Sweet peach.

Another gem I wanted to share with you all is this: 

I bought it not too long ago in the River Island sale for £15 down from £40. I was overjoyed, because not two weeks before I'd been debating with myself whether I could justify spending £40 on the item. I'm glad I didn't! I can't quite decide if it's a dress or a top, so, to be safe, I wear it with leggings. It's a beautiful delicate peach colour, a colour which I covet so much. I think it's such a pretty colour. Almost everything I see in this colour, I instantly need it in my life. To add to the prettiness, it has little plastic (doesn't sound good I know) flowers around the neck line. Also, as it is a smock-like top it's perfect if you're going somewhere special, but aren't feeling too great about yourself. It has a slight cut out back, so I'm still looking for a good bra to go with the top.

I hope you all like it as much as I do. I just need some more excuses to wear it now!

Enjoy, leave comments and such :)

Floral smock.

I am a huge fan of smock dresses. Mainly because they hide the area that I am most concious of: my stomach.

Please ignore my face on these photos. I took them at about 12am; therefore, my make up had worn off and I was a little weary.

Anyway, there is the smock. I love anything with a 60s feel to it and I feel that this dress has that feel. I realise it is short and I would more than likely wear leggings or tights with it. I know some of you reading this will, perhaps, think that is boring, but I'm trying to grow in my confidence at wearing more daring things. As I said, it hides the area that I am not most comfortable with showing off: my stomach, and has floaty sleeves which also hide my arms when I'm not feeling too great about those either. 

I bought the dress from a Next clearance store at the York Outlet. I was really pleased with this purchase, because I was, at one point, going to pay full price for the dress. So, instead of paying £40 (or maybe more) for the dress I got it for £15! See, every so often it does pay off to look in outlet shops. (I say it like that because I usually hate sales and outlet shops such as TKMaxx). I didn't buy the dress when it was originally in Next, because I wasn't sure as to whether I liked the pattern. However, with a reduced price, I decided that I like the pattern much better with £25 knocked off the price!

Enjoy!

Most perfect week at home.

I went home from university on Wednesday and seriously, I've had the nicest time.

When my train got in on Wednesday me and my mum went for a coffee and perused Waterstone's for about an hour. We looked around some clothes shops, but didn't buy anything. (Well, mum got a t-shirt. So it was me that didn't buy anything). Then, later on, I went to see John and we shared a chinese, watched some TV then watched The Lion King in bed. It was so nice. I got my Valentine's present of a new Links of London charm for my bracelet. Even though I told him not to buy me one because they're really expensive.

Thursday, mum and me went shopping in Sheffield. All I got were some false nails. I wanted a dress, but the shops never had what I wanted. We did have a really nice lunch though. I love spending time with my mum. All we do is rant to each other, but it's nice to have someone to rant to about absolutely everything.

Friday I got another present, a huge bunch of flowers. So perfect, red roses and the whole shaban. It was also. John's boss' retirement party. I thought I was going to hate it, but it wasn't too bad. It was a free bar and the buffet was immense. Yes, that is how I judge parties. Then we stopped in a Travelodge instead of going back to John's. Might not have been the nicest hotel, but it was so nice to be able to go to bed with John and wake up with him.

Then, on Saturday, John treated me to a meal in a local restaurant. It was Silver Service and the food was perfect. We came back and watched Castaway snuggled up on the sofa. Lille (John's dog) included in that snuggle. Then we went to bed, watched 20 minutes of Aladdin, before we were both falling asleep. We fell asleep all tangled up in each other. Perfection.

Waking up with him is the best part of my day.

Now, I'm back up in Preston hoping that John is coming back up to see me after his night shift in Bolton. Then we can snuggle up, watch a film and fall asleep. Unless, he doesn't finish until early tomorrow morning. In which case, I might get to spend the day with him.

Hope he's coming back, if not I won't see him for another couple of weeks :(

I've just realised how boring this must be for anyone to read. Apologies.