10 reasons why I love winter

1. You get to wear all varieties of warm, snuggly clothing. Hats, scarfs, gloves, slippers, knee-length wooly socks, you name it!
2. You can only wear boots at this time, it's far too warm to wear them any other time of the year. Just bought some brown boots with gold studs on them yesterday, good times.
3. I get to go home and see my mum, my family and friends and my cats! <3
4. You can get all snuggly in bed at night, especially with a double duvet!
5. Christmas, enough said.
6. Christmas day - one of the only days you can sit around and do nothing and eat a ridiculous amount of food.
7.Playing in the snow, I'm still a little kid at heart.
8. Christmas jumpers. I'm still yet to find the perfect jumper at a reasonable price.
9. Christmas socials. One of the only times you can dress as a bauble and no-one bats an eyelid.
10. It's the best time of year to watch Love Actually and Elf.

.....and, the Christmas Coke adverts, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without these!

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Why is shopping so good for the soul?

So after spending weeks and weeks of doing the most complicated university project I've come across, it was finally deadline time at 10 this morning. Once I had handed it in, I felt enormous relief, and how did I celebrate, I went shopping!
Now living in Sheffield and wanting to have a good shopping trip, I headed towards Meadowhall. On the train there, I got more and more excited, especially when I saw the turquoise roof. I know this is kind of sad, but it had been the light at the end of the tunnel when I was swamped with work.
I started to wonder, what's so good about shopping? why does it attract so many people into shops week after week, to buy things that they don't necessarily need but want? and when it gets extreme, sends many people into thousands of pounds worth of debt.
I don't have the answers, as it is surely much more complicated that it first seems. But for me, I love clothes (as I am a fashion design student) and I love having a new outfit. I like changing my look when I feel a bit boring and buy things that make me happy. I used to shop a lot more than I do nowadays, going clothes shopping almost every week, and looking back these times were when I was most unhappy. Shopping gave me a bit of happiness and time alone with my thoughts. However nowadays, it's just because I fancy another top or dress!
Shopping will always be good for the soul even though it is a materialistic thing, it gives people time to escape into a world of colours, sparkles and pretty shops, and I personally don't see anything wrong with this.
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Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson

As I was perusing my regular fashion blogs today, I stumbled across these photos taken for Harper's Bazaar magazine of Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson. There's something kind of good about them, I like the dramatic dresses and backgrounds. The prada red dress is my favourite. However, I think the black hair is a bit weird and some of the photos seem a bit too posed. Buy hey, maybe I've just watched too many vampire-related things recently. This is just my opinion, make your own mind up!

(photos taken from Red Carpet Fashion awards blog)

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Introducing Sid....

I love this picture.

It's from Love magazine, Issue 2. I love Sid and his Louis Vuitton rabbit ears, one stylish bunny!
I now want a rabbit of my own.

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My favourite purchase

Look at what I bought! It's a hat with a panda face on, I love it so much. One of the great things about it, is that it's so warm, but the best benefit is seeing people's faces when you wear it!



















Me with the bear hat and with my new red hair ( geeky photos I know). It's redder than expected, but I like it anyway.
Sorry for the lack of posting recently, been rather busy, but I'm on a reading week now, so will get some reading done and will report back.

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The weirdest video I've seen in a while

I was tols to watch Cheryl Cole's new music video yesterday, so have just watched it this evening. I can describe it in one word: weird. I have nothing against Cheryl Cole, I respect her for how successful she's become, when many reality tv winners just go off the radar after a couple of years. But this new video is just strange, partly because she doesn't have her other four band members around and partly because of her weird clothing. She has so many changes of outfits, which range from a lacy bodysuit thing, a black outfit with spikes out of the side, a white top and leopard-print trousers (which just look like pyjamas), a militray jacket with leather-look leggings and my absolute favourite: a sleeveless hoody that just looks like a kid's tigger outfit. Also, as one of my friends pointed out, she looks really like Janet Jackson in the military outfit and the way she dances.
I couldn't find any photos of it to show you, but here's a link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMiy_UsrPDs

enjoy!

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McDonalds in the Louvre, really?!

So I was reading the Metro on my long commute to uni the other day, and came across an article saying that there are plans to open up a McDonalds in the Louvre in Paris. I found this really weird, why does the Louvre want to open up such a cheap,grotty restaurant in its lovely building? Although the Louvre has said that they will try and create a McDonalds 'in line with the museums image', I can't imagine wandering around looking at the paintings and sculptures with the smell of burger and chips in the background. Surely it'll ruin the whole atmosphere that the Louvre has spent millions to create. I'm quite intrigued to see if it will actually come to fruition, it would truly be a big win for multi-national consumerism.

ooh, must write something about fashion: long gloves and long boots are the way forward for me this autumn!

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