Mini Summer Accessories Haul | 100th Post

Hey everyone, 

So before we go anywhere with this post, I just want to point out that as you may have noticed in the title, this is my 100th post!!! Wow, that's crazy and it makes me so excited.

I've mentioned Kayleigh on here many times before and I originally wanted her to guest write the hundreth post because I'm always talking about her and saying "Ahh my best friend Kayleigh....I did this with Kayleigh....I went here with Kayleigh" but she didn't want to do it and she doesn't really like writing things.

However, besides that, I have something else that is quite exciting. In my 100th blog post, it's the first time you as readers will see me! I don't know how many of you have gone over to my instagram (@connellaoife - smooth...very smooth, Aoife) if you have done, you will have seen me before and in which case this post isn't as exciting. But for those of you who haven't this is your chance to see me for the first time which makes me excited and nervous.

I hope you enjoy it, and thank you for continuing to read these posts, I love writing them and as long as you continue to read, I'll continue to write and look how far we've come in 1 year and 5 months.

First of all is this blue bag. I decided I needed a new bag and I didn't have a nice sort of handbag style one so I saw this in Primark and picked it up. It also has a shoulder strap that isn't shown on this picture so you don't have to carry it by the handles.

Apparently, 'blue is the new black' so I've heard, so I grabbed this bag at the right time.

Because this post is mainly for the accessories (bags and sunglasses) I have used the same outfit throughout as it's quite basic and simple but still bright and summery.

This second bag I also saw in Primark and thought it'd be really handy in summer. When I go places with my friends if we go to the park or for a picnic etc, I don't want to take a big bag and I just thought this was a great size and I like the colourful aztec print too. Good purchase, Aoife! 

Again, with this outfit, it gives it quite a casual look but I could imagine this to look good with denim shorts and a nice summery t-shirt or vest and a kimono for a more festival inspired look.

This shirt is an exception to 'accessories' because quite frankly, it is not an accessory. However, I bought it with the rest of the stuff and it's summery so I've thrown it in there.

It's a white boxy collared shirt and the back goes a little bit longer than the front which I quite like.

This is a closer picture of it so you can see the pattern on it. When I picked it up, I didn't like how old-womany it looked on the hanger but when I tried it on, I liked it better.

That's me! That is my face! But that's not the reason for the picture, it is of course for the amazing round mirrored lense sunglasses I'm wearing. Another Primark bargain which I'm happy with.

I like these A LOT.

I hope you have enjoyed looking through this and it has given you some ideas for what you might look out for next time you're shopping. I'll leave the shops and the prices below.

See you soon.

Aoife


Large Blue Handbag: Primark - £12 
Small Aztec print Fabric Bag: Primark - £4
White Boxy Boyfriend Shirt: Matalan - £10 (on offer, usually £14)
Round Mirrored lense Sunglasses: Primark - £2

Calas de Mallorca

Hey everyone,

So last week I went to Mallorca for 5 days with my family. I took 'some' pictures while I was there - 'some' meaning just under 250...oops. So I'm going to share some with you.

Some are from the beach, some from a walk around the town and the rest from a walk I went on with my Dad around the coast of the island.

These are the steps that lead down to the beach. Out of the days I took pictures on, this was probably the best in terms of weather as it was sunny for the whole of them.

A view from up high of the beach.

Cute little thatched shade umbrellas and sun loungers.

My feet in the sand.

Another part of the island and a cove on the right.

Okay, I can explain. I went on a walk and I saw a man walking a pig. Literally that.

A view of a hotel (not my hotel) over a row of bright red flowers.

My shadow.

The view of the sea from the coastal walk path.

A cute little house with a lot of yellow decor that I'm a fan of.

A small beach below one of the towns that we walked past.

The rock/cliff that we climbed - not up the side, we walked along it to the very edge.

Another small beach we found along the way.

The same beach from the other side. We walked down the steps you can see at the bottom of the photo, across the beach and up the steps that you can see as pretty much a line near the centre of the photo.

The very edge of the cliff. This was the only picture that would really show just how high up we were and it still doesn't look that bad on here. IT WAS HIGH UP.

THE CUTEST VESPA I'VE EVER SEEN I MY LIFE. That may be a bit of an exaggeration because if it's a vespa it's automatically cute and I probably love it, but this was just so beautiful and the colour was amazing (photo doesn't do it justice) it was a pale lime green shade. This is also my favourite vespa model, I like them less as they become more modern but this ones an oldie and I love love love it so much.

This is just two cute palm trees by the pool at my hotel that I took one evening when I was sitting there.

I really hope you enjoyed this post, I had a lovely time on holiday and met some lovely people that I spent the last few days with so that was good. 

I am happy with how the photos turned out and they'll be good memories.

See you soon

Aoife

Holiday Shopping & Extras

Hey everyone,

This is one of the posts I've been most excited to write, just because I love everything in it. So you can prepare yourself for lots of my excitement.

So I'm going on holiday soon and I've been shopping for clothes and things, not everything in this post was bought for my holiday but I just wanted to share them anyway.
I'll leave the shops and/or the link for things at the end.

First of all is the cutest top you've ever seen. Asdfghjkl I just love this so much, I saw this and said "I think I need this" and of course, the little voice in my head agreed and it came home with me. I regret nothing. This is a cropped vest top with wide arms and a watermelon on the front, and I love it very much.

I saw these too and omg, how was I supposed to leave them? When I saw these I said "They're gonna be coming home with me" and they did....

These are banana print flip flops with black straps. Basically, if something is fruit print or has fruit on it, I may need to own it.

I also picked up these hexagonal gold rings. As you can see in the first picture, there are a variety of sizes so can be worn in different places on your hand which I think is very convenient.

I love daisies and so of course when I saw them, I bought daisy print shorts. They're black, wide and swishy with small white and yellow daisies printed all over.

This is a cropped yellow boxy top with wide bat-winged sleeves.

I saw a fashion blogger wearing one of these t-shirts in white and decided I wanted to go and get one. Unfortunately, they are strange colours (Yellow, Orange, White & Grey) but I decided I liked this one to go with the daisy shorts. 

This is a pastel, mint greeny-blue colour vest. It's very thin and swingy but the neck is not too low and I think this would be nice for holiday because it's light and would keep you cool.

This next one is a blue tie die swing dress. 

I just thought this would be really easy to wear and would need a lot of effort which sometimes I can't be bothered with on holiday.

These last two things are watches. Anyone who knows me, knows how bad I am for watches, I just love them so much.

I absolutely love this watch. It has Roman numerals on the face, a gold rim and black strap. I love that it is unusual and it makes me look more sophisticated than I actually am.

This one is a Casio style watch. 

I've wanted one of these type of watches for a while and I always put it off because the straps never fit around my wrist, once I discovered they were able to be adjusted, I bought it straight away and I'm glad I did.

I like that it's quite simple and casual and because it's silver, it goes with anything which is an added bonus.

Well, that is all, that's everything I want share with you today. I did want to put the blue jacket that I'm wearing in the above pictures, however, when I went to take the pictures, the lighting had changed and it wasn't very complimenting. It's a powder blue thin crepe jacket and it had drooped deep pockets. The front parts fold over and it folds over around the neck...sorry for that appalling description.

I hope you've enjoyed looking through this and it's given you some ideas for summer or for clothes if you're going on holiday. If you want to know how much or where anything is from I'm going to list them below. Some things I can't find links for and the Primark products don't have a link, other than that, I'll see you very soon.

Aoife

I'm wearing Barry M Gelly Hi Shine nail varnish in 'Blueberry' (featured in previous post)

Cropped watermelon vest top: H&M - £3.99

  http://www.hm.com/gb/product/29757?article=29757-B

Banana print flip flops: H&M - £3.99

  http://www.hm.com/gb/product/09701?article=09701-D#article=09701-D

Gold hexagonal ring set: H&M - £3.99

Black daisy print shorts: Primark - £5

Yellow cropped t-shirt: Primark - £3

Mint green swingy vest: Primark - £3

Blue tie die swing dress: Boohoo - £15

 http://www.boohoo.com/day-dresses/jasmine-tie-dye-swing-dress/invt/azz31747

Roman Numerals watch: Primark (Mens) - £4

Casio style watch: Primark (Mens) - £4

Barry M Gelly Nail Varnish & Glitter Notebook

Hello everybody,

I have a lovely little post for you today and I feel like it's been a long time coming to just post something. I had revision and all boring stuff so I'm not going to go into detail about all that stuff.

So, excitingly, I have some new nail varnish and a glitter notebook to show you which I bought on Friday and I just fell in love with them.

Side note: The second picture is probably the most accurate colour-wise if you want to know what they look like in the bottles. The others make them look a little darker than they are. Enjoy!

Look how pretty they look! There seems to be a bit of a colour theme...

These are the Gelly Hi Shine nail varnishes from Barry M. I've never seemed to bother with these before and I've never thought that I wanted to try them but I am going on holiday soon and I wanted my nails to look nice. I've never had it before but I considered shellac which would last me a longer period of time than nail varnish would but then I decided I couldn't commit to that because I'd want to change the colour.

I remembered that Barry M did these Gelly ones and so I went to town on Friday and got some, although the time it took me to choose 3 colours was unnecessary, I picked these three and I'm very happy with them.

This shade is called 'Green Berry' and to be honest, it's not quite the colour it looks on this picture. The second picture ^^ is probably the most accurate but it's a nice dark mint shade anyway.

This shade is 'Blueberry' and this is the one I was most excited for, I just loved the colour it looked in the bottle (see 2nd picture) and I am looking forward to wearing this.

There seems to be a bit of a name theme as well as a colour theme as this shade name is 'Huckleberry'. All the berries! This one is a nice one! I have worn this one this weekend and when I bought it I thought it would be a little bit too pale and hardly have any colour but it is a lovely pastel, powder blue. I am impressed with how this stayed on. Usually a nail varnish will only last me about two days if I don't put more than two coats of it on, then it will start to really chip and look awful because I become 20% more heavy handed when I have nail varnish on it would seem. I put this on on Friday and it's lasted me until today (Sunday) and I've just taken it off now.

Finally 'My Journal' from Paperchase it's so beautiful and I love it a lot. This has a bit of a story behind it so excuse the big paragraph. 

My friend, Sarah had a book similar to this kind last year. She wrote the date on every page and everyday she would bring it into school and draw something on the page of that day. I loved her book so much and we looked through it again the other day. I loved it that much it inspired me to do my own. We both decided we would do one or something similar to it this year BUT we had to leave it until after exams, so therefore this is our motivation. 

In September, I might be going to college and Sarah is staying at our school, although this saddens both of us, these books are going to be our way of keeping in touch with each other so we can still chat and arrange to see each other.

I'm going to bring this post to an end now and hopefully you have enjoyed reading it and my nail varnish might have given you some ideas for summer nail varnish and maybe my journal has inspired you to do one of your own.

I am very pleased with the Barry M Gelly Hi Shine nail varnish and I do recommend it with approx. two or three coats so it is thick and long lasting.

Thanks for reading and I apologise if each paragraph has been so lengthy.

See you soon

Aoife 

Hello April

Hello everyone!

April is with us already! It's Spring, nearly Easter and nearly exam time which scares me a bit...

Anyway, because it's Spring, that means the nights are getting warmer and it's light for longer so what perfect opportunity to go for a walk in the park at 7:00pm.
I went with my Dad and we just walked around the park, took some photos and chatted.

I've been quite into taking pictures with my phone lately and I love the Samsung Galaxy S4  picture quality, saves me taking my camera out if I'm just going for a walk. 
I took these photos on my phone and I'm really impressed with the way they look. The first one was in my garden but the rest are from the park.

Flowers are the first signs of Spring for me and there were so many daffodils in the park. I really loved these white flowers, I don't know if they're White Daffodils but I love them anyway.

I'm sorry this was quite short but I just wanted to share these and start writing as soon as I got home. 

See you soon, hope you have enjoyed it and thanks for reading

Aoife