Under African Skies

It's lovely to have pennies in my pocket but why is it that when you have got some dollar, you can't see anything to spend your money on. I turn into such a frugal little creature and can never seem to find anything I like and when I do, I have to question myself up to 10 times for a couple of days as it gathers dust in the online shop's basket. 

This weekend I have my boyfriend's uncle's 40th birthday to attend after work so I wanted to treat myself to something new. Feeling vibrant colours and through my appreciation of lady-like lengths and shapes I discovered this beautiful skirt on ASOS.

It is a part of their ASOS Africa range and I am just so damn excited for it to arrive. Always inspired by Natalie Joos, I know I needed to branch out and be a bit more adventurous with clashing prints and colours so I am still on the search for a suitable top half of the outfit. Any ideas?

I fear that I will end up with a simple, plain t-shirt up top but I don't feel discouraged by that having been inspired by this image from Lucy Laucht I discovered via Pinterest.

Pretty, pretty. 

Travel sickness.

As I mentioned the other day, unfortunately I have no holiday planned this year. 

Are any of you off anywhere nice this Summer?

I think because vacation is missing from my life I have spent my working days lost in a dreamlike state thinking of where I can escape to when it is more possible for me to do so. For the rest of my life I believe I will be caught up in a whirlwind of wanderlust, longing to explore the world and all the nooks and cranny's I am missing out on. 

I'm currently planning to start saving in less than two weeks to go to New York again in December aswell as considering where to go away next Summer to make up for not being able to this year. Will it be travelling around Italy or around the west of America? 

I recently made a 'travel' board for my pinterest so I can spend my time drooling over what I'm missing out on. Filled with envy my parents are going to both Venice & Greece this Summer and perhaps New York at Christmas too. 

Where is everybody else off to?

Stranger in a Strange Land.

My goodness it's been so long. Please excuse my absence, I started a new job last week and haven't had the time to do anything. I've hardly spent any time at my computer because the moments that I do find myself without anything to do my body collapses and falls fast asleep. It's been a bit of a bodyshock for me but hopefully by next week it will begin to get into a routine and I will have the time during my days off. This week however, I am working every day. Exhausting when it's been a while since you've been in work. I am sitting here at 6am now, just as it's the only time I can find to come on here and show my face.

I couldn't write this post without adding some visuals so I collected some of my recent 'pins' and realised I had been inspired by interior. Perhaps I yearn to run away to a beautiful place or I just really want to give my bedroom an overhaul. 

Everything I seemed to have pinned appears to be rooms flooded with light and incorporating natural wood. I've always adored collections of frames on a wall and stacked books on display. 

Give me a few more days to settle in and get my body in it's right place and I will be back to regular programming. Just a short sabbatical. 

In the meantime, please remember the competition I have going on with Bear & Co. to win a custom made dress fit to your measurements. It would be great to win, so take a look and enter if you wish. Read more about it here if you haven't already.

You have 9 more days to enter.

Thank you.

After reorganising my blog last week with a new look, I have had great feedback from followers this past week and it has really put me in high spirits with everyone's lovely comments and getting new followers. Hello to you all! 

I am really interested in taking my blog to the next level and have been thinking about posting more frequent personal style photos and have also set up a Pinterest account (finally, after a few problems) which you can follow me on, below.

I also have a twitter account which you can find on the right, if you like to tweet and are interested in following me. 

Thank you again to everybody that reads my blog and for all the wonderful comments.