OOTD: Birthday Business in Brighton!

A couple weekends a go we headed down to Brighton to help our friend Sarah celebrate her 24th birthday. I love going to Brighton it's always really fun and if you go to the non-commercial clubs (I'm looking at you Oceana!) then you might be surprised at how good the independent clubs are.

For dinner we went to Donatello's that is an ace Italian restaurant that's really cheap too, I had tagliatelle with spinach and bacon in an amazing sauce. I'm not usually a pasta person, but this was so gooooooooood. After we went to our fave bar that we ALWAYS go to, called The Mesmerist, it's like a 1940s bar with the best cocktails. And then we went to a club called The Tube which is right on the seafront and under the arches- great success!

Leather Jacket- Topshop £90 (half price in the sales!)    Shirt- Wallis £33    Shorts- Sparkle & Fade at Urban Outfitters £20ish    Creepers- Underground £89

I don't usually shop at Wallis, but I really like this shirt, it's like a sheer material with a gold paisley print on it. It's pretty loose fitting which looks good leggings/jeans etc, but I tied a knot in the front so you could see my sparkly shorts :P

Han & Me

Me & Becca

Has anyone else been out in Brighton? Where do you like to go? I'd love to try new places where I'm there next :D

love&'ugs
bakes x

OOTD: Nottingham Night Out

A couple weeks ago me and some friends went up to Nottingham to help celebrate one of their little sister's 20th birthday.

On the way up we stopped off at OK Diner on the A1 and I had the most amazing peanut butter and chocolate milkshake, it was insanely delicious. If you ever need a pitstop driving on the A1 then I highly recommend it.

While in Nottingham I did a tiny bit of shopping at local vintage/charity shop, where I got a quilted coat originally from River Island for £8!!! And the crazy 80's shirt I am wearing for £4.
It was a really fun night, including running around the club raging, lots of crazy dancing and general drunk antics! RL Grime was playing and was ridiculously good, hence the dancing (which hopefully burned off all the alcohol calories haha).

Shirt- Charity/Vintage Shop £4    CropTop- Sparkle & Fade £16    Shorts- Ragged Priest £20ish    Bag- Vintage £4   Creepers- Underground £89

My new friend ;)

Peter the cat who just seemed to like living at their house even though it didn't really live there!

Two posts in one week I must be having a very good week! I'll try to keep up the good work :P

love&'ugs

bakes x

OOTD: leather & flatforms

This is an outfit I wore to the pub the other evening, pretty simple really! I got the leather jacket for Christmas which I was really chuffed about :) Well actually I got it in the Boxing Day sales after Christmas because I couldn't decide on a leather jacket before Christmas! But it was lucky really since it was half the price in the sales, so better for the 'rents :P

And I'm wearing jeans! Who would have thunk it, I hardly ever ever wear jeans, but this pair from New Look are my new favourites, not that I had a pair of favourite jeans before...

Oh and the flatform converses were from the Boxing Day sales too, so glad I didn't buy a pair before, otherwise I would have spent double on them.

Leather Jacket- Topshop Boutique £90 (down from £180)    Shirt- Urban Outfitters (old)    Jeans- New Look £19.99(I think they are on sale atm)    Flatform Converse- Schuh £16 (down from £32)    

iPhone Case- ebay £5 (I think)

Just another view of the shoes, yum.

That's about it at the moment! Been really bust at work, but hopefully I can post some work outfits up soon (they have really good full length mirrors, perfect for outfit shots haha).

love&'ugs

bakes x

OOTD: Pastel Checks & Fur

This is what I wore last Saturday I think, so a bit late, but better late than never! And I really liked this outfit :D

I did a bit of charity shopping that Saturday and you can see the amazeball bag I got for £3!!! I also got a pair of Jaeger trousers (for £3 too!) that I'm hoping to feature in the blog soon, just need to work out how to style them!

On Saturday night I went and watched fireworks (v.late I know!) with my parents and my sister and her boyfriend, and then we went for indian and I ate wayyyyy too much haha! Tasty though.

Shirt- Monki £19    Leggings- Topshop £12    Boots- Matalan £10 (sale)    Faux Fur Scarf- New Look (old)

Probably the best bag I have or will own & only £3!!!

Final parting shot ;)

So this blog was short and sweet wasn't it! Been super busy at work, with lots of changes going on, but good ones :) I'm off to a bar in London called the Moustache Bar on Saturday, so I should have a little 'going out' outfit for you guys :)

Hope you have all had great weeks. Any fun plans for the weekend?

love&'ugs

bakes x

Absent-y

Hey friends and foes,

This is just a tiny update to apologies for being so terrible at blogging lately. There have been a few things that have contributed to the fact I've been missing in action, but hopefully after today I will back on the blogging wagon!

So I guess just general life got in the way for a bit, starting my new job was pretty draining and I'm still having to learn so much everyday and to be honest I'm probably the worst commuter known to man, it just knackers me out!
Secondly around a month ago me and Jon broke up, I made the decision but after 2 and a half years it was still pretty hard on me, so I've just been attempting to find my way back into single life again! However I'm feeling much more positive now and I still believe it was the right thing to do and me and Jon are still on good terms :) (which I don't think I've ever had with an ex before!)
Thirdly this month is the first anniversary of the death of a incredibly close friend of mine, so I have been thinking about him a lot and not that much about blogging to be honest.
And lastly I'd just lost a bit of my blogging mojo, I really want to post interesting things and everything I thought of just seemed to be blog-standard (see what I did there? haha). So I've been waiting for some inspiration to hit and I'm feeling much more excited about bits and pieces of late :D

Anyway to apologies for being so poo, here are two photos from my Instagram feed! If you have Instagram tell me your names below or add me, my username is bacontastesnice. I'm pretty obsessed with it at the moment so I want to see all your lovely photos!

My beautiful new House of Holland Superga shoes :D

Just a work day outfit.
Denim Shirt- Topshop    Zebra Dress- Spitalfield Affordable Vintage Market

love&'ugs

bakes x

Happy Bunny

Like I said yesterday here's an outfit post featuring my new favourite shirt :D

Urban Outfitters Shirt, Topshop Leggings, Underground Creepers

Just can't help but love the subtle details on the shirt :D

Here's the earrings I brought too.

So I had a pretty good day today, wrote just under another 1000 words on my dissertation, I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere! And I to leave work an hour early yay :) now the boyf if making me dinner so all is pretty good in the world. Happy bunny day.

And here's a happy bunny face from the outtakes for you ;)

Hope everyone is having a happy bunny day too, it's nearly the weekend!

love&'ugs

bakes x

Mini Little Haul ;)

Oh shopping why are you so tempting, even when I have NO MONEY WHATSOEVER! You still get me to buy something, even if is only a £1.99 lipliner that I'm not even sure how to use!

This morning after my lecture I came back home to my parcel from Urban Outfitters- Yay! I brought 3 things, a cute little rug for my bedroom (£8 in the sale):

Uber cool earrings! (£8):

And this B-E-A-utiful shirt made by Silence + Noise (£42):

I'll be doing an outfit post with this shirt VERY soon! Tomorrow in fact, I love it sooooo much!

In addition to these little bits, myself and the boyf went into town as he needed a new bag for work, so it would have been rude of me not to pick up a few bits and bobs for myself ;)

As I said before I brought a lipliner from Collection 2000 (£1.99):

It's called Marshmellow and seems like a lovely soft pink. I decided to get a lipliner as my lipstick has a tendency to fade and feather so hopefully this will help to reduce this! I got a light coloured one as I thought it would be more versatile than a really dark one, so hopefully I can use it with a few of my lippys.

I have been wanting to get a lip-stain for a little while now and decided to get Rimmel 1000 Kisses (£5.99):

It's colour is Perpetual Plum, a really nice purple-y pink colour and has a lip balm on it as well. (I might do a review on this at a later date, see how long it actually lasts on a day :P)

Little Swatch of the colours:

Oh and how could I forgot! Me and the boyf went to a local cheese shop and brought cheeeeeese! NomNomNom! Can't wait to get those bad boys on some crackers with a bit of chutney!

Have any of you been shopping recently? Even when you have less than adequate funds like me? Hehe!

love&'ugs

bakes x

Jump!

Just a little outfit I wore to lectures at university the other day. I brought this jumpsuit from Topshop in the January sales and only thought I could wear it on a night out in heels, but today I think I successfully made it work casually. My main concern was it being too baggy and making my bum look huge :P
I paired it with a cropped shirt from Forever 21 and my gorgeous Vivienne Westwood and Melissa collab Orb pumps.

I love them!

Shirt and jumpsuit details.

Funny face!

What do you think? The details on the shirt and jumpsuit really made the outfit for me. Maybe I just need some geeky glass to compete my nerdy library worthy ensemble.

Also, I quite like the colour my hair has faded to, everyone loves a bit of candy floss pink or they should!

love&'ugs

bakes x