Blogging from London Town!

Hello, bloggers, bloggees, bloggians, bloggaroonis, bloggicans, etc. I am currently blogging from London Town! I've just come back from Portobello Market and in true Blue Peter style, I want to show you a post that I prepared earlier. I would like to show you my haul of blazers and bags. Some of them are designer, from which I have acquired mostly from gifts and inherited from my mother.



My favourite bag of all time, it's Louis Vuitton and was my mother's, which she bought from Paris over ten years ago. I love it!


Gucci messenger bag from my

Gifted floral bag from Urban Outfitters


Gifted suede Vanson bag from my uncle


My sister's black Urban Outfitters satchel

Now, onto the blazers...



Burberry blazer from my mother



Gifted Marc by Marc Jacobs blazer



Gifted MaxMara blazer

And lastly, my favourite blouse!


This Malene Birger blouse was bought for my birthday from Selfridges sale, from £150 down to £27!

So here are just a few of my favourite items! I'm off to play Guitar Hero and then dinner somewhere local. I'm really enjoying my few days here in London! Today, we went to Portobello Market and then tomorrow, we'll be off to do some sight-seeing in Central London and then also go to the Tate Modern and some galleries. I'll report back with photos and various tales later on.

Hope you're all enjoying your summer! Happy blogging!
Chloe xxx

Catch Me If You Can

Hey bloggians! Sorry I haven't blogged for a while, even though I thought I would do so more, now that it's the summer holidays, but I've been awfully lazy and just basically done nothing. I went out yesterday with the family and sorted out holiday stuff and then went to play tennis with my sister, brother and father. Other than that, I've been having a complete Gossip Girl marathon on the internet, because I've missed loads of the episodes so felt that now was the right time to start! Anyway, thanks for all the congratulations on my last post about my awards, feels great to have people supporting me!

Anyway, lack of doing things = lack of blogging.
Actually, doing lots of things = lack of blogging too.

It seems that blogging at regular intervals is a pretty hefty feat. One which I am aiming to conquer soon as I'll be doing lots of things and when I'm off in London and America, I am guaranteed to have internet access so hopefully, lots more blogging! Anyway, here are a few photos over the last week or so:


I love orchids! They're my favourite flowers, along with freesias and roses.

Cookie Dough ice cream and a film on a hot, humid day = perfect.

Vanity in all its pride and glory... Not really.

Really simple outfit, to be honest. A H&M shirt underneath which was a mere £3 in the sale. And my favourite Gap top which was £5 in the sale.

Me on a school trip, at the theatre in Manchester, getting a latte and waiting for Charley's Aunt to commence. My outfit is a black sheer dress with a slip underneath from Debenham's sale and a gifted Marc by Marc Jacobs blazer.

Today, I did gardening for my mother and also cleared out my wardrobe. Then a little more chilling and now I'm writing this blog! Tomorrow is going to be dedicated to doing nothing apart from take photos and eat food. Then on Wednesday, I'm going shopping with my sister and a friend. Cue lots of window shopping and sighing at overpriced clothes and DSLR cameras. I really really really want one, but lack of funds are preventing me from doing so! Then I'm off to my grandma's on Thursday to sort out America stuff with my aunty and then off to London on Friday. Can't wait!

Hope you're all having amazing holidays! Happy blogging!
Chloe xxx

P.S. Did any of you catch Catch Me If You Can on BBC the other night? A Spielberg film based on the true life story of Frank Abagnale, Jr., a man who conned millions of money out of forging cheques and took on the role of many different identities and careers. I absolutely loved this film and I urge you all to see it!

"The life I want, there is no shortcut. "

Hello! So the end of school is very nearly here. I leave school tomorrow at lunch time as it's a half day and I can't wait, but at the same time, I really don't want this year to end. This week has been really good though, as well as my weekend. I chilled out on Saturday after the sleepover and then went for ice cream on Sunday with my sister, mum and some friends. I had a Ferrero Rocher sundae and shared some hot chocolate fudge cake and waffles! Then this week, school's finally been winding down due to the end of school. Missed out loads of lesson because of book return and Speech Day rehearsal. It was Speech Day this afternoon and I received my three awards for Form Academic, Maths and French. I also met Ben Wright, a Political Correspondent for the BBC who was a former pupil at my school and I received £30 worth of book vouchers in total. Can't wait to raid Waterstones for some great reads for this summer!

Here are some photos of my art and some randoms from this last week:

This is a drawing of my entire form. It's a little hard for you to see the likeness between the actual people, but many people have said that it really looks like their real-life counterparts and I was amazed at the positive responses! This is a last farewell to my Year 9 form and I did a photocopy for everyone, too.

Edie Sedgwick. Originally meant to be a clock in Tech, but decided against it. Painting took forever as I'm not so great with a paint brush!

Very, very, very old piece which was up on the walls in the Art corridor. Supposed to be a little surrealist depicting a large Doc Martens boot (pencil) in the middle of an eerie, quaint London street with a sun set in the background!

Me in a Burberry shirt from my father and leggings - simple outfit for Art Day.

My name in the Speech Day programme!

Autograph from Ben Wright, former pupil and BBC Political Correspondent!

I have just been eating some Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream and watching An Education. Seriously, that film is amazing and Carey Mulligan is beautiful. She's such a wonderful actress, I understand why she is so fully deserving of her BAFTA for her lead role. Therefore, the title of this post is a line from Carey Mulligan (as Jenny Millar) talking to her teacher after missing out on her chance to go to Oxford University. I don't particularly want to give any more spoilers, just go watch it!

Anyway, now I'm just thinking of which books to buy. I already know that I want to buy On The Road by Jack Kerouac and Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. I have a longer list, but I'm not sure about some of them. Any recommendations?
Now I'm off to do some drawing with my new-found free time as I printed off a load of pictures earlier today and can't wait to get started! Hope everyone is doing well and I can't believe it's very nearly summer. In 9 days, I'll be off to London for 5 days: mostly for shopping and sight-seeing, but also decorating my aunty's new flat, baking cakes, playing scrabble. The usual. I get back on August 4th and then I go to America on August 7th, which doesn't leave me much time to pack!

Hope everyone's summers are going great! Happy blogging!
Chloe xxx

Quelqu'un M'a Dit

Hey guys! It's been a pretty rubbish week due to my new form group for Year 10 and various other things with that. I don't want to bore you with my qualms and worries, but it's not been such a good week because of it. I really love my current form (9SS) and everyone in it. We only have a week left together and I know I'm gonna cry loads on the last day. Even though I'm excited for summer, I just want to prolong the next week because I love everyone in my form and how much we all get on. I hate change! This week was supposed to be really fun (Enrichment Week), where we're off timetable, but it kind of got ruined by the new form groupings. On Monday, we had a forensic science day. Tuesday was a design and technology day. Wednesday, we went to Manchester for a theatre visit named Charley's Aunt. Thursday, we had an art day which was good. Friday, a day of well-being. Only a week of school left!

Anyway, here are some photos from Friday when we went for a sleepover at my friend, Kirsty's house, had a major healthy food fest at McDonald's and went to see Eclipse!









I'm gonna finish an Art piece and show you a few pieces of work in my next post, as well as some other photos. Also, I almost forgot to say, we have Junior Speech Day on Thursday (I think) and I received three awards this year! I received the Form Academic Prize for the third year in a row, I won the Maths Prize and the French Prize. I'll get £15 book voucher for each prize, so I'm really happy with that, haha. Other than that, went to a sleepover last night and then I'm going out for ice cream on Sunday. My family bought a new car (BMW 3 Series) so we'll take it for a test drive! Have a lovely weekend!

Happy blogging!
Chloe xxx

P.S. Quelqu'un M'a Dit is such a beautiful song featured on the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack. I know I go on about that film so much, but I don't care. It's such a lovely song, sung by the beautiful Carla Bruni (Sarkozy's wife). It really makes me happy and actually relish the French language!

Anyone Else But You

Hey guys! I've had a pretty good week. I'm finally better from my two-week-long cold, but I got my braces extended which isn't exactly fun and I've had to resort to eating soft food. School's finally winding down now and there's only two weeks of school left (next week is Enrichment Week which hardly counts) so yeah, it should be really good. It's been really chilled out and the weather's nice.

On a geekier note, I got my end of year grade letter and I acquired 12 A*s (in Maths, English, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Art, Latin, French, History, Geography, Tech, RE) and 3 As (ICT, Music, PE) so I was really pleased with that! I also received my English oral mark in discussion, I received 52/54 and in my Original Writing coursework, I received 26/27 A* Commended Work, which I was really happy about! All in all, it's been a good week in the education department.
Here are some quite random photos I took last week:


The bracelet that one of my best friends, Gabi, got me from Glastonbury. The colourful pop art bag is one from Camden, courtesy of my aunty Helen.

Rewatching 500 Days of Summer and my beloved Dell Inspiron

The Erdem bag which was free with Harper's Bazaar this month

Eating noodles and borrowing my brother's iPod touch

I was tagged by the lovely Em at Jersey and the Monkey. Do check out her blog because she's such a lovely girl! This is primarily a make-up based tag titled: What is your beauty style?

1. What is your beauty style? (Natural, trendy, etc.)
Very, very, very natural! I rarely ever wear make-up as it just wreaks havoc with my skin as well as the fact that I'm far too lazy to bother spending time trying to apply make-up.
2. Where do you get your beauty inspiration from?
Following on from the previous question, I don't particularly have a beauty style, so it's hard to be inspired too. If I had to choose something, I'd probably say magazines and blogs.

3. What beauty products do you have the most of?
Nail varnish!


4. What's your favourite/holy grail for:
Eyes: Benefit mascara and Benefit kohl eyeliner
Lips: Vaseline! (Boring, I know)
Cheeks: Johnson's or The Body Shop
Nails: Rimmel 60 Seconds, particularly in dark blue, red, black and silver

5. Three favourite brands of the moment?
Benefit
Rimmel
The Body Shop

Anyway, I've just been to a sleepover and now recuperating at home. I'll post pictures later this week. We also went to see Eclipse which I will talk about in a later post. I still have a few bits and bobs to do before school finishes in two weeks time, which is a bit annoying, but not earth-shattering. This time in four weeks, I'll be off to America and I seriously can't wait. I'm going to London on the 30th July for a few days so that should be good. Other than that, I'm getting into the summer spirit and can't wait for it to begin.

Hope everyone's enjoying their summer so far. Happy blogging!
Chloe xxx

P.S. Rewatching Juno and falling in love with Ellen Page and The Moldy Peaches. Anyone Else But You is the sweetest song and it always puts a massive smile on a face.

Mushaboom

Bloggers! So, I'm pretty happy right now because I gained my 100th follower a few minutes ago and being the sad case that I am, I've decided to share the happy news with you all. It's a pretty big deal to me since I've had my blog for a while now and it's always incredibly reaffirming to see that people actually take an interest into what I have to say. Basically, what I'm trying to say is: thank you!



I had a pretty good week this week as my cold is slowly going away, never to return again (hopefully) so that's good. On Friday, it was Sports Day which was held at Birmingham Uni which was alright. My house (Roach) won Sports Day and I also won the relay too, so that was pretty good, but now I have hell to pay for not warming up as my legs and tummy are aching so badly. Afterwards, I went to Abi's with Abi, Kirsty and Christy. We just did nothing and chilled out, went to the park, ordered an Indian takeaway and then me being the ill person that I am, went to bed at a mere twelve o'clock whilst the others stayed awake without me! I really did need the sleep though so yeah, then we woke up and ate loads of toast and juice, then it was off home. I got some magazines the other day with nice freebies so I'll show you those in a later post, but here are some photos from Friday!










Also, Happy Independence Day/4th Of July! I'm feeling pretty positive about the next few weeks, there are less than three weeks of school left, with one week of Enrichment Activities (commencing on 12th July) which is basically a week off school timetable to do various activities. Then I'm gonna try and plan some fun things before I go to London on the first week and then to America on Aug 7th. I might also be going to a festival in Chicago called Lollapalooza which sounds fun and there are some good bands going so hopefully I'll be going to that! I'm really excited, but for now, I'm going to try and enjoy the rest of this Sunday and write a commentary for my English coursework. I don't sound very enthused, do I? Anyway, hope everyone's enjoying their summer (if it's started already, lucky you!), the sun's gone in for a few days and I kind of miss it now that I'm on the mend.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Happy blogging!
Chloe xxx

P.S. Listen to the title of this blog post, Mushaboom by Feist. She is Leslie Feist, linked with Broken Social Scene (who I love, by the way). I was just rewatching 500 Days of Summer on DVD and I loved this song and have been listening to it on repeat for a while. Lovely lyrics, lovely voice. Listen to it!