constance wannabe

If you don't get the title reference you need to watch Gossip Girl.

Mid semester update w pics from Blackpool

These pics are from a weekend trip to Blackpool I took with my parents over the summer. The text most definitely is not. It is currently November 2nd, I'm in Boston, I'm in class and I'm exhausted.

This past month, and this whole semester really, has been absolutely crazy. I haven't been able to keep up with my instagram and I've hardly been wearing make up - if you know anything about me these two factors really show how busy things have been. 

It would be silly to say that things have calmed down, but a big 'project' (I will get to explaining this) has just come to a close so hopefully now I will be able to get back on track with this bloggy thing as well as my videos. 

I thought it was cute to pair a manic update about what's been going on with these tranquil pics from my trip to Blackpool, because I'm cute right..? 

top tips to survive the edinburgh fringe festival

1. Plan your day... 

... in regards to the shows you are going to see. I wouldn't say it's necessary to plan your whole trip but it is nice to know where your day is heading. In my opinion, it's best to do a quick and jam packed trip, which means back to back shows. So just have a think about what you want to see when you get up in the morning.

We saw 15 shows in three days.

That being said, if you ever have spare time it's definitely worth heading to a box office and asking what's on in the next hour and overall what they recommend. 

sweet treats in nyc

I'm SO behind on blogging so I do apologise if the order of what I'm posting is slightly incohesive. I want to share what I'm currently up to but I don't want to neglect all of the photos I've taken over the past couple of months.

Anyway, today we have another post from New York. And another foodie one at that. Here are some of my favourite sweet treats in New York. Yes, they are fairly typical but that should not and does not devalue them!

rainy days in nyc

The first week I was in New York was full of rain and was unusually cold for the beginning of May. Definitely not the sweltering New York I left in July.  

Brunch is The Best Meal of The Day (Brunch in NYC)

Being back home in London has greatly made me reflect on the past year. A big part of my life is food, I am a reaaaal foodie, and brunch is by far the best meal of the day. So I thought I'd share a couple of my favourite brunch spots in New York. If you ever get a chance to, definitely check them out!

Inside House of Toi

After a lovely, and much needed, lie in I'm still in bed on my penultimate day in New York. My mother arrives from London tonight, we're packing up my things tomorrow, and heading to New Haven on Wednesday. (My brother is playing in a tennis show case at the Yale campus - hence our trip to New Haven). 

After finishing my internship, I had a couple of weeks left in New York that I spent helping out at Zang Toi's showroom. 

Blossom Blanket in NYC (with late night thoughts escalating to the Brexit)

Helloooo there, it's currently 11:34PM on the 23rd of June. The votes of the EU referendum are being counted and I am anxiously sitting in bed refreshing bbc.com to see which side is ahead. I'm not sure if I'm going to stay awake to see the final result, but I am desperate too. 

Anyway, there is still a while to go so I thought I would attempt to distract myself by writing this blog post. My absence is just due to busyness and perhaps a little bit of lazyness. But I'm back!! 

I really love these photos I took in Washington Square Park at the very start of my time in New York, about two months ago. So I thought I would share them with you, and have a bit of a ramble. 

The Balcony of The Whitney

Hello, to whoever (whomever?) is reading, sympathise with me please; I am so ill. But let us not dwell on these dark and ichy times of illness, and let's look back on happier times. 

Pretty dramatic sounding I know, but that is what a persistent cold does to a girl. Anyway, I digress from the true topic of this post. My venture to the Whitney Museum. 

I'd never been to the Whitney and I had been desperate to visit for so long, and it did not disappoint! 

The Best Burger in NYC

Burgers are plentiful in New York, but if you really want to go for it and get the best DB Bistro Moderne is definitely your place. 

The Steps of The Met

I'm here, in New York, for the next two months doing an internship in Manhattan! Jealous? As you should be. Haha, but seriously, I'm so happy and excited to be here for the start of my summer, finishing off my first year in America at an extreme high. 

More on the internship later, I am only one week in.

My mother flew out to Boston to help me back up my dorm room. Once 6 boxes were put in storage and an embarrassing amount of bags were filled, we piled everything into the car and headed to New York. 

I had a week to chill before my internship started, but chill we did not. I thought I'd start the recap of this week with our trip to The Metropolitan. 

New York for the Zang Toi Fashion Show

A couple of weekends ago I got on a train from Boston to New York for the Zang Toi fashion show.

As well as all the photographs I've posted here I also made a little video if you want to check that out too - 

Wow Wow West Coast

And here we are. The final post recapping my trip to California and we finish in beautiful Los Angeles.

Now before we go into what I experienced in LA I thought I'd share the video I created of the whole trip -

Picturesque California

We said our goodbyes to Daniel, and our goodbyes to Claremont and headed to Monterey Bay. 

santa barbara and claremont

Following our pit stop in Santa Cruz we drove on to beautiful Santa Barbara. 

That's So Princess Mia (Photographs from San Fran)

As you can probably, hopefully, tell from the title of this post I have always associated San Fransisco with That's So Raven and The Princess Diaries. Due to my love for these two incredible art forms I was very excited to visit the city I spent many hours watching Princess Mia and Raven live their lives. 

First Thanksgiving in NYC

So I am currently chilling in bed, in a duvet burrito, having just paused Ferris Bueller on Netflix. I haven't been feeling too well this week so I've been having a pretty relaxed weekend and am going to venture into the world to get myself some comfort food in a bit. Now that I have excellently explained my current situation, I thought I would look back on my first Thanksgiving in America. 

I met my parents in New York, along with multiple family friends, and although it wasn't quite the rest I desperately needed it was a great trip.

I made a little video from the trip and have placed a convenient link here if you have any interest of watching it -

hvar

This post is extremely long overdue. I'm currently sitting in a hotel lobby in Boston. Tomorrow I get to move in to my uni room and I have so many blog posts in my drafts I think it's time to blitz through them all. So here goes.

At the end of July my school friends and I spent a week in the Croatian island Hvar. As I have made a habit of this summer, of course I vlogged snippets of the trip and here is the video diary of the holiday I produced -

We were in Hvar for a week and I have never visited anywhere so hot in my life. Our suffering in the heat was not helped by a lack of air con in our hotel and the only for of a cooling system being some rather worse for wear fans. Luckily we did survive.

Lisbon & NOS Alive

Hello there! Long time no see... Apologies for that, however, in my defence I have been rather ill this past week. 

Anyway, let us rewind a couple of weeks and look back on my trip to Portugal with Amber. 

Weekend in Paris

It seems every time I post these days they begin with an apology about my absence... I will not bore you this time, but know that I am trying to be better.

Last weekend Joe and I took a lovely trip to Paris.