Bienvenidos a Granada- First Look

Bienvenidos a Granada! Welcome to Spain, or rather, my new home for the next 9 months or so. I arrived a week ago tomorrow, on the Wednesday and promptly went straight to bed, knackered after an early flight followed by a long bus journey. I now have somewhere to live in a lovely apartment block full of other ERASMUS students and I even have two kittens in my flat! Jackpot aha! I'm still getting used to the pace of Spanish life which is generally quite slow... and the fact that a lot of things close for the siesta around 2 and absolutely nothing is open on a Sunday. We've mainly spent most of the days just walking around. Everything in Granada is within walking distance, and when it's nice sunny weather, you really don't mind. Because I've been here before and because I'm here for the whole year, I'm not in a massive rush to go round all the typical tourist haunts such as the Alhambra and the Cathedral

So these are really just a few snaps that I've taken recently and I'm sure there will be more coming. I hope you don't mind. I'm also working on a small haul because I have, naturally, been shopping as my wardrobe has been seriously diminished despite my suitcase eventually being a few kg overweight... My semester starts next week so until then, I'll be making the most of this gorgeous city!

Besos

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A Rather Big Update

Good  big news everyone! Excuse my Professor Farnsworth but he was the first thing that came to my mind but for this big update, totally appropriate.

For those of you who might not know, I study Spanish at university and I'm about to go into my third academic year, which is an obligatory year abroad. So yep, you've guessed it. I'm moving. To Granada in southern Spain to be precise. I chose Granada because I actually visited the city when I spent some of my gap year in Seville two years ago and absolutely loved it there. I'm doing the ERASMUS exchange which means I still attend university, except the one in Granada, while also working on a mini dissertation type project for my home university. I'm very nervous/excited/lucky to have the opportunity to study abroad.
The first couple of weeks are guaranteed to be very hectic and all of my photography stuff can't come out with me until my parents ship some more stuff over to me later on in the year. Seriously, I have a 23kg allowance and a lot of shoes.... Challenge accepted.
I guess what I'm trying to say is please bear with me while I get settled in. I will probably shift to lifestyle/travel post for a while until my tripod gets to me later on and OOTD's can happen again. I'm not sure about beauty because I'm aware that most of my readers are from the UK and Spanish products might not be of interest? Let me know and I'll share hauls with you too :)

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Thanks guys and much love <3

Outfit Of The Day- White Out

Blazer- Topshop

Vest- H&M

Shorts- Zara

As promised, this is wore on our day out in Brighton a few days ago. The Topshop blazer is a new love of mine. I bought it because I absolutely fell in love with it and then argued that it would be perfect for Spain....*cough* It really is gorgeous though and the clean simple and tailored fit to it really suits my figure. And seeing as it was a nice warm sunny day, I ended up wearing all white, quite the contrast to my previous OOTD of all black. It was nice to get the pins out for one last day of sunshine at any rate. I'm sitting here writing this listening to the rain absolutely pour down and I have to go out soon...

These pictures were taken in the beautiful Pavillion gardens so if you're ever down Brighton way, they're definitely worth a stroll round or perfect for a picnic lunch.

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Bills Brighton And Gelato Gusto

Sorry for being a bit awol from the blogging scene. My boyfriend has been down for the last couple of days so we've been busy getting out and about and enjoying this sudden flare of nice weather we've been having in England. One of the nicest days was conveniently the day we headed into Brighton so I though I would share the snaps of that day.
Our first stop was Bills for lunch. I had always wanted to go to Bills but had never gotten round to it so we headed down to the ex bus depot restaurant, not far from the station. I went for a pink lemonade and the houmous and halloumi burger which tasted incredible and lasted all about 5 minutes before I had eaten it. The boy had a half chicken with rice, which would normally sound fairly dull, except the chicken was chargrilled and smoky and the rice seasoned and aromatic. My one reservation was the price which had always seemed to be just that tad over priced but the flavours and location won me round.
We didn't stay for dessert as we headed over to one of my other favourite food places in the Brighton North Laines- Gelato Gusto who do some of the nicest gelato I've tasted  and initially won me round with their perfect pistachio ice cream. We shared 3 scoops between up- hazelnut, salted caramel and pecan and the beast that was Ecuadorian dark chocolate which was the real winner. It put all other chocolate ice cream to shame. It was so rich and gooey. NUM. That also didn't last long.
And eventually, we walked allll the way round Brighton, all through the Laines and through the Pavillion gardens where I took some picture for an OOTD which will be making an appearance shortly.

Hope you're all enjoying the last burst of sunshine

xx

My Make-Up Storage

I decided on a whim today to finally photo my make up storage. This is the first time ever that I've got a proper table and units set up. For many years before, I just had a box on the floor.... but floor box no more! My gorgeous little dressing table is actually a second hand table that I DIY-ed and now I thought I'd show how I've got it all set up.

My table is quite handy as it has a little shelf in front of the mirror. Here I store a mixture of my daily hair and skin products and my two perfumes. Tucked away underneath is all my regular everyday make up which is usually sprawled all over the place rather than being so neat! I also have my plug/earring Buddha box that I inherited from my Dad.

To the left, to the left.... My make up storage. This was a little something that I bought from The Range, a homeware shop I know we have down South but I'm not sure where else. It's got three tiered shelves and a draw where I store all of the make up that I don't use as much any more. The first row is dedicated entirely to lip products and I'm pleased I've managed to downscale my number of lipsticks and then I have a few glosses and lipliners thrown in.

In the middle are blushers that I use regularly so the like of my NARS Orgasm and MAC Springsheen. The NARS ones slot in niely but MAC, being round, are definitely a bit more awkward to store.

On the top is a mix of everything. I have all my make up brushes, mainly eye ones that I don't use that often, sitting in the left corner, then eyeliners, highlighters and concealers and finally some foundations that I don't use much any more.

Behind in the left shelf corner, are a few other skin saviours such as Bio Oil, Tea Tree Oil and Germolene, which combined come together to form my ultimate spot fighting trio. Oh, and a happy little Buddha!

My table handily has a little draw underneath it where a few more beauty bits lie. Nail varnishes, hairgrips and hair bands, eyelashes and  face wipes. All the little bits and bobs you don't want lying around. They're kept organised by some little black drawers that I stole from an office organiser.

And there we have it, there's really not more to it than that.

Hope you enjoyed reading!

xx