Sorry for being gone for soo long. Work has been absolutely hectic I know Christmas seems a long way from now but in the fashion industry we've been planning this all for the last few months. All the amazing clothes are coming in every day, lorries and lorries of cute christmas pudding beanies, santa socks and onsies that you just want to crawl into and sleep infront of the fireplace.
This is all well and good but it means I have lots and lots of work to do, all those deliveries booked in and it's my job to make sure that everything goes where it's supposed to.
Work is massively busy and I feel like I have quite a bit on my plate. The good news is that I have family coming over to visit and do the sight seeing tourist thing.
What's even better is that they are coming over on the weekend so I get to spend even more time with them. I'm not in the position to be taking time off on such short notice luckily having them coming over with the cutest little baby this weekend means I don't have to worry about that.
So this weekend is planned and hopefully will be full of exciting things to do. I've thought about the places I want to visit, I want to do the typical, picadilly circus, trafalgar square, london eye and london zoo. But I also want to do a few different less mainstream sight seeing, things like covent garden, bricklane and tate modern.
I'll keep you posted
Lots of love
Today my Alpha marathon is going well, I've watched 4 episodes and while I've been watchingin I've been tidying too. So now my room doesn't look half bad.
I won't say my room is looking perfect but atleast I can see the floor now, which is a massive improvement. Tomorrows task is to tidy the rest of my room and fix up my desk. Since I've bought a bit of work home with me this week, having access to my desk would be pretty useful.
Hopefully tomorrow will be a productiveday and I can get all that done and wind down a bit afterwards.
Lots of love
MLP
It's the weekend again and I've had a pretty good week. Store visit with work, reunion with old colleagues and a nice chilled out night.
After a good week at work it felt like having a nice end to the week and spending it with friends. Last night after work on my way home I decided to stop off at my friends house. We had a nice chilled out night watching desperate housewives and Dallas. I've been looking for new sitcoms to help seperate my week. I've got New girl on tuesday, Dallas on wednesday and 2 Broke girls on a thursday. Desperate housewives hasn't made the cut it didn't quite tickle my fancy but Dallas is most definately a part of my week now. Alphas is coming back on soon and I'm going to catch up on the first season because this new season looks like it's going to be amazing.
So my plan for today is to put on the first season of Alphas and watch it while I tidy my room.
Wish me luck,
Lots of love
MLP
Yesterday was my reunion with old workfriends. It's been almost 3 months since I left there and going back was rather strange. It was like nothing had changed. I got off at the station and it was such an intense snese of de ja vu.
Walking into the pub next to the office was like my first day all over again. It was like going full circle. I had my first day at the George, having my leaving party at the George and the reunion at the George.
Meeting my replacements was nice, all the new people I met were great and soo easy to talk to. But the best part of my night had to be catching up with the other intern who had also moved on just like me. I went into retail head office, and she went into banking. We all had great stories to tell, office dramas, and all the great perks we just can't seem to live without.
Having a reunion and catching up with everyone made me step back and take a good look at how far I've come. I haven't found my feet yet but like o thinki that I mightbe in the right track.
Lots of love
MLP
I've found out that tomorrow is my store visit, where I get to go to a store that sells the kids clothes that I've been allocating to stores.
It's something I've been looking forward to, this and the visit to the warehouse where all the clothes is stored.
The work I do can be really out of touch with the real world, and its really easy to start seeing everything as just a number and a barcode. And sometimes when your trying to get stock out of the warehouse and into stores you dont always think about the reality of it all.
Hopefully this visit will help me see the real world effects of all the work I've been doing.
There's only one thing that I'm dreading...and it's the journey to get there. For some reason the store they picked out for me to visit is in southeast london, which is going to take me about an hr and a half, getting the underground tube, the overground rail line and then a bus from there. I'm not massively happy about having to travel that far when there's a store 20 minutes from my house, but thats life.
So hopefully all goes well and I have a fun day in store.
Lots of love
MLP
Everything is better with a little but of colour. So I got the colouring pencils out and decided to add a bit of colour to my drawings.
I mixed and blended the pencils and I'm pretty happy with the colour that I got in the end. Its a nice blue meets purple. I'm happy with the end result.
Lots of love
MLP
Here's thelatest dress in my sketch book.
I get the feeling that dresses is my thing.
I'm not a massive fan of shoes so I don't see myself drawing any shoes any time soon. So dresses is my thing.
I do favour evening gowns and bridal dresses and maybe if I enjoy this and manage to keep at it I might even create my own collection of gowns.
I'm thinking to stick with a pearly white for this gown, the darker material will be lace with diamonte on the bustier and spread out on top of the lace in certain areas. Not too sure what the colour of the lace in the hip will be but im favouring a very fair cream almost off white. Hope you like my sketch.
Lots of love
MLP
Procrastination. A great word that is so important and a vital part of my life.
I have to admit it is a word that best discribes my attitude to life.
I am the master of procrastination. Today is just about the prime example of a day of masterful procrastination.
My room has been an absolute mess/bombsite for the last month and I've been putting it off for the weekend numerous times to no avail. This week has been no different. Instead of tidy my room, I have sat on the sofa, stuffed my face,watched 3 films and countless telly episodes, this is my second post of the day, I have painted my nails, straightened my hair and done a bit of online shopping too. My room remains the same state.
Procrastination is an art form and I've got it down to a T
Lots of love
MLP
Great British Bake off...I thought I'd catch a little bit of telly before I start the massive clear out. So I turn on the telly and find the Great British Bake-off. I've heard good things about it but never took the time to watch it.
Woow I love the bake off. The technical challenges are great to watch, because lets be honest when theres cooking involved there's always the chance for it all to go wrong. The best bit though has to be when they manage to pull it in last minute and sometimes create the best cake/pie/tart even though everything that could go wrong - did.
I already have my favourite contestant and I've only watched one episode. So as you can already guess there's a good chance I'm going to catch up on all the episodes I've missed and have this be my sunday morning breakfast telly.
Lots of love
MLP
Dopey
dop·ey also dop·y (d p ). adj. dop·i·er, dop·i·est Slang. 1. Dazed or lethargic, as if drugged. 2. Stupid; doltish: a dopey kid. 3. Silly; foolish.
That is just about the best word to describe me right now. Here I am trying to work out if tomorrow I should go to London Fashion Weekend or if I should stay at home and clear out my closet for autumn. So I decide actually I'd rathernot miss london fashion weekend and go online to get my ticket. So I take a l closer look and guess what I realise......Fashion weekend is next week.
I feel soo ditsy right now. I guess a good thing came out of it. I know I'm going to be spending tomorrowim my room clearing out my wardrobe and making space for all the great shopping I'm going to be doing.
I would do a before and after picture of my room....but trust me I don't think you guys will ever look at me the same way.....its that bad.
I hope you all have a great weekend.
Lots of love
MLP
The olympics are over, the paralympics have finished and now the next thing to look forward to is London Fashion Weekend!!
London fashion weekend started on friday and now it's in full swing. I've had a look around online and there are still a few tickets left so I might jump in and get some.
Luckily there are still tickets for shopping and the 2.30 trends catwalk show...I'm in two minds as to whether I should go or not. It's too late notice to get my friends to come along with me and not to mention the tickets might be a bit steap. So I get the feeling I'm going to invite my mum. She's dying to spend time with me and she loves shopping and dresses, so I'm sure she'll enjoy it and appreciate the clothes on show.
If I finally make up my mind and decide to go I will most definately upload all the pictures and keep you updated on how it went.
Lots of love
MLP
Since my inspiration hit me all I can think about is dresses, all the different shapes, different cuts, different colours and styles.
I've gone out and topped up my art supplies. I went to the local stationary shop and topped up my arts supplies and picked up a few colouring pencils, some felt tip pens and another sketch pad. Luckily I still have lots of great quality sketching pencils, charcoal and pastels from my old art classes.
It's not exactly an amazing AW12 collection to be proud of but its a start.
The drawings are not exactly finished, I'm still undecided as to what colour the long elegant dress will be...I'm stuck between having the dress a deep purple or a navy.
Lots of love
MLP
Every day on the way to work I'm bombarded with a collection of free newspapers and magazines at the train station.
The weekly glossies are the ones that grab my attention much more than the dull black and white newspapers. Today's glossy, was Stylist.
It's a great fashion magazine thats been keeping me updated on the latest trends in the fashion world as well as a nice overview of whats going on around the world. There are great pieces that are well written and worth reading. Today's copy was the A/W 12 Fashion edition. I'm not going to lie, normally I only do a quick scan and check out the pictures not really stopping focusing read any of the articles. But today I decided I might as well have a read and was pleasantly surprised and inspired.
One of the trends that has been predominant this season is Gothic. I've always liked velvets and lace, blood reds and deep purples. There's something strangely elegant about it all. When I think gothic I think roses and it inspired me to try my hand at designing evening dresses that I would love to one day create, since right now lace is easy to come by and in regular supply in all different styles and variations it the best time to take advantage of it all.
Luckily an interest in clothes it runs in my family. My grandmother is a seamstress and so is my mother so I've got majority of the tools and a little bit of the skills to create an outfit. It would take me alot of planning to get the cut and the shape just right but if I work hard I think I should be to tailor a dress.
So now I've found myself an interest and maybe even a hobby, hopefully I will stick to it and maybe even make something of it.
Lots of love
MLP
My weekend has been amazing!! I'm still riding my post-conert high.
[spoiler alert] I will have a massive rant and won't be able to contain my Lady Gaga experience so those planning to go to the ball, might want to catch up on reading my previous non GaGa posts.
My dad decided to surprise me and get tickets to Lady Gaga's Born This Way Ball. I had such an amazing time. Getting there was a bit of a mission because I completely forgot the journey I had planned half assed. So I was completely lost and had to ask directions from almost all the people in shiny reflective vests at the train stations.
Once I got there I remember how much I missed being part of a group, a following and part of something much bigger than myself. I felt like I was a part of the concert, a part of the music, that I too was a little monster.
I decided since it's Lady Gaga and I probably wont ever do it again. I went for some Lady GaGa inspired make up too and joined in the fun. I didn't go all out with a wig or an outfit from one of her videos, but to be honest to my surpise neither did the other people who went...
Before Lady Gaga came on stage it was The Darkness (they're British rock band....if you havent heard of them they're worth a listen) and they got the the crowd rilled up, and boy can they work a crowd. They made me laugh, sing along and dance. But as the lights slowly bagan to fade and the smoke machines flled the air it was time for GaGa to make her entrance. The curtain came down revealing a massive castle and she came out ona horse and the night just kept getting better.
There were loads of constume changes, practicall one between every song. She is an amazing performer who can sing and dance at the same time....I know right who knew they still existed...but trust me Lady GaGa can do it all and in style.
She looked gorgeous in every outfit and sang beautifully acappella too.
Truly talented and I love her style.
Lots of Love
MLP
Sleepless nights have become the norm for me. I can't switch off my brain long enough to fall asleep, I'm plagued with thoughts that haunt me.
It's almost 1 in the morning here, my eyes are burning and my head hurts but even if I go to bed now, I won't sleep. My mind goes round and round in circles and often finds itself in a deep and dark corner in the recesses of my brain.
My stomach isn't exactly helping the situation at all. All day I've been having sharp pains, like a cramping that makes me wince and leaves me breathless. If the pain doesn't go away I'm going to have to go to the doctors...something I'm dreading already.
So here I am wide awake with nothing to distract me from the pain. Sleep escapes me. Hopefully the pain subsides and I manage to get some rest. After such a busy day sleep would be amazing right now.It's not all bad..since I'm awake I guess I can atleast catch up on some TV.
Lots of love
MLP
Vogue's Fashion Night out was great...There was soo much to take in. Every store was doing something different, and I just couldn't decide where to go first but I loved every minute of it.
Some stores had live music and DJs with music blaring through the streets, others were handing out goody bagsand champagne at the door...I must admit there's something rather surreal about walking around a store with a glass of champagne in one hand and your shopping in the other. It was something I could get used to...all I need now is a few promotions and to relocate to New York or somewhere where that kind of thing is normal.
Now I'm looking into possibly getting a ticket to London's Fashion Weekend, that's happening next weekend.
There's something about clothes and shopping that makes me happy. Even if I don't buy anything and just walk around browsing the store I actually enjoy it. Maybe this is my this can be my hobby/interest.
Lots of love
MLP
Tired doesn't begin to explain how I feel right now....
This week at work has been absolutely manic. Lately work is really getting on top of me and I can't seem to get meet deadlines. So I've decided to giveit one hundred percent and be completely on my game and hope this will be the push me and the team need to get us on track and have work run and maybe even leave work on time.
Everything has to be done to deadlines and lately I seem to be falling behind further and further behind just chasing my tail, with my to do list growing longer and everytime I tick something else get added...
The only thing keeping me going is that tomorrow I get to have my little break from it all and go to Vogue's Fashion Night Out.
The whole of Oxford street will be a buzz with fashion being in the forefront with all the focus being on the new collections and designers making a guest appearances in the shops. I've never been, but reading all the great stories about previous years make is making me so excited...Tomorrow I'm putting on my most comfortable shoes, armed with my camera and a card.
Lots of love
MLP
I miss baking and well since its the weekend I thought I'd give it a go....
Pancakes have been on my mind for the while so I decided to surf the web for American style pancake recipes.
Normally I make crepes really thin and cover them in sugar or nutella. But today it was the turn of the American pancake. I woke up nice and early and made a fresh batch of them, and here they are...
Okay they didn't exactly turn out perfect but for my first try they were okay (notice how I strategically placed the burnt ones under the nice ones).
And as promised here are my magnetic nails
Lots of love
MLP
I may have gone a little overboard when I went out shopping today with my mum.
We bought shoes, studded army boots, heels with a matching blazer, nice handbags, magnetic nail varnish (which looks amazing I might add-will try and add a picture of them tomorrow), jewelry for every occasion and lush body butters.
Mum and me went from store to store looking for the perfect dress to go with her shoes but couldn't find it...Even though we didn't exactly find the things we were looking for we still had a nice day that we wrapped up with waffles and ice cream.
Sometimes I feel like I do take my family for granted, when I crawled into my shell I blocked everyone out - including them...
Having a nice day with my mum made me feel a little bit closer to her I guess.
Next step to try and reconnect to my friends.
Lots of love
MLP
I am exhausted.
Work has been tough and lately all the the things that can go wrong, have.
So much to do so little time and it's all catching up with me. Things I keep putting off because something else comes along which is more priority, all this has left me a whole bunch of things that haven't been done, sticky notes all over my screen and constant reminders with a growing to-do list.
Little things that I miss because I keep chopping and changing, from one thing to another...the list is endless and doesn't seem to be getting any better.
My body is slowly giving up on me and honestly I feel pretty weak and felt as if I could pass out at my desk at any moment.
I keep thinking that eventually it will get better and ifI have a fresh slate to start from that I might be able to get things done on time....we can only hope.
The week is over and now the weekend begins. Tomorrows plan...Go Oxford Street with my mum and take full advantage of my discount card.
