TGI Friday.

Even though this week has been pretty relaxed, work or not, I'm glad it's the weekend! As you can probably guess by the fact that I'm updating my blog (alongside lots of facebooking) while at work, I don't have all that much to do and they're not too strict, but it'll be nice to get out of the office a little.

I'm looking forward to a long sleep: I've been going to work at 8.30am, staying until 6.30pm, and then going out - on Monday and Tuesday there were parties, and Wednesday and Thursday I saw friends, so by the time I go home at 12.30 and sleep for 6 hours I'm exhausted! Unfortunately, I don't think this weekend is looking so good snoozetime-wise. Dance on Saturday mornings is great, but a killer, seeing as I have to wake up at 8.30am. And then, Saturday night, I'm going to a party - I don't think I'll be getting much sleep, or at least not NICE sleep. We're in a tent outside. There are about 20 of us. The tent(s?) will fit us and all of that I'm sure, but they're not exactly a memory foam four-posters.

The party's fancy dress, and the theme is 'fairy tales and superheroes gone bad'. I was stumped for ages, and then I settled on Sinderella - 's' intended! (Is it lame that my mum gives me better fancy dress ideas than anyone I know?!) I'm going to be a lustful Cinderella, head over heels for Prince Charming. I bought a dress at H&M yesterday which is perfect - it's light blue with a ruffled skirt, which has slightly darker blue layers. The back is low, and it's quite short - I think it's meant to be worn with the vest part loose and then the ruffles on the hips, but since it's a size 14 (yes, about 3 sizes too large, but I wanted it!) I can only really hitch the ruffle bit up to my waist and tie it so that the vest part hangs over, or else I look as wide as a truck. The overall look is something akin to this:

- the AA Drawstring Dress, which I love! I'm just glad to have found a slightly cheaper dress that doesn't scream American Apparel.
With the dress, I'm wearing some taupe heels which I'm going to put cellophane over (glass slippers - hope it works!), and for my hair I'm going to do a messy updo with a tiara... and of course, lots of subtly smudged makeup. I'm also going to fashion some kind of heart shaped badge with Prince Charming's face on it.
Hopefully I'll strike the right balance between looking good, 'bad' and not too trampy!
Let me know what you think of the idea! I'll probably post the pictures of it tomorrow or Sunday.

Eh, this is a pretty short blog, (it WAS before my edit!) but I wouldn't let you go without posting my outfit for today!


Pink cardigan - H&M; pink top - Primark; black belt - from one of my mum's dresses; Skirt - Urban Outfitters; Brogues - New Look; gold socks - Topshop.

I love this outfit. It's really comfortable and I LOVE the colours, espceially the raspberry of the cardigan with the grey skirt. The skirt is UO (more sale purchases!) but it's a dead ringer for the AA tri-blend which I love - and so, of course, it's super soft and so nice to wear.

I had major green eyes on the bus to work though - a girl was wearing THE best dress I've seen in a long while, and she'd accessorised it so well. It was a strapless dress, a little over the knee, and it had the most amazing print - sort of a jungle/leaves print on a green background with a tiger on it. I was ogling her the whole way, especially since she'd teamed it with a really cute little brown belt, very nice Topshop-esque cut out flats, and a salmon-orange cardigan. *sigh*. I wish I knew where the dress was from.

L.