni, 5. Before Alumni with my lovely friend Sophie, 6. Grabbed the new Bourjois Happy Nude Year velvet matte lipstick before they all disappeared, 7. London Christmas shopping with Bee and Sophie, 8. Wetherspoons selfies with my gals from home, 9. Cute notebook from my secret santa.

Back Again

It's been over a month since I last posted, as I've been a little busy recently. I've moved (a few times), visited my family in London, worked a lot, went to Latitude festival and reached the A-List on Kim Kardashian Hollywood (I'm a little bit addicted). Now that I'm finally settled, I've found myself living, rather unexpectedly, back on my university campus for the rest of summer. As my job is on campus and I get to live with two of my best friends this has turned out to be a pretty great thing, although it's weird living like a first year again.

Of course in the past few weeks I've managed to buy plenty of things, and now that I'm living with someone I can probably persuade them to take a few outfit pictures of me. I'm really going to try and make a habit of it, even if it means I have to dig stuff out of the wash to show you. In the meantime I can definitely write a few makeup and product posts, a few of which I'm queueing up now.

Generally I've been trying to improve myself a little. Sharing a room with someone means I have to try and keep the space tidy, and because I have the majority of my things stored in the garage of the place I'm moving into in September it's easier to keep things neat. I've also been cooking a lot more now that I can buy my own food and have a kitchen I can cook in again. I forgot how freeing it is to be able to cook for yourself, and it was one of the main things I was looking forward to when I first came to uni. My mum's home cooked food is always great, but it's nice to have more control over what I eat and when.

I'm also getting ready for the busy year that my third year will undoubtedly be. I'm doing a dissertation next semester, plus I'll have my job and I'll be in several societies, one of which I am President of. I'm going to need to learn to be ore organised in order to keep on top of things, but I also want to really make the most of university life while I'm still a part of it.

Anyway, that was just a little life update. Hopefully I'll be able to keep on top of things and post regularly for the next few months, but mostly I'm just going to try and enjoy my summer while I can. It's my last proper summer holiday after all.