What Will Next Year Bring

So you'd have had to have just climbed out of a time machine or just come out of a coma to not know it is NYE!! At 12 tonight everyone will be celebrating the passing of the last year and will be resolving to do things bigger and better than ever. 
This year (hopefully) fashion and my own designing will also be better than ever.
 As the sales started the new season stock hit the shelves we got our first glimpses of how the high street has jumped on the trends designers showcased earlier this year. 
The top trends forecast for 2013:

What's your favourite trend? and what's your new years resolutions??

The Sales!

Since my last post I headed back to all the end of season sales. I spent far more than I planned but I got paid today so its all fine. First I headed back to New Look

the same jeans from my previous post but in forest green, oversized owl shirt and this lovely floral shirt which was great for the pub last night and sits nicely due to the elasticated hem.


Next I visited M&CO where I picked up these lovely burgundy jersey trousers, I love the seam running  down the front of the leg instead of the outside makes them just that little bit more interesting.

Now my perfumes: I wanted to go into Victoria Secrets any way where I found this lovely set of perfumes. Then being the clutz I am I nearly broke the bottle when I dropped it on the floor!!! After that the manager came over to check if anything needed clearing up and to tell me it wasn't my fault - made me feel much less embarrassed - she told me about the gift set, £8 more but with body lotion, shower gel and handbag spritzer extra. I also popped into beauty base where I picked up this great offer, £7.99 each or 2 for £10 (one also came with a deodorant spray!) This is them.

Lastly - my AMAZING lounge pants. I have been after these for about 6 months after I watched The Avengers and saw these in tesco, I was waiting for them to go into sales and before they did they ran out of stock, turns out parents bought the very last pair!! Here they are!

Christmas and The Sales

Its Christmas!!! Today I'm gonna mention pressies and also THE BOXING DAY SALES!!!! So first, I like (but am not good at) nail art. When I went to the craft show I saw this set!This Nail Supreme art set comes with both normal nail varnish end and an ultra fine nib for decorating, so I had to start experimenting!! This was the out come! 

I also got these cool boots. 

Now the boxing day sales!!!! I headed to new look before they closed on the 24th to see what had already been marked down. This is what I ended up buying!! 
Jeans £9 they are so soft they feel like velvet!! previously £16.99
Top £4 that's my type of price!!! originally £7.99

So I currently am in love with SOOO many things on inlovewithfashion.com after their design comp, their partywear especially! So this morning when I woke to find there was a 50% sale I thought this was great.
I then found out about this:

I am a massive fan of when things say free or win, as everyone else should be! If you head over to their facebook page you could win this for yourself. Just head here to be in with a chance! Alternatively you could enter any of their other competitions on their store website.

What do you think of their giveaway?

My Christmas Lust List

This is a little different to a normal wish list as I already know I wouldn't wear them much so instead this is my 'lust list'.

Christmas is all about sparkle and glitter, from baubles and tinsel to the pretty little fairy lights. This means its about the only time of year I don't feel weird glitzing up.
This is my glitz, glam / just plain sparkly items I'm really liking at the moment.

All these Asos items I spotted while doing the 'fashion bingo' on their facebook page! Just clicking HERE should take you there for the chance to win stuff!!!

The Other Item

1 and 2: inLOVEwithfashion 

3: Jones by Jones on Topshop

4: Topshop
5: Oh My Love on Topshop

6: New Look

7 and 8: eBay

Holidays at Last

So college is over for a month so no more stress from that and I finally have internet again (I had to survive without it for 5 days! with no notice) Although I'm likely to get distracted by friends back from uni, I'm planning to pick up the paper and sketch book and start designing again, not just all the designs I need for college but others I like, things to get me going. I'm also planning to finish my business plan, if not just getting that little bit further. With everything else I haven't had time focus on myself and what I want to do but I did manage to enter one design competition. The NEXT TOP DESIGNER CONTEST, held by InLoveWithFashion the competition was to design a winter formal dress. I thought this was a great opportunity but kept forgetting to submit anything so I had to rush it a little. Here is my entry.


The 5 finalist were invited to an event were the winner was announced and the design shown made up.
These were the five that made it to finalists.

This was the winning design which will be selling on Love's website A/W 13