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Sweater: H&M, Skirt: American Apparel, Shoes: New Look,

So my brother and my cousin are off to university and today we all headed to a big Indian restaurant to celebrate/say goodbye. Even though I am about to enter my fourth year of university I still received a Good Luck balloon… it reads “Good Luck at Uni Adele… From Mom, Dad, Jono & Liz” 3 years late but still… you can see me wrestling with it in the photos.

P.S This is not a sexy outfit. Lets blame flash for revealing my bra… haha

New York photo diary, part one.

1. black vest: h&m; beige skirt: american apparel; necklace: accessorize; sandals: office 2. blue floral dress: topshop; sunglasses: rayban. 3. black vest: h&m; dream catcher vest: wildfox; denim shorts: abercrombie & fitch; sneakers: converse.

1. red dress: urban outfitters; sandals: moccasins; watch: michael kors. 2. leather fringe bag: urban outfitters


Landed at Heathrow Airport this morning around 7:15am UK time, after an amazing however stressful trip to New York City with my parents and my brother. Lots of shopping was done along with site seeing and baseball watching. Here are the first set of photos I want to share with you! I haven't posted all photos as its very late here (jetlag…) but I will go into detail in my next post about my time in New York and what I bought…

I still have so much to blog about regarding my year in Italy! However, NYC really inspired me to blog and I couldn't”t wait to post these. Ci sentiamo!

Adèle
beso, bacio, kiss

I am sick & tired of trying to hide the mess that I am.

 
Necklaces: Forever 21, Skirt: American Apparel, Bodysuit: Topshop (Marta’s Wardrobe haha), Boots: Faith

This skirt was one of my Christmas presents, you might all recognize it from the Christmas list I posted online! Haha so my parents do read my blog! I got the boots also! These photos were taken on my balcony in Italy, I am still having the most amazing time although its very difficult to blog due to the crazy slow USB internet I have to use! (it has taken a very long time uploading just these 3 photos!)

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1.Brown Ankle Boots, 2.MAC 6 Dashing Lassie Eye Shadows Set, 3.Heroes Complete Seasons 1-4, 4.El Salvador Lace Tee, 5.Chiffon Oversized Button up Shirt, 6.The Social Network, 7.MAC Noble Knights Lash & Line Set, 8.Inception, 9.6 Twists of Tartans Eye Shadows Set, 10.Chiffon Double-Layered Shirred Waist Skirt - Tan, 11.Chiffon Double-Layered Shirred Waist Skirt - Scot Plaid/Colbalt

take 10 challenge 2: pink schuh brogues

  Brogues from Schuh
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Take 10 Project 2: Pink Brogue Shoes courtesy of http://schuh.co.uk So I have never been a brogues person until I received these! When I saw what we were being sent by http://schuh.co.uk I was sceptical as I have never worn anything like these before. However since receiving them I have purchased more brogues in various colours! These pink ones are the ones I wear religiously, and if you are planning on buying some for the autumn I couldn’t recommend these from Schuh enough.

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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Top: My Mom's Wardrobe; Skirt: American Apparel; Shoes & Bag: Ioffer.com (Miu Miu Inspired)

So to my horror I noticed my Mom trying to throw this lovely sequin top away the other day, I never look through my Mom’s wardrobe as I never think I will find anything but when I saw this I demanded it be mine!! So paired it with a recently American Apparel purchase for my summer holidays (which is the 27th by the way for 2 weeks). Don’t know if you can tell but I’ve also had my hair done, a lot darker and a general clean up.  - I am off to see Inception now as Leonardo is my actual love.

Quindi, per il mio orrore ho notato la mia mamma cercando di lanciare questo bel top di paillettes via l'altro giorno, non ho mai guardare attraverso armadio di mia madre come mai penso di trovare qualcosa ma quando ho visto questo ho chiesto che sarebbe la mia! Così è accoppiato con un recente acquisto di American Apparel per le mie vacanze estive (che è il 27 con per 2 settimane). Non so se si può dire, ma ho anche avuto i miei capelli fatto, molto più scuro e una pulizia generale up.

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found some time…

Vest: American Apparel; Skirt: American Apparel; Shoes: Keds; Rings: Marc Jacobs & Forever 21 (click here for close up)

So I managed to find some time in the middle of decorating my room with my boyfriend to throw on some of my new purchases. Another mainly American Apparel out paired with some Keds, I’m also wearing a pinafore but its not very obvious in the images. Hope you like my new rings also!

Allora.. sono riuscito a trovare qualche tempo mentre decorare la mia stanza con il mio ragazzo a provare su alcuni dei miei nuovi acquisti. Un altro outfit su American Apparel in coppia con alcuni Keds, sto anche indossando un grembiule (pinafore?), ma la sua non è molto evidente nelle immagini. Spero vi piace il mio nuovo anche gli anelli!
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Today I met up with Claire from Jazzpad for lunch in Nottingham and we had such a lovely time :) After having some lovely lasagne and chilli con carne for Claire and discussing anything bloggy & Wife Swap USA we moved on to shopping where she introduced me to some really cool vintage shops! I ended up buying Dr Martens, whether I keep them or not is the question!

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BLAST FROM THE PAST

 
I love looking through old photos yesterday. I was looking through my old fashion blog from around 2007 and I think its interesting to see how my style has changed over the past few years.

Funnily enough I still wear that blazer an awful lot! it seems I used to straighten my hair more regularly then also. That first outfit was what I was planning on wearing to a summer wedding. I did not end up wearing it because I only liked the outfit with the blazer and it was way to hot. Also the those shoes are horrific very glad I sent them back! I look very moody and seems I liked that area of my garden haha!
So here are some of my recent outfits which allows you to compare! :)
italian - Mi piace guardare attraverso vecchie foto di ieri. Stavo guardando il mio vecchio fashion blog di circa 2007 e penso che sia interessante vedere come il mio stile è cambiato negli ultimi anni.
Caso strano, mi portano ancora che blazer molto! sembra che ho usato per raddrizzare i miei capelli più regolare, anche. Questo abito prima era quello che stavo pensando di portare a un matrimonio estivo. Io non finire che lo indossa solo perché mi piaceva la tuta con la giacca ed è stato modo di caldo. Anche le scarpe sono orribili quelle molto contento che ho inviato indietro! Guardo molto lunatico e sembra mi piaceva quella zona del mio giardino, haha! Così qui sono alcuni dei miei outfits recente, che consente di confrontare! :)

Climbing Mt Snowdon

Sunglasses: Rayban; Top: American Apparel; Shorts: American Apparel; Wellies: Hunter

Here are some photos of me and my Dad's little welsh adventure on the Thursday of Whitson week! It was hard work but a lot of fun! Took around 3 hours to get to the top and 2 hours down!
  Out side my house in Birmingham before heading out…


Around 2500 ft up…

At the summit!

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American apparel obsessed

New American Apparel goodie through the post this morning… This Shiny Latex Night Mini Skirt that I ordered after seeing Camilla’s DIY version on her blog Into The Fold. If you are a regular on my blog you will know the love I have for American Apparel, there is a store here in Nottingham & it is actually my favourite place to be… it makes me happy! Here is my shopping list for my next visit :)

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Hottest weekend ever?

Good day readers! So I am in the middle of reviewing the American Apparel Nail Lacquers, a few readers asking me how they are so I thought I would take some photos as they chip away and post later in the week!

top; wildfox, shorts; kate moss @ topshop, shoes; converse, sunglasses; ray ban, bag; ioffer

sweater; american apparel, shorts; vintage levi, bag; ioffer

In other news it has been a bleak Friday & Saturday, temperatures reaching an insane 28°C whilst I repressively found ways of keeping cool and revising for an immensely boring cultural studies exam on Monday. However I created reasons to leave the house. I sacked off revision at about 5pm today to drink Pimms in the sun with a friend.

This is what I wore throughout the weekend, any excuse for shorts and sunglasses I say.. these are not the best photos of me. My boyfriend thinks the first photo is hilarious and says it looks like I am going back packing haha! How do you like my new vintage Levi' shorts that I brought from COW  a while back?

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Yesterdays makeup

Ignore the most horrendous photo of me in last nights makeup with my hair not done and my room embarrassingly messy!

I convinced myself to buy the Henry Holland Super Suspender tights after my last post, unfortunately as trying them on for the first time I noticed a couple of holes and a ladder down the back :( So I’m going to have to send them back :( Hope they replace them & don’t think I wore them and did it my self!

I have had too much work to blog properly right now but I am trying! Those who follow me on twitter will know that I had my last Italian exam yesterday! Its sad really… no more Italian lectures till after my year in Italy! Scary!

After my exam my boyfriend took me for a much needed and well deserved trip into Nottingham for a little bit of shopping and I purchased these beauty bits; I was quite weary about spending £8 on this topshop lipstick as I know makeup isn’t there speciality but I want along and invested anyway to my boyfriends horror! However I thought 3 large nail varnishes for £12 in American Apparel was great especially as I got to choose the colours!

Sweater: American Apparel, Necklace: Accessorize, Shorts: Kate Moss for Topshop, Tights: House of Holland, Booties: Jeffrey Campbell

Miu Miu Satin Platform Lookie Likies

  Top: American Apparel, Skirt: h&m, Shorts: h&m, Necklaces: eBay, Shoes: iOffer

Hey. 
So I received these lovelies through the post recently. I mentioned them in a previous post. I have no idea who made them or where they are from but I love them :)
I even prefer them to the Miu Miu ones a bit. hehe
 

Jeffrey Campbell Pixie Booties

 

 

 

 

Booties: Jeffrey Campbell, Cardigan: Jack Wills, Sweater: American Apparel, Leggings American Apparel, Necklaces: eBay

I bought these booties from Chantal at cocorosa as she had only worn them a few times and I love them, I completely recommend buying from her as shipping was super fast.
It was a really nice day in England today, therefore coats, hats and gloves were unusually unneeded, superb! My necklaces are from a hand made jeweller on eBay, I don’t have the store URL right now but I can get it for anyone who wants it, they were reasonably cheap.

Today I accompanied my aunty whilst getting her tattoo. I have a fascination with tattoos that I do not understand, I have two small ones (that I might include in my next post) and I thoroughly enjoy Miami Ink. Anyone else a fan?