Time is getting on.

I can't walk the line I can’t see the time. I'm falling out of view I'm sinking into you. I can't walk the line I can’t see the time. I'm falling out of view I'm sinking into you.

-Ladyhawke: Better than Sunday

What I'm wearing: h&m leggings, vintage waistcoat, ASOS graphic tee, ruffle skirt: monikapolitan.com, necklaces: topshop & vintage.

I am finally finished with essays: now all that is left is mountains of revision. Academia has officially consumed me, my new magazines are piling up unread and I only skim my favorite blogs. And my room is a rather tragic mess. It is pretty bleak. BUT I did go see "17 Again" at the cinema: it was the most perfect post-party treatment ever: me and the bff went in our pyjamas, bought a jumbo popcorn & pepsi combo & an abundance of candy. The movie was corny and Zac Efron looked divine- what more could a girl ask for?

I am going to get on posting more regularly, sorry people: my work load is eating me up!

I am already yearning for the summer; when I can read the books I want and not the ones I have to.

xxx

Sigh. Tea. Sunshine. Sigh.

What I'm Wearing: Vintage Green Blazer, Vintage Granny Sunglasses, Topshop Oxford Flats & Knee-Socks & Head- Bow..."Fake" tee- FRASSY RAGS

Ah. I have missed my blog. Being back in Durham has meant alot of muesli, gulped caffeine, reading and frantic typing. It has been enjoyable to be back in my ever - shrinking room (mountains of clothes are growing highly and subsequently, toppling over faster). My friends are lovely and I have missed sitting in the door-step of our house watching the student-world whizz by...or drinking tea after a night out...or waking up at 7 am for river walks. While exams are looming and I pumped with an adequate level of stress, I have been enjoying the small pleasures that you forget about when you leave a place for a while.

Going out tomorrow tonight: my last nocturnal outing until after exams. I have my eye on a red dress covered in an Eiffel Tower print at Topshop....I want to bring it home, mix and match it...and finally wear it tomorrow night. I think we would be a match made in heaven.

Can retail therapy be considered a means of reducing stress?

I hope so...

Hi, POLKA, hiiiiiiiiii

OOH, the stress is on. Exams are looming: just under four weeks away now. Is it panic time? Unfortunately....yes. Currently fervently typing away: an essay on The Great Gatsby and On The Road: fantastic reads...the research behind the assignment- a tad less captivating...

Thank you all for your "Get Well" wishes, you guys are too sweett! I am swiftly spinning back into my healthy-self. I can now hold Vogue up, which I guess, is the most important thing....haha. Flying back to Durham tomorrow, am rather anxious to see all the people I love, drink tea, eat sushi...and be in my small, slightly dingy British house. I just bought this stuff on Topshop...they accept payment by Paypal: which sent me into spasm of excitement...

more later...enough shopping & blogging: essay, essay, essay, ESSAY.

xxx

I am ill...blah. Yesterday I was so weak I couldn't even hold up Vogue for long enough to read it. Now that is BLEAK. Ice-water, diet coke and sleep was what my whole 24 hours consisted of. What a waste of precious life. And I have so much work to do. But not enough energy to do it. I'm stressed and my stomach hurts and I just want my exams to be OVER. But they haven't even begun.

Anyway, due to my high fever and messy unwashed hair, outfit posts are pretty much out of the question, instead feast your eyes on the latest Frassy Inspiration:

Messy Hair & Margaritas: Summer Perfection

It's Jessica Stam's birthday on the 23rd of this month. Happy Birthday!

Blake & Leighton, need I say anymore? I love these girls.

Ripped Denim & Fur & she is wearing no make-up: three of my favourites.

This is just weird. Who knew that sticking a box over your head could look cool and not at all freaky?

images: weheartit.com

Florals Yeah

"The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream."
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Vintage Floral Dress, Vintage Waist-Coat, Pendants: Topshop, Asos & Vintage

Back home. Finally. We travelled all night. Half 10 pm to half 9 am. Oucchh. I barely slept, was captivated by On The Road, by Jack Kerouac. Finished it on the plane. Wow, what a book. It makes me want to jump in the car and go on a spontaneously crazy road trip. There is nothing more relaxing than some music and a long highway road, just letting all your thoughts roll off the music and off into the horizon.

INSPIRATION:
that I wandered across while cooling my sun beaten skin in Egyptian Hotel Rooms-

i have already bought my suspenders on ebay....(frances, if you wear your long skirt to the Durham bus station...ill wear these babies? Can you imagine the mayhem we would cause?!)

you are related to one of my favourite writers: Ernest Hemingway...and you look painfully cool with a cigarette: Dree, marry me?

these girls make me miss my friends in England: see you guys on Tuesday!

Anyway, more tomorrow I promise, I have tea to drink, Keats poetry to read and a big double bed to crash in. All in All, Egypt was amazing. I am going to get to all my emails and lovely comments asap, cross my fashion heart.
xxx

There is nothing like a simple white dress to complement sun-scented skin. I am afraid the hot, hot, hot weather makes jewellery and other accessories very uncomfortable. So, as a rule under 40 celsius skies, I need to keep my style simple and clean. The dress is a sequined number from H&M. They had it in black as well, and when I saw it, naturally I picked up the darker shade, but traded it for the white when my mother accused me of "owning solely black apparel".

Still in Egypt, and although my desire for hot weather is never completely satisfied, the fact that I cannot eat fresh fruit and veg. here makes me yearn for home. Right now, after hours outside, I have crawled into the air-conditioned hotel room, sprawled out on the double-bed with diet coke, books and laptop at reach.

TOPSHOP CRAVINGS:

After browsing the topshop website for the millioneth time this month, their clothes seem to becoming increasingly impressive and wonderfully on-trend.It seems Topshop is on a full-fledged fashion roll, I read on thefashionspot.com, that the opening ceremony of the NY store cost 1.8 million dollars...wow. Anyway this great British fashion superstore has urged me to spend all my paypal bucks on handbags. Feast on my favourites:

Oh Sharm, Lovely Sharm.

Currently in Sharm El Sheik. The sun is satisfying and the diet coke tastes better here (more fizz, less sugar). I am pretty much in heaven. And while my face might be a little on the red side, I am confident that this colour will only reside momentarily and I will arrive home with a golden brown tan. I have done nothing but read and lounge in the sun....and eat and run.

To clear things up for you all: I study in England, am at Durham University...but my family lives in Spain and so that is where I lived pre-uni. So now, I spend half of the year in the U.K and the other half in Spain.

Will post as often as I can within the next 9 days. The sun will no doubt chase me indoors at some point, because sunburn hurts.

Roadtrip

What I'm Wearing:
ZARA Tic-Tac-Toe Tank Top & Baggy Jeans, H&M Black Sneakers, Vintage Navy Blue Sequined Blazer & Alexander McQueen Skull Scarf

ROADTRIP SUMMARY:

Sugar-free Gummy Bears are not only suspicious (if they aren't made of sugar then what the hell are they made of?!) but also cause severe stomach pain.

Played on I-pod Repeat: Lady Gaga is my new music obsession: I adore every single one of her songs. Her lyrics are like urban poems plus the fact that they are all disco, night-life centered is very satisfying, in a decadent, Edie Sedgwick kind-of-way.

I saw 6 different castles in Spain. They were all equally beautiful. Being such an Urbanite, I felt like I didn't appreciate them enough. I got some amazing shots of each one...however I shamefully got more excited about this dress at Mango:

After having lived in Spain for 8 years, I can say I am tired of the place and think that the next stage of my life is best lived somewhere else. The countryside has begun to bore me and most Spanish cities lack flavour. I am not sure I was ever captivated with Spain as a country, maybe curious...either way, I am moving on. London? Paris? Stockholm?
Yes please...

Black&White...

What I'm Wearing:

H&M dress, Topshop Knee Socks & Oxford Flats, Necklaces: Vintage

Well, my life has been rather tumultous to say the least. I have been up, down...and pretty much all around in terms of emotions. Buttt....good news: I am going on a road trip across Spain tomorrow morning, will be back Wednesday. I am ready to get away, get back my clear perspective and finally get some amazing photographs. Afterwards, I am heading to a place of strong sun: Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Catching up on my work, white sands and crystal waters....along with an abundance of bohemian, hippie-inspired outfits will be the main components of this trip. I am especially looking forward to sunsets on the beach, watching the sun fade away with Beyonce in my ears (couldn't live without my i-pod).

Yesterday, I was at the mall, enthusiastically grabbing bikinis to try on for my upcoming beach bonanza. Between stores I needed a beverage break, so I wandered over to the Juice Bar that I have been drinking fruit at religiously for years and years. You can imagine the dissapointment and surprised sadness I felt when I found it stripped bare and bordered up. The dire economy is not only decreasing my job prospectus, its has even managed to kill off one of my most loved traditions: breaking from shopping with a big bowl of watermelon juice. Sigh...

Has anyone seen Blake Lively's dog? Its a tiny teacup maltipoo, weighs about two pounds and literally looks like a teddy-bear. I usually hate small dogs, but this breed has pulled at my heartstrings and now I am hell bent on buying myself one.