Weekend Up North...

Hello blog followers,

Had a great weekend and thought I would share it with all of you.  I was on a trip at the weekend to the beautiful Duck Bay Marina Hotel in Loch Lomond in Scotland.  This was for my boyfriend's Gran's 80th Birthday celebrations.  It was a lovely weekend and here are a few pictures to show the beautiful scenery that Scotland has to offer. 

During the visit we also had a beautiful lunch at a place called Brambles in Inveraray which is about an hour from Loch Lomond.  It is a local cafe/ tearoom that offers everything from lovely haggis, neeps and tatties to fresh homemade baking.  It is well worth the drive and the visit.

Brambles.

 

Also in Inveraray my lovely boyfriend treated me to a beautiful necklace which holds the emblem for Scotland (which happens to be my favourite flower) the Thistle.  It was a beautiful gift that looks stunning on and sparkles in the light.  The whole weekend I embraced my Scottish routes and I hope you love them as much as I do.

 

 

Thank You

Nicola xxx

5 reasons why I can't wait to go back to Uni.

Good morning, the Wedofashionuk girls go back to university very soon and I personally cannot wait. We are going into fourth year and even though this means a lot more work including a very scary dissertation, I am still very exited to be going back. These past three years have been the best of my life so far and that is definitely due to the friends I have made during this time and of course it was the birth place of Wedofashionuk.
 
So here are the five reasons why I can't wait to go back.

1) New Stationary

( Pinterest links here and here ) I love new stationary. The first place I go is TK Maxx as they have so many nice designs.

 

 

2) Early morning Coffee and muffins

 

( Pinterest Link here and here ) I can't really function in the morning without coffee so I love grabbing a cappuccino and a blueberry muffin to go on my way up to Uni.

3) Shopping

(Pinterest links here and here) Going back to uni is a great excuse to do a little bit of shopping, I am loving studs at the moment so will be keeping an eye out for some beautiful studded autumn wear.

4) Lunch with the girls

 

There is nothing I like better than going out for lunch with my fellow bloggers, we get on so well together and we have such a good laugh.

 

 

5) Lots of OOTD's

 

 



 Last but not least is that once we go back to uni there will be plenty more OOTD posts which I love :)

Here are a couple of links to our previous OOTD posts:

OOTD #4
OOTD #5
OOTD #9



Hope you enjoyed this post, Michelle xox



 

A little DIY

Hey Guys, so on Thursday I went through to Edinburgh for the afternoon to see my Aunty and as I arrived early I had some time to look around the shops in the capital. As I don't know Edinburgh very well and the weather was really awful that day I stuck to just a few shops along princes street. My first and most important stop was in the new Primark which I have to say is a million times better to any we have here in Glasgow, it was tidy, clean and had a lot more stock than I have seen here also. As I have been really short of cash this month I didn't buy as much as I would have liked.  I saw a few really nice pieces that now I cant stop thinking about, totally regretting not making those purchases! Anyway...I thought I would show you the things I did pick up. The first thing I got was this totally adorable collar, I absolutely love it! Although I do think it is quite difficult to wear as finding something that it goes with is quite tricky. I tried it with a simple black vest top and this gave me a bit of a playboy bunny look which I wasn't too keen on. Anyway for £3.00 you cannot really go wrong and I'm hoping that they will make some more patterns, so Primark if you are listening a leopard print one would be fab!!

After some playing around with different things I came up with this, I am wearing a top from Miss Selfridge and my skirt is from Primark.

My second purchase of the day were these shoes. I have been looking at getting a pair of these slipper like pumps for a while now but hadn't found any within my sadly low budget until I hit Primark! At £6.00 these were quickly snapped up and in my soggy Primark paper bag before I knew it!

As much as I like these little shoes, the ones I had seen previously were all studded. Soooo...

Now for the DIY...

I decided that I would try out adding some studs to these shoes to jazz them up a bit. So the very next day I got up bright and early and headed out to find me some studs. After a whole morning of traipsing through town and into all fabric/haberdashery shops I could think of I knew the next place I had to look was the selection of gothic/punk shops on Queen street. After braving these slightly intimidating shops I still had no success therefore went home and decided to use my good friend ebay for the job. I quickly found exactly what I was looking for. Having only ordered these yesterday I was very surprised to hear them dropping through the letter box this morning. This is the link for the seller I used and I would highly recommend them link!

After a LOT of playing around this was the end result

Ok, ok so its not ground breaking but I do think it makes them that little bit more special. I had originally planned on covering the toes with studs but this just proved too difficult and I certainly didn't  have the patience for it. If you are someone with more patience then I would say this would certainly be possible. I think shoes were maybe a rather ambitious starting point so maybe next I will try something a little more simple like a T-shirt or something but I will definitely keep you all updated.

Dodi xo