Welcome to my world

Do you hear that sound? That is the sound of me scrapping the barrel for things to post about. I really haven't been up to much recently and I keep forgetting to take photos for outfit of the day posts. So I have decided to give you a little peek in the place where I spend most of my time. My wonderful bedroom. I live with my mum and brother, when my brother went to university about eight years ago I quickly moved in and stole his room. He has since moved back but there is no way he is getting this room back I have made it my little haven.

This is my favourite place in the world, my bed! Yes I am a big lazy lump on my days off and I love nothing more than getting cosy and having a boxset marathon. My bed is my study, my reading nook, my dining table on occasion. This is where I am blogging from right now

This is my little bedside table, I hate it. It like waxed pine and really old fashioned looking. I would really love to sand it down and paint it white. Absolutely none of the furniture in my room matches and it's really beginning to annoy me. I'm taking two weeks annual leave soon and I think my new project is giving my whole room a revamp.
This pile of books is my current reading list. I'm forever starting books then not finishing them. The bottom one Chloe I don't think I'll ever finish, it's just not engaging me at all. How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran is a really interesting read and is making me think about my views on feminism and women's rights.But it's not a heavy read, it is actually really funny.

This is one of my favourite pieces in my room, my mum got me it for my birthday a few years ago. I think it was from Next. It's so handy just being able to throw my necklaces on there or else I'd be forever losing them. I just need to get something for my rings and earrings as I always misplace them.
I love accessorising outfits with a little bit of bling. If I'm wearing a plain outfit jewellery can really add a bit of ommph to it.

Every once in a while my mum and I get drunk on wine and make vision boards. This is my latest one, do I believe it works? Hmmm not too sure a lot of stuff I have on my vision board should happen anyway but it's nice to take time and really focus on what I would like in the future. As you can see there is nothing under my purpose heading. I really don't know what my purpose in life but for now I'm happy just focusing on getting my career and personal life in order before looking at the big picture.
Below you can also see my perfume collection. I really don't have too many I think I might invest in a couple of new ones. To be honest I always forget to put perfume on so it tends to just sit there for years.

I love to surround myself with pictures of my friends and family. Looking back at these always puts me in a good mood and reminds me of good times. These are all quite old now I really must get round to printing some more out.

The piece of paper at the back with my name on top is from my placement in Romania. I was there with 12 of my university friends and on the last night we all had to write a wee message for each other on how they made the trip special. It's a really nice idea and a lovely momento of an amazing time in my life.

Finally my wardrobe, it's quite cool and big. The only problem is there no drawers and storage is quite limited in my room. I put a wee Ikea bookcase in to put my t-shirts and jumpers on. I am forever clearing out my wardrobe. I always seem to have clothes I never wear or are too small now. I like to keep it as streamline as possible otherwise it gets far too crowd and the clothes get all squished.

As you can my room is hot pink and orange, at the time I thought this was amazing but now I'm a bit older I fancy sometime a big more elegant and calming. I'm planning on painting my room blue and cream and clearing out a load of the old furniture.

So this may not have been the most interesting post but it's a little insight into my life

Love 

S x

Queen of Westros

Hello, my dears. Sorry for the long spell without posts. To be honest my life has been pretty boring at the minute so I've had nothing to write about.  This is just a quick post about a delightful evening I had with one of my good friends Jenna.

I am a huge fan of the HBO show Game of Thrones, a very basic outline is that there are several families within in the fictional land of Westros battling for the Iron Throne and the right to rule. There are dragons, beheddings, scary zombie things. Hot men, beautiful woman and political intrigue. The costumes are wonderful and the scenery is magnificent. A lot of it was shot in here in Northern Ireland so I love trying to figure out where certain scenes have been filmed.

In honour of this a Game of Thrones exhibition was held in the Titanic building in Belfast and my fabulous friend got us tickets. Even better was the fact tickets were free!

So I got my glad rags on and hurried down on a rainy Thursday evening to claim my rightful place on the Iron Throne.

(Top) I will take what is mine with fire and blood! (Left) Me with Cersei's costume, Lena Headley has a teeny, tiny waist (Middle) Champion archer at the Battle of Blackwater (Right) The beautiful Jenna

It took about thirty minutes to wander around the exhibit, it wasn't massive and if I had to pay for a ticket I probably would have been disappointed. But it was good fun and the best bit was getting pictures on the Iron Throne. I tried (and failed) at doing my best HBIC face but I definitely think I suit being there. Or maybe the power has just gone to my head.

Afterwards we went to The Galley restaurant for dinner. This is an adorable little bistro on the Belfast Barge down by the Waterfront The food is ah-maz-ing, I had a lovely goat's cheese salad with some homemade bread and Jenna had the club sandwich with chips. It's quite reasonably priced but the true selling point is the location. Floating on the Lagan it really shows off the beauty of Belfast.

Deep in thought while waiting for dinner

Of course no girls night out would be complete without cocktails so we hauled ourselves over to Alley Cat on Church Lane for their tea cup cocktails.

I highly recommend the Cup of Joe and Stray Dog, they are yummy. So that was my fun little night out. Sorry for the photo heavy post but I actually remembered to take pictures so I figured I might as well use them.

I hope you all have a better week than the Starks

Love

Sx

Websites of interest

Titanic Belfast

Alley Cat

Belfast Barge and Galley Cafe

Week one: DERMAdoctor KP duty scrub and moisturiser

As I have previously mentioned in this post I have the skin condition Keratosis pilaris (aka chicken skin). I've had this for as long as I can remember and it's never really annoyed me but within the past couple of years I've really begun to notice how different my skin is compared to my friends.
Yes it is quite a trivial thing but it does sometimes get me down when I have to cover my upper arms all the time and fake tan never looks right on my legs.

Nobody wants to see this in a vest top

I did a little bit of research and the products by DERMAdoctor were recommended again and again. I managed to find them on Amazon but they are pretty pricey. The moisturiser is £24.50 and the scrub is £29.75 not including postage costs. But I decided to bite the bullet and just go for it, I rarely buy products for my skin so a little splurge can't hurt. I recieved my package the other day and have to say I was impressed the size of the scrub. From the looks of it I can imagine it will last me a good few months.

Pound per pound probably costs more than pure gold

The mosituriser, on the other hand, is quite small. 120mls and I really don't think it will last more than a month. You're meant to apply it twice a day which means it could last even less. The scrub you have to apply on dry skin then rinse off twice a week.

So far I've used the scrub about three times and the lotion once a day for a week. This is how my skin looks now.

(Top) Lower arm, (Bottom) Shin, (Right) Upper arm.

Sorry for the rubbish pictures it's hard to take pictures of your own upper arm!

So there really hasn't been much improvement at all but I live in hope. My graduation is in a couple of weeks and I have a gorgeous capped sleeved dress I would love to be able to wear without a jacket.

Are there any other KP sufferers out there? Does anything work for you?

Love you all, no matter how your skin looks

S x