A quick life update for you (if you're interested... if not, just skip this bit and read the main part of the post hehe) - since the beginning of 2014 I have received conditional offers from two universities, which is great! On the other hand, my boyfriend and I broke up in January which was quite upsetting (I'm not going to go into details) but the relationship wasn't very long and I quickly moved on and embraced being single once again. So yeah, that happened...
Anyway, I've finally sat down and put something together for you, hope you enjoy!
Last weekend it was my mum's birthday (again, sorry about the bad timing but my head's been all over the place!) and after browsing the internet she decided she wanted to go to London and visit the Royal Academy of Arts for their Sensing Spaces exhibition. I'm not normally a very arty type of person but this exhibition is quite different - it is all about architecture and one part involves putting very brightly coloured straws into a white tunnel made with layers of what looks like honeycomb. Needless to say our inner children were drawn straight out when looking at this part of the display!
Apparently there are 500,000 straws available to put into the framework every day. Wow...
The intense concentration on my face...
Not quite sure how people got their straws up so high... although I did see someone being given a leg-up by her friends...
I am wearing:
Coat - Primark
Blazer - Primark
Striped top - Tesco
Leggings - New Look
Shoes - Tesco
Bag - Primark
Lips - Revlon ColorBurst Matte Balm in 220 'Showy Flamboyante'
In the maze
After the exhibition, we decided to have a little wander around Regent Street. We'd already walked down Bond Street and looked in the windows of Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana... We quickly got very intimidated by the luxuriousness oozing from every shop window (not to mention the Aston Martin that drove past us as we walked and parked between a Ferrari and a Porsche) and decided we'd better leave...
Look at these gorgeous macaroons!
This reminded me of my cousin Caroline's wedding cake... I may have only been 9 that day but it was a delicious cake!
Next we wandered down to Piccadilly Circus, where we popped into Boots and I finally found the much talked-about Essie nail polish in Mint Candy Apple (although I should really credit my mum because she was the one who pointed it out to me in the first place)! Needless to say I brought home my very own bottle of it...
After that we kept walking and eventually had dinner at a little Italian restaurant off Leicester Square, before calling it a day and catching the train home.
All in all it was a really enjoyable day and I'm glad the seemingly never-ending bad weather held off for my mum's special day.
What have you been up to recently?
Lots of love,
Fliss xx
