My Summer Playlist 2013.

Every year I create a new summer playlist on my phone made up of all the songs that I can constantly listen to without getting bored of them. I mostly listen to music when I'm on the go, blogging and in bed as I like to have some sort of background noise to go to sleep to.

This year, my playlist has been quite varied so I thought I'd share some of the songs that I've been loving. Not all of them came out over the summer and most of them are songs that I've discovered that have been out for a while (I'm one of those people who are always the last to hear a song), or songs that I've loved for ages and decided to add in.

I thought I'd list my favourites in band/artist categories to make a bit easier to follow as well.

Summer in the City 2013

This weekend was Summer in the City and I thought it would only be appropriate to create a blog post out of it!
This is probably going to be very long and waffly as A LOT happened and I had one of the best weekends of my life.

Saturday

We got there pretty early and queued for a bit before being able to skip ahead because we already had our wristbands. Once we were in, we headed straight for the Dan and Phil line because meeting them was our main priority and anyone else we decided would just be a bonus.
So, an hour and a half wait ensued and then it was my turn.

Topshop Haul!

Now I have a brill job I've started to spend quite a bit of money, mainly in Topshop and I don't regret it a single bit. My recent splurge totaled to £160, which I will admit is the most I have ever spent in one go on clothes. I tried everything on in the shop once I'd picked it up and it all fitted like an absolute dream. I thought I'd do a little haul post and show you what I got!

Item number one is this tangerine playsuit with 1920's style tassel detailing along the middle which was £30.

This was the one thing that I was sure would be either too tight around my boobs or just look ridiculous because of my body shape but to my surprise it looks ten times better than I thought it would. The tassels are super flattering and means I won't be thinking about how my stomach looks the whole time I'm wearing it. It's one of those things that I can either dress up or dress down and orange is my favourite colour so I'm pleased that it's pretty much everywhere at the moment. (Just a side note, there is more orange to come in this haul.)

London day trip and mini Topshop haul.

Last week my mum came into my room and proposed the idea of going to London for the day the following weekend seeing as we'd all be off work. My friend Megan joined us yesterday and we headed to London.

First stop was Camden to to have a wander around the market, it's one of my favourite parts of the city but Megan had never been there before so it was fab to show her around and take it all in. 

My One Direction Take Me Home Tour Experience.

Thought I'd start off with this. It's taken up most of my year so far so it deserves to go first.
It's a very rambly kind of review but not a review more just me typing very excitedly about the whole weekend.

In March 2012, One Direction released tickets for their 2013 World Tour, which is crazy! Between us, me and my best friend Jasmine (who I happened to meet through the boys in November 2010), set out to get tickets for a show at the London O2 and Cardiff. We successfully got both and then Jasmine got Birmingham tickets as well, so that was three dates we had to look forward to this year. We were fully aware that at some point in the next year we could grow to dislike the boys but obvs this didn't happen because it's One Direction!


So fast forward to early 2013 and we started to plan our trips across the country. London was first so we did our normal me staying at her house and then we'd head to the city from there. We had quite good seats for this show, right in the middle in the back block of the Level 1 so we had a fab view of everything. It was a brilliant first show and made us mega excited for Cardiff which was the following weekend.

(I would insert a couple of photos from that show here but just realised I put them on my laptop which is broken and I'm currently using my mum's, sorry!)

Cardiff! This would have been the best weekend if it wasn't for the fact that the staff at the arena put me in the worst mood. We'd made posters (ultimate fangirls) which were then taken off of us because they were only letting in A4 sized ones. Yep, A4. Really great when the whole point you make them is to get noticed! And they also took my camera away from me because of the detachable lens so I had to take photos with my phone which then died. But apart from that it was fab and we had the nicest hotel thanks to Jasmine's mum and I love Cardiff so just being there made it 100 times better.

This was the best photo I got from the show. 

Hello world.

This is the first post on my new blog. My 'proper' blog where I'll actually write and stuff. I want this to be a creative outlet so I can put my mind to good use again after not really having to use it in the way I love for a while. Expect tales of exciting things that happen in my life (there's not many so don't go sighing), I might write reviews on certain beauty products, books, films etc as well as maybe a short story here and there to keep my creative juices flowing.
I hope if you do happen to come across this, I don't bore you too much.
Enjoy!