What I'm Wearing: Vintage Mint Green Men's Shirt, H&M Racer Tank & Hat, Topshop Slip Skirt & (new) Miu Miu Handbag.

ASOS Cocktail Ring & Monikapolitan Fake Wang Sunglasses

Three polaroids in quick succession is going to have suffice for today.

One exam left on Wednesday. It has been a week of hell,

to say the least...the very least.

Been dreaming up some amazing D.I.Ys that I cannot wait to turn into realtime.

Also cannot wait to have a drink and a conversation that doesn't revolve around an exam timetable.

What I'm Wearing: ASOS Dress, Babooshka Turban, Ebay Platforms, Vintage Clutch

Frances stopped by yesterday evening. In a frenzy of clothes grabbing and throwing, we headed out my door...in hats and heels and dresses, teetered across cobbles to my favourite bridge in Durham. I am fascinated with her new Nikon lense. Warm evening air, a shimmery sort of summer light in the sky- twirling and laughing down this bridge was a perfect end to an exam drenched day. I can feel summer, 7 days until freedom- 9 hours, 3 exams...

What I'm Wearing: H&M Hat, Urban Outfitters Tee, Spanish Moss Vintage Suspender Leggings, New Look Peep Toe Boots.

Hollaah. (is a word I wish I could say & sound cool, but I can't). So exams soon. Hmm. I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't stressed...but I wouldn't be lying if I told you that I had some sort of pseudo-breakdown, midnight yesterday...tears and an almost comically frantic walk home from the library. But it was all cured by a series of stern motivational mantras and a lot of tea. I'm so lame, I knowww.

I'm drifting over to Paris for a couple days when all this work has dissipated. It is all that is getting me through (as well as remixes of Lady Gaga's Alejandro). Excited to lose myself in the city of lights with two of the most beautiful people I know. And best of all, I vowed not to bring a single pair of flats- in the last few weeks, I've bought a lot of heeled beauties- so they will all be seeing life for the first time a la francaise.

Who needs rose-tinted glasses, when you've got rainbow frames?

things i've bought recently...and by recently, i mean this week. oh lord.

YO. I've got twitter, follow me here & I've bite the rhetorical bullet and whipped up a formspring, ask me whatever, whenever...here. Wow, really whoring myself out there, internet-wise. I wanted to watch Gossip Girl in bed with a cup of tea, maybe even read Grazia (Sienna & Jude to be MARRIED?! Is this true?) but I'm too tired, have red lipstick smeared across my face, and really, probably, most certainly should just stop typing and crawl into bed. More soon, and by "more", I mean something of more...substance & originality. CIAO x

What I'm Wearing: Topshop Oversized Stripe tee, Babooshka Turban, Urban Outfitters Floral Knee Socks, Ebay platform wedges, Sunglasses picked up in Soho for 2 pounds.

Debating dropping 20 pounds on a single sheet of Chanel tattoos, dreaming about white chocolate, melted brie & seafood pasta...all which I've forbidden myself to eat...for probably, I don't know, the next million years. Wanting to purchase the perfect on-trend bikini (I usually head to H&M and buy the first bandeau black style I lay my eyes on...), maybe something tribal...or polka dotted, or beaded?! God, I don't know, when it comes down to it, I should probably be focusing on my exams. Whatever I'm doing, be it studying or (more likely) delving into shopping-orientated dazes at my desk, Shwayze's new album is the soundtrack of what I can only describe as the "summer anticipation" stage of my life. I want sun & piles of books & a tote bag accidently full of sand...and maybe the slight taste of a hangover from one too many casual cocktails by the sea.

I'm Wearing: Urban Outfitters Breton Stripe Dress, Zara Blazer, H&M Hat, Vivienne Westwood Tote Bag.

Yesterday I was in London. Got lost in big hardback photography books in Soho, drank far too many iced lattes & had an interview for the Fashion Journalism MA at Central Saint Martins. A course I've been desperate to do since um... lets see the day I got to Durham, three years ago. And guess what: I got in! I wish I could celebrate but the current exam situation is screaming a resounding "NO" in my ears...I don't know whats worse, trying to contain my excitement to enable productive studying, or having no outlet to channel said excitement. Either way, I'm thrilled.

RINGS: ASOS, Accessorize, Vintage & D.I.Y . Vintage Sunglasses +Rokit Headscarf Barry M Grey Nail Varnish

For me, buying rings is the equivalent of going for coffee. They are both purchases you shouldn't make regularly if you are trying to save money, but I fail to ever see either as an endeavour that involves spending . Maybe thats because I enter some sort of caffeine/bling detector trance, where nothing is important but the gold glinting or hot coffee in front of me. You never need a shopping bag, and the receipt never seems to matter...and so there we have it, dangerously guilt free shopping. Enter both addictions at your own financial risk.