Saturday Madness

What a Saturday. After sitting a 4-hour Philosophy mock exam (and epic failing it !) I went off to Busaba Eathai with Carla and Astrid. Of course intelligent me did not take any pictures of the food we got but if you ever go to Busaba I recommend the Pad Thai and the Thai Calamari. Best thing ever!

After a long walk nothing better than a little Starbucks. Carla and I got the Vanilla Spice Latte which was yummy!

Everyone meet Astrid !

And you have all met Carla countless times. LOL

I am now in bed watching CSI: NY cause it's so freaking amazing. I feel like a sore throat is on it's way and I am so pissed at my parents. What a Saturday. 

Cozy Socks

I went into Primark with the objective of getting PJ's but instead I came out with PJ's and these little cuties.

These are by far the coziest socks I have ever bought in my life. These were only £2 for two pairs ! As you can see there are some holes that have appeared but seriously, for £2 it is totally worth it. It keeps your feet warm and there are no words to describe how amazing they feel. 

Do you have any good cozy socks to recommend ? These are definitely my newest obsession for whenever I feel like lounging around or even when I'm doing my homework :)

I hope you are all having a lovely Sunday ! 

My New Year Resolutions For 2012

Hello ladies,

We've reached that time of the year when everyone starts making changes and taking resolutions. To be completely honest, I had never thought of taking serious new year resolutions - they were always random ones I took spontaneously. But this year I've decided to take resolutions and actually write them down so that I don't forget them. 2012 is going to be a big year for me. It's my last year in school, my first year in university, I'm turning 18... You know all the important stuff. Here are my resolutions :

• Drink more water. I don't drink enough water and it's bad for my skin and my body. I'm going to make sure I have a bottle of water with me at all times when I'm in school.
• Moisturize my legs. The skin on my legs tends to flake a lot so I need to make the effort to moisturize them every night ! 
• Stop procrastinating. Probably my biggest resolution ! I'm the most horrible procrastinator in the history of procrastinators - it's terrible. It needs to stop ! 
• Work my ass off. I have my friggin baccalaureat to pass at the end of the year ! I need to work my ass off to get the grade my top uni is asking me to get. The pressure is on. 
• Blog more. I tend to slack on my blogging at times... In 2012, I'm going to make sure I get at least 2-3 posts per week. Hopefully more but I want this to be the minimum...
• Keep my room tidy. How childish does this sound? But it's so true ! If I don't take care of my room it eventually gets into this mountain of mess and I don't want this to happen anymore.
• Learn my lessons daily. In 2012, I want to be a good girl and learn the lessons I had during the day the second I get home. Need to get my head in the game. 

There are my resolutions. They might appear as really crappy but I'm serious about this and if I breach one of these you will be informed ;) 2011 was a great year if you ask me. A year I will forever remember and hopefully 2012 is good to me. 

I hope you guys enjoyed this post and I will see you all in  2012 bitches ! 

Lots of Love, 

Laura 

London Christmas Blogger Meet-Up

Hey everyone,

On Saturday I attended the London Christmas Blogger Meet-up which took place at The Warwick. It was such a fun experience and I got to meet a lot of new people and discover new blogs. Some new jewelry companies were also there to introduce us to their brand which I had never heard of : Wired Jewelry and Maggie Angus, two very original brands you should definitely go check out as they aren't that expensive. You could find some really awesome goodies for Christmas! Alright let me show you a few pictures I took on that day...

 {Yummiest smelling soap EVER. Promise me to smell this when you step in LUSH!}

{Cutest magic wand ! from Lush of course}

{This body powder really does have an effect when applied on your skin. Definitely one of those items you want to grab during the festive season.}

{ A few pictures of Maggie Angus Jewelry Collection. What do you guys think about it ? I think it's uber-fun. }

There you have it. Again, a big thank you to Law and Emma for organizing this event and I can't wait for future ones . 

Laura

Karl Lagerfeld Diet Coke

That's right Karl Lagerfeld collaborated with Coca-Cola to design their bottles. You probably knew all of that.

Notice that I un-capped it ? Yeah, I drank it ! I guess I can now decorate my room with this bottle. How? I don't know but I'm going to figure something really cool. LOL

Super random post for you but don't you think these bottles are just crazy awesome? Do you own any of these limited edition coca-cola bottles ? 

This Month's Magazine.

I'm not the kind of person who splurges on magazine's. Don't get me wrong , I love reading magazines but I just don't see the point in spending all your money on a ton of them so I've recently decided to buy one magazine a month. Obviously , there are too many magazines out there to choose from so I will try to choose the best one and this month the magazine I chose is ...

InStyle UK July 2011 ! 

If you ask me which magazine you should buy right now I would totally recommend you get this one ! It comes with a £5 GIFT CARD FOR BODY SHOP !  It doesn't get any better does it !? I haven't read it in depth but it certainly isn't a boring issue ! An article I can't wait to read is the 10 Beauty Buys To Change Your Life , somehow this title really attracts me. 

I hoped this helped you with your choice of this month's magazine. 

Talk to you all very soon ! 

Laura

A day in Wimbledon ...

Hey peeps !

What up ? What's going on in your lives ? I've had a pretty fun start to this week-end and it all started on FRIDAY ! Totally random but I have a major headache right now . Ugh ! It is so majorly annoying but I'm going to try and make it through this post ! Let's kick start with these amazing pictures from the one and only.... *drum roll* RAFAEL NADAL ! Ah !!!! I am a MAJOR and when I say major I mean it , Rafa fan . So off I went to see him practice this Friday against this Chinese dude but I didn't take pictures of him OBVIOUSLY.

Again , sorry for the quality of the pictures but when you're running around Wimbledon those huge cameras aren't exactly the easiest stuff to carry so I took my Lumix camera again ! 

I'll try to , briefly , explain my day at Wimbledon... The second I got into The Grounds ( that is after a 4-hour queue ) , I headed to the Practice courts and that is when I saw Nadal ! I took a few or maybe too many pictures of him and then headed to the autograph island to get his autograph. YOU GUYS , he was THIS close to me but like honestly what do you tell the guy when you're that close to him ?! Some girls next to me were screaming in his face : " I LOVE YOU RAFAAA!" but I just had a smile on my face and that just about said it all about how I felt in that moment :) Then I watched Djokovic practice , got his autograph and went to grab some lunch because it was 3pm ! After lunch , I went to watch Richard Gasquet's match against some Italian guy ! I didn't stay too long because my mom  called me and told me she was queuing to get on Court 3 to watch Monfils and I thought that match would end up being a little more entertaining ! So I get to the queue start chatting with my mom's friends and out of nowhere comes ROGER FEDERER . My mom's friend who doesn't really know anything about tennis just screamed out Monfils's name ; "GAEL!" thinking he was the one who was walking out. I mean just imagine the scene Roger Federer comes out of nowhere and a lady isn't even capable to recognise him !? Federer glanced at her with a big smile which was basically saying : " How could you not know who I am !? " . Anyway , it was pretty funny ! My day ended on the centre court thanks to friends who were just given tickets to the centre court by trainers ! We were seated right behind Murray's mom during his match ( to be honest I don't like Murray or his mom ) ! I expected the Centre Court to be so much bigger than it is ! I was really surprised actually but it was overall a great experience to be on one of the best centre courts of the world ! 

Wow , this ended up being a really long post and I don't even know if you guys understand anything I have written above ! I just have so many things to say but I'm trying to condense it all a little ! I'll try to do shorter / well-explained posts in the future. For now , this is goodbye. 

( That sounded very Talk Show-ish . Pretty random. ) 

I hope you liked this and I will be doing a review tomorrow ! 

Wahaca

Holla Peeps ! 

How are you all doing ? I know I said  would write a post a day but then I realized that maybe a post a day would be too much and you guys would get irritated by it . So , I've decided a blog post every other day is what I'm going to go for ! Enough of me blabbing about how many times I will be blogging at let's start talking about this uber-cool restaurant we went to last night ! 

So it was Francesca's Birthday so we had to take her out and Natalia decided we should go to Wahaca. BEST . IDEA , EVER . The food was delish , the atmosphere was amazing and it was overall a great night ! 

We were asked to wait for 40 mins so we decided to hang outside of the restaurant .... ON THE SIDEWALK . People were looking at us so weirdly it was kind of funny . 

Yummy tacos with guacamole ! This was given to us free because we waited for like an hour and fifteen minutes instead of 40 mins...

Natalia ( in the background ) , Francesca  and I got a citrus fizz .

Haha Natalia hiding behind her Tostadas !

This is what I got , on the left , Chicken guajillo Tostadas and on the right Black beans and cheese Quesedillas.

You know how restaurants always give matches ... I expected to see matches in this but .... I was wrong .

These are actually chilli seeds for you to grow at home ! How cool !? I grabbed quite a few and sure will be growing some Serrano Chilli at home ! 

I will do a restaurant review very soon ! I just have too many ideas right now for blog posts that I have to control myself from posting too many posts a day ! By the way , I'm really sorry for the quality of my pictures ! I didn't want to bring my big fat black Nikon camera so I took my Lumix ! Anywho , I will talk to you all very soon ! 

Laura

M.I.A

Hey Guys !

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So as you may or may not have seen I have been MIA recently ... The reason ? Exams . And you probably know that through Twitter ! Today , was my last day for all written exams and now I just have one more exam left ! An oral one . I know it may sound like the easiest thing a French Oral ( especially if you are french ) but it really isn't ! Basically , we need to learn 30 texts and when I mean learn I mean be capable to talk about it during 10 mins and on top of that whatever you say needs to answer a question . Okay , it may still sound as an easy task but the amount of things we need to know is RIDICULOUS. I don't even want to try listing it here ! Anyway , I just thought I owed you an explanation ! I'm taking a break from this hectic week on this Friday night but I sure will be back to work tomorrow morning ... YAY ! :/ Enough of my rambling that I'm sure no one will read because that's how much it's BORING .

Oh , but something that may or may not interest you is... I CREATED A YOUTUBE CHANNEL ! Yup . I will probably be filming videos ! About what ? That's a really good question ! If you have any ideas please do leave a comment or tweet me @Laurac15 :)

My blogging will go back to it's normal rhythm on Tuesday afternoon ! Because it will all be over ! :)

Ciao amigos x

Gotta Get Down On Saturday !

Holla ! We arrived in Lake District late last night after a 6-hour drive ! Here we are and ... IT'S RAINING . I was planning on taking gorgeous pictures for a project and here I am with rain ! I decided to stay in this morning to start working because my exams are coming up ! But I'll be going out later this afternoon to sightsee I guess ... Try and capture as many pictures as I can ! For now , this is what I have .

 I was really bored and just had to take this one .. Pretty random and it's not even centered. #badphotography

 I tried taking a good picture of my cat eye but as you can see I pretty much failed !

Today's outfit : Top - H&M , Jeans - H&M , Shoes - Converse.

Excuse my sort of psycho face . LOL

This is what I'm eating as I type this ... My LUNCH . I'll probably grab a pie or something yummy to eat in a bit ! 

Voila , for today's update ! Stay tuned for more updates from LAKE DISTRICT ! 

25 Random Questions

So I know that this is what youtubers but after watching a video with these questions I thought I'd post it on my blog ! So here it goes ! 


1. Do you have any pets?  Sadly , I don't but I really want a small dog or a golden retriever ! 

2. Name 3 things that are physically close to you. My laptop , my favorite 4-colored pen and my phone .

3. What's the weather like right now? It's actually late at night as I type this so the sky is really dark haha

4. Do you drive? If so have you crashed? Not yet !

5. What time did you wake up this morning? 9am 

6. When was the last time you showered? 8 hours ago 

7. What was the last movie you saw? The Hangover ! and I absolutely fell in love with it and Bradley Cooper . Definitely on my list of favorite movies !

8. What does your last text message say? It says : " :p " haha 

9. What's your ringtone? I leave my phone on silent 99.9% of the day but I think it's Taylor Swift's Forever and Always :) 

10. Have you ever been to a different country? I actually have! I'm pretty lucky to have the opportunity to visit all these places : Singapore , Thailand , Indonesia , Malaysia , Australia , Japan , France , United Kingdom , Spain , Germany , Italy , Czech Republic , USA and Canada ! Wow . That is a lot . 

11. Do you like sushi? Hello ! You're talking to the girl who can't live without sushi ! If I had the choice to only eat one food for the rest of my life it would probs be sushi! 

12. Where do you buy your groceries? Waitrose ! ( well my mom does ! )

13. Have you ever taken medication to help you fall asleep faster? I am totally against these kind of medication to be honest ! If you have difficulty sleeping drink a glass of milk or drink tea ! Don't take medicine ! 

14. How many siblings do you have? A little sister 

15. Do you have a desktop computer or a laptop? LAPTOP 

16. How old will you be turning on your next birthday? OhMyGod . I'll be turning 18 . It's so weird to say that ! 

17. Do you wear contacts or glasses? Contacts ! 

18. Do you color your hair? Nope . I'm planning on leaving them as natural as possible. 

19. Tell me something you are planning to do today. I'm planning on sleeping as it is almost midnight ! 

20. When was the last time you cried? Last night . Don't ask me why ..

21. What is your perfect pizza topping? I recently tried out this recipe and the only toppings the pizza had was fig spread and parma ham . Definitely a new favorite for me !

22. Which do you prefer-hamburgers or cheeseburgers? Cheeseburgers ! I love the one from Gourmet Burger Kitchen :) Of course McDonalds is the best of the best but probably not the healthiest option ...


23. Have you ever had an all-nighter? Not yet ! But it might happen one day ! Who knows ? 

24. What is your eye color? A really light hazelnut color :) 

25. Can you taste the difference between Pepsi and Coke? I can ! But if we were to go to a restaurant and they only had Pepsi I wouldn't mind having the Pepsi ! 

That was fast ! I TAG all of you reading this "Questionnaire" ! If you have a blog link your post in the comments and I'll definitely go and check it out ! If not , just post all your questions in the comments :) I love reading these sort of questions :D