Last night I was lucky enough to be off to the O2 Arena for the Brit Awards 2016!!! I was invited by my lovely friend Sophia and her family. We were sitting quite low down in stands and really had quite a good overview of everyone and everything including the numbers celebs dining on the floor below as well as the artists performing on the stage. The night was jam packed with music performances including from Rihanna and her guest star drake , Jess Glynne, Justin Bieber, James Bay and of course the all fabulous and awe-inspiring Adele. Not only did she pick up almost every single award it seems but she shared her true emotion in her thank you speeches as well as performing, of course as amazingly as you would imagine, my favourite song of her's : when we were young. Sophia and I could not help but sing our hearts out to her standing there so perfectly in her sparkling dress and the rest of the stadium who I am guessing my the applause were in as much admiration as us.   Obviously Justin was also one of my most anticipated acts, although his singing wasn't really all that incredible, I was still completely over excited simply because it was HIM!!! It was such a fun and star studded night that I thought  it would be not only be something perfect to share with you but also to save for later memories of my own!

 

xoxoxo

 

It is finally half term and I spent the first couple of days of the holiday roaming London with my Danish cousin, visiting from Copenhagen. We enjoyed two days of shopping, caféing and lunching in the February sunshine.  

In the above pictures I am wearing my latest purchase: a pair of flared jeans. They are "low-rise" and quite loose fitted in a perfect dark blue denim colour. I am not the tallest of people and so was very weary of going for flares but decided to finally go for it after seeing them every wear in fashion this and last season. They are so unbelievably comfortable and so perfect with a pair of sneakers like I am sporting above. I am wearing a basic light grey cashmere roll-neck jumper from trusty uniqlo as well as my favourite forest green faux fur. Finally I of-course took the rare opportunity to wear my sunnies in London's gorgeous winter sun.

I'll be enjoying the rest of the holiday catching up with friends homework and hopefully netflixing a great deal in my PJs on my sofa.

xoxo

We are in the midst of winter's dark and foreboding gloom - its January and it sucks. The probably the reason why I've not been posting recently is the lack of inspiration. I rally want to post more of my own outfits and pictures but becuae its been so cold and gross outside I can't get my self to do anything other than snuggle up in my duvet nevertheless I've also had loads of homework to plough through as I changed from economics to photography a-level at the end of last term. All these stupid little ostablcles have been stopping me from just getting a post up and done and ready.

Hopefully there is some more exciting content on its way - happy monday!

xoxo

Zara halterneck 

NLY glitter low neck dress

PENNY DRESS - wrap -Reformation

SONJA DRESS - kimono - Reformation

velvet BLOUSE | Aritzia

I'm obsessed with my new faux fur coat in its amazing forest green colour and although I do look a bit like a fluff ball it is definalely my favourite thing in my wardrobe at the moment and it will keep me nice and toasty though out the winter. I have also been seeing loads of  coloured furs around recently such as the fabulous but crazily expensive ones from Shrimps and even this and this from trusty old asos.

I have three day left of school before christmas and I cannot wait !!!! 

xoxo

Just under a month go my parents and I jetted off to New York city for a week of walking, shopping, exploring and eating.

My dad is in New York almost every second week and is working on some extremely exciting food projects including a Nordic food hall in Grand Central Station. For this reason he knows quite a few people in and around New York especially within the food industry.
Whilst some families spend their money on the most expensive and extravagant hotels, handbags or bus tours of the city, my family prioritise and value eating out the most. I would say we are quite a foodie family with both my parents working or having worked in the business for many years. It is not just the generic "food is my life" thing as you see everywhere on social media and memes nowadays, it is more that we love to eat in places that are special and an experience in its self. Dinner has also always been a social thing in my life, its a time when we come together as a family and with friends. We can spend many hours sitting around the table chatting in my family and enjoying good food and company. New York like many major cities around the world for it's amazing culinary opportunities and there were too many places that we wanted to see. But here are just a few places that I think are notable and completely worth visiting:

But here are just a few places that I went to:

Lafayette Restaurant 

Saturday Surf - The beautiful garden/terrace that lay at the back of the cafe was a very pleasant surprise. You sat here drinking your delicious iced coffee monist dense greenery but still within NYC.

Bond St- best Japanese food I have ever eaten and a particularly memorable experience due to us knowing and meeting the chef an amazingly inspiring Long Islander who seemed so passionate about  what he was doing, wanting to share the best of what the restaurant had to offer. That included everything from serving us surprise dishes that we din't even order to explaining that the crepe recipe used in out desert of crepes layered with a green tea creme was one passed down from his hungarian grandmother. 

Roberta's - again some of the most incredible pizzas I have ever experienced. After a day of strolling through Williamsburg we headed to another side of Brooklyn to try and find a table at a unique but gourmet pizza restaurant. Like many places in New York you can't book a a table but instead you can sit outside in their bar/ tent under heat lamps and wait until the bustling restaurant has a free table. It's true that the pizzas were incredible, for example I had one with a fried egg in the centre but ultimately it was the atmosphere in Roberta's that made it memorable. It was full and bustling with activity and relishing their food, which although might be simple is cooked to perfection. 

WE also visited a couple of tourist destinations and believe it or not didn't only eat the entire time. Although at moments out did feel like it as we were planning dinner as soon as we ate breakfast. The first day was glorious and with the sun out so we made the most of strolling through the local area of Chelsea, TriBeCa and Soho. You really felt like you were in New York, with brownstone townhouses with piumkins lined up on the step ready for halloween. For more of a cultural dose we quickly went round the newly renovated Whitney Museum with  an exciting installation that varied over all floors from pop art ect. The view from their terrace was spectacular and the blue skies a perfect back drop. I loved the fact that the floors weren't too big and overwhelming.

My mum and I also went for a walk on the upper east side one of the days and more than two poeple asked us if we were looking for the museums and showed us the directions probably because we must have looked very lost as we stepped out from the subway and they were probably very used to be asked too. The Guggenhiem is an amazing building and the beautiful and striking shape and dynamic of it struck the architect in both my mum and I. To be honest it wasn't really that art inside that I loved but more the beauty of the building. 

I was browsing pinterest on this soggy, grey monday afternoon in London and came across some of these beautiful portraits of some of these most inspirational women. After having dropped art for A-level I can feel that I really miss a creative outlet and I hope that my blog can be a a way for me to collect and curate my inspiration and channel my creativity. Some of my friends doing photography are doing portraiture at the moment so I was inspired to look around for myself.

 What I love about all the above photographs is how completely natural and raw they all are. I feel like you can see the personality of the women so intensely their various moods are completely infectious. 

xoxo