'I do like to be beside the seaside!'

What a fabulous day I have just had, very adventurous!

I went with my parents to a place about 1 hour and 30 minutes away from where we live. It was much larger than I had expected with craft centres, wildlife and I even found an antiques shop to my delight :)

In this shop I found an adorable 1950s bag which I already love and it was a real bargain! Its difficult to see the detail in the picture below, but it is very pretty and in really good condition!

After having our lunch in a sweet little tea room (Cheese Jacket potato and for dessert chocolate cake :) we drove down the road to a seaside town. It was quite breezy on the beach and my hat nearly fell off! But in the actual town it was very warm and sunny!

Here are some pictures I took below (Hope you enjoy them!)...

(These houses really remind

me of Jane Austen! :D)

When I got home I thought I would look through some family photo albums and found an album that my mum had made up of old pictures of my grandparents taken during the war. The clothes they wear in the pictures are absolutely lovely. I even found a picture of my Mum's dad in the RAF and my Dad's dad in the Navy. Fascinating!

Carnaby Street

Its always lovely to go out for the day with your friends to London or anywhere really! Yesterday was particularly enjoyable. Madison, Ambra, Debra and Me decided to go up to a shop called 'Lazy Oaf' in Carnaby Street because they were having a sale. So after my driving lesson (I got into third gear after many attempts and did a hill start! :) I met Madi and Ambra at the station where we took the C2C to meet Debra. Debra had had her hair cut and it looks really really pretty! By the time we had gotten to the part of London we needed to get to (Because so many different train lines were not running and so a normal 1 hour journey took about 2 hours), Debra had to go back to meet some of her other friends. But it was still GREAT to catch up with her! :D

As we trudged through the rain (yes it was once again raining in July can you believe it?) we reached out destination. The shop was located in the sweetest little place called 'Kingley Court'. The shop was tiny but sold some really nice items. I must admit, I didn't buy anything there like intended, but it was still really nice (probably did my money some good to have a rest! ;) This was until we noticed that located next to this shop was in fact a 'vintage store'! We went in there and it was packed full of beautiful dresses, bags, shoes and hats. They even had a jewelery and hair clip/pin section. My weakness gave in and I bought 3 lovely hair clips (pictured below)...

We went to Covent Garden afterwards and visited a charity shop :) then after getting a bit lost (:s) we walked to the nearest station to get the train back. It was a really lovely (but tiring) day, in which my friends even quizzed me maths questions to help me with future tests! Thank you girls!

Today I am going to visit a place with my parents called 'Snape'. It is a seaside area with a craft centre and restaurant. It should be quite nice considering its already gloomy at 8:25am outside. It may brighten up you never know!

I will post pictures when I get back! :D

Have a nice day!

Love Kirsty .x.

'Shakes and Cakes'

Yesterday was a really enjoyable day :)

To start of with I had to go into college for a test which involved me doing a discussion with 3 of my health and social friends which was actually quite good because it wasn't a proper exam it was basically having a long chat to your friends about the topic we had chosen to talk about which reflected health matters.

I met up with some of my old weekend work friends. It was really nice to catch up because they are such a lovely group of girls! Anyway because we met up quite late notice we decided to pop into Romford for a bit of a shop (Or window shop in my case :s)
I really wasn't planning on buying anything (I always say this) but when I came across these lovely red, heart sunglasses I could not say no! They were only £1.00 (bargain!)
When it got to about 4ish we went in an ice cream parlour called 'Cakes and Shakes', I didn't get one to myself but Kelly and Jess let me have some of theirs and it was lovely. Mango sorbet and Bubblegum sorbet is really really refreshing!

Anyway I had to get home because a couple of my friends were coming round for the evening, so I had to tidy my messy room and then I was delighted when Madison gave me a present :D I opened it to find the cutest little key chain and fridge magnet which reads 'I thought I was indecisive but now I'm not sure'- It sums me up to a T. In some of my other posts I have said that I was an indecisive person and this fridge magnet does prove this! Thank you so much for the pressies Madi! :) I LOVE them! x

Today I'm going to the 'Cardrome' for a driving lesson. I always get slightly nervous before hand but I hope it shall be ok. Then at 10:00am I'm off to London for the 'Lazy Oaf' sale with Ambra and Madison :) Should be fun, I may have to buy something there just because :s

Have a great day! :)

Love,

Kirsty .x.

Decisions, Decisions...

Even though I'm not going on holiday for a little while yet, I felt like I should decide what I am going to take with me (This is very difficult!) I have quite a lot of clothes which is good but I'm hopeless at making decisions! When I think I've made my mind up, I'll change it again! Seriously, its beginning to get very annoying! Then I have to make sure that everything goes with one another! ;)

Any who I decided that because I can not possibly take all of my wardrobe with me (even though I really would like to! :) I narrowed it down in the end. Some how I managed to end up with a LOT of different shoes, but as long as I can fit them in my suitcase it looks like they will all be coming with me! :D (I may have to sit on my suitcase to see if it closes but I'll worry about that nearer the time ;)

I'm not at college today because we have the day off so I decided that I would go and get my haircut this afternoon, nothing fancy just a trim and then I haven't got much else to do. I should really help my mum with some housework because I feel a bit mean that shes trying to studying for her art degree, whilst I'm just lazing around!

In slightly different news, I've always really liked 'The Fratellis', but at the moment I am becoming quite obsessed again :s. Looks like they will be reminding me of the summer of 2009 this year, like 'Muse' remind me of the summer of 2008 :)

My friends and I really wanted to go to 'The V Festival' this year, but we never got round to arranging it, so I'm hoping we can go next year even though we are probably going to go on holiday together as well, which will be soooooo COOOL! I can't wait! :)

I've decided that I'm going to take my 'Pink and Red flower dress' from the wonderful 'Trollied Dolly' :) They sell such sweet and lovely garments, really vintage looking. I got this dress from their stall at 'The London Clothes Show' this year and I am in love with it! :D I'm not sure if their website is up and running yet, but when it is you should check it out! http://www.trollieddolly.com/

Love and daisies,

Kirsty .x.

Harry Potter

(Picture from Sav :D )

For those of you who don't know me I am a HUGE Harry Potter fan! :) and yesterday I was really excited because me and my friend Sophie were going to go to Leister Square to see the premiere of the Half Blood Prince. The only trouble was that I had college all day (The one day that I would have liked to have had a half day but no!) Anyway in Health and Social my friends Leia and Sav were also excited about having the chance of seeing the premiere to, as they had a half day and so were going to the premiere at 12. By the time I had gotten out of my English class (at 4!), I actually ran to the station and then got the tube to Leister Square. By the time I had got there the rain had ABSOLUTELY fallen out of the sky and the place was packed solid. It was really good to go but slightly disappointing that I didn't get to see Ron :(

Anyway at least now I will be prepared to leave earlier (in the morning, or camp there as my friend Dawn suggested ;) for next years premiere.

Leia and Sav did so well to get lots of pictures of the cast and guess what... They even got to hug Rupert Grint! :o

Love and magic,

Kirsty .x.

New shoes!

My plans for the day actually were achieved... Homework, hoofer my room and do my ironing! I was pretty impressed that I didn't get distracted and actually stuck to my daily plan! =)

I was watching Wimbledon, but I got a bit preoccupied reading a book that I bought yesterday... Its called 'The Grafton Girls' By Annie Groves. Its a really really good book about 4 working girls during world war two, if you like stuff like that then I'd recommend it! =)

After my driving lesson yesterday, which I very much enjoyed and actually got to go into second gear (Scary times!) I went to Lakeside to get some stuff for holiday. I got a book, a really nice dress and top from the 'Dotty Ps' sale :D and some very nice shoes! =)

Back to college tomorrow and off to the Harry Potter Premiere on Tuesday evening. Ron = <3

Love and shoes

.x.

Friday :)

Sunshine all week has made me feel very happy! :)
Its been a really hot week in old blighty this week, which means me and my friends have been able to have lots of fun in the sun! ;)
Today we went to Brick Lane in London to look at some art galleries for my friend Sophie's A2 art project :) It was very interesting (Some parts quite entertaining!) All I can say is T.V screen aha!

After we had a much longed for pizza in Pizza hut and then went on to meet Ambra who had been dancing at Pineapple in Covent Garden for the morning, we went onto Oxford street. Well I wasn't going to spend ANY money today. Ahem... But I obviously got a pizza, train fare and a much needed straw hat from Top Shop! ;) Love it!

Such a fun day! Love you dudes!!

Tomorrow is going to consist of a driving lesson, and shopping with my mother in Lakeside ;) Going on holiday in the not too distant future! :D Wooooo!

Anyhoo I am also VERY happy that I have got a voluntary summer job at Hornchurch Library working with children and listening to them talk about their books they have read! :D
Only two more weeks of college until we break up for summer, but I'm looking forward to the sun and when we go back to college!

Signing out...