New items in my wardrobe…

1. Very cheap little dollies from Primark but my other ones are falling apart and I thought these were a cute colour.
2. Again a Primark special but v.good for the winter I feel is just around the corner.
3. Little scarf/pashmina things. They were only a POUND each from this weird little shop in my home town. Lovely for putting round your shoulders like a granny at work 🙂
4. Comfiest jumper ever from H&M! I am definitely getting myself prepared for some harsh weather.
5. Yes, yes, these do look like pyjamas but they are in fact harem trousers from the aforementioned little weird shop where the music was too loud!

1.  Thought it was high time I bought new Barry M nailvarnishes as I haven’t had any for…ooh…at least a month. Went with these two as I kinda like the idea of having grey nails with some silver rings on. And the other colour is a little more cherry like than my purple ones.
2. I love these booties from New Look! Very similar to my other little ones in this post but a wedge heel. Feel they will be getting a lot of wear at work.
3. They have so many leopard print scarves in Cow at the moment, I was literally in heaven. But went for this one as it’s black and white so a little different to my others. You can never have too much leopard print right?
4. This scarf is my favourite new thing ever. I’m going to post about the Redditch Vintage Fair soon as I had my first experience there last week and absolutely love it. But this is from there anyway, I spotted it and loved it and then I realised it had loads of little Hs and some big Hs on it so it HAD to be mine. Also got a grey leopard print jacket from there which I love but haven’t got with me in the homeland to take a picture of 🙂
5. Plain over the knee socks from Primark, they might be going with my playsuit for a night out on Saturday.
6. This is from Cow and I kinda fell in love with it and felt I could give it a new home 🙂

Boots, postcards, belts and more – a trip to Leeds.

While on a shopping trip to Leeds this week I didn’t actually intend to buy anything but ended up snapping up a few bargs. The first place we went into was Primark and I saw this set of three skinny belts. I always like to have a few options and my brown ones are pretty much worn out now so thought I’d replace and now handily have a light patterned one and a denim-look one to add to my collection:

And then while in the shoe section I came across a lovely pair of tan heeled boots. I’ve been thinking about some heeled boots for a while and these were reduced to just a fiver (£5! Unbelievable). They also had them in black and my friend snapped up a pair of them but I opted for the brown ‘uns 🙂

Our next stop off was a little shop called Octopus as my friend was searching for a present. It’s a really cute little colourful shop (I think they have a website as well) selling little trinkets and the like. Anyway I spotted this little piggy bowl and had to have it. I think I’m going to take it to work to nosh out of:

And while we were going through all the little arcades off the main street we found a shop selling funny postcards and cards. I found this one fairly amusing (apologies for not remembering the name of the shop):

And last but by no means least I went to H&M and found this playsuit for half price. I quite want to save it for my birthday celebrations in July but I’m so in love with it that it may find its way out before then. Coming soon to a ‘What I Wore’ blogpost near you!

And why not have a pic of my lovely new family of purchases together:

The week that was 27/02/11

Birmingham tunnels

Monday was a fairly average, bordering on stressy, day. First up was a day of mock exams in preparation for next week’s big exam day. Then I had an hour or so after work to have a drink with my friend. We pushed the boat out and had a Diet Pepsi and a cordial respectively. Then she went home and I went off to the budget-setting council meeting, getting home around 9.30ish when another of my closest friends who I haven’t spoken to properly in a while called which was great.

Then Tuesday rolled around and that, again, was a fairly unremarkable day. I wrote some stories (makes a change from the auction faffing I’ve been doing lately) and then went home. Think the evening was mainly revision based.

Wednesday and I was off to work again (surprisingly) although had a lovely brunch outing which was nice and then worked through til seven when I went off to a meeting which again lasted til around nine so I wasn’t good for much when I got home.

On Thursday I was fairly excited as my little sister was coming over at the end of work after we’d deadlined this week’s paper. Was just brilliant to spend some time with her and I cooked some dinner while we listened to some music and then I curled her hair and we watched Celebrity Juice before going to bed.

The little one (I say little, she’s really not anymore) came to work with me on Friday so she got to write some bits and bobs and see how everything in the office works, we even managed to get out to do an interview and she got to see a proper Harriet lunch by accompanying me and my friend to Spoons for a bite to eat. I rounded off Friday with some more revision and a long chat with my one of good friends from ‘back home’ which was great.

New shoes - beasts!

Saturday

rolled round and, after work, I went into Birmingham to meet with two friends and have a mooch around the vintage shop Cow and then go for pizza. A while later we decided on a whim to go out so thus we ended up finding me an outfit in about five seconds flat and then hot-footing it to various houses to pick up stuff and get ready. What then ensued was a truly brilliant night! Loved it.

Of course it was up early today to get into work and then have been doing anything but revision since returning. Uh oh. Need to get on it now and pull my whole log book together ready for an inspection tomorrow.

Toodles!