Urban Outfitters, Sparkle and Fade Parker

All my girls from home came to Leeds for the weekend and of course the Leeds girls (me and my 3 best friends all moved here together) had to show them around the brilliant shops!
Unfortunately they just missed the opening of the new shopping centre Leeds Trinity which opens Thursday 21st March, this week! It's 1,000,000 sq ft, 3 floors shopping centre, holding 120 stores, such as Topshop, Mango, Next, Hollister, there is even a Cadbury's store and the first ever UK One Direction pop-up shop. What is that!? Madness.
Henry Holland, the Fashion designer will opening the doors and 10 am on Thursday 21st March and I've heard rumours that One Direction may be opening their pop-up store on Saturday 23rd March at 9am, Harry Styles even tweeted about it.
The least I can is that I'm so bloomin' excited about it!

In our home town, shopping is terrible. Terrible probably being an understatement, Everything is closing down and there are basically no shops left, only the big brands like Topshop, River Island, Starbucks, Marks and Sparks etc.. but they are still small sized stores, compared to the 3 story Topshop/Topman that we have in Leeds. So not many of the girls have ever walked into Urban Outfitters store before, cry. But as it is moving to Trinity there wasn't much for them to see, other than the 50% sale of a couple of items that they have left.
Me and two of my friends all fell in love with this gorgeous Sparkle and Fade Parker! I've been looking for a new parker for ages now, my Tesco parker is just at the back of my coat rack hiding, because I'm too embarrassed to wear it anymore. It won us all over straight away, and that's right we all bought it... all three of us. Beth.Holl doesn't live in Leeds and if me and Danielle go out, we will just have to make sure we're both not wearing it, so we won't look like fools and we all get to own the coat of our dreams!

This Sparkle and Fade Parker was reduced from £98 to £30, which is another reason why I HAD to get it

I'm truly in love. The hood feels amazing and I would sleep in it if I could.

Well, in love for a couple of days, and yesterday I finally got to wear it (I let the girls wear there's first). A Couple of us went for a Nandos and then as we was walking out of The Light, another shopping centre, my draw string toggle broke off and my heart was broken. We ran to Urban Outiftters hoping that we could exchange for another one, but the only coat they had left had the same problem. I warned all the girls and Beth has just told me that her's has now broken! I did manage to fix it with a safety pin but it just broke again, so I think I'm going to have to pay more and get it fixed professionally. Which just sucks. Other than this faff about, I'm so glad that I bought this coat it's really light and still managed to keep you really warm, and there is a hood which is fabby cause I never have a brolly!

Has this ever happened to you? Or do you know an easy way to fix it?

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A little bit of me...

Hey, I'm Tori!
I thought I'd do a brief introduction of myself so you know a little bit about me!

Age:
18
Studying:
English Literature
Star sign:
Leo
Favourite food:
Ready salted crisp, creamy mash, steak!
If you could have anyone's wardrobe who would it be:
Alex Chung, Fearne Cotton, Cara Delevingne
What is your favourite item in your wardrobe at the moment:
Topshop boyfriend jacket/blazer
Favourite animal:
PUGS
Favourite shop:
Topshop, Urban Outfitters, Primark, Charity and vintage shops
Favourite magazine:
from Look and company to Vogue
Man crush:
Harry Styles, Channing Tatum, Olly Murs, Jude Law
Favourite programme:
An idiot abroad, Coronation street, Made in Chelsea
If you could go back in time where would you go:
60s
Hobbies:
Running, Skiing, Shopping, Socialising, Reading and BLOGGING

Big News, Big changes!

Well, I've decided that since I've been slacking on my blogging recently, that it would be fabby for me to team up with my friend Tori, who I met at my university halls and since then have been really close with as we love the same things and have a similar sense of humour (together we are hilarious... I promise)

As this is now basically a new I thought that it would be time for a REVAMP! I've changed the design, the name and URL of the blog to:

Flowers in the watering can

With Tori helping me with my blog, our blog it means that we can post at least a post a day (don't keep us to that) I can photograph Tori's great fashion style regularly and we can gather all our thoughts, fashion ideas, wish lists, baking recipes, thrifting, things we love or hate, reviews and gain an insight on what we get up to!

Nothing will really change from the blog, just that Tori may be writing some of the posts, she is a cool gal so it will be great!

What do you think to the new layout? and do you like our new name?!

China Doll Boutique

I got a wonderful email from Nhuc Tran from China Doll Boutique a couple of weeks ago asking if I would like to collaborate with her, of course I said yes, and she told me about the competition they were having for bloggers to celebrate the launch of the website

It has taken me forever to finally do this post (I'm currently writing this out in my lecture), and took me a good couple of hours to finally decide on what I want to pick for my outfit collage.
The competition is to pick an item from China Doll Boutique and then make an outfit worth upto £200 around that item. I picked the Red Velvet Dress with the beautiful gold detailing on the skirt, teamed with a cute White Short Sleeved Shirt to go underneath the dress, plain thick black tights, a Black Leather Jacket; a staple in everyone's wardrobe and these amazing ASOS Creepers which have been on my wish list for ages now!
I love this outfit, it's adorable with a rock chick edge.

1/2/3/4/5/6

What do you think to my outfit?

OOTD #2 and Vintage Purchase

Okay, I've totally ignored my blog, I know, I'm a bad person. 
My phone's ran out of internet and my wireless at home has broken (that's right I'm at home for the week yay) so my brother hogs the internet.

Anyway, a quick update. I think my diet is going well... I've not weighed myself since yet but I feel better. I must say though, it's so hard when David's sat there stuffing his face with food and I'm drinking my shakes, no wonder I got chubby! Bloomin' comfort eating is the worst.

I thought I might do a little outfit post I really should do more of these but I forget or I'm running too late to take pictures.
I wore this outfit when I was back in Leeds to spoons for a couple of casual drinks with my friends, so I wasn't too bothered about being too dressy (excuse that I look gross, my camera really isn't flattering)

Shirt: Boohoo (similar here)

Belt: Primark 

Necklace: eBay 

Leggings: Tesco and Primark (I'm wearing two pairs, don't want no panties showing!)

Shoes: Topshop via eBay

I also did my hair differently, with half of it up in little bun. Not quite sure how I did this, just twisted it round and then pinned it to my head and tadarr!

Have any of you been watching Mr Selfridge on ITV (Sundays 9pm)?
It's amazing, you need to see it. It's just full of love, affairs and shows what life really was like back in 1908; when women were starting to gain freedom and rights.
I especially love the ladies dresses and their hair styles, I think this is where the idea came from, I'm definitely going to try do something similar tomorrow.
Check out the series here

I also went to this adorable vintage fair in Leeds at the Corn Exchange the other week, they often hold cute vintage days so should check out when they are having their next one. Me and my best friend went for a look round, I was on the hunt for an embellished collar shirt or a cute rucksack or both... Instead a got my new favourite shirt.
I have a massive collection of shirts, I live in them and I just couldn't resist buying this one.

These pictures don't give it justice and I don't have an outfit shot with me wearing the shirt, other than this one of me being overly happy about wearing it before going out. 

Guess who's coming to my home town tomorrow, that's right, only Kate Middleton. I'm skipping uni this week to be home to see her (it's also my mums birthday). So hopefully I will get to at least look at her in the flesh, maybe even meet her? oh my, I'm definitely taking my camera so I will update you tomorrow with what went on! I'm so excited!!