HAUL: Books & Home Decor!

 

Well, well, it's definitely been a while since I popped up a new post on my little blog! I recently found myself in a bit of a slump with no motivation to really do anything, in any aspect of my life - college, work-out, eat healthily - so I took a few weeks away to myself to kind of re-grasp my reasons for doing things. Do you ever have that? Also the fact that I'm nearing the end of my college course and have no real idea of what to do with my life has definitely spooked me. All-round, I've had a difficult few weeks, but let's just put that behind us and get on with this haul!

As you can tell, I've been on a bit of a book splurge. I find that when I'm having trouble with reality, a book is a nice place to be instead. So as well as re-reading old favourites (Mockingjay, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower & The Fault In Our Stars), I've picked up a few new books lately. Firstly, I got Looking For Alaska by John Green. I have to admit, I had high hopes for this book as I liked The Fault In Our Stars, but I have to confess I'm not really into it. Not sure why, but I just find it quite... uninspiring. I don't feel a real connection to the plot or the characters, so have deserted this book half-way through. If anyone has read it and feels I need to read on, let me know! Next, I got A Game Of Thrones by George RR Martin. I haven't actually read this yet, but have seen adverts for the TV show and think it looks amazing. I don't have the channel that it runs on, so naturally the next best thing would be to read the book. I got these two for a 2 for £7 in Tesco. The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell and Cinder by Marrisa Meyer were charity shop finds, for £1 and 50p respectively. I naturally had to pick up The Carrie Diaries following my love for SATC and I've heard great things about Cinder, so am looking forward to reading both. City Of Bones by Cassandra Clare follows my adoration for the Clockwork series, also by her, and is the first book in the Mortal Instruments series. I got this for £3.85 from Asda. And finally, my little love, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. My dad actually got this from a car boot sale for me for 50p! From reading the first few pages I can tell I'm going to adore it. Incidentally, I also bought The Desolation Of Smaug on DVD and have watched it twice since.

 

Home-ware-wise, I picked up a few things from Poundland: the little decorative jar, the strawberry and melon scented pillar candle and this amazing macaroon print chopping board. Not sure what I'm going to do with the latter yet, but how adorable?! Such a great find. Maybe just use it as a desk protector for my make-up? As for the jar, I think I'll either store cotton buds or write down all my to-be-read books and chuck them in there, ready for plucking when I'm lacking inspiration. Lastly, I bought two little Yankee Candle tarts from the Yankee Candle store: Strawberry Cheesecake and Summer Scoop. Yum!

 

I hope you all had a lovely weekend!

 

xx

Bedroom Updates: Jewellery & Perfume Storage!

 

It's been a long time coming with many hours spent on Pinterest and a jewellery storage inspiration post here on my blog but I've finally took a step towards sorting out the storage for my bedroom. I wanted something that was pretty as well as practical, but also displayed my jewellery in such a way that I'd remember to wear it. In these two storage devices I have only a few pieces but they're certainly my favourites. My other pieces that require a home are more statement things such as chunky bracelets, collars and chains that couldn't fit in with the things I have now on display.

 

Let's start with my favourite: the photo frame (bought from The Range). I got this heart shaped photo frame for my birthday years ago, but as the little heart clips didn't meet together properly the photos just kept falling out and so I'd pushed it aside until I discovered it again earlier. The gaps between the clips are perfect for arranging chains inside without risk of them becoming caught or damaged and also make cute little hangers for earrings. Stored on here I have two necklaces, two pairs of earrings, a bracelet and a ring. I hang this on my wall next to my full-length mirror.

 

 

  Arrow Bracelet - Topshop

Bow Ring - Charity Shop

Gold Chain Earrings - Charity Shop

Chevron Feather Earrings - Primark

Eiffel Tower Necklace - Avon

Deathly Hallows Necklace - eBay

Secondly I have an adorable little breakfast tray that my mum bought me. I keep this on top of a chest of drawers in front of my books but it's in a patch of bad lighting so I just placed it on my bed to be photographed. The colours are a bit all over the place but I like that thrown together, eclectic feel. On the left hand side of the tray I have my cute little mint green and gold polka dot tea cup and saucer, where I store my River Island midi rings and my pearl bracelet. I don't wear a lot of rings as my fingers are so tiny it's hard to find any that fit me and my Crown Ring I keep stored by my bed in it's little case so I don't have much in here. On the right hand side of the tray I have a small variety of perfumes - Taylor Swift's Wonderstruck Enchanted, a mini Nina Ricci Nina and my boyfriend's Black Suede. I also have a chunk of natural Amethyst placed next to it for decoration.

 

I still have a long way to go with my bedroom but it's just finding the time (and the money) to do everything properly! I hope you like what I've done so far, let me know what you think!

 

xx

Jewellery Storage Ideas

 

As I may have previously mentioned, I'm currently going through the re-decoration of my bedroom. This is turning out to be a very lengthy process for a number of reasons: 1. I'm a student and don't receieve much income so sourcing budget friendly items is rather difficult. 2. I'm a perfectionist and will refuse to buy said items unless I am completely, 100% sure that I adore them. 3. I'm waiting for a small amount of building work to be finished in my room before I change anything around.

 

But, I'm taking this impatient time to allow myself to completely plan out exactly what I want in my bedroom. Wether that's the paint colour, furniture or decorative touches.

 

My first matter of importance was nail varnish storage (which I have actually sorted out and will hopefully be posting soon). Next, I've moved on to jewellery.

 

Personally, I don't wear a lot of jewellery but I seem to have accumilated a small collection through Christmas, birthdays and jewellery sales in my favourite stores (I'm looking at you, Topshop). Here is a small montage of inspirational photos focussing on the storage and display of jewellery.

 

 

 

Necklaces & Bracelets:

 

 

Photo sources: Pinterest

 

As you can see, I have two obvious ideas in mind: beautiful little dishes/plates or displayed in empty photo frames. As beautiful as the dishes are, I think I'm leaning more towards the photo frames for a 'reminder' of what jewellery I have, simply because it's displayed more simply and is visually easier to take notice of what pieces I have. The dishes are more of a decorative touch, where-as the photo frames are more of a storage device if you see what I mean. I can imagine a pretty dish containing smartly arranged pearl necklaces on my dressing table, with an ornate photo frame laden with necklaces and bracelets hanging above it!

 

Rings & Earrings:

 

Photo sources: Pinterest

 

 

Kind of similar to the storage above, these two ideas feature either hanging up on the wall or creatively thrown into a container of choice. For earrings, I'm liking the simple rail as it's a quick and easy thing to source and to install. A trip to Ikea's kitchen section would be ideal for something like this, and for a budget friendly price too. As for rings, I think I prefer them all in a jumble together, displayed as they are in these photos on either a pretty cake stand or a dish.

 

I hope you liked this post and that you've gained some inspiration from it. I'm not entirely certain on what I'm going to go with yet, but the photo frames are my favourite. Keep a look out for more roomspiration ideas as I spend my nights procrastinating on Pinterest when I'm supposed to be doing my theory work.

 

xx



Nail Varnish Storage Ideas



All photos have been taken from Pinterest

 



I'm currently going through the planning stages of re-decorating my bedroom: I say planning stages, because I've so far changed my mind about the colour scheme three times and I'm undecided on what sort of feel I'm going for. But one of my most solid (and probably most necessary) ideas is that to re-organise my make-up. At the moment it's mostly tucked away in drawers (to see my actual organisation click here) and I've decided I'd like to display it properly.

 

So I took to Pinterest to give me some inspiration and thought I'd share with you guys my favourite picks.

 

The first is to display my polishes in a beautiful glass storage jar. This idea to me seems to be a good one and a bad one: it's very pretty but seemingly impractical. Imagine wanting the polish at the bottle of the jar? The second and most realistic is to use a spice rack. I adore this idea, I think the polishes look so organised and you'd be able to see exactly what colours you have from a glance. The red ones are actually the Ikea spice racks which are just £3 each! Finally, the third idea is to display them on a cake stand. I think this one is so cute and would definitely look the prettiest on a dressing table, maybe with a few perfumes and make-up bits within the mix, too.

 

What do you think of these ideas? And how do you organise your nail varnish collection?

 

Look out for a few more photo based posts as I gain more ideas and inspiration (probably from Pinterest)!

 

xx