Day out in Lincoln, my shopping haul and OOTD

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Since moving to Leeds for University I haven't really spent much time with my mum, so last week in the Easter holidays when I was at home, we had a lovely and well needed trip to Lincoln as it's only an hour away from my home town to do some retail therapy.

I love Lincoln, the architecture is just wonderful and luckily it was a beautiful day to walk up the 'Steep Hill', we raided Primark, had some wonderful pub grub lunch in Varsity, walked up to the Cathedral and had a look round and then caught the train back home.

This is the outfit that I wore for our day out. My favourite pleated leather look skirt and my charity shop jumper to make sure that I was still fairly warm when walking about Lincoln, as we all know the weather is a bit temperamental at the moment! I also wore my Topshop Hiking Boots as they are great when walking around for hours on end.
I must warn you, this is a heavily photograph based post!

 My hair looks so flat here :(

Jumper; Charity Shop

Necklace; eBay

Skirt; River Island (similar)

Shoes; Topshop (they've stopped selling them but you can get them here too)

There is so many cute boutique shops in Lincoln, I think we literally went in every one of them

Momma showing the size of the hill

There she is, Momma Bear

We came to the conclusion that the towers are wonky

Cute houses and cottages which surround the Cathedral

We did a bit of bargain hunting too, raided primark and got a couple of other bargains too!

I love the peter pan on this top! £6

This is such an adorable dress, it even has pockets! This dress will look fab in the summer too

Denim Skater skirt £10

I got some 3/4 joggers for chilling out in the flat in for £5

Adorable Jimmie set for £8

I got these fab glittery leggings from Miss Selfridge (in the sale from £24 down to £7 and I got them for £6.30 with student discount, wooo) At the time I was wearing these and trying to get a good photograph was very difficult. Also the whole time I was wearing them I just felt like a Mermaid. It. Was. Great!

 I got this adorable A5 notebook for £1.75 down from £3.50 in the Paperchase sale.
Paperchase was the first shop that we went in and it's one of my favourite shops because I'm a massive stationary nerd. There was originally 3 of these books, but for some reason I decided to get it on the way back to the train station and I was planning on getting couple, possibly all 3 to make cute photo albums. But by the time I went to buy it there was only 1 left, luckily. I love the pattern on the front of the book and I love the fact the pages are brown, if they weren't I probably wouldn't have bought it!

I bought my cousin these cute Worry Dolls £1.50 which go under her pillow and take your worries away!

My mum also made me get a pair of black skinnies for £11 as I she knows I have such a hate for jeans/trousers and just live in skirts and leggings. I have not worn them yet, but I am determined to get some wear out them and get out of my bad habit. But leggings are just too comfy right?

I also have some great news about our giveaway, the Baking Mad Cook Book is finally on the way to us so our first ever giveaway should be open by the end of the week! Yay!

Have you been to Lincoln before? What you think of my haul?

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OOTD and Deaf Havana gig

Hola guys!

On a very sunny Saturday, Me and David had a day trip to Manchester to do a bit of retail window shopping and to go see one of our favourite bands, Deaf Havana.

On Valentines day last year, I had no idea who these guys were and David was planning to take me to one of their gigs however, when I searched them in youtube and clicked on an old song of theirs, which was really heavy and not my cup of tea, a sigh of relief as he bought me Nero tickets instead, hehe. But since their first EPs they've changed and are not as heavy/screamery, well just more bearable for me anyway probably because I've fallen in love with them. We saw them at Leeds Festival 2012 and again on Saturday for a more intimate acoustic unplugged gig which was amazing!

You should definitely give them a listen as they are such great musicians, experimenting with different instruments (the singer, James did anyway in the acoustic set, so I expect more of that on their new album which is coming out September time) and their lyrics just brilliant.

Make sure you check out their Myspace, or their Facebook Page and they have most their music on spotify for you to listen too! 

This is what me and David both wore for our day out!

Charlotte:

Dress; Primark

Belt; Primark

Shoes; Topshop

Necklace; eBay

Coat; Urban Outfitters

David:

Shirt; River Island (similar)

Jacket; River Island

Trousers; Ladies Primark Skinnies (tehe)

Shoes; Vans

Hat; Urban Outfitters

Deaf Havana's support act were 'Big Sixes' and this was the first both of us had heard of them and they were actually insanely good. Definitely expect big things from them, their vocals were just brilliant and their overall sound is just so different and very catchy. Check out their music here, you'll understand what I mean. 

Deaf Havana were just as good if not better! Their stage setup was so cute, candles around their set with very minimal lighting and 3 lamps. It made the whole gig feel so much more intimate, more like a show than a gig.

It was such a brilliant and happy gig, everyone just sat in silence and enjoyed and embraced the sound of brilliant music. Even though I booked our tickets at 9am on the release date of tickets, we were sat right at the back at the top in the Royal Northern College of Music, but we still had a pretty good view!

Do you like Deaf Havana's music? or the Big Sixies?

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iPhone 5 Cases

Hellooo darlings!

I saw an iPhone case on a page I follow on facebook called 'Design You Trust' which is such an amazing page if you don't already follow it, I suggest you do, they post some really cool and amazing designs and photographs all the time, like this Bubble wrap case. Which is just such a great idea, you'd never be bored but then I thought how irritating it would get after the novelty ran off!

So then I got hunting on Etsy to find some of my favourite iPhone cases, because I love looking for cool new cases to 'waste my money on' as my momma says! I am currently using my Hello Kitty case, which I bought before there were many iPhone 5 cases on sale so I was limited for choice and now I've just checked and there is so many different Hello Kitty one on eBay, so I'm definitely hunting for a new one.
Check out my 5 Hello Kitty favs: 1/2/3/4/5

Here are my overall favourite, some of these ideas and designs are just amazing!

Going from top left all the way round: 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8-9/10/11-13

All of these designs are so innovative and brilliant, like the paint pallet and the Harry Potter train ticket! The only problem is that I was told if I had a hard case on my iPhone 5 it would scratch the matt finish on the phone, so I've only been buying the silicone cases which you don't get many with cool designs like these on but I may just have to change it and risk it!

I have so many more favourites that I just can't show you them all, here are some great shops on Etsy for you to check out for yourself 1/2/3/4/5/6/

Which is your favourite case? Have you scratched an iPhone 5 with a hard case?

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